Loyalty and Competence Rarely Coexist in Zimbabwe's Leadership
EVERY LEADER needs a competent and loyal team around him… The challenge is that some are loyal, but incompetent… & some are competent by not loyal… Money-driven people & power-driven people are NEVER LOYAL… In Zimbabwe, we are witnessing power-driven folks destroying key political relationships all because of unchecked ambitions… Others are destroying future business prospects because of money
Companies Blame Employees, Not Bad Managers
I just watched an Amazon VP explain why it's easier to label YOU as "high maintenance" than to address your bad manager ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ A thread.
Today's Stubborn Inflation Driven by New Factors, Not 1970s
This chart is fine as a simple comparison of historical inflation experiences, but the current tenaciousness of inflation is due to different factors, and is happening in a different policy context, from the inflation of the late 1970s. 1/2
Creating Unseen Futures in a Jungle Retreat
Five days in the jungle with three agency owners, building futures that don’t exist yet.
Paramount‑Skydance Raises $24B From Gulf Investors for Warner Bros. Deal
Paramount Skydance Secures $24 Billion From Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi Funds for Warner Bros. Deal: Report https://t.co/pBowLfuPXc via @variety
Turn HR & Payroll Into Performance Engines
#TimTalk – Transforming HR and Payroll from a cost centre to a performance engine with Simon Noble https://t.co/VaBE1Zp55e via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Payroll #HR #HumanResources #Leadership #Strategy #HRTech #FutureofWork #EmployeeEngagement #WorkPlace #Culture
Key WNBA Dates: Offer Period to Draft in April
Upcoming #WNBA Dates April 6-7: Offer/Core Designation Period April 8-10: Negotiation Period April 11th: Free Agency Commences April 13th: Draft
AP Trims Staff as Big‑tech Revenue Soars, Newspaper Sales Plunge
NEW: AP plans staff cuts, restructuring amid broader business shift - Revenue from newspaper groups has fallen 25% in last 4 years, while revenue from Big Tech has increased 200% - Cuts will impact fewer 5% global staff https://t.co/D60ndpxjPX
AI Boosts All Support Agents, Not Just Top Performers
Everyone says AI will replace the worst workers. MIT studied 5,000 employees and found the opposite: Stanford and MIT researchers tracked 5,179 customer support agents for a year. Half got access to an AI assistant. Half didn't. The results were shocking.
Hiring Associate to Scale Advisor Relationships After $1B Growth
We're hiring. 3 years: $0 → $1bn+ AUM. 7 ETFs. A category we're taking mainstream. Now we need someone to help scale the advisor relationships that got us here. Associate, Advisor Solutions — internal sales, clear path to external. Remote. If you've got distribution...
Avoid These Fatal Tech Sales Interview Mistakes
I broke into tech sales 12 years ago. 9 interviews and 6 weeks later, landed an SDR job. Earned $36,000 that year. 12 years later, $1.63 million in a year. I've interviewed 1,000+ tech sales candidates since then as a hiring manager. 5 mistakes to...
Reddit Beats Paid Ads on $50+ SaaS Keywords
Here’s the brutal part. On high-CPC SaaS keywords ($50+), Reddit’s win rate hits 67%. You’re paying a premium for ads. A Reddit thread is taking the organic click. The money keywords are where Reddit is strongest. https://t.co/PlWF0NT1Gq
ChatGPT 5.3 Upgrade Cuts URLs by 20%, Drops L
Added a note about March 4, 2026 to my algo update list. Not a Google update, but it looks like ChatGPT's upgrade to GPT 5.3 instant resulted in it showing 20% fewer urls in answers. If your LLM visits are down...
Dollar's Global Grip Shows Cracks, Not Collapse
Is the dollar’s global dominance foundation starting to crack or just facing a few termites? 🐜💵 I sat down with former Fed & Treasury insiders @steven_kamin & @sobel_mark to unpack threats to dollar dominance, fiscal policy, Fed independence,...
Tax Dollars Prop Up Minor League Stadiums
My article examining public subsidies going to minor league baseball stadiums is now published in Economic Inquiry. See next post for ungated link https://t.co/5HpMbUDxVX
China IPOs Surge 56% After Regulatory Easing
China IPOs jump 56% as regulator eases restrictions to drive tech innovation Funds raised on the mainland’s three exchanges in the first quarter topped 25.7 billion yuan, compared with 16.5 billion yuan a year earlier https://t.co/yJkQKKH5LK
Allies Hedge Bets, Distrust U.S. Amid Growing Skepticism
More evidence that even U.S. friends and allies don’t trust Uncle Sam and are hedging, pivoting away from the USA. https://t.co/Sn8dFUs5GJ
Launch a Revenue‑generating SaaS with 0.001% Effort
A few months ago, a SaaS idea got into my head and it simply wouldn't leave me alone. So I made a "dangerous" decision. I decided to allocate just 0.001% of my time to see if I could take that idea...
Call Founders Directly to Master Niche Industries Quickly
I still think one of the best ways to understand traditional niche businesses and industries is by picking up the phone book and calling founders. With every founder you meet and every company you visit, you can soak in so much...
A Better Twitter: Curated Stories, Trends, Voices, No Ragebait
Business idea: A Twitter where interesting stories, global trends, new discoveries, and famous voices get promoted -- and political ragebaiters get thrown into the void.
NFL's Billion‑Dollar Media Demands Spark Backlash, FIFA Diversifies Revenue
🆙 Episode #44 of The Bundle is now available. The monthly walk-through with @UnffclPrtnr and @MurrayBarnett, trading facts, insights, and opinions at the intersection of #sports, #streaming, and #media — this time including but not limited to: • 🏈 NFL's media...
Demand Will Collapse Once Inventories Exhausted, Prices Surge
Distinguished economist & commodity market guru Jeff Currie on oil supply and demand: "Once we exhaust our ability to draw down inventories [in] mid to late April... demand has to come crashing down in line with supply. The key question is...
Jobs Flip Between Growth and Contraction 11 Months Straight
It really is incredible that jobs have alternated between growth and contraction for a record 11 months in a row. The previous record? 6 back in the last 1960s. https://t.co/ktPBF1R0Ku
Avoid Ghost Citations: Embed Your Brand in AI Answers
What is your "Ghost Citation" percentage by AI model? A ghost citation is when your content gets a link in an AI answer, but your brand doesn't get mentioned in the text of the answer. We saw a client's post had...
Ceasefire Stalled: US Wants Open Strait, Iran Opposes
Okay, so here’s how how the ceasefire cookie crumbles: - A ceasefire without the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz will likely be unacceptable to the US. - A ceasefire with a reopening will likely be unacceptable to Iran. Iran appears serious...
Recurring Revenue Drives SaaS’s Future, Says Industry Veteran
Nick (@nrmehta) is the Godfather of Customer Success, which largely exists because of recurring revenue. So I asked him if he would be willing to give his thoughts on recurring revenue and the future of SaaS. I may be biased, but it's...
Coca-Cola Taps Iconic Jingle Archive to Stand Out
Coca-Cola uses something only a handful of corporations can -- a massive archive of promotions that won over large audiences -- in bid to stand out in the ad pack. Beverage giant revives its famous 'I'd like to buy...
Nike CEO Shows How to Motivate Exhausted Teams
Interesting take on CEO communication style at NKE What the Nike CEO’s remarks reveal about rallying employees through turnaround fatigue - FORTUNE
Japan's Future Bright, Europe's Past Fades with US Alliance
Japan’s greatest days are ahead of it, as it recommits to its partnership with America Europe’s best days are behind it, as it moves away from its alliance with the US
China Shifts Upstream in Global Production Networks
China moves upstream in production networks. More on this in the Chartbook Top Links today. https://t.co/z8YSI2hXDR
Musk’s Pre‑purchase Comment Could Settle Twitter Debate
This is what @elonmusk said before he bought twitter. Actually doing this would help clarify this debate. https://t.co/GECYZZ8JEw
Frame Meetings Around Buyer Value, Not Just Calendar Slots
Having a next meeting on the calendar is not enough. You'll still get no showed and rescheduled on. It all comes down to one concept. Value... for the buyer. And framing the 'reason' for the meeting, accordingly. Else they'll wonder "can't this just be an...
Summers Wasn't Alone: Multiple Economists Warned of Inflation
It’s strange how Summers is often implicitly covered as if he were the only economist who warned about inflation in 2021 The dominant forecast was it would be transitory (there’s still debate as to whether it ended up being a really...
CFOs Must Become Bridge Officers Amid Geo‑War
The world is in a Geo War. India is not a bystander. Energy costs are surging. The rupee is under pressure. Foreign capital is moving out. Budgets built three months ago are already wrong. In this environment, the CFO cannot stay in...
Sensational Claims Question Altman's Trustworthiness, but Lack Substance
That the premise of this article is “we interviewed 100+ people to determine if Sam Altman is a liar and a sociopath” is wild. The animation of the image in the article is also quite unsettling. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted?currentPage=all
CrowdStrike Boosts Buyback by $500M, Total $1.5B
CrowdStrike $CRWD just announced a $500M increase to its Share Buyback plans, This bring the total authorization under the program to $1.5 billion
AI Transforms HR Management for a Brighter Future
Empowering People with AI: Revolutionizing the Management of Human Resources for a Brighter Future @TEBReview https://t.co/KjNcgggc6N #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
War‑driven Gas Prices Could Hit $5 Before Midterms
The US is running on borrowed time in this war. The average price of one gallon of gasoline isn't yet at the $5 it reached in 2022 after Russia's Ukraine invasion, but it's heading there if this war continues. That...
Trump Treads Carefully on Fragile China Trade Truce
'Walking on eggshells’: How Trump is managing his delicate China truce “We don’t unwind a generation of outsourcing and product dependency quickly. I mean, you just can’t without such massive disruptions that it’s really not worth it. You’re killing the...
AI Eliminates Junior Marketers, Turns Teams Into Generalists
The junior marketer role is dead. We surveyed 100 B2B SaaS marketing directors on how AI is changing their teams. 13 said they've stopped backfilling junior roles entirely. When people leave, the work gets absorbed. AI picks up the slack. But that's not...
Private Credit Redemption Surge Sparks AI Loan Risk Trade
Macro: private credit faces redemption surge; Key: redemption caps, AI risk to software loans; Risk: loan impairment and valuation pressure; Trade: overweight Goldman’s GS Credit vs capped peers. —Viktor Kopylov, PhD, CFA More insights: t.me/si14Kopylov
What to Ask 100 $500M+ Founders?
Question: I'm getting to sit in a room with about 100 founders who have build $500M+ companies for about 3 days. If you were me, what questions would you ask them?
M2 Surges >10% Annualized, Fed Cuts Now Unlikely
While all time high gets the headline, the annualized growth rate in this latest monthly money supply report important to watch—over 10%. This makes fed rate cuts harder to see
5K/Mo Buys Full AI‑powered Dev Studio
QuantFlow Studio is open for subscriptions 🎉 $5K/mo — one EU dev's cost — buys a whole studio's output. Engineering, design, AI integrations. 2 engineers orchestrating self-made agents, end-to-end. Proof we're not LARPing: • Pilot — 82% on Terminal Bench 2.0 (built in...
Career Growth Needs Trust, Relationships, and Visibility, Not Just Merit
One of the hardest things for people to accept is that merit is only one part of how careers move. Yes, being good matters. So does trust. So do relationships. So does visibility. A lot of people keep waiting for...
AI Powers Modern Sales Enablement Strategies
Sales Enablement - There’s an AI for that by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/M3SdWWejsJ @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Salesforce #SalesEnablement #RevOps #Marketing #Leadership #MarketingStrategy #MarketingSuccess https://t.co/wKXJNR13D2
Ceasefire Triggers Oil Drop, Dollar Decline, EM Rally
A ceasefire is coming. Two things will get repriced quickly when that happens. Oil futures will tumble and the Dollar will fall sharply. The latter is up on safe haven inflows to the US. All those inflows will unwind very...
Saudi Oil Price Surge Signals Phase Three Economic Fallout
From the Bloomberg article on “Saudi Arabia rais[ing] the price of its main oil grade to Asia to a record high premium.” This price development coincides with more Asian governments worrying about physical energy supplies—marking part of what I’ve termed "Phase...
Cash: Unlimited Call Option, Pure Financial Flexibility
Warren Buffett: “Cash is a call option with no expiration date.” Takeaway: Liquidity equals flexibility.
Iran Conflict Set to Reshape Global Supply Chains, Dimon Warns
Jamie Dimon. JP Morgan. Iran war. Change GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS. Across industries and market sectors. Oil and its distillates and derivatives. Petrochemicals. Sulfur. Alumina. Fertilizer. More.