Kyle Nowak

🔥 It’s Wednesday, February 26th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

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“Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.”

–George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

🚀 ☄️ AstroForge is on a mission to build a space mining operation rivaling RDA’s unobtanium-gathering enterprise in Avatar.

🇯🇵 The Japanese government has relaunched its “Cool Japan” campaign, which seeks to reestablish the creative industry as one of its leading exports and boost the country’s soft power globally.

❓ Our question to you: In general, how do you feel about DOGE’s cost-cutting efforts across the federal government thus far?

☕️ Starbucks, the siren logo’d coffee chain, will be reducing the size of its workforce, the company announced yesterday – a siren singing a swan song, if you will.

🔥 It’s Tuesday, February 25th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🪸 A growing number of startups are seeking to cash in on the burgeoning global seaweed market and turn farms full of kelp and algae into food, skincare products, and environmentally-friendly cattle feed.

🏛️ The Trump administration’s new Department of Government Efficiency has been investigating a wide range of federal agencies to reduce wasteful spending. But are the numbers it reports adding up?

“True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.”

–Augustine "Og" Mandino (1923-1996)

❓ Our question to you: How do you feel about President Trump’s new executive order regarding White House control of independent federal agencies?

🪙 Hackers stole ~400,000 ether worth ~$1.4 billion from Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, the exchange revealed Friday.

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🔥 It’s Monday, February 24th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

📺 Longtime producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson have relinquished creative control of the James Bond franchise to Amazon MGM.

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“Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.”

–Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)

🏭🏛️ Lead pollution during the Roman Empire grew to a high enough level that it dropped the population's collective IQ, potentially aiding in the empire’s fall, according to a recent peer-reviewed study.