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Good Morning and Happy Friday! YouTube’s CEO stepped down yesterday - she was also Google’s 16th-ever employee. NYC has been pushing its private sector to return-to-office for a few years now, but it looks like the city finally caved to pressure and will allow its public-sector employees to work hybrid.

SEC charged Terraform Labs and disgraced co-founder Do Kwon with fraud. Wholesale inflation spiked in January, sending stocks falling yesterday. But retail investors aren't afraid of a little volatility – they're breaking records with $1.5 billion a day flowing into the market.

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1. Story of the Day: TikTok Interns

The TikTok Internship is the latest and greatest gig for the next generation of social media influencers. The gig is simple: create fresh and engaging content for brands every week during the school year.

With TikTok's ever-growing popularity, brands are eager to join the trend and are on the lookout for young and creative minds to help them make a splash on the platform. Whether you're paid in cold hard cash or college credits, this internship is a win-win for both parties.

Job sites have become inundated with listings for “TikTok content creator interns,” and desired skills include “humor and meme-making abilities.” Even big companies are getting in on the action, including larger financial firms and Fortune 500 companies. They hope the internships will pay for themselves if they can get a few videos to go viral.

Takeaway: Marketers turning to younger generations is nothing new. But TikTok is a whole new animal. The platform has managed to surpass heavyweights like Instagram and Snapchat to become the top choice for those aged 12 to 17. So, it's no wonder that businesses are eager to crack the code of this mysterious app, and who better to help them than the digitally native generation?

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2. Markets Rundown

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Stocks closed lower as new inflation data points to a hawkish Fed.

Movers & Shakers

• (+) Twilio ($TWLO) +14% after the company announced a stock buyback program.

• (–) Boston Beer Company ($SAM) -15% after the company posted a surprise quarterly loss.

• (–) Shopify ($SHOP) -16% after the company missed earnings estimates.

Private Dealmaking

• BP will buy TravelCenters of America for $1.3 billion

• Parthenon Capital will buy the gaming division of Global Payments for $415 million

• Aspire, a Singapore neobank and fintech startup, raised $100 million

• Taurus, a Swiss crypto infrastructure startup, raised $65 million 

• Evonetix, a DNA synthesis startup, raised $24 million

• Liminal, a battery manufacturing intelligence startup, raised $17.5 million

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3. Top Reads

• Bing chatbot’s freakouts show AI’s wild side (Axios)

• Why some laid-off workers aren’t rushing to find new jobs (CNBC)

• The $10T trick for fixing inflation and debt (Axios)

• Microsoft Bing’s AI creepy conversations with users (CNBC)

• Could AI become the biggest bubble of all time? (YF)

• Tesla to recall 362,000 cars with its full self-driving system (NYT)

• New construction fell to lowest level since 2020 (Fox)

• DoorDash stock pops after rosy outlook, revenue beat (CNBC)

4. Book of the Day: Breath

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There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.

Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo.

Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe.

Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is.

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.

“It turns out that when breathing at a normal rate, our lungs will absorb only about a quarter of the available oxygen in the air. The majority of that oxygen is exhaled back out. By taking longer breaths, we allow our lungs to soak up more in fewer breaths.”

5. Short Squeez Picks

• How to be happier without really trying

• 5 Improv rules to become funnier and more confident

• Habit-building strategies to try when everything else fails

• 15 principles to put you in the top 1% of business leaders

• Life is hard - and that’s good

6. Daily Visual: Strugglin’ Americans

Share of Americans who say they are financially worse off than a year ago

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7. Daily Acumen

What qualities do people need to feel the happiest about themselves and life in general?

After studying various groups from teenagers to artists, sportspeople, employees, adults and the elderly, researchers came up with two ‘lists’.

To be happiest, you don’t need all these components, although the more the merrier. As well as a combination of features from both lists.

Those who are happiest and feel most successful in life are one or more of the following:

• Optimistic

• Spiritual or religious

• Motivated

• Proactive

• Someone who enjoys learning

• Flexible

• Adaptable

• Socially competent

• Self-confident 

As well as this, these people have:

• Opportunities

• Family/other support networks

• Challenges that are manageable

• A calm environment

• Independence

• Others’ trust

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