Noticing a trend of European norms making their way to the US market. -Fashion -Food & bev -Lifestyles (i.e. people working less) Maybe it's not a new thing, but seems like there's a growing idealization of European life amongst Americans as we grapple with our problems at home

There are few things sunshine, some running, solid REM sleep can’t solve

Hurricanes never cross the equator because they would have to reverse the direction they’re spinning

One of the best parts about being young is the hope that you could do anything some day — everything is a possibility. Part of aging is that array of options shrinking and the window of “some day” getting smaller. But maybe closing that range of uncertainty isn’t a bad thing.

LA became a hotspot for the OG film industry partially because Edison had a mob of enforcers for his patents on movie creation. If you were on the east coast and in the film industry, your options were: 1) pay up 2) reap the consequences 3) flee West where they couldn’t find you

The productivity paradox - the more you try to control time, the more you become a slave to it. If you try to master time, time will master you.

The worst running weather is the 38-45 degree range where it's too cold for shorts and a t-shirt but too hot for long sleeves and tights. And the longer the run, you know you're going to have overdressed

Non-existent? Name a country with more cultural influence

Million Dollar Baby will be the song of the summer, calling it now

Why do Australians, despite being only 0.33% of the global population, seemingly make up like 10% of the people wherever you go in the world?

Every marketer is concerned about selling to Gen-Z, but feels like boomers are the ones with the cash to spend qz.com/401k-retiremen…

How did they build financial models before Excel?

I still think about this one a lot

The probability that a meeting is rescheduled increases each time it is rescheduled

It's officially the "top X of 2024" list season

I was today years old when I learned that antivenom is made by injecting horses with snake venom and extracting their blood

Marketing is going to start looking more and more like sales. Marketing is 1:many. Sales is 1:1. The only reason we have marketing at all is b/c 1:1 for everything is too expensive, but as the cost of 1:1 gets cheaper & ads become commodities, you'll need meaning to stand out.