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Hello friends, also Frans, if anyone named Fran happens to be reading this.
Have we totally lost our minds yet?!?! Speaking for myself, yes.
I now refer to my bedroom as “working from home” and the 20-foot walk to the kitchen table as my “commute.” My Business Hero™ husband has even been posting notes over the “breakroom” sink that say, “TEAM: This is a shared space.”
Speaking of him, I agreed to cut his hair, film it, and then publish that footage in the New York Times. Totally normal business reporter stuff.
💇♂️💇♂️You can read about that here. 💇♂️💇♂️
I also wrote about start-ups and government loans, which people have a lot of strong opinions on. Understandably! The PPP has been a hot mess of confusion and frustration. Some of the Business Heroes™ that took the money are even giving it back. Here is my story:
🤑🤑Start-Ups Pursue ‘Free Money’ With Relief Funds, Prompting Backlash 🤑🤑
What else. Well, SoftBank did a big writedown. And Airbnb raised some more money.
Important Business Matters
Startup everyone’s into: Sourd.io, the Fitbit for sourdough starters.
Startup everyone’s over: Checkout bots beating you to grocery delivery timeslots.
And here is another development in start-up-land: The founder of the startup Banjo was a hate-criming neo-nazi in his youth, and it was not widely known until now, in part, because of typos in his name in the court records.
Reason to go on living: These runaway airport crabs. I hope they found the freedom they sought.
Reason to take up residence under your weighted blanket: The preppers were right.
Latest heartbreak: Sympathy cards are selling out. And Prune.
Latest delight: Fiona Apple.
Latest thing the kids are into: Fighting off coronavirus with sperm smoothies, of course.
Latest thing the olds are into: Silent Zooms. And Zoom fatigue.
Latest thing the very olds are into: Grandkids-on-demand.
Latest offering that capitalism hath wrought: Louis Vuitton dumbbells. Just $2,720.
Latest ethical conundrums: Shop for myself or order online? Not that simple! Go camping? NO!
lol nothing matters
Fellow Business Heroes™, how are we practicing self-care in quarantine???
(Shoutout to Everything is Terrible, which first found this video, cut it and scored it horrifyingly.)
current status, expressed by stock photography:
(Inspired by ‘show a little leg’ guy.)
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