Max Beauroyre

I interviewed two people I respect a lot about this, and the conversation kept circling back to the same place: we have to prepare people. Reskilling isn’t enough. The problem is not just jobs, it’s what happens to purpose and meaning when work disappears. If we erase the first step of the ladder, we can’t just tell people to climb harder.

Without something to prove or protect, you can start asking different questions. What matters when no one’s watching? What risks do I take when I have nothing to lose?

“My theory is that chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that can’t scale. The antidote to burnout and the existential inquiry it brings seems to be doing things that don’t scale in pursuit of things that can’t scale. It becomes exciting not to see what you can do without limits, but to see what you... See more

Populism pits “the people” against “the elites.” It requires the finger-point and the class conflict. And it requires things to be very bad, or else there’s not much for the populist leader to fix.

An alternative would be to steadily build an audience interested in your product and to ungate the waitlist in batches. Building an audience is increasingly achievable through social media along with owned channels like newsletters. Unlike PR, these channels are person-centric rather than brand-centric; they require personality and authenticity in... See more

It’s an interesting question to think about. Profit is the ultimate arbiter of a business’ financial success. It’s not just about saving money – spending too little can be as damaging as spending too much – but about investing money intelligently in the things that produce outcomes.

The history of progress is the continued commoditization of once-scarce things.

When people can’t move, neither can labor, families, or fertility. There’s a new study showing that housing costs account for about half the US fertility decline between 2000 and 2020. It’s childcare too - a new paper from Abigail Dow reports that a 10% increase in the price of childcare leads to a 5.7% decrease in the birth rate