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In no particular order - just rediscovering links and sharing. Enjoy. All my children are equal.

🔗 “We’ve Been Sold a Story That Isn’t Remotely True”: How Private-Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream | Vanity Fair


🔗 📼 🎵This Record Label Is Trying To SILENCE Me


🔗 My Wishlist for 12 Substack Enhancements - by Ted Gioia

@dave .. there is barely a whiff of bringing more personalisation to the appearance of your ‘stack - and NONE to do with writing in your tool of choice. Maybe you should weigh in.


🔗 AOL discontinues its dial-up internet.

Oh no - what am I going to do?


🔗 You Should Probably Leave Substack | How to Leave Substack.


🔗 Daring Fireball: The Substack Branding and Faux Prestige Trap


🔗 The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway | WIRED

Personally, I’d never heard of Tuvalu - but it is an extraordinary place judging my this screen grab from Apple Maps

Tuvalu on Apple Maps

… and it’s about to disappear.


🔗 We Are Winning! - by Ted Gioia - The Honest Broker


🔗 TMH on Substack: One of the most chilling—annihilatingly chilling, actually—videos ever made in the 20th century


🔗 “We’ve Been Sold a Story That Isn’t Remotely True”: How Private Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream.


🔗 Arturo Dominguez on Substack: Here’s a clip they won’t show you on legacy media.

🔗 🎵 Have I shared this before? I have? I don’t care.

Guthrie doing his thing. In five minutes unpacks why he must be one of the greats.

I joined Lyris roughly 13 years ago. On my arrival - I had the ‘swag bag’ waiting for me in which was a mouse mat …and 13 years later not only do I still have it but it travels with me to most places I go.

My Mouse Mat

Today I was taken by an article by 🔗 Scott Brinker - famed for his ‘stack maps’ - in which Lyris used to feature.

His articles arrives - and I either miss it - or I scan it - or I read it. On this occasion 🔗 1967 was the summer of love we will remember 2025 as the summer of vibes I read it - and - ummmm - no.

Umm - hell no.

…maybe one day I will follow this up with a more detailed reasoning why - but for now “yeah, no” is the only appropriate response.

Why?

1967 was music, movement, and meaning.

2025? Unless you live in a tech bubble (and clearly many do) I would suggest that when people look back from 2050, and ask how they remember 2025 - I suspect the answers or more likely to fall into categories such as;

  • That America lost democracy.
  • That the world slipped further into fascism.
  • That we tipped past the point of no return on climate.
  • That AI passed the tipping point - ushering in 50% unemployment. OR
  • That AI passed the tipping point - and finally - humanity is actually free to live, create, and flourish.

My bet? However it lands, it won’t be remembered as the ‘summer of vibes’.

I am assuming that Scott has one of his tongues in one of his cheeks - so I won’t get too uppity - but just one more question - how many of you look back to 2022 as the year of

  • The SPACs (and their collapse) - until their 2025 revival
  • Web3 (remember when that was going to save us?)
  • Cyber <fill in your ‘phrase du jour» it mainly created headlines)
  • The restart of the Ukraine War (potential start of WW3)
  • The end of free money
  • The arrival of ChatGPT

.. and this was just 3 years ago


That said - BIG doff of hat to Lyris CMO and all round lovely man - 🔗Alex Lustberg for being 15 years ahead of tech culture and capturing ‘vibe’ as part of The Lyris culture.

Four Tools I Use

When I tell others, they seem to find them useful.

Ikigai - look it up

Pay, Play, Passion and Purpose - a ‘Structured Thought’ Model

Collect and Curate, Connect and Communicate - think Gladwell’s Tipping Point (Maven, Networker and Communicator).

Core and Context - think Moore - but then add a touch of Structured Thought with a dash of #PeopleFirst


🔗 … and then there is Hunter’s Letter

I’ll be back with more links at some point.

🔗 My Wishlist for 12 Substack Enhancements - by Ted Gioia

@dave .. there is barely a whiff of bringing more personalisation to the appearance of your ‘stack - and NONE to do with writing in your tool of choice. Maybe you should weigh in.

🔗AOL discontinues its dial-up internet.

Oh no - what am I going to do?

🔗 Leaders Don’t Get to Hide - Gapingvoid

Three links from my weekend.

🔗 Will data centers crash the economy? - by Noah Smith

🔗 Ex-CIA Whistleblower: The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won

🔗 I Drank Every Cocktail - Adam Aaronson - so I don’t have to? Meanie.

🔗 Marketing Flywheel Momentum: Why Every Flywheel Needs A Native Analog & Native Digital Duo - from the Lockhead world.

If you are trying to work out what to really do with Marketing in this modern age - he consistently makes sense. (Not on all - I grant - but on Marketing - yes.)

🔗 The Biggest Industry in Every State, Mapped

Makes for an interesting read .. and then I saw that Real Estate was the biggest industry in California .. and I thought wait .. there’s tech, entertainment, aerospace, agriculture .. real estate out performs them all?

And then I read …

This is largely because the Bureau of Economic Analysis treats homeowners as landlords renting to themselves, and includes the rental value in GDP. If economists did not include this value, a jump in the homeownership rate would cause GDP to drop.

Talk about measuring the wrong things!