Ideas Weave Every Narrative with AI.
When your boss won’t actually enforce AI use, it’s not flexibility — it’s fear. They’re projecting their own anxiety about being replaced, offering directionless pressure instead of real strategy. This article reveals the defense mechanism behind the ‘AI FOMO’ and what it means for your team.
Everyone thinks AI stocks are driven by brilliant algorithms and massive productivity gains. They’re wrong. The entire AI bubble is just a leveraged bet on the Federal Reserve. If the 10-year Treasury yield crosses 5%, the party ends overnight.
Most bootstrappers treat event roundups as a calendar of free content. But the real value is belonging, social proof, and the tacit knowledge that only comes from showing up. The cost of attending is your time; the cost of skipping is your future.
Movie theaters aren’t dying; they just pivoted from the snack business to the collectibles business. The $100M popcorn bucket market proves that when you turn throwaway packaging into a badge of attendance, you can charge luxury margins for cheap plastic. Stop selling food, start selling FOMO.
SpaceX’s $4.3B secondary market frenzy isn’t about rockets or revenue — it’s about a broken IPO pipeline that’s starved retail investors of real growth opportunities. SpaceX’s deliberate privacy creates a narrative vacuum filled with FOMO, speculation, and desperation. When you can’t see the numbers, you’re not pricing a company. You’re pricing a dream.