We Found Someone Who Can Predict the Future

Here's everything we published this week.

February 5, 2022

Knowledge Partner: McKinsey & Company

How to brainstorm better. Ever been in a meeting to brainstorm around the next big thing, but left with the feeling that what you’ve come up with is more of the same? Even with the best intentions, these sorts of meetings often aren’t as productive as they could be. A new piece looks at why—and what you can do about it.

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Happy Sunday!

We calculated the results of the 2021 Prediction Game, and we have a winner! Huge congratulations to Chris Hua! He won a grand total of $1,149.94 from the Every Index and some Every swag (which is, of course, priceless.)

Read all about Chris’s winning guesses below:

We Have a Winner

Andre Plaut / The Prediction Game

How did Chris win the Prediction Game? Here are the 2022 events he correctly foretold:

The outcome of the special Senate election in Georgia
Catherine O’Hara’s Golden Globe victory
The volume of Bitcoin ransomware attacks by the dollar amount (a little suspicious Chris)
Joe Biden’s low approval rating at the end of the year

But this is where things got really impressive:

Chris predicted that the DOW would close at $36,069 at the end of the year (it actually closed at $36,338).
And Chris also predicted that Bitcoin would reach a 2021 peak of $69,069 (it actually peaked at $69,000).

Read.

And if you’re new to Every in the past year, you can catch up on the Prediction Game series here.

Now, on to the rest of the pieces we published this week!

How to Win the Great British Bake Off

Kieran O’Hare / Superorganizers

In 2020, Peter Sawkins became the youngest ever winner of the wildly popular baking competition show Great British Bake Off. With that win came fame, fortune, and a coveted cookbook deal. How does the national baking icon juggle all the writing, social media work, university classes, and still find time to make a cake here and there? Sawkins shares his experiences and his best tips in the latest Superorganizers interview with Kieran O’Hare.

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