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5 things we learned

Mark Zuckerberg lost $5.9 billion in a day. Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram went down, while a whistleblower shared shocking allegations about the company. You thought you had a bad week?

Toyota is getting left behind by its rivals. That’s the view of our electric car columnist, who critiqued the car giant’s painfully slow transition toward battery-powered vehicles. 

Money is pouring back into email marketing. $15bn worth of acquisitions have completed as tech companies snap up plucky startups with the known-how to get our attention.

Elon Musk is moving Tesla HQ to Texas. Despite expanding the company’s factories in California, Musk has made no secret of his disdain for the state’s high costs, long commutes and tricky regulations. 

There’s a clown shortage in Northern Ireland. Circuses have only just been allowed to reopen, which forced the country’s clowns to move abroad for work. Coronavirus strikes again.

The good

You can avoid workplace conflict in the hybrid office. Leaders need to become better listeners, paying careful attention to intentions, perceptions and expectations. Learn from our expert workplace mediator.

The bad

Donald Trump fell off the Forbes 400 list. Tech and crypto billionaires knocked the former president off our annual ranking of America’s richest for the first time in 25 years.

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Watch

The richest person under 30 wants to give it all away. 29 year old Crypto entrepreneur, Sam Bankman-Fried plans to give his entire fortune to good causes. But he’s yet to put his money where his mouth is. Forbes, available worldwide on YouTube .

Listen

Harness your doubt. Nicola Reindorp, CEO of Crisis Action explains how channeling your self-doubt can make you a stronger leader. BBC Radio 4, free to listen worldwide.

Read

A life through food. Award winning actor Stanley Tucci takes you on a gastronomic journey of his life, from five-star meals to disastrous dishes, and the stories behind them. Fig Tree, from $18 .

Taste

The world's oldest Japanese whiskey is now on sale. Aged in mizunara and American white oak, the long-awaited Yamazaki 55 is finally available outside of Japan, and there's only 100 bottles avaiable.

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