Hamed

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.

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The problem isn’t that machines are becoming more human-like, it’s that humans are becoming more machine-like in an effort to keep up.

I don’t think this is a coincidence. Subcultures flourish in places where a smaller number of people see you every day, but they see you more consistently - letting our creative forms of self-expression more successfully burrow into interesting local possibilities. The city, in contrast, means periodically interrogating your style choices from the ... See more

the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

"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

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

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