January 6, 2025
Good morning!
Volume Seven?!?
Does this mean the start of my 7th year in private business? I think it does.
I don’t know what my chances were back at the beginning, but it feels good to be in the winner’s circle — at least for now.
Thank you for being along on this journey; I really appreciate you.
- With hardly a thought or a worry we find ourselves having already survived the 32 darkest days of winter.
- We will persevere through January with our eyes on the next big event, The Feast of Ground Hogs.
- Is there a terminal velocity to productivity?
- The United States gained another 8% annualized in the last quarter, spurred in large part by artificial intelligence, the experts suggest.
- If you enjoy looking backwards, 2024 was a great year to be bullish on cocoa, coffee, and orange juice…
- … and a good year to be bearish on soybeans (there goes that tofu again!), wheat, and foreign currencies.
- This just in: Sisyphus is giving up and going home. (The New Yorker)
- You probably know this, but it’s worth repeating for the rest of us:
- The reason so-called New Year’s Resolutions don’t work for most people the vast majority of the time is…
- … these commitments to change or growth or better health are externally motivated at best, they don’t come from deep within yourself.
- To grow or to change or to get better is much more complicated than a random date on the calendar.
- Rather, purposefully reflect — and find intrinsic motivation.
- Then, based upon your reflections, choose paths consistent with your north star and your internal compass.
- Any day of the year — or any hour within the year — can be the right moment for change, growth or better health and happiness.
- Before you get more anxious than you might already be, let’s get Bradley’s opportunities for wealth out in front of you.
- Staggering new wealth larger than my brain can imagine; up to $48,000,000,000,000 (trillion!) globally by 2040, he and his team say.
- These unique categories of industry are defined by high growth and dynamism.
- So, here you go, if you’re looking for work — and especially if you are entrepreneurially-minded:
- E-Commerce
- Artificial Intelligence Software and Services
- Cloud Services
- Electric Vehicles (Yes, still lots of blue sky they say)
- Digital Advertising
- Semiconductors
- Shared Autonomous Vehicles
- Space (We are apparently not obligated to let just one guy win!)
- Cybersecurity (Sort of goes hand-in-hand with #2 and #3 up above)
- Batteries
- Modular Construction
- Streaming Video
- Video Games (Showing my uninformed bias, this is one I’ve been missing for 50 years!)
- Robotics
- Biotechnology
- Air Mobility (Such as drones)
- Obesity Drugs
- Nuclear Fission Power (Bradley, Etc., et al., 2024)
- Good article on regenerative farming in yesterday’s Minneapolis Tribune (Schleis)
- Regenerative: “Relating to the improvement of a place or system.”
