💬 Quoted… "Admittedly, this is an intimidating room but this is your room. So if you win, get up on this stage... speak from the heart... don't shut [up]."

• The 96th Academy Awards took place in Los Angeles last night, with Hollywood’s biggest stars gathering to celebrate the best films of 2023. Oppenheimer led the way with seven Oscar wins – including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor – while Barbie took home the Oscar for Best Original Song for Billie Eilish and FINNEAS’ “What Was I Made For?” See the full list of winners + highlights from the night.

🧘📈 Stat of the Day: The most popular workout of 2023 was Pilates, with bookings up 92% from 2022, according to ClassPass. It marks the first time Pilates has held the top spot since the company began a decade ago. (CrossFitters have been reallll quiet since this news dropped😉.)

🤔 Did You Know?... The term horsepower was first adopted in the late 18th century as a way to compare the output of steam engines with the power of draft horses. One horsepower was defined as the average amount of work a horse outputs over the course of an entire day – though a single horse can produce up to 15 horsepower in short bursts. (Fun fact: a healthy human can produce up to 1.2 horsepower.)

📰 Worth a Read: How Apple Sank About $1 Billion a Year Into a Car It Never Built → (Bloomberg)