Ever heard of swatting {{ FIRSTNAME | there }}? It's when malicious pranksters trick armed emergency response teams into going to a streamer's house with guns (and it's illegal). Well, a few days ago, an 81-year-old Minecraft-streaming grandma got swatted, and she was just glad for the attention.

Send this to a friend who would still be gaming at 81. 🎮

In This Open Letter:

SA employees are burnt out: 71% are disengaged, 73% stressed, and it costs our economy R161bn a year – that’s why this lifelong learner built the tech to help SA companies save themselves…

Capetonian Murray Turner loves learning: Whether it’s human behaviour and psychology or the mechanics of how Tokyo's 64-storey skyscrapers can withstand up to 1’500 seismic events per year without falling over, he studies it through places like MIT, Harvard, Oxford, Yale, LSE and the Global Reinvention Academy.

One day, life hit him hard at the edge of the Zambezi…

While on burnout leave, settling a deceased family member's estate, and just after watching three final-round job offers collapse in a row, wondering why life was this flippen hard, a thought popped into his head: What if chasing your goals only feels hard because you’re chasing the wrong things?

Writing down an idea for a better way to get people aligned, a memory of how Tokyo skyscrapers stay up popped into his mind: They don’t withstand by being rigid; thousands of sensors track where strain is building, so that engineers can act in time.

Which gave him the framework for a product that uses managers to empower their people to drive business success…

The local platform giving businesses a structural stress test

The result is Antistable, a diagnostic platform that measures organisational strain, shows leaders where it’s building in their teams across departments, functions and seniority levels, before it turns into a problem.

Everyone in the company completes a 30-question diagnostic that measures three things: how well a business sees change coming, how it adapts when things shift and whether it can still get stuff done when the plan falls apart. Each employee gets an archetype and resilience score, all rolling up into a live organisational dashboard with heatmaps, strain bands and a Resilience Load Index.

Murray's demoed to US agencies, has two SA companies onboarding, and is building a consultant layer launching via the Reinvention Academy on 1 June.

A way to see the strain before it becomes the next resignation letter? 

Yes, we're watching this space…

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🇿🇦 Top of the Continent. SA has once again topped Africa's fastest-growing companies list. We might get frustrated with our political and regulatory environment, but let's not forget it churns out more of the most solid companies on the continent.

🛍️ From Soweto to Shelves. Soweto-born Khoi Tech has opened its first-ever retail store, with a bit of help from Telkom. Now this is how corporates can help new SA companies grow.

🎸 Fret Not. Always wanted to play guitar but never learned? The world's first air guitar that actually plays music is coming in September (pre-orders open in June). Finally, Guitar Hero for a new generation.

🛒 Walmart vs Sixty60. Walmart's grocery delivery might just be cheaper than Checkers Sixty60 and Pick n Pay ASAP. They're not everywhere yet, but it'll be interesting to see how the US behemoth impacts SA prices when it gets the coverage.

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Yesterday, we showed you how Thuto pays students to study, asking what matters most in a paid learning app. Most here want it relevant to what’s happening in class…

🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️ 📈 Proof it actually improves marks (24%)

🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️ 💰 Teaching my kid to save, not just spend (27%)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🏫 Content that matches what they're learning in class (34%)

🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 📱 An app my kid would actually open after school (12%)

⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🏢 Knowing a corporate or bank backs it (3%)

Your 2 cents…

So true, Yggaba. Hopefully, the grown-ups can help ensure we stay in the right direction. 🎯

On 26 May 1995, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates issued a memo titled The Internet Tidal Wave, admitting his company had completely underestimated the internet.

In it, he called the internet the "most important single development" since the IBM PC, and assigned it "the highest level of importance" across the company. Well, at least they caught up from that point onwards, mostly. 😉

🧩 Tool to Try: FloorPlan AI turns plain-English prompts into 2D and 3D floor plans.

🌍 That's Interesting: Chuck Palahniuk came up with Fight Club after getting beaten up on a camping trip and noticing no one at work asked why he was so bruised and swollen. First rule, we suppose.

🎨 Next Level: Watch great old filmmaker Buster Keaton do his own insane stunts.

🕹️ Wow Site: Storied Colors tells you the history behind any colour.