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From New York Times:

“I’d be a liar if I said I was happy,” said Brian Kelsey, the managing director of Peninsula Players Theater in Door County, Wis., an area that is a popular Midwest vacation destination. “I don’t know if people are out of the habit, or unaware, or if the clientele that had come is now more interested in outdoor beer gardens, I just know that we’re definitely seeing a downturn.”

• How the New York Times Uses Machine Learning to Make Its Paywall Smarter is an unexpected approach to balancing giving folks reliable news and making sure the org stays alive.
• The Office is Dying. It’s Time to Rethink How We Work is an insightful podcast from Ezra Klein on the switch to hybrid and remote work.
• Thousands of lives depend on a transplant network in vast need of restructuring is a summary of a bit of a technology SNAFU.

Yesterday a friend starting his first work from home job asked for my advice. With coffee hitting the right way here is what I came up with for him. Maybe it will help you too.

The Beats Fit Pro are flawed but impressive earbuds for working out and everyday use. The audio quality and noise cancelling are uncanny. However the wing used to hold the buds in place is hard to secure and hurts. Despite this, these buds are a step up from the Powerbeats Pro.

Last week I asked project members to brainstorm tasks we might do over the course of the project, and last night Sean Sada (our project manager) and I onboarded folks onto our GitHub team and organization. Sean gave the team a great overview of how we are going to use GitHub Issues. I then worked with the backend team to show them Ruby on Rails and how we’re going to setup our Postgres database. Overall, a productive evening!