Happy Monday!
I will keep today's dose short and…sweet?
⏪Quick week recap
South Korea mourns after Halloween crush kills more than 150
Elon Musk takes control of Twitter in $44bn deal
Rihanna releases her first solo single in six years
Brazilians votes out their far-right leader, Jair Bolsonaro, after a single term and replaces him with former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
There is "no credible pathway" to keep the rise in global temperatures below the key threshold of 1.5C, according to a new UN assessment.
Shares in Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, have plunged more than 20% after a downbeat set of results from the tech giant.
South Korean electronics giant Samsung has named convicted heir and de facto boss Lee Jae-yong as its executive chairman.
Twin car bomb explosions near a busy junction in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, kills at least 100 people.
☮️The rise of situationships
Research has shown that Gen Zs are taking a pragmatic approach to love and sex, and subsequently aren’t prioritising establishing committed romantic relationships in the same way their older peers once did.
Long gone are the days when seeing a film or sharing a milkshake was all it took to solidify a couple as definitively together. Instead, modern dating has evolved into a delicate – at times complicated – series of ‘baby steps’ for young people.
That doesn’t mean, however, that they’re not expressing interest in romance and intimacy entirely; rather, they’re finding new ways to satisfy those wants and needs that fit better into their lives. This shift has given rise to the idea of the ‘situationship’ – a term that describes the grey area between friendship and a relationship.”
😁If you are not a Gen Z, chances are that you don’t know what a situationship is. Well, here you go…
“A situationship is an informal arrangement typically between two people that has components of both emotional and physical connection, yet operates outside the conventional idea of being in an exclusive, committed relationship. In some cases, situationships are constrained by time and the idea that a casual arrangement is the best fit for the current situation. For two final-year university students, for instance, who might not want to progress into a committed partnership, considering new jobs could take them to new cities after graduating.”
Experts argue that situationships are popular because they challenge the 'relationship escalator’: the idea that intimate partnerships are meant to have a linear structure with the goal of hitting conventional relationship milestones such as co-habitation, engagement, and marriage.
“Additionally, many young people simply aren’t putting the emphasis on dating intentionally as they were in the past; facing the climate crisis, an unstable economy with surging inflation, and political and social upheaval, young people are more involved in advocacy and in search of personal, professional, and financial stability first.”
🤔Did you know?
Liechtenstein has one of the world’s lowest crime rates, with its last murder occurring in approximately 1997 and its prison holding very few inmates. Citizens who are given prison sentences of more than two years are transferred over to Austria. The crime rate is so low that the average Liechtenstein resident reportedly doesn’t even lock her front door.
💡Quote of the week
Effective executives, in my observation, do not start with their tasks. They start with their time. And they do not start out with planning. They start by finding out where their time actually goes. Then they attempt to manage their time and to cut back unproductive demands on their time. Finally they consolidate their "discretionary" time into the largest possible continuing units.
From “The Effective Executive” by Peter Drucker
That is it for today.
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Have a great week,
Dennis