Thinking Is Cool

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What do your most recent ex and the current stock market conditions have in common? They both suck now, but eventually you'll get over it.

That's the sitch, according to Kelsey Willock—cofounder and CEO of Aura, a mindful money management platform. I spoke with her to parse through what, exactly, is going on in the stock market. Because these days, it seems all we can count on is uncertainty.

Listen for a full 411 on today's market conditions, plus some top-shelf analogies about what therapy and sh*tty relationships can teach us about investing.

00:00 intro! & say hi to Kelsey

01:10 putting your losses in context

05:34 investing is like a chaotic bachelorette trip

06:58 how bad could this get?

11:29 how to think for the long term & money stories

18:41 the bitcoin millionaire fallacy

21:38 Kelsey's recs & more about Aura

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How, exactly, is a social media platform designed to only be used twice per day planning to scale? With the backing of an army of ferocious Gen Z users, it seems.

This is BeReal. And it might just be the future of the social web.

00:00 get ready for a killer interview with Casey Lewis of After School

01:07 meet Casey

03:03 what is BeReal and why do the youths love it?

05:47 Gen Z's relationship with social media

10:03 how will BeReal avoid becoming the next HQ Trivia?

17:21 the great copycats of Silicon Valley

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I won’t sugarcoat it—if you’re an investor of any kind, it’s been a tough month. Things aren’t great. Red as far as the eye can see. Pandemic superstars imploding in historic fashion. Inflation at generational highs. The Fed doing…Fed things.

That’s reality, and it’s a stark difference from the way things used to be (read: easy). So what might that mean for a generation that both 1) came of age and 2) began investing in record numbers during one of the easiest times to make money in human history?

That’s what I’m talking about today—what’s going on in the economy, and how we’re going to live with it. Don’t panic! Everything’s chiller than you think.

00:19 economic vibe check

2:33 the bubble has burst

4:47 we’re all the stock market?

7:02 your vibes must be off

8:55 how to check yourself

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We are what we post, right? If so...what does it mean to be a feminist in the digital age—when Twitter is the town square and your Instagram feed is your personal credo?

I interviewed Kate Lindsay, the writer and reporter behind the internet culture newsletter Embedded, to find out.

4:32 what is online feminism?

9:33 digital coalition building in the future

12:24 inserting nuance into the conversation

16:50 smaller digital villages and the alternative to mass-anything

25:59 Kate's recs

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Everyone has a take on the potential overturn of Roe vs. Wade, as they should. Legal action this monumental deserves to be talked about & thought about, publicly and often.

But you know who else feels notably missing from the conversation? The corporations that are so eagerly hiring people to be “a part of the family.” To quote my favorite poet, “I’ve never heard silence quite this loud.”

So where are the capitalists now that the stakes are higher than ever? Let's think about it. From the labor force to equality commitments—today on Thinking Is Cool, the implications of the business world staying quiet on Roe vs. Wade.

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Elon Musk is (still) (most likely) buying Twitter, and along with a change in leadership, many are anticipating changes to the platform that was once home to some of the best moments in pop culture history ("Delete your account," anything Nicki Minaj has ever posted, etc.). If some media prognosticators are to be believed, those revolutionary cultural moments are going to be replaced with more vitriol should Twitter take the shape of its new leader, a self-described "free speech absolutist."

For the Twitter users who rely solely on the platform for work, connections, and more...that poses a problem. So what might Twitter look like, and what would be the potential breaking point for the platform's biggest power users to finally call it quits on the bird app?

Journalist Fortesa Latifi weighs in, today on Thinking Is Cool.

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Can Elon Musk make the internet fun again?

We might be about to find out…if this doesn’t all go to hell.

Elon Musk is buying Twitter, and whether you agree or disagree with his tactics (I won’t make you guess—I disagree), he’s swooping in at a time when Twitter *needs* to change.

The platform just isn’t what it used to be. Changes need to happen. But when they do, you can bet your bottom dollar they won’t just affect Twitter and its employees.

They’ll affect the entire social web, the infrastructure that connects us all. So today, let’s take the time to understand what might come next for Twitter and what reverberations those changes will have throughout the rest of the online world.

00:24 Elon & Twitter (a timeline)

1:55 Twitter actually sucks (the vibe shift)

6:58 what could Elon Musk do at Twitter?

9:48 theories on the future of Twitter

12:34 the bigger picture

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It’s been two months since Russia invaded Ukraine and the world collectively said ”what the f*ck?” 

In those two months, we’ve posted countless Instagram infographics, tried to explain to our parents that rising gas prices actually weren’t President Biden’s fault, and attempted to grapple with a real live land war happening in the year of our lord 2022…which also coincidentally happens to be a year during which our attention spans are at an all-time low.

So how do we stop the news cycle fatigue as Ukraine vs. Russia escalates (and will continue to do so, by many accounts, for years to come)? What lessons can we learn that will guide humanity into the future? Where does America fit into all this? Where do you fit into all this? And how is 9/11 involved?

All that and more, answered today by Marshall Kosloff—podcaster, interviewer, and impressive thinker.

Listen, learn, and start developing your own perspective on this administration’s Ukraine strategy. And think. Because thinking is cool :)

2:21 more about Marshall & his coverage lessons

8:52 today’s lessons from the post-9/11 years

13:13 the American Savior Complex vs. empathy vs. tactical politics

20:24 America’s role in Ukraine

24:24 where does Ukraine vs. Russia go next?

27:55 news fatigue and virtue signaling

38:09 what you think about policy matters!!

41:17 how (if?) it ends

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Find more of Marshall’s work here…

The Realignment: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3O3P7AsOC17INXR5L2APHQ

Breaking Points: https://www.youtube.com/c/breakingpoints

Twitter: https://twitter.com/makosloff

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Here's just like 53 minutes of billionaire Mark Cuban hyping you up on the universal possibility of achieving greatness.

Kidding, but only kind of. It's really an interview with Mark during which we explore what the American dream means in a modern context today—what his version of the dream looks like, how he failed to achieve the dreams he had as a kid, what this country can do to make the "dream" possible for all, and more.

And finally, as is tradition in my conversations with Mark, I pester him about a presidential run. Cuban Grant 2028?

A few notes! This is the extended cut of an interview featured in my recent video about the American dream (watch here: https://youtu.be/TE2O7-q7tL4). And it's the first of many interviews I'm planning in an effort to parse through what's broken about the American dream ethos in an effort to build something better. That more perfect future, if you will.

So subscribe to my channel to 1) see more interviews like this and 2) join me in a much needed re-evaluation of the American dream this country was built on.

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But not for long.

The American dream is a vaunted concept that's guided U.S. and human history for centuries now. But it's outdated. It's out of touch. It's lacking any semblance of modern sensibility.

And that, my friends, presents us with an opportunity. It's time to deconstruct—and reconstruct—the American dream. For a more modern world. For a more perfect future.

Let's do this.

Next up: my full episode with Mark Cuban. It's a goodie. Smash that MF subscribe button. You know you want to.

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