Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations [January 21, 2022]

How China’s Reform Generation Adapts to Life in the Middle Class; Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen developed a new business model; How to be useless; Why Europe Doesn't Build Skyscrapers

1. Read: An absolutely brilliant piece of writing from Peter Hessler in the New Yorker on How China’s Reform Generation Adapts to Life in the Middle Class. Hessler is one of the fines writers on China today. [via the New Yorker]

2. Read: Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen developed a new business model that leverages ecosystem thinking to reach new scale with respect to delivering value and success for all stakeholders. [via ZDNet]

3. Read: How to be useless: Follow the Daoist way – reclaim your life and happiness by letting go of the need to produce, strive or serve a purpose [via Psyche]

4. Watch: Why Europe Doesn't Build Skyscrapers