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<description><![CDATA[<div class="medium-feed-item">This is cross-posted from my new little place, The Issue. These are difficult times so I thought I’d share it with you. Read it carefully…<a href="https://medium.com/@umairh/the-world-of-maximally-possible-stupid-or-how-not-to-get-womped-52803b8f601d?source=rss-41e01d325219------2">Continue reading on Medium »</a></div>]]></description>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi guys. Since this is a difficult and scary time, I’m going to cross-post from <a href="http://www.theissue.io">my new spot</a> for a while. I think you might benefit from guidance and advice right now. I strongly urge those of you who haven’t read my latest stuff (it’s over there) to do so ASAP. Hang in there ❤Hi. How’s everyone? Today we’re going to do a little emergency update. I’m not in an emergency, but America certainly is, it’s spreading, and the world is, too. This is serious stuff, as much as it gets.I’m sick with the flu, so I’ll be concise, and we’ll get to a general update in a second, but first I’m going to give you some advice about what to do and what not to do right now, and I want you to listen very carefully.It goes like this.For the next couple of weeks…Don’t panic.The worst thing you can do right now is panic. And then react, in panic.In fact, right now, you should mostly be “doing” nothing.Here’s exactly what not to do, and I’m going to tell you this in exacting detail because a lot of people are going to make these mistakes, and they are going to get blown up. So.— Don’t, do not, buy or sell. Stocks, bonds, anything. Don’t do it. Let me repeat that, don’t buy a stock or sell a stock or financial contract of any kind.— Don’t start or end relationships of any kind, especially professional or personal ones.— Don’t make any big-ticket purchases or investments.— If you need to stock up on stuff, you can, but even that, don’t overdo it.— Don’t quit your job, and if you’re looking for one, and by some miracle you get an offer, don’t get your hopes up, because a whole lot of offers are going to be rescinded over the next week or two.— Don’t read too much news, because I’m going to tell you exactly what’s going to happen next anyways.Are you getting the theme here? If you do any of these things out of panic, you will get blown up. By varying degrees, of course, but of course, this is not the time, to, for example, sell off your portfolio in a…panic.Wait for the dust to settle.OK?This is a super important principle to understand.This is how people’s lives really fall apart as we enter implosive phases of history, they make foolish choices, and right now the most foolish choice you can make is to panic and act impulsively. So let me say it again.Wait for the dust to settle.Before you even think about doing stuff that resembles the list above.How long will that take?Waiting for the Dust to SettleNow let’s come to the reason I’m giving you this emergency advice.We’re all a little bit freaked out right now.That is because America has decided, or at least Trump has decided, to do everything from try to take over Canada to reconfigure the global economy not to international relations with a brutal wave of tariffs.I’m going to tell you, again, exactly what’s going to happen, in just a moment, but first, I want to teach you what to do. Because this is not some kind of dumb shit intellectual game. This is your life.Give it about two weeks.Maybe a month.In that period, you should not be “doing” much of anything. Especially impulsively and out of panic. All of those things will be mistakes, probably very costly ones, and we’ll get to that in just a moment.What you should be “doing” is planning. Thinking your options over carefully. Expanding your Possibility window. All the stuff we’ve been discussing over the last few months, because as you’re now beginning to see, I wasn’t kidding, and of course, no, I wasn’t wrong, either. Just…contemplate, map, plan, open up your options, because when the dust settles is when you can begin to exercise them.What to Do Right NowThat’s some advice about what not to do. Now I’m going to give you some advice about what to do.Take a deep breath. Center and calm yourself.You now have to be a beacon of calm, strength, and wisdom. For yourself, your family, your loved ones.You have to make wise choices now, or create them, and do the same for those you love.The world is now going to undergo the most dramatic period of transformation in a century.Most of it isn’t going to be good for any of us. Many, as I’m going to explain, are going to lose a very great deal.You can do be this kind of beacon in many ways, but remember how we discussed discipline, focus, and patience? Each of those are necessary right now. Be patient. Think it all over, carefully. Be disciplined and focused. Don’t just read the news pointlessly, begin to make choices in your own life, if you don’t want to Sink With the Ship.That is all you must do right now. No more and no less.This is not the time for any kinds of dramatic movements. Unless, for example, you get some kind of miraculous chance to do this or that that will really put your life on a different trajectory, but in this situation? As the world melts down? That’s probably rarer than gold.Just be calm, exercise patience, discipline, and focus, and make a plan. We’ve discussed this at many, many levels, so go back and refer to those essays, they’re there for a reason.Every day, every hour if you need to, remind yourself: I need to be a beacon of calm, strength, and wisdom, for myself and my loved ones. This will help you overcome your panic and fear. Focus on that until you begin to feel it.Now I am going to tell you what happens next.What Happens NextOver the last couple of months, I’ve had numerous powerful and influential and whatnot friends come to me and say, but he doesn’t mean it. He won’t do it. No, he’s not going to push the world economy to the brink. And I’d just sort of chuckle. Are you guys on another planet?Here we are. He did mean it. Are we really going to go on with the “shock” and “surprise”? I’m not, because I’m not an idiot, and you shouldn’t be one either.How should you understand what happens next? My dear mother asked me, hi mom, LOL, and I’ll tell you exactly what I told her.Tariffs raise prices and lower…quantities of everything else. Stuff, goods, jobs, employment, corporations, institutions, money, whatever, doesn’t matter. That’s all you really have to know, to understand what comes next. Less of everything means…a recession…a depression…a crash…whatever, doesn’t matter, those are just formal terms, what you must understand is the dynamics.It’s a sequence that usually goes like this. Prices rise, interest rates have to, businesses close, there’s a wave of bankruptcies, unemployment spikes, demand craters…and so a vicious cycle kicks off. Whatever we call it today, that was how the Great Depression happened. Along the way, financial markets crash, banks fail, and the system implodes.Here’s a fun fact I teach people these days. Remember the Smoot-Hawley act? It’s average tariff rate, what was it? Go ahead it, and remember, it was key to hardening the Great Depression.Just 20%.This is the sort of meltdown we’re toying with. I’m not saying it’s all going to happen tomorrow. I’m saying that this is the sort of risk that’s in the implosion.And these are serious, serious levels of risk. A lot of people are going to lose everything, if this sequences ignites, which there’s every sign of happening right about now. They will lose their savings, pensions, homes, assets, incomes, jobs, futures.We should not be toying around like this with systems so fundamental, but that’s a political and moral point. The real point is that all of that’s what’s next, the risk of this is currently going through the roof, and the entire point of your life right now is to change it so that you’re not exposed to it.This is why you mustn’t panic, and remain calm, focused, disciplined and patient. The more that you panic, the more chance you have of being one of the ones who isn’t going to make it, and loses a very great deal.How to Think About the Next Few Months (and Years)Here is to think about the next time period. Everyone is going to be at great risk of loss and damage, at an existential level. I am not kidding when I say that a lot of people are going to lose it all — and further, that’s going to happen faster than they can imagine.Now the point is to minimize your losses.That’s it. The point of everything you do over the next time period is just that, to minimize your losses.That is your first goal.None of us, and I mean none of us, are going to walk away unscathed. No, not even the oligarchs and whatnot. Everyone is going to take a hit as the systems around us melt down, particularly financial and economic ones.We’ll discuss the ugly business of profiting from all this, but that’s the second point. The first one is to minimize your losses. If you walk away from all this with just a 10% loss? That’s pretty good.Because in relative terms, a lot of people are going to lose much, much more, right down to everything. You must reorient yourself now in these ways.Now. Like I said, the second goal, for those of you wish to learn how to do it, is to profit from all this. You can do that, too. It’s an ugly thing, an obscene one, in many ways, and maybe we will all have to do it to survive. I don’t know. I can teach you about that, but not right now, because first you have to understand all the above.Why I’ve Been Teaching You What I’ve Been Teaching YouOK? This is how you survive emergencies like this. Actually survive them, not Hollywood movie axe-in-the-zombie’s-head or let’s-all-head-to-the-doomsday-bunker. You reorient yourself and center yourself. You employ many of the principles I’ve been teaching you.Now you can see why I’ve been teaching you all this. Here’s America on the brink of, what, trying to take over Canada? Is all this for real? Sadly, it is.Over the next time period, the world is going to change dramatically.And so will your life.There is no avoiding that fact.The question is whether you will be the one to change it, or whether it will be changed for you, by imploding systems and institutions.Personal Stuff + SessionsI’m sorry (really!) — that’s for those of you complaining that I never reply to your emails, who can’t book sessions with me, etcetera.There’s only one of me. My assistant left over the holidays, and so I’ve been trying to catch up. I’m going to redouble my efforts to catch up on the backlog over the next few days, so just be patient with me. If it’s really urgent, and I get it if it is at the moment, just get in touch so I know.What I’m going to do is just try and make it so you can book a session with me on the website. That should make things much easier for everyone. Along the way, because like I said, there’s only one of me, we might start doing weekly group calls or similar, so that more of you can interact with me faster. It’ll be less than sessions, I’m not sure, I have to sort of map it out a little bit, but if you guys are really freaked out, just tell me, and I’ll try to have it up and running sooner rather than later.I’m also going to open up my diary as much as I can because I know that many of you are worried and concerned, to put it mildly, at the moment, as much as I can, remember I have to balance this with all the other stuff I do, but I’ll put as much as I can aside for a while so that we have more time together, because this really is an emergency.OK? I hope that all helps.Keep What I Just Taught You With YouHang in there.Remember what I began with.It is incredibly important.The next couple of weeks to a month are going to be deeply unsettling and challenging.Do not panic. Do not do a single thing out of panic. They will all prove to be mistakes, costly ones, especially where finance is concerned.Wait for the dust to settle. You will know it begins to settle, and hell, I’ll be here to tell you anyways.Be a beacon of calm, strength, and wisdom to yourself and your loved ones. Say it to yourself a hundred times a day if you have to.Make wise and careful plans. All the essays are right here for you. Read them carefully, share them, reflect on them, just sit with them, there is a lot in there, and they will begin to change you just by taking them in.Lots of love,Umair (and Snowy!)<img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=4a1b738870dd" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi. I’m gonna do something that I almost never do, which is cross-post from my new place, <a href="http://www.theissue.io">the issue</a>. That’s because I still care about you guys, and I think you urgently need to understand this. I hope that you do.Hi guys. I’m going to keep it short and sweet, because this one’s urgent. Friends, gather round, you will need to understand what I’m about to discuss.Trump just announced tariffs of 25% on Canada and Mexico and a little less on China starting…tomorrow.What’s going to happen?Americans don’t have much experience with tariffs, with macroeconomic changes and transformations in general. So it’s OK not to know. And I’d expect the country to be wayyyyy more alarmed, but it isn’t, because it doesn’t understand what’s about to hit it, which is going to be…Absolutely catastrophic.See how people are already “shocked” and “surprised” by what’s happening (all over again)? They aren’t listening and learning. Please, take a second to understand all this, urgently and seriously. This is why I write these long essays. You are going to be affected, and I don’t want you and your loved ones to get hurt.ChaosterityWhat do tariffs of 25% mean?They mean that everything that’s imported from Canada and Mexico is going to rise in price, many things by a lot more than 25%. What’s imported from there? Food, vegetables, fruit, lumber, all kinds of basics. Why will it rise, in some cases more than the tariff rate? Because of course distributors and the entire value chain needs to make money in order to operate.So we are going to see a ruinous wave of inflation. When I say ruinous, I mean it. 25%? That’s an enormous rate for a tariff. Normally, if want to discourage trade or investment, we’d set that rate at maybe 5 or 10%. Not only do these guys have no idea what they’re doing, they have no idea what kind of ruin they’re about to unleash.In short order, Americans are going to be catastrophically more for nearly everything on the shelves. They already can’t afford it, which we know because of course credit balances are skyrocketing and living standards are falling.But that’s only sort of the small story. This isn’t just “about tariffs,” but an approach to the economy which also appears to include, for example, attempting to lay off…the entire government.I called it Chaosterity the other day. Tariffs hurt people, and the people they hurt the most are those who have the least. In this regard, while attempting to lay off the entire government is austerity, deciding you’re going to have 25% less stuff (which is another way to think about 25% tariffs, at an equivalent price level), is going to result in chaos, a kind which most living Americans have never really seen. We’re talking 1930s level consequences.Because what all this does next is…what blunders like this do next…they accumulate and begin cascades, vicious spirals. Let me continue.The best lens to understand what just happened is what Britain did to itself via Brexit.What Brexit Did to BritainToday, just 3 in 10 Brits think it was a good idea. Back then, when it happened, the nation was gripped by this weird mania.Economists and intellectuals would try to warn people about the effects of tariffs. Of breaking up with your biggest trading partners. For a country that imports nearly everything.Sound familiar?What happened next to Britain? It suffered the longest, steepest, sharpest fall in living standards in history.But even that’s not really the worst part. It’s economy is shrinking, and it will never recover. To what it was before Brexit. That is because of course now it has to reach a much smaller equilibrium, since it has less investment, capital of all kinds, whether financial or human, less trade, less commerce.Sound familiar?Today, British incomes have stagnated so long and hard that people wonder why they’re earning such pittances. The differences are stark, and almost unbelievable. The same jobs in America will pay 3 to 5 times as much, and in Europe, 2 to 3 times as much.Britain turned itself into a much, much poorer country. It will never recover. The losses are now permanent.Meanwhile, because it’s economy now has had to become much smaller, it’s once vaunted social contract is in tatters. The NHS is dying. The BBC is already dead. The streets are full of trash and crime, local authorities are bankrupt, and there’s a sense that nothing works, and there is no future.There isn’t.The government’s plan, to “kickstart growth”? To build…another runway at Heathrow. Go ahead and laugh. This is what’s left — this level of incompetence and this paucity of vision.Brexit cost Britain everything. It destroyed its future so severely that we don’t have a word for “rich country that made itself poor and a pariah.”Go to Paris, compared to London, and the streets are clean, people are happy, and things are generally flourishing. In London? People dress in modern-day rags, the pain and despair are etched on their faces, and the poverty is everywhere.This is what happens next.America’s Brexit MomentBreaking up with your largest trading partners in this way is incredibly catastrophic. Britain’s example teaches us that. But Americans don’t really grasp what’s going to come, in the same way Brits didn’t, for the same reasons — they have little experience with deconstructing systems that took a century or more to build.So the consequences of all this for America will be just what they were for Brexit Britain. Let me summarize them. A catastrophic wave of inflation. Higher interest rates. People stretched past breaking point. A wave of bankruptcies. Shortages and supply chain breakdowns. A much smaller economy. Fewer jobs, and smaller incomes.I understand that many people won’t get this, even though I’ve pointed it just happened to the last nation that tried it. So I urge these sorts of people to think for once in their lives.Now. Brexit’s catastrophic effects took several years to unfold. It was a slow-motion train wreck and it still is. Britain’s economy will continue to shrink probably for the next five to ten years, as it reaches a new equilibrium in which it doesn’t trade as much, employ as many people, can pay far less, has far, far fewer competitive companies, as its public sector must now choose, do we save the NHS, or public housing, or do we just sell it all off?America’s Brexit-level effects will take mere months to unfold. They will unfold at lightning speed.That will leave people in shock. They will not be able to comprehend and grasp what is happening to them.Tariffs of 25% starting tomorrow? On America’s largest trading partners? That make up the vast majority of its imports? The imports that make up the basic stuff of life?That means that over the next couple of weeks, prices will skyrocket. Maybe here and there companies and distributors will try to absorb costs, but don’t kid yourself, American capitalism’s pretty cutthroat, and I have my grave doubts about that. Most likely, basics of all kinds on the shelves will see an explosive wave of inflation.That will mean that the Fed can’t drop interest rates. Doesn’t sound like a big deal? Let me explain why it is. Both the labor aka job market and the housing market are currently frozen. That is because interest rates are still relatively high, especially compared to the median level of wealth, income, and debt.So job markets and housing markets will stay frozen. Think it’s a good idea that people won’t be able to get jobs for a year or whatever the statistic is already? That houses don’t sell? That is the economy going into shock.But of course all that’s just the tip of the iceberg, too. In Britain, what happened as the costs of Brexit proved too much to absorb? Scores upon scores of businesses went bankrupt. Small ones, sure, but not just small ones. Many of Britain’s biggest brands don’t exist anymore. Remember Ted Baker? TopShop? And so on? Brexit killed off entire swathes of Britain’s economy, causing a tidal wave of bankruptcies.And that is part of why incomes are so staggeringly low in Britain right now. Because it doesn’t have globally competitive companies, not nearly enough of them left, to offer people globally competitive salaries and wages. If you destroyed your biggest brands, which offered the best compensation and roles, but now those jobs don’t exist…right alongside smaller businesses, and those jobs don’t exist…see what I mean? This is how British incomes ended up at such astonishingly low levels.Welcome to RuinI don’t say that lightly. Let me put it in context. Over the years, I’ve predicted American collapse. Then I predicted the next phase — implosion.That is what happened to Britain. It imploded, unless you think “the sharpest fall in living standards in history” is anything else.America is now entering the implosive phase. If these plans come to fruition, we are going to see all of the same vicious cycles happen, only much faster. Inflation, frozen markets, bankruptcies, unemployment, plummeting incomes, falling living standards.This is a recipe for a depression.It might not be called one, hey, if the economy grows by 2%, and oligarchs get all that plus another 8%, it’s not technically one, but that’s just a technicality, because for the average person, they’re 10% poorer.These vicious circles will hit America incredibly fast. It won’t take five years, like it did Brexit to really lay waste to Britain. It’ll take months, and by a year or so, the economy will be convulsing in shock, and it’s already incredibly bad, which is why Trump got elected, because of course living standards have been falling in real terms.You must understand all this and do what you can to prepare for it.That doesn’t mean stocking up on eggs. It doesn’t mean disaster prepping. Rather, it means understanding that this is a long-term shift in America’s fortunes, the same that it was for Britain. Brexit destroyed Britain. It will never be what it was again, globally competitive. It won’t be a nice place to live, do business, earn an income, build wealth, because you can’t do a lot of those things there anymore.America is going to suffer incredible consequences of the same sorts of magnitudes. Americans don’t understand this, I want to emphasize that, because they have never experienced anything remotely like it, and so it’s hard to comprehend just how fast all this can happen, how severe it can be, and how consequential it will be.That was true for Brits, also. That’s why most of them regret Brexit now, and just a slim margin are left who think it was a good idea. Of course the problem is that it’s far too late to do anything about it (and no, you can’t just “rejoin the EU,” because there are issues of trust, credibility, and complexity, not to mention that Britain is just much poorer and less stable now.)Americans, too, will regret the staggeringly poor choices they’ve made, and I don’t include you obviously if you’re not in that pool. They’ll regret it even more than Brits, because of course in America, no money, you die.Let me try and summarize. The consequences of all this are going to be a) much faster b) much more severe b) much more turbulent and c) much more catastrophic than almost anyone in America can comprehend right now.I know, I know, that’s the kind of sentence that used to get me in trouble. Way back when people used to tell me I was wrong. Before my predictions all came true, I guess. LOL. Still think I’m an “alarmist,” dumbass?Now, I think, even many of the doubters you should be smart enough to take my warnings, especially when they’re this grave, very seriously. That part’s up to you, if you wanna get blown up, that’s fine with me, have fun.So this isn’t about stocking up on eggs. It is about understanding that if all this comes to pass, then the next few years will be catastrophic, genuinely so. The kinds of implosions that will take place will stagger most people in America, just as the consequences of Brexit staggered most Brits. And many simply won’t make it — they’ll lose everything, as the bottom falls out, as bankruptcies soar, as businesses shutter, as jobs are destroyed for good, as prices skyrocket.Don’t be caught in that gyre.Think long and hard on that level.And then make some tough choices about what to do next.Lots of love,Umair and the tiny little guy<img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=c992cd7b7bbf" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[all the things we never said]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 02:19:31 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[My lovely wife said to me the other day, “a lot of people want to hear what you have to say right now.” And I chuckled, sadly.OK, here’s what I have to say.I’m eating cookies with Snowy. I wrote a new song and it’s pretty good. I’m having fun.Good luck. I mean it. You’re gonna need it. The next few years are going to be…very, very difficult. Your panic, fear, and despair are telling you something about that. I feel bad for those of you who didn’t learn from me and listen to me when you could have. For what you must be going through. What you will go through over the coming years now.I was just trying to teach you about all that.That is a teacher’s job. I guess now some of you are beginning to understand what I tried to teach you in a very different way, because now you are living it, all these forms of collapse, and there is no need to deny it anymore.How bad will things get? What happens next? What do you do now? These are the questions you’re asking. You want answers. But answers only come from learning. Even experiencing what you are now is just baffling and upsetting you. Learning is that much harder. In a deep way. Not as a game. Not as an exercise. But as a practice and form of change. That is what you weren’t ready to do until things got here.My heart breaks a little bit for those of you who never grasped that what I was trying to teach was not a game, not a figment of imagination, but about your life. If you’d learned what I was trying to teach you all those years ago, you probably would not be in the position you are in now.When you are ready to do that, to learn, in this true and deep way, really ready, then you will find answers from teachers like me. We are always here. But until you are ready, you will never find answers.You are bewildered and confused and upset right now, and this is the deeper and truer reason. You need a teacher, desperately, right now, this second, but you also will not let anyone teach you. So where else can you end up? This is part of the human condition, a tragic aspect, hubris, vanity, folly. Understand that much. Begin there. That is my advice to you.For the small number that did truly listen and learn, I’m glad. It makes me happy, because I think you are much better off right now. And I hope it continues to help you with all that is arriving on our doorstep now.(If you really wanna catch up with me, I guess you can find me at my new spot. But don’t do it until you’re ready, and most of you are not.)Lots of love,Umair and the tiny little grinning guy<img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=93bf1add4402" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[About Global Vision]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:29:08 GMT</pubDate>
<atom:updated>2024-10-04T00:29:08.564Z</atom:updated>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi. Welcome.We help organizations and people create transformational brands and breakthrough visions.Global Vision was created by Umair Haque. Umair is one of the world’s foremost experts and pioneers in branding, marketing, and business, listed among the world’s top 50 thinkers.He created the vision, mission, and strategy — Meaningful Brands — for one of the world’s largest marketing and communications groups, Havas. Meaningful Brands transformed the field, adopted by all the world’s major marketing groups, creating the modern paradigm for brands.What’s Global Vision’s purpose? We believe that the world and its institutions today have a lack of vision. Hence, Global Vision. The essays and posts are here to help you understand the future and the world.Global Vision is based in New York and Paris.If you’d like to work together, or if you’d like more information, please get in touch.Umair’s personal writing can be found at <a href="http://www.theissue.io">The Issue</a>.<img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=755ac8d9f81e" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><a href="https://medium.com/global-vision/about-global-vision-755ac8d9f81e">About Global Vision</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/global-vision">Global Vision</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Can Kamala and Tim Transform America?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:22:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How Rick Owens Is Making Me Look at the World]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[<div class="medium-feed-item"><a href="https://medium.com/eudaimonia-co/how-rick-owens-is-making-me-look-at-the-world-8e3be58c85da?source=rss-41e01d325219------2"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/1*wkyR9D6djhkV2X9hf8Jmxg.png" width="1200"></a>What Can Fashion These Days Even Say About…Our World on Fire? More Than You Think.<a href="https://medium.com/eudaimonia-co/how-rick-owens-is-making-me-look-at-the-world-8e3be58c85da?source=rss-41e01d325219------2">Continue reading on Eudaimonia and Co »</a></div>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How Apple Quietly Pulled Off the Marketing Coup of the Year]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[<div class="medium-feed-item"><a href="https://medium.com/eudaimonia-co/how-apple-quietly-pulled-off-the-marketing-coup-of-the-year-6356664b80b8?source=rss-41e01d325219------2"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*ynkNbdM6SCA5EPIbQoZbYQ.jpeg" width="1600"></a>How Apple Didn’t Join the AI Race — It Leapt Beyond It<a href="https://medium.com/eudaimonia-co/how-apple-quietly-pulled-off-the-marketing-coup-of-the-year-6356664b80b8?source=rss-41e01d325219------2">Continue reading on Eudaimonia and Co »</a></div>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:43:52 GMT</pubDate>
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