Welcome to the weekend!

As part of its plan to revive sales, a certain company just announced a new dress code: black shirt paired with khaki, black or blue pants — and its iconic green apron. …Do you know which company? 

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Balancing Acts

Even in the best of times, being US Treasury secretary is tough. One must advocate for the US economy and its president’s economic vision, goals that can be at odds. Scott Bessent faces an especially tenuous version of this balancing act, Saleha Mohsin writes, as Donald Trump plays chicken with the ideals that make American bonds so special: predictable growth, stability and the ability to manage an economic crisis. 

Navigating competing priorities is familiar territory for new parents, who benefit greatly when parental leave policies make the process easier. But many fathers still aren’t taking paternity leave — even when they can. The fix isn’t just policy or legislation, writes Josie Cox: Dads are worried about perception, and sweetening paternity leave’s appeal can start with a single conscientious manager. 

One thing dads know well: Coping with stress is easier when you’ve got a hobby. For novelist Gary Shteyngart, that’s watch collecting. Shteyngart waded gingerly “and then pathologically” into horology, an interest that brought him all the way to the Watches and Wonders show in Geneva. Between boozy parties and too many micro-blinis, he ogled micro-engineered wrist candy and lamented the price tags. 

We Can’t Stop Talking About

• YouTube wants to dub every video into every spoken language. It’s one of many AI-automated capabilities the video behemoth, now 20 years old, plans to give its creators to help expand their reach.

• Mark Twain died famous, not happy. In a new biography of Twain, Alexander Hamilton author Ron Chernow shows how the author’s rowdy style made his name and complicated his life’s work.

• We’re underestimating deaths tied to extreme weather. The WHO forecasts that climate change will cause 250,000 additional deaths each year by 2030 — but even that is assuredly an undercount.

It’s Rocket Science 

Weekend Plans

What we’re reading: The Golden Road, which argues that India has the potential and track record to catch up with China. 

Who we’re listening to: Mark Ronson, one of many artists to sell their songwriting libraries to an investment fund that spurred a buying boom. 

What we’re struggling with: emotional nuance. So is the AI bot that Otter.ai’s CEO trained to attend meetings on his behalf.

What we’re playing: online poker. Computers outplay humans in chess and Go, but poker was considered unhackable — until bots got into it.  

What we’re wearing: a quinceañera dress. Dressmakers in Mexico are being undercut by an influx of cheap textiles from China.

Photographer: Mahe Elipe/Bloomberg

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