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Guys, we're the aliens
It's how we keep our lifestyle
Juliette Chevalier
November 07, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes
Nerds,
I salute you from Miami - where Florida surprised no one by going from “swing state” to solid red in less than 5 years.
COVID exodus: freedom hunters and tax escapees moved to Florida in record numbers, voting for the first time in this election.
Spending: Republicans doubled their Florida bet, while Democrats surrendered theirs.
Latinos: Republicans targeted their campaigns to specific demographics (Venezuelans, Colombians, Cubans), larger in FL than anywhere else in the US.
On another note - snowbirds have flown in and Miami weather is at its prime. If you’re coming in the next weeks, slide into my DMs. Some fun events are coming up!
Yes, I’m that basic chick on a cute Vespa around Miami Beach
brain farts
🛸 Aliens R Us: On every metric, humans today are better than we were 50 years ago (poverty, health, living standards, etc). All except one: climate change.
It makes sense. We’ve been trading off natural resources for a better lifestyle for decades.
Although I’m all for space travel, I’m growing a thesis that we won’t leave Earth voluntarily, even as interplanetary travel becomes common. Instead, we’ll use other planets to outsource our energy from less inhabitable planets.
Unlimited energy demand is not compatible with finite resources - and we can’t keep trading our uniquely fertile & biodiverse planet for it.
I guess that makes us the aliens.
📺 Aging with content: Tell me what content you consume and I’ll tell you who you are.
Me, once again confirming I’m a basic millennial.
🎯 Chasing impact > skills: We learn skills in school, but no employer cares about them — not even when they say they do.
People care about the impact those skills create.
Skills are tools
Impact is the value we generate with those tools.
With AI as our universal basic toolbox, the differentiator is no longer how many solid skills we have, but how we use them.
Chase impact first because that treats skills as a means to an end.
Source: &Walsh
smart goodies
"Vision without execution is hallucination."
How I imagine a “grandma is hallucinating” face
“When we dismiss a person as boring, we are merely pointing to someone who has not had the courage or concentration to tell us what it is like to be them.”
funky jams
This is the type of song that’ll make you smile and sing, even while stuck in traffic.
Thank you for reading - always down to connecting over juicy ideas.
If any of these resonate, reply to this email and would love to chat!
See you in cyberspace,
Jules 🤸🏻
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