Weekend Reading, Listening and Watching Recommendations (August 30, 2024)
The Green Economy Is Hungry for Copper; America Is Doubling Down on Sewer Surveillance; Is Your Company Reading Data the Wrong Way?; The state of flex work with Stanford’s Nick Bloom
Read: The Green Economy Is Hungry for Copper—and People Are Stealing, Fighting, and Dying to Feed It: With the possible exception of gold, no other metal has caused as much destruction as copper. In the coming years, we’ll need more of it than ever. (via WIRED)
Read: America Is Doubling Down on Sewer Surveillance: Like viruses, illicit and prescription drugs leave behind traces in the country’s wastewater systems. (via The Atlantic)
Listen: Is Your Company Reading Data the Wrong Way? (via HBR Ideacast)
Watch: The state of flex work with Stanford’s Nick Bloom (via Flex Index)