Meta
The era of manually pulling levers in Meta Ads Manager is over. With the two billion dollar acquisition of Manus AI, Meta is replacing human media buyers with an autonomous digital workforce. The fundamental constraint of marketing is shifting from human time to computational cost.
Performance Marketing
Direct response ads are the psychological engine of the internet. From guys in garages to aesthetic concerts, they are designed to hijack your attention. But this relentless pursuit of the click is slowly destroying the platforms we use every day.
Gaming
Tech companies and game studios no longer want to build better products. They want to trap you in an ecosystem and charge you rent. The transition from innovation to extraction is the defining economic tragedy of our time.
The era of manually pulling levers in Meta Ads Manager is over. With the two billion dollar acquisition of Manus AI, Meta is replacing human media buyers with an autonomous digital workforce. The fundamental constraint of marketing is shifting from human time to computational cost.
Direct response ads are the psychological engine of the internet. From guys in garages to aesthetic concerts, they are designed to hijack your attention. But this relentless pursuit of the click is slowly destroying the platforms we use every day.
Sports and war have always been two sides of the same human impulse. Now, defense contractors are treating the sports arena as their primary marketing channel. The intersection of athletic struggle and military dominance is the ultimate geopolitical flex.
We blame the youth for having fried dopamine receptors and gambling addictions. But we are missing the macro-economic reality. The middle class of wealth, looks, and relationships is hollowing out. Today, the penalty for being average is invisibility.
Suno AI showed us the magic of generative music. Google’s Lyria 3 just showed us the future. By integrating deep musical control into the Gemini ecosystem, Google is about to turn every YouTube user into a composer.
AI just lowered the barrier to entry for marketing to zero. But it also raised the "Noise Floor." In a world of infinite, average content, the only way to scale is to take the risks that the algorithm tells you not to.
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Launching a startup often feels like going to war against a giant monopoly. Jacques Benkoski proves that you do not need a bigger army to win. You just need to study how the Allies pulled off the D-Day invasion.
The European Union regulated tech to protect its citizens. In the process, they created a hyper-specialized workforce perfectly primed for AI replacement. Meanwhile, the chaotic US market built workers who adapt faster than machines can learn.
World of Warcraft is a twenty-year-old game that still dominates culture. Their marketing team achieves this by breaking the fourth wall through genius partnerships. Leading up to the Midnight expansion, they are proving that the best gaming ads do not look like ads at all.
Traditional value investors are terrified by the current P/E ratio of the S&P 500. But the market isn't irrational. The underlying math of capitalism has fundamentally changed, rendering old valuation models completely obsolete.
Sports and war have always been two sides of the same human impulse. Now, defense contractors are treating the sports arena as their primary marketing channel. The intersection of athletic struggle and military dominance is the ultimate geopolitical flex.
We blame the youth for having fried dopamine receptors and gambling addictions. But we are missing the macro-economic reality. The middle class of wealth, looks, and relationships is hollowing out. Today, the penalty for being average is invisibility.
Suno AI showed us the magic of generative music. Google’s Lyria 3 just showed us the future. By integrating deep musical control into the Gemini ecosystem, Google is about to turn every YouTube user into a composer.
We thought Return-to-Office mandates were about "collaboration." They aren't. They are about security. Nation-state actors have weaponized remote hiring, forcing companies to retreat to the only place where identity is guaranteed: The Office.
AI just lowered the barrier to entry for marketing to zero. But it also raised the "Noise Floor." In a world of infinite, average content, the only way to scale is to take the risks that the algorithm tells you not to.
He wasn't just a PE teacher. He was the first person who listened to me without judging. Jim Burnett taught me that true mentorship isn't about telling you what to do; it's about asking you who you are.
The biggest barrier to using Gemini on an iPhone isn't the app; it's the wake word. If Google can convince Apple to allow "Hey Gemini," they don't just win a feature; they win the brand war for intelligence.
Flying has been a luxury for 100 years. That era is ending. With VTOLs removing the airport and synthetic fuels removing the oil dependency, we are about to re-wire the global map.
