Beyoncé, Turkey & Black History Month💡
This Week in Review☕️: Dressing professionally is so 2019 | Devastating earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria | Death toll "could rise eight-fold" | Black History Month | Spotify Founder enters healthcare |
This Week’s Partner💡: Notion
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Notion: The all-in-one workspace to collaborate, stay informed and work together.
Quick Bites:
Culture🌍: Beyonce officially becomes the most awarded artist in Grammys history, after collecting her 32nd award this past weekend.
The singer won the "Best Dance/ Electronic" music album for 'Renaissance' at the 65th annual Grammy Awards.
Queen B!!! Breaking records and our souls!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
💡Beyonce made history
💡Viola Davis is a EGOT
💡Lizzo's speech was everything
💡Stevie Wonder slayed
💡Trevor Noah held the audience down
💡It marks a week of Black History Month
A reminder that the Grammys were great this year because black culture IS culture💯
"I'm trying not to be too emotional. I'm just trying to receive this tonight"
Beyonce thanked her late uncle Jonny, who helped make her stage outfits before she became famous.
The singer has previously said his battle with HIV influenced her interest in dance music, and its historical ties to the LGBTQ community, on Renaissance.
Our Thoughts💡
Queen B:
💡Has been in the studio for over a decade
💡Has been the face of Tiffanys-the most iconic jeweler
💡Has performed at the Superbowl twice
💡Has an 'Ivy Park' clothing line that's crushing it
💡Is working on multi-million dollar businesses outside of music
💡Is building a hemp and honey farm
Wake👏🏻the👏🏻f**k👏🏻up👏🏻ladies👏🏻
Health🌱: Spotify CEO launches healthcare startup 'Neko Health'.
Neko Health is a preventative health play that specializes in providing full body scans powered by AI.
Congrats @DanielEk but if you want to be truly successful in detecting and preventing disease and stress, you will lower the Spotify premium rate of $9.99 a month 🙏
Key Highlights:
💡These 360-degree body scans are able to "collect over 50 million data points about the skin, heart, vessels, respiration, inflammation and more"
💡This data is then analyzed by a “self-learning AI-powered system”
💡Clients get results at their appointment or can track on an accompanying app
💡The full-body scans only take a few minutes
💡They are currently open to the public in Sweden and cost approx $190
Ek has long expressed a personal interest in the "screwed-up" healthcare system, as he put it to the Financial Times almost a decade ago.
“I’m not the inventor, but I may be the person that’s dumb enough to go against the system and try to beat it on its own terms,” he said at the time.
Global News⚠️: Devastating earthquakes hit Turkey, Syria as death toll crosses 5,000.
There are fears the death toll "could rise eight-fold" upto 20,000, according to The WHO.
The quakes toppled thousands of buildings and trapped residents beneath rubble and pancaked floors. In Turkey alone, 5,600 buildings have collapsed.
💡The 1st quake, Turkey's biggest in more than 80 years, hit at 4 a.m local time on Monday with a magnitude 7.8 on the Richter scale.
💡The 2nd struck in the afternoon and registered at 7.5. Tremors were felt as far away as Cyprus and Egypt.
💡Atleast 100 aftershocks have occurred since the earthquakes, measuring 4.0 magnitude and higher.
💡Two fresh quakes of 5.6 and 5.7 hit central Turkey during the first hours of Tuesday.
💡Atleast 3,419 people have died in Turkey and 1,602 in government and rebel-controlled parts of Syria, bringing the total to at least 5,021, officials say.
Background:
💡Turkey is known to be one of the world's most active earthquake zones.
💡The country's last 7.8-magnitude quake was in 1939, when 33,000 died in the eastern Erzincan province.
💡The Turkish region of Duzce suffered a 7.4-magnitude earthquake in 1999, when over 17,000 people died.
💡Experts have long warned a large quake could devastate Istanbul, a city of 16 million people filled with rickety homes.
Rescuers in Turkey and Syria braved freezing darkness in the middle of the night. A winter blizzard and a recent cholera outbreak made deliveries of aid even more complicated.
Rescue teams from the EU, UK, US and the UN are currently searching for survivors beneath the rubble.
Work Culture📈: Ditch your button downs and pencil skirts. Dressing "professionally" in the office is so 2019.
Bosses, who could set the tone for the rest of their team, are now encouraging employees to dress in more personality-driven, "comfortable" options.
HSBC and British Airways are the latest to introduce jumpsuits to their official uniforms, while Virgin Atlantic encouraged gender-fluid dressing.
The new range also includes "menopause-friendly" garments for women and ethnic-wear- including tunics, hijabs, chinos and jeans.
Last month, BA unveiled its first new uniform for 20 years, including a jumpsuit for female ground staff and cabin crew, BBC reports.
If that wasn't enough of a change, just last week-family and divorce law firm 'Vardags' told its staff to bring their "personality to work".
The well-known legal company encouraged a new dress code "more like Annabel's", a private members club in Mayfair known for the glitzy, extravagant outfits worn by patrons.
Tbh, while comfy clothing has been the norm in the tech sector for years, the pandemic made it the new normal for ALL, irrespective of the industry.
We firsthand witnessed the market explode for sweatpants over Covid y'all. About as essential as the Banana Bread starter kit and Hand-sanitizer, sweats became the official #WFH uniform.
Our Thoughts💡: Personally, we didn't need a global pandemic to witness the end of the corporate dream.
As soon as Brooks Brothers' bankruptcy filing in 2020, it was clear to us that pinstripe suits and blouse-and-skirt combos were gone long before Covid hit town!
Quicker Bites:
Earthquake rescue efforts in Turkey, Syria hampered by snow.
This year’s Super Bowl is poised to be the most bet-on game in US history.
Google releases its ChatGPT rival, named "Bard".
Chinese internet giant Baidu surges after prepping ChatGPT-style ‘Ernie’ bot.
UK puts laid-off immigrants on a 60-day deadline to find another job.
Former Pakistan President General Musharraf passes away.
Mexico opposes restart of US 'Remain in Mexico' immigration policy.
Tom Brady says he's focused on starting his broadcast career in 2024.
Jupiter now has the most moons in the solar system after new discovery.