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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
When I grew up in the 1970s and ’80s, the cardinal value of the middle class was stability. Most people had a fixed place in the world and defined themselves through what they were doing in life. As for today, being part of the middle class looks more like the main character in Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike: laboring during the day as a constructi
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
Desirability of something is today decoupled from its price, and its access is decoupled from wealth. Instead, it’s coupled with social capital, environmental creds, cultural savviness, a story, belonging, and its transformative potential to make us better humans.
Ana Andjelic • The Business of Aspiration: How Social, Cultural, and Environmental Capital Changes Brands
Entrepreneurship today has less to do with innovating a product than innovating on the business model for growth. Never is the growth itself questioned.
Douglas Rushkoff • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
Jeff Beer • fastcompany.com
As a society, we’re paying people more money to do things which create less wealth. Yet we’re at a point where we can create more wealth and make more money for ourselves and others by pursuing work which forces us to grow in a way we personally find meaningful.
Taylor Pearson • The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5
This shift aligns with a cultural change where people are less loyal to long-term employers and more interested in using their skills independently to earn more.
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Michael Houck • Startups are Experiments
Describing his customers as women with “too little time, too little money, and two little kids,”