On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
By now this has become old news and you have most probably seen Google doing a barrel roll. If you have seen or heard of it all you need to do is to go to Google.com and type 'Do a Barrel roll' the entire Google screen will roll twice in front of you. A barrel roll is what fighter aircraft do; it is a fun thing to do and watch. Also known on the internet as an Easter egg from Google. Symbolizing what the company stands for - An Easter egg all year round. These are small tricks that a large company holds up its sleeves. Probably created by one of the engineers having fun at his 20% time that Google gives employees to use as they wish to come up with something creative. Your very own personal private project.
With one small tricks Google made waves in social media with Facebook and Twitter going into a spin over the incredibly simple trick from such a huge company. Goes to show that Google is a fun place to work and people feel free to let their hair down and just chill.
So head over to Google and send your Google homepage into a spin, it's fun to do and show your frinds if they have not seen it as yet. Chances are that there are a lot of people who need to see it. Go do a Google barrel roll.
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