Good week for:
Earplugs, after country star Garth Brooks and 102,000 fans at Louisiana State University’s Tiger Stadium hit 95 decibels while belting out “Callin’ Baton Rouge”—loud enough to register on a seismograph and to risk causing temporary hearing loss.
Persistence, after Brazilian man Walter Orthmann set a Guinness World Record for working at the same textile company for 84 years. “You need to get busy with the present, not the past or future,” said Orthmann, 100.
Meeting face-to-face, after a study found that workers think more creatively in person than in videoconferences. Researchers found that when people are free to look around a room, rather than stare at faces on a screen, they have more and better ideas.
Bad week for:
Typos, after a stock trader at Citi made…