From plastic hacks to hand transplants, today’s got range

🚗 Ford found the fix for Gen Z burnout in a playbook from 1914

Gen Z was taking a pass on Ford. The CEO went old-school to win them over. Very old-school.

It’s a familiar (and lazy, and inaccurate) refrain: “Gen Z just doesn’t want to work.” But for Ford CEO Jim Farley, the issue wasn’t that young people weren’t showing up, it’s that they weren’t sticking around.

Temps were juggling Ford and Amazon shifts on $17/hr and 3 hours of sleep. Not lazy, just unsupported.

So the most recent CEO of Ford turned to the first CEO of Ford for a solution, and he found one. Farley borrowed a century-old move from Henry Ford’s 1914 playbook: pay your people well, make them full-time, and share in the company’s success.

🖐️ Hands down the most inspiring comeback of the year

After 17 years without hands, one man gets a double transplant.

At 12, Luka Krizanac lost both hands and legs to sepsis. Now, 17 years later, he’s holding water bottles, shaking hands, and texting friends, thanks to a double hand transplant and a generous donor in Philadelphia. It’s a procedure so rare that fewer than 300 people worldwide have ever received it.

Krizanac’s family moved from Switzerland to Philly to be near Penn Medicine’s elite transplant team. After years of waiting for a perfect match, blood type, skin tone, and size, he finally got not one but two new hands.

What does one do after such a procedure? Shake hands with the doctor who made it happen. That’s just what Luka did.

When asked how he felt about the procedure, Luka gave two big thumbs up… I assume.

👉 Organ and limb transplants like Luka’s don’t happen without one thing: donors. Want to help someone else get a second chance? Look into organ donation. You may find yourself a part of a GOOD story like this one.

🧼 Grandma vs. the red sauce stains

A grandma’s cleaning hack is going viral. All it takes is a paper towel, dish soap, and channeling your inner bartender.

Plastic containers are convenient… until they turn into stained little monuments to last week’s pasta. Enter @ariganja’s TikTok, where she shares a hack passed down from her friend’s grandma. The internet is rightfully obsessed, and it’s weirdly simple: tear up a paper towel, toss it in your stained container with hot water and dish soap, seal it, and shake like you’re making a martini. The result? Sparkling plastic and a wave of grateful commenters.

Fans are calling it the “best hack ever,” while others are chiming in with their own grandma-level upgrades (hot tip: a little oil before storing red sauce makes clean-up even easier).

Until next time, here’s to better perks, cleaner Tupperware, and hands worth holding. See you soon.