Baggu torrented BART's logo and "workslop" is everywhere

Baggu is in some hot water for making unauthorized BART merch for their store opening, a shocking number of companies are seeing 0 return on their investments in AI, and I’m back from a(nother) wedding in Chicago. Let’s get into it.

Baggu stole the BART logo, and people are pissed

Cult favorite Baggu opened a new store in San Francisco, and celebrated with BART-themed bags, Nalgenes, and more. Turns out they never even asked BART if this was cool, let alone licensed the copyrighted logo. In response, BART said: “It is not a partnership and we are surprised to see our logo.” Some customers feel duped: they came to support their beloved local transit system, only to learn they…weren’t. Oopsie, Baggu!

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco got surprise married

If you don’t share your screen to present Selena’s wedding pics in Vogue…do you even know how to make a corporate meeting fun? Gomez and Blanco married in Santa Barbara this past weekend after a year of dating. Her old Hollywood bob makes me want to cut all my hair off.

AI is creating “workslop”

Lots of companies are requiring employees to use generative AI - which can be super helpful - but sometimes leads to a huge quantity of low-quality work, recently coined “workslop” by BetterUp Labs and the Stanford Social Media Lab. They’re estimating a loss of $9 million in productivity per year thanks to AI, and allegedly, 95% of organizations are getting exactly NO return on their AI investments.

I’m back in the office after starring in speaking at my bestie's wedding in Chicago this past weekend. I miss the attention. I miss the matching dresses. I was the last one on the dance floor on Saturday (like, dead last), and despite the fact that my parents were there (so fun!), I did not behave myself at all!

Nothing screams careening away from my twenties quite like bragging about putting together a cute outfit for…a security conference. Five years ago, I could dance all night in high heels, but today, I’m optimizing for comfy flats for walking, and a maxi for feeling both feminine and super profesh.

If you’re the type who keeps promising to “be better about scheduling catch-ups” or “actually book that workout,” you simply must remove the mental load portion of the task.

The next time you commit to something - coffee with a friend, a quarterly doctor’s appointment, or even a team one-on-one - copy the event and paste it into your calendar at the next logical interval (3 months, 6 months, 1 year). Now it’s automatically scheduled before you forget, and you only have to cancel if it doesn’t work out.

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