Daily Bafflements

• Burning Man is now just another tech conference, says Re/code, which is why they’re sending someone to go cover it this year. Lol. (Via Quartz.)

• Today in Advice from Billionaires: according to “Koch 101,” a Q&A in the Kansas City Star, the Koch brothers’ secrets to getting and staying ahead include “hiring and retaining people with the right values, and giving employees a bigger voice in decision-making” and a healthy dose of fear, inherited from their father, “about our government evolving into a very controlling, socialist type of government.”

• Some union leaders in Pittsburgh are telling Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett that he’s not invited to the annual labor day parade, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. They object to Corbett’s education funding policies and his efforts to privatize liquor sales in Pennsylvania, among other things. “You can’t be trying to do away with us for 364 days a year and then want to march with us,” says Jack Shea, the Labor Council president.

• Tickets are going fast for our conference next month in New York. Check out the lineup for “Feminism for What? Equality in the Workplace after Lean In” and sign up now, why don’t you.