Mondays might not be your favorite day of the week, but the good news is that we’re all in this together ladies and gentlemen. As purveyors of prime Grade A web content, the SolidSmack crew has done some of the heavy-lifting to make sure you get your Mondays started on the right track.

Welcome to The Monday List.

Every Monday, we link you up with some of the most insightful, informative, and socially-relevant stories to keep tabbed, bookmarked, reading listed, pocketed, or what have you to get your week started on the right foot. Be sure to check in each week for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack.

What We’re Reading This Week:

Engineers Are Leaving Trump’s America for the Canadian Dream

The long wait for green cards was bad enough. Antagonism toward immigrants is pushing skilled foreigners across the border.

Electric Scooters Are Causing Havoc. This Man Is Shrugging It Off.

Electric scooter start-ups have spread from Santa Monica, Calif. to several cities around the country. Not everyone is happy about that.

Can Dirt Save the Earth?

Agriculture could pull carbon out of the air and into the soil — but it would mean a whole new way of thinking about how to tend the land.

Can This Man Help Uber Recover From the Travis Kalanick Era?

CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is a champion of everything Uber once rejected: caution, discipline, and tact. Can he reform Silicon Valley’s most audacious company?

Do New “Energy Return” Shoes Put Pep in Your Step?

Testing three sneakers that claim to hit the cushioning-boost sweet spot

Chat is Google’s Next Big Fix for Android’s Messaging Mess

How the successor to SMS will take on iMessage