Small Findings

The findings this week:

1. The hardest part of making pizza
   • The other episode with a segment on pizza
2. Why stock buybacks matter
   • Wikipedia
   • These Companies Enriched Themselves. Now They’re Getting a Bailout.
3. Amazon and labor
   • Amazon is reportedly using a heat map to track stores at risk of unionization
   • Amazon executives privately insulted a warehouse worker, then attacked him on Twitter
   • Amazon warehouse workers walk out in rising tide of COVID-19 protests
   • Amazon's "Brazil" office
   • Leaked Amazon Memo Details Plan to Smear Fired Warehouse Organizer: ‘He’s Not Smart or Articulate’
   • 'Go back to work': outcry over deaths on Amazon's warehouse floor
   • ‘That should not be happening’ – Amazon warehouses’ serious injury rates more than double industry average
   • VP Tim Bray quits Amazon in response to Amazon firing protesting workers (Discovered after the podcast was recorded)
4. How Testament records an album
   • Titans of Creation
   • Interview about recording Titans of Creation
5. Existential risk
   • We have the power to destroy ourselves without the wisdom to ensure that we don't
   • Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority

Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at smallfindings@fastmail.com!