Hi ,

I can't believe it's already Sunday. Time flies; one 6pm curfew day looks extremely similar to the next 6pm curfew day, and the next one. Needing to break the day to get general life stuff done before everything shuts down at 6pm also makes it increasingly difficult to focus on any significant project for a long time.Then again, the main thing I had due this past week was grading a lot of student exams and it's not the funnest thing, so that may also explain the distraction somewhat! All done for this batch though! And I finished a client project, so I'm available and looking for new strategy projects at the moment as well (in case you need or hear of anything going on).As usual, I'm linking to last week's Teaching Tangents episode with James D'Souza. The question was: "How will the generation studying online cope with life in the future?"By the way, we could also really use your help, we're in need of new interesting questions to tackle for the show and thought we'd put a call for questions out right here - it is a super simple one question survey, you'd hugely help if you think of an interesting question that you'd really love to see us discuss and attempt to answer. Thank you!In relation to this week's photo, I learned that a group of people working in arts & culture started occupying several theatres in France, to raise awareness for people struggling in those sectors that have been severely affected for the past year now with the pandemic.Additionally, the French government announced a reform and change of calculation to the unemployment benefits that will definitely affect most people in the arts & culture sector forced into unemployment, and apparently about 840,000 unemployed people on benefits stand to lose about 20% of that income, while in the middle of a huge crisis due to the pandemic. A bit of a summary in a news article here. There are gatherings, talks, and concerts in the afternoons. It's not too far from my home so I went to check it out and spent some time with the people gathered.Enjoy the rest of your weekend, take care, be safe, have fun!Cheers,Willem

 Weekly Combo Typically a mix of playful and strategy flavours. 

Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene 

(The Atlantic - long read, approx. 33 min - totally worth it)

A couple of quotes from the article: "If you want to know if you’re rich, try behaving badly and see if someone in authority will apologize for stretching your patience and emotional capacity."On diversity and inclusion programs: "There had been costs to going to Spence. One of those, she now realizes, was “sacrificing my Blackness.”"

(The Guardian, 6 min read)

In the first article, the parts about diversity and private school reactions to Black Lives Matter protests last year, seem to quite logically flow to this critically acclaimed literary novel review, "about a young black woman who has an affair with a middle-aged white man and ends up living with his family." Apparently characters playing video games is an inherent part of the novel - though not actually what the novel is about. The author shares her experience of playing video games, and how it affected her life, and the way she tells stories.

Quote: “Games are not simply an escape from the real world, they’re a place to process what has happened in the real world,” says Leilani.