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Plus . . . Give better feedback with 19 magic words.
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1. WHY NOT? Billionaires Beware: An Opening Day Proposal to Put Fans in Charge 🚀 🏟️
“Sports teams are public trusts. They shape a community’s identity. They enrich its heritage. They’re one of the rare entities in modern life that span divides of race, class, and politics.”
If you’re a sports fan — or just a fan of saving capitalism — you might like my latest Why Not? column. Read it by clicking here (free gift article) or on the images below.
For more on Why Not?, the Washington Post’s and my project in “possibility journalism” . . .
Read some previous columns. You can find the full list here.
Contribute a Why Not? idea of your own. Readers have already offered more than 2,100 ideas. Send yours! Use this Washington Post link or email the idea directly to me at whynot@danielpink.com.
PINK RECOMMENDS. Podcasts, primates, and peppy pop. 📚 🎧 🛠️ 📺
LISTEN: One of the most important books of 2024 comes out today: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt. This episode of the Hidden Brain podcast offers an excellent overview of all of Haidt’s work, new and old.
TRY: For a startling glimpse of AI’s future, check out Suno. You describe a song in a sentence or two. Then Suno creates it - no musical skill or knowledge required. (Example: “Write a peppy, upbeat pop song about why fans, not billionaires, should own baseball teams.”) The result is not always great, but is always amazing.
READ: The great Frans de Waal passed away earlier this month. Along with being a pathbreaking primatologist, he was a skilled science writer with a knack for explaining complex animal behavior in crisp, memorable language. You can pay tribute by picking up one of his books. Start with Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
WATCH: An opinion piece produced by an abstract painter and accompanied by a dizzying sound palette? Yes please. Check out Amy Sillman’s bizarrely transfixing one-minute video, “Spring: Abstraction As Ruin.”
3. FINAL THOUGHTS. This is how to give better feedback in just 19 words. 🎯✅
It’s difficult to deliver feedback, even more difficult to deliver negative feedback.
But this Pinkcast from the archives could help. It describes 19 magic words that can turn tough feedback into motivation and confidence.
You can watch the 78-second video by clicking the image below.
That’s it for this edition. See you next time!