Hamed

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

I have thousands of photos of my children but few that I’ve set aside to revisit. I have records of virtually every text I’ve sent since I was in college but no idea how to find the ones that meant something. I spent years blasting my thoughts to millions of people on X and Facebook even as I fell behind on correspondence with dear friends. I have ... 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

The post-9/11 era came to a close on May 1, 2011 when President Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden. There was celebration in New York. People ran through the streets with flags cheering, whooping with glee. Thousands gathered at Ground Zero. For the first time in a long time, to celebrate—drunk with righteousness and champagne.

Less than ... See more

Another example that comes to mind is this David Perell’s series of observations about “everything looking the same now”; in this case, company logos all moving to a narrow band of sans serif fonts. There are many possible explanations here, like homogenous design tools, but the Occam’s Razor answer is simply that these brands have global audiences... See more

Transjordan became independent, and Abdullah was crowned in Amman on May 25, 1946. He was the only Arab ruler prepared to accept the United Nations’ partitioning of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states (1947). In the war with Israel in May 1948, his armies occupied the region of Palestine due west of the Jordan River, which came to be called the W... See more

This isn’t correct.

In its glory days, NASA was all jocks.

Former (and active duty) fighter pilots, submariners, heavy drinkers, smokers, etc.

The American space program was so defined by jocks its *nerds* were jocks, too.

“A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the be... See more

With Generative AI’s budding reasoning capabilities, a new class of agentic applications is starting to emerge.

What shape do these application layer companies take? Interestingly, these companies look different than their cloud predecessors:

• Cloud companies targeted the software profit pool. AI companies target the services profit pool.


• Cloud compa

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