Veronica Best

“Since 2007, the federal debt has nearly doubled to almost $1.3-trillion. The ratio of federal net debt to gross domestic product has eased since the COVID-19 pandemic, to about 42% from 47%- more than 10 percentage points higher than it was in 2019.” theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

“Voter turnout was 68 percent, the lowest in any national election since the return of democracy in 1983. Voting in Argentina is mandatory, but fines for failing to cast a ballot are the equivalent of less than 50 cents.” nytimes.com/2025/10/26/wor…

@ritwikpavan @formswim Game changer

I flew to Vancouver to test the most advanced swim goggles ever made. FORM’s new Swim Pro 2 uses augmented reality (AR) to show your stats as you swim. It acts as a coach and guides workouts in real time. This feels like the next big shift in sports. @formswim

“Wolf Blitzer: “I always knew there was some sort of crisis going on in the West Wing after hours when I saw the arrival of pizzas. Bottom line for journalists: always monitor the pizzas.” apple.news/Ad9JpyTUsTaKq6…

obsessed that we rebranded building custom software for customers (the cardinal sin of b2b product management) into the new prestige tech job

“those living within a mile of golf courses have 126 percent higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease” newsweek.com/parkinsons-dis…

ive never related harder to something in my life

“Paying publishers would most likely cost Meta, which generated $164.5 billion in revenue last year, 62 million Canadian dollars a year, or about $44 million.” nytimes.com/2025/04/21/tec…

“We have a clinical definition of A.D.H.D. that is increasingly unanchored from what we’re finding in our science.” nytimes.com/2025/04/13/mag…

@ArtmisiaVlgaris @junker_jo This

Situation I see in Brooklyn a lot: couple waited until late 30s+ to have a kid for “career stability” reasons. Late 30s come and the career isn’t quite there yet but you go for it anyway because now the clock is ticking. Realize you want siblings and feeling the fertility pressure so space the kids super close. Now you’re 40 and exhausted with two under two. Both parents working full time so kids are getting fucked over by nannies and daycare and that doesn’t even cover the full workload so the careers suffer anyway. One crisis (aging parent, cancer diagnosis, recession) away from being forced out of the workforce until you’re too old to hire back in.

A consequence of fewer children is less empathy for those who have them.

We didn’t know how good we had it

“But wars don’t arise from personal relationships. They arise from ideas—from the accretion, and corruption, of ideas over time. Putin’s assimilation of Dugin’s thinking is likely indirect, maybe even unconscious.” newyorker.com/news/the-weeke…

“When Vance executed his personal pivot from Never Trump to Always Trump, he needed a way to prove that he had truly crossed over to the dark side beyond any possibility of reversion or redemption; perhaps his support for Russia allowed him to do that.” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Inside this week’s issue of The New Yorker: nyer.cm/BP0fjIJ

WHO OWNS ALL THE BOATS?! IT DOESN’T ADD UP. EVERYWHERE I GO IN THE WORLD THERE ARE GIANT MARINAS WITH A MILLION BOATS. THEY ARE EXPENSIVE AND NORMIES DON’t SAIL, PLEASE TELL ME WHO OWNS THE BOATS

Ten implausible-sounding scenarios for 2025 economist.com/the-world-ahea…

“tonight, I’m startled to be reminded that color is a product. Instinctually, color feels like it can’t be owned by a single company” theverge.com/24316196/panto…

It's disheartening that in an age where knowledge has never been more accessible - the United States is about to be governed by an administration so primitive and ignorant as to believe that tariffs are good and that vaccines are bad.