Social Media Marketing
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.
Economy & Markets
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.
Marketing
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Satya Nadella is excited about Agentic Commerce. But excitement doesn't ship products. Google owns the Merchant Center—the database of every SKU on earth. In the AI shopping war, the one with the inventory wins.
OpenClaw proved that local AI agents are the future. But they are for developers. Apple and Google are about to bring that power to 2 billion regular people, and it will turn the iPhone into the most valuable AI hardware on earth.
If robots take all the jobs, who pays the taxes? The answer isn't income tax; it's a Robot Tax. We are moving to a world where the cost of AI is just the cost of energy, and that energy bill will fund society.
I missed the weddings. I missed the funerals. I missed the births. That is the price of being a Ronin. But in exchange, I got the world. Here is why the hardest path is the only one I could walk.
OpenAI has the smartest chatbot. But Meta and Google have the smartest data. In the war for ad dollars, the company that knows who you are beats the company that just knows what you asked.
