Thread by @kristjanlepik

Weekend reading: 8 articles about interesting new trends that are happening in the world - from technology to politics to markets. Thread 👇🏻

1/ Guardian is quoting an ex-KGB spy who is saying that Russia has used Trump as an asset for more than 40 years

theguardian.com/us-news/2021/j…

2/ This week the stock markets were derailed by ... a online Reddit army. Strange times, in a way the attack on Capitol was also started online. Decentralization is really happening.

edition.cnn.com/2021/01/29/inv…

3/ Big Tech has become quite repulsive. And since their business is global the goverments have not been able to do much. At least Big Tech has started now internal bickering - Apple attacking Facebook
inc.com/justin-bariso/…

4/ Beyond Meat and Pepsi are teaming up to create plant-based snacks and drinks. Yay!
vox.com/future-perfect…

5/ Norway did reach and amazing milestone - more than half of new cars sold are electric. It is one of the wealthiest countries as well, but little known fact is that their pop-group A-ha also played a role to drive the public adoption
whichcar.com.au/car-news/how-a…

6/ Could algae become a next big thing in food industry?
fooddive.com/news/algae-ing…

7/ Has pandemic transformed the office forever? I would say "yes". Remote work will have a bigger role and people will not spend the full weeks in the office anymore as well. New Yorker has a great longread:

newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…

8/ I have three kids and I can see how problematic the online learning is for them. Mainly because the online service schools are offering is subpar, but that is another story. Here is a call to reopen schools ASAP:
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Estonian version of all of this is here:
facebook.com/lugemisnurk/po…