ITK Daily | September 2
Happy Friday.
To be ITK, know this:
Voting closed in the Conservative leadership contest: The winner will be announced on Monday at 12:30 pm local time (7:30 am ET) and will then meet the Queen at Balmoral the following day.
All indications suggest Liz Truss will be the next UK PM.
Read this: Why Liz Truss will be the UK’s next prime minister: The foreign secretary’s optimism and euroskepticism are likely to power her past Rishi Sunak. But the Conservative Party looks out of touch with the public. Vernon Bogdanor
+ The foreign secretary’s optimism and euroskepticism are likely to power her past Rishi Sunak. But the Conservative Party looks out of touch with the public.
Tomorrow: NASA Artemis moon mission launches after scrubbed attempt. NASA is prepping for liftoff of the Space Launch System rocket + Orion capsule at 2:17 pm EDT Saturday. There is a two-hour launch window.
The new retail architecture is based on “social commerce.”: This relies on three related technologies: live-streaming, short-form video, and social networking. Fitch thinks the market for live-stream retail neared $153bn in 2020.
Read this: Why the heck does everyone want to be like IDEO? David C. Baker
+ And they aren’t always trying to be like someone else. Maybe that’s why they aren’t. Good advice.
Micro-mobility: The beginning or the end?
Read this: Why Japan’s war on disks could prove to be another flop: Digital minister Taro Kono wants to follow up his bid to phase out faxes by getting rid of floppy disks – but he faces opposition from bureaucrats. Guardian
+ Digital minister Taro Kono wants to follow up his bid to phase out faxes by getting rid of floppy disks – but he faces opposition from bureaucrats
Read this: Top French bureaucrats: We won’t be enslaved by robots: France’s top court says the consensus among scientists is that the ‘singularity’ is ‘a fantasy.’ Politico
+ The Conseil d'état, France's highest administrative court, has pooh-poohed the idea that artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity, while reassuring the public that they themselves are not secretly killer robots.
+ "There are two ways of thinking. One of which is mostly from across the Atlantic, where science fiction takes control, another which is much more realistic, dealing with possible usages which remain tied to reality."
The Wing, the once-highflying women’s club and co-working company, is shutting down. At its height, the Wing was reported to have some 12,000 members, with another 9,000 on its waitlist. By the end of 2019, the Wing had 11 locations and had raised more than $100 million.
Amazon Studios spent more than $700 million for the first season of Rings of Power.
Consistency: Can you form a habit with your customers? Can you create an environment where they expect, demand, and need your communications? Developing and executing a predictable editorial calendar that takes advantage of the calendar happenings, cultural activities/engagements, and natural inflection points are wonderful for communications and marketing. And for consistency.
Read this: John McEnroe reflects on ‘a hell of a ride’ as the bad boy of tennis LAT
+ “These days, athletes are doing performance-enhancing drugs. We were doing performance-detracting drugs,” he says in the documentary.
McEnroe: Nobody embodied the rockstar era of tennis more than John McEnroe. The original bad boy of the sport, McEnroe was famous not only for his epic matches, but also for his confrontations on and off the court.
Accompanied by interviews with icons like Patty Smyth, Keith Richards, Billie Jean King, and Bjorn Borg, the legendary tennis ace gives an unflinching account of his triumphs, struggles, friendships, and rivalries. Watch the Showtime trailer.
Read this: Bloodsport: How Dana White turned the UFC into a $4bn titan: Meet the foul-mouthed, art-loving pacifist behind ‘Ultimate Fighting.’ FT
+ White believed that boxing had a business problem, not a cultural one. People in every part of the world, he says, still stop whatever they’re doing any time a fight breaks out to watch
+ White believed mixed martial arts (MMA) would be popular in every country. There are no rules to learn, no history to appreciate
+ “The UFC is like Andy Warhol. Cricket is Mark Rothko.
+ Everybody gets Andy Warhol. With Rothko, the entrée is so hard,” says Lawrence Epstein, UFC’s chief operating officer
+ It’s the stories behind them — veteran vs newcomer, fighters who have fallen out — that make UFC fights successful, says White
+ White says he’ll never let other people pick who fights, which he considers the most important part of his job
+ “The most important question is ‘What does this fight mean?’ Why should people give a shit? What’s the storyline?”
+ White insists that stories make the UFC successful.
SOTD: Spiraling - Jens Kuross
Enjoy the ride + plan accordingly.
-Marc
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