Hamed

What Mangione ultimately believed in was an ideology of personal optimisation. This is what’s left after all politics have been exhausted, the 2010s left and the 2020s right. There’s still the relentless need to improve something, but it’s no longer directed outwards. As we’ve discovered, another world is not actually possible, but there are ways t... See more

Going to museums and looking at great art can help you write better songs. Reading great novels… Seeing a great movie… reading poetry… The more you can do to get out of the mode of competition, where you get out of what other people are doing and wanting to be better than them or be inspired by them. The only way to use the inspiration of other ar

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The primary opportunity for startups is not to replace incumbent software companies—it’s to go after automatable pools of work.

For Zoomers, money represents agency. Unlike Millennials, who graduated into the Great Recession and were influenced by their parents’ progressive sentimentalism, Gen Z was not raised by Boomers still misty about the social revolutions of the sixties and seventies. The substitution of purpose for payment, the maneuver most companies employed in the... See more

Last decade, we got used to identifying influencers, content creators, internet personalities—pick your semantic poison—by their platform of choice: the TikTokker, the YouTuber, the Twitch streamer, and yes, the Substacker. The TikTok ban proves the inherent risks of this strategy. Audiences aren’t fungible. Perhaps this explains the persistent val... See more

"For one, the fiscal doomsayers are probably wrong: Countries that print their own currency can’t truly be pushed to default."

Can you REALLY be this economically ignorant? The US is on a track that leads directly and quickly to national bankruptcy in the form of reducing the dollar's value to zero, unless the current Congress cuts Federal spending ... See more