In The Nick Of (Tab) Time
It's gonna be May.
My first month as a Forbes Cars & Bikes contributor (read: underpaid freelancer) is wrapping up. It felt good to get back into the groove of writing semi-regularly. But it felt even better to set up calls, talk to longtime contacts and see pitches back in my inbox.
For my first month “back” at it, we’re introducing a new feature of this newsletter: the Forbes Focus box with my links for the month. And you’ll notice a section dedicated to AI tabs, because that’s where we’re at these days.
Forbes Focus
>> 5 New Electrified Cars Make Autotrader’s Best Of 2024 List
>> As Tesla Cybertrucks Slowly Arrive, Appreciate The Frunk
>> 2024 Ford F-150 Lightning Price Drops As More Electric Pickups Arrive
>> Tesla Reveals Model 3 Performance And ‘Cybercab’ Amidst Earnings Slump
>> 2024 Rivian R1T Only Pickup Truck To Qualify For Highest Safety Rating» Earlier this month when taxes were on my mind: President Biden earned $620,000 in 2023 and paid 23.7% in federal income taxes, returns show (USA Today via Apple News)
» Something I have done many times, often without telling anyone: How to take a working vacation that won’t burn you out (Fast Company)
» The results are in for The Pudding’s Flipbook Experiment!
» April was busy for most of us, but most of all for Taylor Swift who dropped two new albums. Here’s help decoding everything, since even as an underemployed person I don’t have time for that: A Brief Guide to Who’s Who on Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ (NY Times)
» Photo break! World Press Photo Global winners
» An important read about the state of the media today and its connection to O.J. Simpson, who died this month: The O.J. Effect (CNN’s Reliable Sources newsletter)
» Too busy to read this? HOW TO BE LESS BUSY AND MORE HAPPY (The Atlantic via Apple News)
» Plastic overload hits close to home. Now I want to take this test: A Test Told Me I’m Basically Made of Plastic. You Probably Are Too (Time)
» Barbie news I can get behind: Bay Area Olympic champion Kristi Yamaguchi gets her own Barbie doll (SF Chronicle)
» Another Photo Break™️! Remember the total solar eclipse that was this month? Total solar eclipse sweeps across North America (AP)
» I foolishly let the opportunity to see the 2024 total eclipse pass after chasing totality into Oregon in 2017. For the next one, I’m ready: Solar and Lunar Eclipses Worldwide – Next 10 Years (TimeandDate)
» To relive April’s eclipse: What the Solar Eclipse Looked Like From Space (NY Times via Threads)
» Can we find me a fake email job? Do You Have A ‘Fake Email Job’? (Bustle)
» I’d like a paid zero-hour workweek: Why McKinsey is paying staff to leave (The Times)
» If you know me, you know I live on WhatsApp. I get my news, gossip, logistics and event planning, friendships and socialization in one convenient place. It’s time for everyone to join me: How WhatsApp became the world’s default communication app (Engadget)
» Yo: Yo! How a content-free social network briefly fascinated the world (and the news media) (Nieman Lab)
» Women and EVs are not mixing, which is frustrating: What’s driving women buyers away from EVs? (Tech Brew)
» Take a break and see if your iceberg will float: Iceberger (JoshData)
» A nightmare scenario: 'I'm not dead': A Northern California man's struggle after government mistakenly declares him deceased (KCRA via Apple News)
AI Corner
>> TollBit raises $7 million to solve the AI vs. publisher conflict (Axios)
>> AI CAN’T GIVE YOU GOOD TASTE (It’s Nice That)
>> More Than Half of Nonprofits Use A.I., Google.org Survey Finds (Chronicle of Philanthropy)
>> ChatGPT Traffic up 13% YoY, Nearly Matching 2023 Peak (SimilarWeb)
>> The jobs being replaced by AI – an analysis of 5M freelancing jobs (Bloomberry) » Some good news to power you into May: After a decade of explosive growth, nearly one-quarter of U.S. electricity now comes from renewables (GoodGoodGood)
» Hormonal Birth Control Doesn't Deserve Its Bad Reputation (Time via Apple News)
» I’m a longtime Imperfect customer and after its Misfits Market acquisition there’s some good content about the produce and other products that come to my house: What Makes Something a Misfit? (Misfits Market Blog)
» Talk about slow: San Francisco's tourism industry is slowly recovering (Axios)
» So cool. Where is your antipode? Mine is the middle of the ocean near Madagascar: Antipodes Map
» We’ll end with a fun game that’s also a play on Wordle and my mom’s last name: Guess the House Price (Housle)
See you on the internet next month!