Hamed
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Hamed
Buying is no longer about getting things we need. It’s about reinforcing a set of beliefs we hold and share. Marketing is not about finding new ways to sell more of something. It’s about affinity more than it’s about price—feelings more than facts.
Bernadette Jiwa • Marketing
**Everything that we take for granted today seemed nearly impossible once, before the swarm got to it.** Looking at Fast, climate, web3, and space, I think there are just three questions that you need to ask to understand whether or not the swarm will fix an industry’s shortcomings: - Is the problem physically solvable? - Is there a path to doing
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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... 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
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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
