Hello there, clever clogs!

And happy thanksgiving weekend to all of our American readers!

Today we're thankful for the wonderful things you can find on the internet if you just know where to look 😉

Weekend Reads is one such place, as we've got it all for you here - Tricks of the con artist trade, Ben Evans' annual presentation, some hilarious reviews read by a "serious actor" and more.

AND, if you ever need a laugh this weekend, please enjoy these Talking Turkeys.

Big love, 

Chris & the 42courses team x 

• Trade secrets from con artists: Not that you would ever be one, of course, but who doesn't want to know how to persuade people so convincingly? 
   
• Why bureaucracy is bad for motivation: You already knew this, but Dan Ariely has such a lovely way of breaking down the elements of drive and motivation in the workplace.
   
• Wait, but why AI? In his brilliant blog, Wait But Why, Tm Urban wrote about the AI revolution back in 2015. There was no such thing as a GPT then, but his philosophical look at history's lead up to this moment, and his predictions, are incredibly insightful.
   
• AI Eats The World: Benedict Evans' annual presentation on all things tech has dropped like like a very elegant bomb. Check this out for some future predictions from a very smart man.
   
• The funniest Christmas ad you'll see this year: Enter the Five-Star Theatre, where Adam Driver reads real reviews from Amazon, which will literally leave you in tears of laughter.

• 1775 - American physician James Jay invents invisible ink. ✒️
   
• 1870 - Compulsory education is proclaimed in England. 📚
   
• 1877 - US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time. 🎶
   
• 1910 - The first US patent for inventing a traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine. 🚦
   
• 1929 - American aviator and explorer Richard E. Byrd sends the message, "My calculations indicate that we have reached the vicinity of the South Pole." ✈️
   
• 1935 - Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his famous thought experiment, "Schrödinger's cat," illustrating the paradox of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. 🐱
   
• 1944 - Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore performs the first open-heart surgery. ❤️
   
• 1972 - Nolan Bushnell, co-founder of Atari, releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game, at Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, California. 🎮
   
• 2003 - The first of Nelson Mandela's 46664 AIDS benefit concerts is held at Green Point Stadium in Cape Town. 🎤