The Brutalist Report

FastCompany

• The horrifying L.A. wildfires are being fueled by the worst conditions January has ever seen [15d]
• Meta adds Trump ally and UFC boss Dana White to its board [15d]
• The Surgeon General just wrote you a prescription for happiness. Here’s what it says [15d]
• Chick-fil-A’s new recipe for ‘crispier’ waffle fries has customers up in arms [15d]
• Oregon issues new ‘wildfire hazard maps’ for homeowners living in high-risk areas [15d]
• Meta discontinues its $1,500 Meta Quest Pro headset. What could this mean for Apple’s VR dreams? [15d]
• U.S. job openings unexpectedly rise by 8.1 million in November [15d]
• Girl Scout cookie season is here: These two popular flavors are on the chopping block, so stock up while you can [15d]
• Morgan Stanley: Rising inventory to push down U.S. home prices in 2025 [15d]
• Trump unveils $20 billion investment in American data centers [15d]
• ‘I sleep like a baby every single night’: Sleepmaxxing is all over TikTok again [15d]
• Instagram is in hot water for blocking LGBTQ+ content [15d]
• Good news, gamers: Playing ‘The Legend of Zelda’ helps mental health [15d]
• CFPB sues Experian over consumer credit accuracy [15d]
• Judge largely blocks Tennessee’s porn site age verification law [15d]
• Fact-checking on Facebook was already a lost cause [15d]
• Trump might use an executive order to protect gas stoves [15d]
• Biden designates two California sites as new national monuments [15d]
• Is Mark Zuckerberg becoming a mini-Elon Musk? [16d]
• Zoox and Waymo are hoping Trump will ease barriers for self-driving cars [16d]
• 5 creative leaders on what they want to redesign in 2025 [16d]
• China’s Tencent and SenseTime protest blacklisting by U.S. Defense Department [16d]
• McDonald’s joins Walmart and John Deere in ending DEI initiatives [16d]
• Getty Images and Shutterstock merge in $3.7 billion deal [16d]
• How might Trump’s SEC pick handle Wall Street? Experts weigh in [16d]
• Nvidia stock is nearing an all-time high as excitement builds around CES 2025 and new AI hardware [16d]
• Biden administration announces ‘lifechanging’ new rule for credit reports [16d]
• The new Congress is still mostly Christian, and less than 1% have no religious affiliation at all [16d]
• Inside ‘Teflon Joe’s’: Why your favorite grocery store is not what you think [16d]
• Amazon’s Melania Trump documentary is just the beginning [16d]
• ‘This is going to make me very uncomfortable’: The 75 Hard challenge is blowing up on TikTok [16d]
• Why high achievers get overlooked (and what to do about it) [16d]
• How Spotify is turning podcasting into social media [16d]
• ‘Game Time’ is a leadership fallacy. Here’s the real teamwork lesson from sports [16d]
• In Colorado, 1 in 4 new cars is now electric. Here’s how the state became an EV leader [16d]
• 3 communication mistakes that hold you back at work [16d]
• For $20, this company will cure your guilt about recycling [16d]
• Sweden just turned the humble water tower into art [16d]
• It took NASA decades to develop this special rocket engine. AI made it in 3 weeks [16d]
• We’d welcome this robot overlord into our homes [16d]
• Forget happy hour: 9 professionals share how they make networking fun [16d]
• 5 red flags of your boss’s behavior you should not ignore [16d]
• This tiny Florida island has been hit by 3 hurricanes in 13 months. But most residents are staying put [16d]
• The job search is taking longer than it used to [16d]
• This startup says its AI can speed insurance approval of health treatments [16d]
• Try this technique to schedule deep work directly into your calendar [16d]