Jamie Lee

100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Commodities have lost 20% since June's peak amid recession fears straitstimes.com/business/compa…

This blue Lobster was caught off the coast of Portland yesterday and returned to the water to continue to grow. Blue lobsters are one in two million.

Standing by my “never tweet about UK/US politics” principle, but this is a media scandal. @thetimes and @MailOnline need to explain why they deleted these stories after running them, and every journalist there should be pressuring them into doing so. theneweuropean.co.uk/simon-walters-…

The Federal Reserve lifted interest rates by 0.75 percentage point, the biggest increase since 1994, and signaled a more aggressive rate-rise path wsj.com/articles/fed-r…

every stock in the S&P 500 is red right now

@lizzlaw_ Oatly too, how hip and comforting at the same time

On Day 3, a care package from the Singapore Consulate arrived — they had been informed because I’m a foreigner. I was inexplicably moved. There was something comforting about seeing items from the “real world” in the sterile hospital setting.

Three weeks ago, I tested positive for Covid right after landing in Shanghai. This was despite FOUR negative pre-flight tests. Might be the first foreign journalist in China to be this lucky. Wrote a thing about it. straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia…

Alarming stat on BNPL losses vs credit cards in @SVR13’s Big Read - Can buy now, pay later survive the cost of living crisis? via @FinancialTimes enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/a073720…

I'm very perplexed that Amber Heard was held legally responsible for a headline she didn't write.

@thatroblennon @Readwiseio save thread

Bezos banned PowerPoint in his meetings. "Memos only" created a writing culture at Amazon unlike any other. 13 writing principles to impress your boss (even Bezos):

I wrote a @BW cover story on Shopify last fall. Since then, its stock is down over 70 percent. What happened? Our daily @technology Fully Charged newsletter: bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

🚨Here you go: What we know & don’t know about monkeypox, & how to think about the current outbreak. One thing: It’s unique partly because it’s, er, happening amid a pandemic. Our reactions are deeply influenced by the last 3 years—in good & bad ways. 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Here's what Walmart, Target, Home Depot and Lowe's tell us about the state of the American consumer. cnb.cx/37YEZmj

"My father later remarked how shocking it was to find a bowl of apples in the lobby of a Canadian hotel, free for anyone to take. It was a vision of abundance." from @katiadmi bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A new buzzword has entered the Chinese lexicon. bailan 摆烂 “to let things rot.”  What does it mean? 1/7

Li Ka-shing’s Family Office Joins Singapore Expansion Wave bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Annual shout out to my mom, who said she wanted a small filing cabinet for mother's day when working on her dissertation. My dad got her a microwave. For two weeks she left several manila folders in it and wouldn't let anyone use it -- until my dad procured a filing cabinet.

Elon Musk said he has received letters from investors committing more than $7 billion in fresh financing to boost the equity part of his offer to buy Twitter wsj.com/articles/elon-…

Singapore Convicts Soh, Quah For 2013 Stock Manipulation Case bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Big Banks Are Getting Richer Off Poor Women In Developing World bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-…