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� � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � How to Choose the Best In-Person Workdays for Your Hybrid Company - Inc.com    Slashed Prices and Custom Bots: What Entrepreneurs Need to Know About OpenAI's Major DevDay Announcements Panera's Ron Shaich Shares His Recipe for Growth With the Maker of an Iconic New Jersey Sandwich For remote-capable teams, hybrid is now the prevailing MO--and the most popular with employees. Fifty-eight percent of workers would prefer a flexible hybrid or remote work environment, according to a new LinkedIn Workforce Confidence Index survey of more than 9,000 U.S. workers.   Continued here What the Supreme Court's New Ethics Code Lacks - The Atlantic    The written code of conduct nods at the public pressure the Court is facing, but it can’t do much to change the justices’ behavior. The Supreme Court’s new ethics code is a nod at the public pressure the court is facing. Beyond that, it will do little to change the justices’ behavior. Don’t worry, the Supreme Court said to America yesterday. Though it may not be enforceable, the Court at least has a formal code of conduct now. The Court has been facing an onslaught of public pressure after reports that justices, particularly Clarence Thomas, had engaged in behavior that an average person could deem improper for representatives of the highest court in the land, such as receiving undisclosed gifts from wealthy conservatives. This code, the first in the Court’s history, is signed by all nine justices, and lays out “rules and principles” for the justices’ behavior. Its publication is an acknowledgment that the public is dissatisfied with the Court, but beyond that, it is more symbolic than anything else. Continued here Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Sex guru, cosplayer, economist: will Javier Milei be Argentina's next president? - The Economist    In 2019 Javier Milei – the front-runner in Argentina’s presidential election later this month – attended a cosplay convention. He wore black and yellow spandex and wielded a golden staff. This alter ego, a character of his own invention, was called General Ancap, the leader of “Liberland”, a country “where nobody pays taxes”. The name was a portmanteau for anarcho-capitalist, a strand of libertarianism that seeks to abolish the state in favour of unfettered free markets. As Milei told a gaggle of amused adolescents, the general’s mission was to “kick Keynesians and collectivists in the ass”. Milei may soon become the leader of a real country, but it’s hard to predict which sort of character he will play. In five years he has gone from being an economist known mostly for his eccentric television appearances to the man to beat in the race to lead South America’s second-largest economy. At a recent campaign event, he channelled his inner rock star. Jumping frenetically around the stage in a leather jacket, he roared the lyrics of a rock song in front of 15,000 fans: “I am the king in a lost world!” In interviews, however, he prefers to look like a dishevelled academic, with a wild mop-top and glasses that threaten to slip off his nose. A century ago, Argentina was one of the world’s richest countries; today, it is synonymous with crisis. The economy has been mismanaged under both left-wing and centre-right administrations, resulting in annual inflation at 138%, the third-highest anywhere in the world. The share of people who cannot afford both a basic bag of groceries and an essential service like transport or health care has risen from 26% in 2017 to 40% today. Argentina owes the International Monetary Fund an eye-watering $44bn – almost a third of the fund’s entire lending portfolio – yet the country’s central bank has no dollar reserves to pay back the loan. Corruption is rampant, trust in institutions is low and voters are exhausted. Continued here The Secret History of T. S. Eliot's Muse - The New Yorker    In 1949, eight years after James Joyce died, his letters began to travel the world. Thanks to microfilm technology, popularized a few years earlier, the contents of his archive at the University of Buffalo became more accessible to curious readers and meddlesome critics than ever before. T. S. Eliot encountered them thousands of miles away, at the British Museum, in London, where he came face to face with a past self: his own letters to the Irish writer, lit up on a projection screen before him. Such exposure made Eliot uneasy. Later, in a letter sent across the ocean to Emily Hale, a teacher at a boarding school in Massachusetts, Eliot recalled the anxiety he'd experienced that day in the museum: "I thought, how fortunate that I did not know Joyce intimately enough to have made personal revelations or to have expressed adverse opinions, or repeated gossip or scandal, about living people!" Eliot's letters to Hale, who for nearly seventeen years was his confidante, his beloved, and his muse, were another matter. They don't just repeat "gossip and scandal," they produce it. Scholars have known about this correspondence since Hale donated Eliot's letters to Princeton, in 1956, but for decades, the trove of documents remained a tantalizing secret—kept sealed, at Eliot's insistence, until fifty years after both he and Hale had died. On January 2nd of this year, 1,131 letters from Eliot to Hale were unearthed from the basement of Princeton's Firestone Library and made available to the public. The line to read them began forming at 8 A.M. The first surprise awaiting scholars was not a letter to Hale but, in essence, one addressed to them: a four-page statement that Eliot had written in 1960, with instructions that it be released on the same day that the Princeton letters were unveiled (or whenever, as he feared, they were leaked). Continued here

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