Weekend reads

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• Whether or not you agreed with the FDA and CDC’s decision to pause the Johnson & Johnson vaccine distribution this week (and there was a lot of debate), how the pause was communicated left a lot to be desired—and Facebook, once again, filled the conspiracy theory void

• Important read from journalist Charlie Warzel about how irreparably broken Twitter’s Trending Topics are

• Is this the dawn of the B2B sharing economy?

• Great run-down by Thomas Edsall in the Times of all the political, economic, and moral calculations businesses are making by getting involved with either party

• Probably not surprising: a new LinkedIn Workforce Insights study showed that we’re pretty addicted to our current flexibility

• Coinbase had a massive IPO last week, but with the new focus on the sticking power of crypto comes renewed scrutiny about its environmental impacts

• Digging the concept of “mission equity,” and hoping this idea has legs

• A really important read for those of us who’ve been trying to help down-ballot races: apparently they can have a reverse coattails effect, and help up the ticket