There’s a strange malaise taking over my generation (sub 35). People who objectively have good jobs, good lives, safe have a real detached, nihilistic pessimism about the world. Indifferent about children, the future of the human race, people who disagree with them, etc.
I…
Would love to have sat in on the strategy sessions at Banana Republic when they decided to change their aesthetic to British colonial administrator office in Nigeria
Can anyone explain Trump’s grip on the Republican Party? Is his willingness to aggressively discipline his party (primary challenges, berating etc) - the main driver of deference?
I’m trying to imagine Obama having party control to push mass global tariffs w/o pushback
They colonised, started the global slave trade, genocided native Americans, pillaged India and Africa, forced China to buy opium through war. We, on the other hand, are proud that we "led" the anti-colonial movement that helped countries develop to reduce poverty and inequality.
Some people who succeed wildly in school don’t achieve their apparent potential in the business world. Some others who do okay (or worse) in school manage to build an extremely successful life. Why is that?
What we learn in school & must unlearn in business & in life:
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American progressives are facing an intellectual dilemma. For years, they focused on criticizing US foreign policy. In part because of the anti-capitalism perspective, but also because they, undeliberately, bought into both imperialism & American-supremacy. I'll explain:
In the hours to come #Russia will
-conduct strikes on air defense systems
-move to cut off #Kyiv from eastern #Ukraine
-move to cut off Ukraine’s military forces on the line of contact in the east to prevent them from falling back to defend Kyiv
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