Some mental models reviewed this quarter.

All fundamental change is cohort change

https://scholars-stage.org/culture-wars-are-long-wars/

Cultures do not change when people replace old ideas with new ones; cultures change when people with new ideas replace the people with old ones.

For nearly everyone, our values/theories/musical tastes/sports teams/cultural and political beliefs/national identity are all biologically locked at puberty.

It makes for great theater

https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation

The most prestigious liberal institutions of the pre-digital age are the most invested in fighting disinformation... https://d2ksis2z2ke2jq.cloudfront.net/uploads/2021/06/groupmglobaladforecast_June2021.pdf

...reveals a lot about what they stand to lose, or hope to regain...[page 18]

Long term, that matters

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-16/cheval-blanc-paris-hotel-is-lvmh-s-newest-bauble-at-1500-a-night

A 16 years and $900 million undertaking by LVMH to transform a 1928 art deco building.

The arrival of Spring

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/david-hockney

David Hockney, age 84, new body of 116 works.

Working on the iPad requires the ability to draw and paint.

Three competing factions

https://youtu.be/MMuIyspn7s0

CCP: you must submit, we are powerful.

Woke: you must sympathize/apologize, you are powerful.

BTC: you must be sovereign, de-platform.