Big funds loan out their stocks and bonds for extra income. Borrowers use them to settle trades, short the market, or make bets. Everyone wins.
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How Ed Sheeran reminds us all of Robotic Process Automation.
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All the designers I’ve ever known rationalize their changes as benefiting their clients– making their product more intuitive.
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Hedge funds = snowflakey investment machines. Prime brokers? They’re backstage—clearing trades, safekeeping assets, lending leverage, providing research, intros, and crisis support.
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All mystery removed from production support calls.
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11th in my YouTube series “Find Something Better to Do” - based on things I tell my kids:
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Gutenberg— by today’s standards— was unsuccessful. His printing press flopped because buyers couldn’t read. Human history: still getting dumberer.
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Written by 12-year-old me.
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Software needs joy and surprise. Maybe even the occastional clown nose. Because boring apps are just sad little formal shoes to fill.
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If you’re looking for a future-forward side hustle, let me suggest “AI journalism” — quotes intentional and dipped deeply in spicy sarcasm sauce.
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Stop using spaghetti as your work complexity metaphor at work. We all deserve to keep our carbs and chaos separate. Instead, try icebergs.
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Human brains— like companies— love reruns. Like new consultants, same mistakes. Your “mistake pathways” aren’t just nostalgia. They’re on repeat for a reason.
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Wealth management is about listening, life planning, and building your ideal mix of investments and services. Useful unless you’re rich enough to have your own family office.
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Why must every tech gadget scream its brand? Give me an Hermès vibe, not some “drunk uncle” logo. Differentiate on design. Make life more beautiful.
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Trust isn’t dying. It’s just being rerouted from tired institutions to TikTok teens and the new class of billionaires. If you have to pick one, invest in the teens.
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If you’re going to armor up….
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Mandates don’t work. And memos don’t get read. Adoption needs early fans with ice cream cones they really, really, really want to share. Social capital, yo!
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A set of posters to encourage that one person we all have in our lives who needs a nudge.
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Three universal thruths: 1) Peanut butter cups are medicine. 2) PoC is theater. 3) PoA is survival.
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AI will definitely come for your busywork! Let me play futurist and tell you the result: same meetings, same deadlines, same timeframes. You’re welcome.
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