Hi members!
Happy Friday! We’ve been extremely busy over here the past few days. In case you missed anything, here’s a recap of what went down in membership this week:
We published our field guide on management, careers, and workplace success. Quartz at Work editor Heather Landy created an extensive package of articles, analysis, and extremely relatable first-person storytelling to help guide us through the strange territory of the modern workplace. Such guidance included:
- What every manager should know about giving feedback
- Five questions everyone should ask about their company’s hiring process
- The working-parent pressures that benefits haven’t addressed
- Three ways modern life is shaping the arc of our careers
We’re going to continue our exploration of the workplace in a members-only conference call with Quartz at Work editor Heather Landy at 10 a.m. ET/3 p.m. GMT today at this link. If you’d like to add the call to your Google calendar, click here. If you’re on your phone, you can call into the conference at either +1 408 740 7256 in the US or +44 203 608 5256 in the UK; for both numbers, the meeting code is 722 994 440.
Speaking of conference calls, did you know a) we’re doing more of them, and b) they’re available for later viewing if you missed one? Starting this week, we began doing more member calls off of news. We talked to Adam Epstein and Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz about the future of big, fancy TV shows in the wake of Game of Thrones’ finale, and we also got a report from Annalisa Merelli in India on the day of that country’s election results.
That’s not all, though! Our video team has been producing a bevy of informative, in-depth spots with some of the leading innovators of the day. We sat down with Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia to learn more about the lifecycle of a startup (as well as the two things he never travels without). We also released a new episode of our series Because China. This week, we looked at the nation of Zambia, a country which has had its internet infrastructure built by China, and what it means for a country to be on the receiving end of such largesse.
Stateside, we also had a member-exclusive feature on Alphabet CEO Larry Page. The head of one of the wealthiest, powerful companies in the world hasn’t made a public appearance or statement in years, which has some observers of corporate governance concerned. Does the CEO of the world’s largest search company have the right to be forgotten?
As always, we also had two editions of our cryptocurrency feature, Private Key. This week, reporter Matt De Silva looked at how initial exchange offerings could be crypto’s next fiasco, as well as how the once-stable Tether token is looking increasingly risky.
Monday is a holiday here in the U.S., so you’ll here from me again on Tuesday, when we begin our next field guide, this time on the fast-growing influencer economy. Also, stay tuned for our next video interview with Esther Wojcicki, educator and mother of two CEOs (Susan at YouTube, Anne at 23andMe) on how to raise successful leaders.
I hope you have a fun and restoring weekend. See you Tuesday!
Sam Grobart
membership editor