Pinterest’s poison, killing ideas, and one scientist’s dogged determination

Every week, SmartCompany Plus brings you The Best of Everything, From Everywhere. This week, the pieces our team found the most interesting covered a reply-all email storm that brought strangers together, a perfect case study in why you need to actively manage bias in your workplace, and a Nobel-prize winning economist who explains why you need to kill your bad ideas.

Want to know how one scientist’s four decades of single-minded dedication led to a new vaccine technology gamechanger? Make sure to check the last link.

Pinterest and the subtle poison of sexism and racism in Silicon Valley

Want to know what happens when you don’t address bias in your company? You can lose some of your most talented employees, and millions of dollars in compensation.

How to stop getting attached to your ideas

Nobel prize-winning psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman explains how most ideas are pebbles, not gems, and how to let go of them.

They just wanted their couches, not a storm of emails ($)

A frustrating spectacle of technological absurdity, that ended up bonding strangers as they faced their 54th Tuesday night stuck indoors.

Kati Kariko helped shield the world from the coronavirus ($)

Four decades of struggle and single-minded focus on unraveling the science behind mRNA led this Hungarian-born scientist to develop the technology behind the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.