3. 🏴☠️ 5 Ways to Foil Catalytic Converter Thieves. (NerdWallet)
4. 👤 The Mysterious Patient in Room 23: The Hermit Baroness. (The New York Times) Birgit Thyssen-Bornemisza led a life of eccentric anonymity and shabby gentility. Then her money got cut off. Then she had a stroke.
5. 🤓 A bookkeeping thing - What is job costing and why is it important for your production company. (HYG Original)
6. 🏞 Bottled water, boxed water, and the scam of selling a natural resource. (Vox) “In an economic system where virtually everything can be packaged and sold, of course we’re going to fall for it on water, just like we do everything else.”
7. 🔪 A Brewery’s Anti-Violence Mission, Complicated by a Killing. (The New Yorker) TRU Colors attracted interest—and investment—by employing active gang members. But a double murder last summer has prompted criticism of its approach.
8. 👟 The $300 Million Sneaker King Comes Undone. (Wall Street Journal, potential paywall. So, here’s a podcast of the author talking about the article.) “2019 was a landmark year for the sneaker market. StockX secured a private market valuation of more than $1 billion. Sotheby’s sold a worn-and-torn pair of one of Nike’s first designs for $150,000 during its first-ever sneaker auction. Nike’s Jordan brand also recorded its first billion-dollar quarter in sales.”
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