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Adaptability beats fortification every time. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-maginot-illusion-when-fortified-systems-fail/
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If you must flatter the mob, do so quickly. Their memory is short, their wrath is not.
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Never in the history of human conflict has so much idiocy been broadcast to so many by so few.
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Howard Hughes was the original founder myth: Invent the future. Own it all. Delegate nothing. Answer to no one. It worked until it didn’t. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-titan-who-couldnt-let-go/
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Interviewing / featuring Kanye West in 2025 is irresponsible to the point of malpractice. The man is unwell.
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The president is confused, slurring, repeating himself, fixated on Obama, and openly unsure if he’s bound by the Constitution. The diagnosis is on display. The crisis is cognitive. And nobody around him dares to say it out loud. https://www.theindex.media/donald-trump-is-a-man-in-decline/
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Jesus said “Render unto Caesar”—He didn’t say Caesar should run your church. Or that your church should run the state.
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The modern mind believes simultaneously that truth is relative and that its own opinions are absolute and correct.
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Just once I’d like to see a wellness influencer say “Here’s how I cured cancer” and then it’s just a video of them getting chemotherapy, following medical advice, and not drinking beet juice under a full moon.
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In an age where anyone can be famous for being famous, we've forgotten that true greatness requires actually being great at something.
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Every Gilded Age sells a fantasy. In the 1900s, it was “infinite thought.” Now it’s “high vibe hustle.” The tycoons build empires. The workers buy grindset courses. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-gilded-age-is-back-so-are-the-grifters/
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The international immune system is activating. Democracy, flawed and fragile, is developing antibodies against a very specific kind of viral politics. The backlash is electoral, cultural, and institutional. And it is spreading. https://www.theindex.media/rebuke/
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Not coincidental that both America's Gilded Ages birthed booming industries of 'manifest your own success' hucksters. When inequality becomes obscene, selling the fantasy that thoughts create reality becomes extremely profitable. Robber barons and mindset coaches: a symbiotic relationship since 1895.
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They’re calling it a win for Ukraine. It looks more like a prototype for postwar strip-mining. This isn’t diplomacy. It’s debt collection—disguised as development. And it’s coming soon to every scarred nation with lithium. Full piece: https://www.theindex.media/the-cost-of-freedom-in-metric-tons/
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If it manipulates your hunger, unfollow. If it rewards outrage and punishes thought, unfollow. If it makes you compare your life to a fiction, unfollow. Your peace is non-negotiable
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Expertise isn’t measured in headcount. It’s measured in scar tissue. Twenty fresh opinions can’t replace one person who’s lived the problem long enough to see it mutate. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/experience-doesnt-stack-the-myth-of-collective-knowledge/
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My life’s dream is to start an “Adult Bookstore” and just fill it with copies of the tax code and various assorted budget cookbooks
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Nothing captures our era better than LinkedIn influencers who post daily about Seneca's lessons on wealth while remaining completely ignorant of how the Federal Reserve actually works.
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If you don’t learn about the past you will understand nothing of the present and even less of the future.
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expertise doesn't scale linearly. Having one expert who's studied something for 20 years is qualitatively different from having 20 experts who've each studied it for 1 year. The former builds mental models; the latter replicates consensus.
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