IT'S GOOD TO BE PURPLE

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1. IT'S GOOD TO BE PURPLE

Fail to turn your company around, or even worse, lead it to be sold and dismantled for its parts, and you could get paid $219 million for four years of "effort." According to Nicholas Thompson, "Marissa Mayer got $218m at Yahoo, which is exactly the sum of the year's biggest Mega Millions jackpot." Sign me up for that job. From WaPo - Marissa Mayer’s total pay as Yahoo CEO could end up reaching almost $219 million

+ Just in case you missed it, here's the backstory. From NYT - Yahoo’s Sale to Verizon Ends an Era for a Web Pioneer

+ "Assuming shareholders and regulators bless the sale of the core Yahoo businesses to Verizon, what will stay are a 15 percent stake in the Alibaba Group; a 35.5 percent stake in Yahoo’s Japanese affiliate; the company’s cash; and a collection of noncore patents that will eventually be sold off. The total value of the so-called RemainCo: more than $40 billion." From NYT - For Yahoo, Question Is What to Do With $40 Billion in Leftovers

2.THE HEDONIC TREADMILL

"The researcher, Karol Jan Borowiecki, examined the emotional state of three of the West’s most influential composers through the full course of their lives. What he found appears to bear out popular ideas about creativity and melancholy: a link between periods of negative emotions, especially sadness, and artistic brilliance. From WaPo - The downside of being happy

+ "We pass up life-changing experiences because we’re on track to become partner. We skip meaningful time with our families so we can respond to one more email. I assume this is all in pursuit of something out there that we think will make us happier. Unfortunately, this pursuit is futile." From NYT - More Money, More Success, More Stuff? Don’t Count on More Happiness

3. OUT OF CONTROL

Bernie Sanders supporters are very angry. Even he can't talk them off the ledge. "The scariest thing if you are a member of the Democratic establishment? Not even Bernie Sanders seems to be able to control these people. The revolution is still happening for them, and no one can convince them otherwise." From WaPo - Bernie Sanders started a political revolution. Now he can’t stop it

+ From Vox - It looks like a mess, but the Democratic Party is more unified than it seems

4. THE TRUMP BUMP

As expected, Trump bumped in the polls as a result of the RNC spotlight. "Trump's problems are, unquestionably, legion. Yet here we are. Two new national polls out Monday either put him ahead of Clinton by three points or tied with the presumptive Democratic nominee. And it's not just those two surveys. The broad trend in polling suggests a tightening contest." From WaPo - Yes, of course Donald Trump can win

+ Avik Roy is a Republican’s Republican. He believes the Grand Old Party is going to die. "Roy isn’t happy about this: He believes it means the Democrats will dominate national American politics for some time. But he also believes the Republican Party has lost its right to govern, because it is driven by white nationalism rather than a true commitment to equality for all Americans." From Vox - A Republican intellectual explains why the Republican Party is going to die

5. THE ORIGINS OF MAN

Let's see what the Creationists do with this information. "The 355 genes pointed quite precisely to an organism that lived in the conditions found in deep sea vents, the gassy, metal-laden, intensely hot plumes caused by seawater interacting with magma erupting through the ocean floor." From NYT - Meet Luca, the Ancestor of All Living Things

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