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Petervan’s Delicacies – Issue #133

Only 2 weeks since previous edition, but it feels like the harvest of a full month. Enjoy! A fantastic well research set of premonitions on Culture, Brands, Space, Entertainment, Tools, Politics, Death. Very good, tout court. Read full Article

We are nature

This insight resonates with the 17th-century philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. Lovelock is the inventor of Gaia theory, the idea that the Earth is one living organism that regulates and strives to preserve itself. Read full Article

Tech giants are profiting — and getting more powerful — even as the global economy tanks (via WaPo)

There are really two Americas right now,” said Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at the New York University Stern School of Business and author of “The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.” “There is Big Tech and there is everyone else. They can do what very few companies can do, which is play offense in the middle of a pandemic.”

Open letter to AirBnB: Do the right thing: extenuating circumstances are the New Normal!

My open letter to AirBnB: Do the right thing: extenuating circumstances are the New Normal!

Open letter to AirBnB: Do the right thing: extenuating circumstances are the New Normal!