I hope you had a restful holiday season and started the new year in good health. I've come away from the past two weeks appreciating simple pleasures: my family, good food, and hikes with my daughter asleep in a carrier. There's light at the end of the COVID tunnel, I just don't see it yet.The COVID vaccine is coming and "normalcy" is on the way. But everything's still awful right now and a brutal winter lies ahead.
These former employees accused the organization's CEO, Brian Gallagher, of working hard to preserve a boys' club that excludes women and often promotes men who engage in sexist behavior. United Way Worldwide's board of trustees said in a statement that it was "deeply disturbed by any allegations of misconduct and pledges to eradicate such behavior from our organization."From Alex Davies:
In his email, later revealed amid the Waymo v. Uber self-driving lawsuit, Levandowski floated the idea of starting a "Team Mac," a callback to a bit of Silicon Valley lore: In the early 1980s, Apple was working on a new PC to be called the Lisa, but development was slow, the price tag was approaching $10,000, and IBM was dominating the personal-computer market. Steve Jobs wanted to make a much cheaper and superior product.