1. Peter Thiel’s secret war against Gawker is the opposite of Silicon Valley values (Michael Lazerow, LinkedIn)
2. The best companies succeed because of their culture — and are held back by it (Ben Thompson, Stratechery)
3. You can’t be a smart city if you’re not all about data. Amsterdam leads the way (Michael Fitzgerald, MIT Sloan Management Review)
4. One big union says Americans don’t have to choose between jobs and the environment (Jana Kasperkevic and Oliver Milman, The Guardian)
5. As tastes change, Coke is coming down from its sugar high (Jennifer Chaussee, Wired)