Weekend Whats

What to Movie: You undoubtedly know the name, Edmund Hillary. But there’s a good chance you don’t know Tenzing Norgay. Yet, the two men arrived at the top of Everest at the same moment. In fact, only Tenzing’s photo was taken up there. See the story you may have missed in the excellent Tenzing on Apple TV. (And then check out some minidocs on Tenzing on YouTube. The true story is even more amazing than some elements of the movie.)

+ What to Book: “For decades, we’ve explained corporate corruption as a problem of bad actors, moral weakness, or isolated scandals. But that story doesn’t match reality. Again and again, companies founded with strong ideals drift toward short-term thinking, extractive behavior, and mission abandonment—often despite the best intentions of the people inside them. Incorruptible argues that this failure is not primarily ethical. It is structural.” Eric Ries is famous in the tech world for his book on lean startups. Hopefully, his latest book gets as much attention. Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad… and How Great Companies Stay Great. Or, how we went from “Don’t be evil” to this: Finns Are Seething After Google Illegally Toppled 250,000 Trees for a Data Center.

+ What to Read: Anne Applebaum in The Atlantic: What the U.S. Is Really Doing in Venezuela. “Searching for a model or a reference point, I asked Hausmann how he would describe it. ‘A coalition of two kleptocracies,’ he said.”