Derek Thompson

Maybe there's anxiety about career progression, anxiety about artificial intelligence, or the fact that at the moment, as Roger Karma has written for The Atlantic, the job market is quite frozen, unusually frozen right now. There's not as much hiring as you would expect. But I also want to bring media economics into this as well. There's this concept of meme coins or meme stocks.

Maybe there's anxiety about career progression, anxiety about artificial intelligence, or the fact that at the moment, as Roger Karma has written for The Atlantic, the job market is quite frozen, unusually frozen right now. There's not as much hiring as you would expect. But I also want to bring media economics into this as well. There's this concept of meme coins or meme stocks.

Maybe there's anxiety about career progression, anxiety about artificial intelligence, or the fact that at the moment, as Roger Karma has written for The Atlantic, the job market is quite frozen, unusually frozen right now. There's not as much hiring as you would expect. But I also want to bring media economics into this as well. There's this concept of meme coins or meme stocks.

And to a certain extent, investing has always been somewhat memetic. We can tell ourselves that people bet on stocks because they're doing this very fancy calculation of future cashflow potential. But fundamentally, people allocate and have always allocated their income towards certain assets because they think that asset price will go up faster than other asset prices.

And to a certain extent, investing has always been somewhat memetic. We can tell ourselves that people bet on stocks because they're doing this very fancy calculation of future cashflow potential. But fundamentally, people allocate and have always allocated their income towards certain assets because they think that asset price will go up faster than other asset prices.

And to a certain extent, investing has always been somewhat memetic. We can tell ourselves that people bet on stocks because they're doing this very fancy calculation of future cashflow potential. But fundamentally, people allocate and have always allocated their income towards certain assets because they think that asset price will go up faster than other asset prices.

But there does seem to be something distinct about this generation's penchant for investing in cryptocurrencies and stocks where there really is no case for the asset to go up in value, other than that it's really obvious that a lot of people are talking about it right now.

But there does seem to be something distinct about this generation's penchant for investing in cryptocurrencies and stocks where there really is no case for the asset to go up in value, other than that it's really obvious that a lot of people are talking about it right now.

But there does seem to be something distinct about this generation's penchant for investing in cryptocurrencies and stocks where there really is no case for the asset to go up in value, other than that it's really obvious that a lot of people are talking about it right now.

Last fall, you wrote about a memo that was written by the YouTube megastar MrBeast titled How to Succeed in MrBeast Production. This was a 30-page account to how to work with MrBeast, and you called it a guide to the Gen Z workforce, thinking of it as the first Gen Z corporate leader manifesto. And what's interesting is that MrBeast is clearly not... I would say, the handsomest man in the world.

Last fall, you wrote about a memo that was written by the YouTube megastar MrBeast titled How to Succeed in MrBeast Production. This was a 30-page account to how to work with MrBeast, and you called it a guide to the Gen Z workforce, thinking of it as the first Gen Z corporate leader manifesto. And what's interesting is that MrBeast is clearly not... I would say, the handsomest man in the world.

Last fall, you wrote about a memo that was written by the YouTube megastar MrBeast titled How to Succeed in MrBeast Production. This was a 30-page account to how to work with MrBeast, and you called it a guide to the Gen Z workforce, thinking of it as the first Gen Z corporate leader manifesto. And what's interesting is that MrBeast is clearly not... I would say, the handsomest man in the world.

He's not the most charming. He's not the most talented in terms of some talent show competition. He's not the best singing or best dancing. But he does seem to be singular, absolutely singular, at the ability to attract and sustain this currency that you're talking about, attention. What is it that you think Mr. Beast understands about attention?

He's not the most charming. He's not the most talented in terms of some talent show competition. He's not the best singing or best dancing. But he does seem to be singular, absolutely singular, at the ability to attract and sustain this currency that you're talking about, attention. What is it that you think Mr. Beast understands about attention?

He's not the most charming. He's not the most talented in terms of some talent show competition. He's not the best singing or best dancing. But he does seem to be singular, absolutely singular, at the ability to attract and sustain this currency that you're talking about, attention. What is it that you think Mr. Beast understands about attention?

I'm going to hate the player just a little bit here, but I'm willing to have you push back against my even minor hatred of the player. You compare the Mr. Beast memo to other famous corporate leader memos like the Jeff Bezos Day One philosophy and Steve Jobs' Odes to Simplicity. In those letters... there was a virtue that was communicated that existed outside of the ecosystem of the business.

I'm going to hate the player just a little bit here, but I'm willing to have you push back against my even minor hatred of the player. You compare the Mr. Beast memo to other famous corporate leader memos like the Jeff Bezos Day One philosophy and Steve Jobs' Odes to Simplicity. In those letters... there was a virtue that was communicated that existed outside of the ecosystem of the business.

I'm going to hate the player just a little bit here, but I'm willing to have you push back against my even minor hatred of the player. You compare the Mr. Beast memo to other famous corporate leader memos like the Jeff Bezos Day One philosophy and Steve Jobs' Odes to Simplicity. In those letters... there was a virtue that was communicated that existed outside of the ecosystem of the business.

Jeff Bezos was saying there is something special about having a day one mentality to refresh one's sense of curiosity day by day. And you could take that idea and port it to other parts of life and say, oh yeah, that's a way to live. Or you could take Steve Jobs' ode to simplicity and say, there's something beautiful here that I could transport to music or to visual arts.

Jeff Bezos was saying there is something special about having a day one mentality to refresh one's sense of curiosity day by day. And you could take that idea and port it to other parts of life and say, oh yeah, that's a way to live. Or you could take Steve Jobs' ode to simplicity and say, there's something beautiful here that I could transport to music or to visual arts.