🍪 Zuck talks the future and Crypto.com learns a 10 million dollar lesson

Rise and shine, party people! It’s almost Labor Day, which means we should honor ourselves by not laboring for the rest of the week.

Let’s get dig in before I lose ya to happy hour.

In the oven this week:

• 🤖 The robot speaks - Zuck goes on the Joe Rogan pod

• 🤦🏻‍♀️ Crypto.com makes a $10.5M mistake

• 🍪 Cookie crumbs: 5 bite-sized headlines

• 🍫 Chocolate chips: 4 fun/useful finds

• 😂 Snickerdoodles: memes to kick off the long weekend

FRESHLY BAKED

ZUCK TALKS THE FUTURE

This week, Zuck went on Joe Rogan’s podcast.

Did we tune in for all 3 hours? Why yes, yes we did.

Do we maybe need some new hobbies in life? Sure.

But now we can save ya some time. Here’s all the good stuff:

On Meta:

• Zuck says AR and VR have come a long way, but will probably never truly be as good as being in the real world with people. Still, this doesn’t mean they can’t be super useful though. He cites Zoom as a good example of a service that isn’t as good as real physical interaction, but has still completely changed the future of work.

• Managing misinformation is hard because not only do you need to flag bad content, but you also need to figure out the poster’s intent. There’s a fine line between someone being honestly wrong online and someone posting fake news with the intent to mislead.

• He doesn’t want Meta to be the ministry of truth for society, trying to figure out what should be allowed on social media and what shouldn’t. That’s why he created an oversight board, where celebrated experts can advise as an independent body.

On his personal life:

• Despite his team's AR and VR plans, he still claims to value the real world more than most CEOs in tech. He says he’s a 3 sport varsity athlete (LOL), and actually hates sitting at his desk. He’s constantly moving and taking meetings outside.

• Zuck says he wakes up every morning and the vibe is, “okay, well, f*ck.” Checking his phone every morning feels like “getting punched in the gut,” because people are always briefing him on the next disaster, press release, or problem that needs his attention. People tend to want to deliver positive news in person, so he just gets hit with a ton of negative content immediately when he wakes up. Brutal.

• He gave up running as his primary form of exercise because it caused him to overthink. During covid, he took up jujitsu with Rogan’s friend and loves it because there’s no time to think (if ya do you get knocked out.)

For all the flack he gets, man, does the guy have a tough job.

CRYPTO’S $10.5M FACE PALM MOMENT

You know those cringey quotes that say sh*t like, “there are no mistakes in life, just lessons learned?”

Well Crypto.com accidentally paid $10.5M for an expensive a life lesson.

Let me explain.

Last year, Crypto.com meant to give woman a $100 refund, but accidentally typed the woman’s account number into the payment field.

What happened? Instead $100 bucks, she got $10,474,143.

But the best part of this story is that it took the company 7 months to notice that this had even happened. Now, they’re trying to double back and go after the woman.

The problem is, the money’s gone. The woman withdrew her funds faster than ETH plummeting when interest rates go up. She gave her daughter 500K and bought her sister a $1.4 house too.

Now, Crypto.com is taking her to court and demanding that she return the funds.

But while some people zig, she zags. Her strategy: if ya don’t show up to court how are they gonna take your money??

Looks like the she might be on the run now. 😂

Crypto.com’s end of the year employee bonuses are about to get a little lighter.

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COOKIE CRUMBS

BITE SIZED TREATS

CHOCOLATE CHIPS

FINDS OF THE WEEK

• What to do when you hit that afternoon slump.

• If you’re HODLing your breath for the ETH merge like we are, here’s a dashboard that tracks all things related to the merge, like how much is being staked, the countdown, etc.

• A Linkedin viral post generator for your next post - you can even choose a “cringe” level.

• How to use Google Maps to save on gas.

SNICKERDOODLES

THURSDAY MEMES

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