ZD 24.26: Game Day Disconnect
ZD 24.26: Game Day Disconnect
Football is great aside from much of the stadium experience.
In this issue: Powerful life hacks; chaos voters; understanding the Latino vote; investment boom economic winners and the sad Football stadium experience.
The Distilled Spirit
😃 Powerful Life Hacks (Sahil Bloom)
Sahil Bloom is a much more advanced human than I. His newsletter is a fountain of great advice and inspiration. He has picked his most powerful life hacks and compiled them into a succinct list. These tips are categorized by personal growth, career, relationships, wealth and health. Funnily enough, that kind of lines up with his upcoming book The 5 Types of Wealth. Really worth the read.
🔥 Voting for Chaos (
)If it feels like there is a “burn it all down” voting block it is because there seems like there is, in fact, some group of people interested in chaos. This trait is identifiable across political lines and is exacerbated by loss of status. Given the power of social media, it is much more effective at tearing us apart.
🏠 The Shifting Latino Vote (Politico)
Latinos are growing and changing and changing the American electorate with them. Forty percent of them are under 30, with numbers growing exponentially from here forward. But these voters are not what you think — they are English-dominant. They vote on economics and culture.
🏭 US Investment Boom Winners (
)The Inflation Reduction Act is working in interesting ways on regions of this country. The design of subsidizing various clean energy and semiconductor projects across both the Sun Belt and the Rust Belt is creating an environment where there is broad support for decarbonization. We are beginning to reshape the geography of the US economy.
ℹ Intel Outside (Stratechery)
Intel chips once dominated the desktop and the data center. In 2024 the desktops are mattering less and less — even if that makes this writer sad. In the data center big, hot CPUs are getting replaced by ARM and GPUs. The company is big and bloated and no longer makes the best chips in the world. Even the recent investment boom will not save them without breaking the company apart. On the other hand having a US-based fabricator is very important and I expect some pieces of this company to survive.
🏈 Football is Better on TV
The Sunday after Labor Day is a great day. It is the first Sunday of the NFL season is a great day. Your team could be Super Bowl bound. Your fantasy team is still a legitimate contender. There are 18 whole weeks of NFL Red Zone to look forward to. The NFL gets a lot of the fan experience right — especially on the TV and media side. One place where they are not doing as well is the actual game experience in most places.
writes about how NFL stadiums lost their way. They moved out of town into sterile, desolate homes like Levi’s stadium. Sitting in the middle of giant patches of parking lots often not in the same jurisdiction as the home team. These places lack character and feeling. They don’t build fan experience like they used to.The Look
The decline of Intel in a graph. They are getting a smaller piece of a bigger pie. Clipped from the Stratechery article described above.
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