Last week brought us a multi-campus lecture series from those who ought to be more occupied with attending them than giving them, PEN America putting the author in authoritarianism, and the man who wants Canadians to call him prime minister ejected from the body he wants to preside over for petty name-calling.

Let’s all review John Perry Barlow’s “25 Principles of Adult Behaviour,” shall we?

On behalf of product managers everywhere, let me express my gratitude to Apoorva Mishra for her recent article in HBR, “The Myths and Realities of Being a Product Manager,” in which she takes predatory influencers to task for setting up aspirants for failure and degrading the practice more generally.