Has a Global Market Rotation Begun? + Inside the Ultra-Luxury Hotel Industry
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Why are ultra-luxury hotels focusing on richer clientele?
Buying a house has long been considered the best way to build wealth and move into true adulting.
Isn't it? I mean, at least that's what society wants us to think. Gotta get a Birkin, gotta get a home, you know.
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Today's number, 63,000. That's how many pages are in the newly released JFK assassination files, but none of them contain any revelations. Ed, what do JFK and Bill Clinton have in common? What's that? Both their careers ended with a stained dress. Oh, dog.
That's wrong. Dark and gross. Any thoughts on the JFK file, Scott?
How did JFK break his arm?
Oh, a joke. Good. How did he break his arm?
By helping Jack off a horse. Jack off a horse. Break your arm.
That's not even JFK specific.
Yeah. Yeah. I'm reaching. I'm reaching.
You're reaching. You're scraping the barrel. By the way, you know, today is a very special day. Special day.
You know what it is. I had that same anxiety that when my partner asked me, you know, wakes up, it's like, oh, something. And I'm like, happy birthday anniversary. It's like, okay.
I'm about to drop a bomb on you. It's my birthday today.
Oh, my gosh. Ed, that's great because you get your driver's license this year, right? Yeah, exactly.
26?
26.
Constantly. The first thing I say about you when people ask me about you is I'm like, everyone said, people say very nice things about you. And I would say, you know, he's 25. And people are like, I know. That's so amazing. So, wow, 26. That's not as impressive.
Yeah, not as impressive. Do you have any advice for me as I enter my 27th year on this planet?
Advice to you at 26? Try and get a great shape. I think every man under the age of 30 should be a fucking monster. You've still got a ton of testosterone and great double twitch muscle and great bone structure. And you're going to spend the rest of your life from 35 on just trying to maintain. So get to a really good place physically.
Bulk up. Okay.
Say yes to everything. Invest in relationships. Try and establish as many friendships. It gets harder to establish friendships as you get older. So try and establish as many friendships as you can. And in the meantime, work around the clock. Try and get professional trajectory such that you can have economic security by the time you're in your 40s and 50s and spend more time with your family. Any mistakes you made at 26 that I should avoid? I made a lot. I think my biggest mistake was I wasn't as kind as I should have been. I looked at relationships as a transaction if I wasn't getting as much attention. I exited the relationship. I saw my employees. I started companies from the age of 27 as kind of a transaction where I thought if I'm not getting more value out of them than I'm paying, I would fire them. Well, you've had a massive turnaround on that. Yeah. Now I'm like, no, it's just the wrong role. Yeah.
I came of professional age in the Bay Area in the 90s, and there was this general zeitgeist that if you were talented and nice, it meant you were talented. But if you were talented and an asshole, it meant you were Steve Jobs. It meant you were a genius. And there was this terrible... zeitgeist or cultural norm that being an asshole somehow indicated that you were super talented. And I adopted that. I was never mean, but I could have been a lot kinder professionally with people. And also personally, I looked at my relationships as a transaction, not as like, how do I How do I end up on the right side of the ledger? And then something I did right was I spent a ton of time with my mom. And I know that sounds sort of lame, but I was very close to my mom.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the significance of the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision?
5:01–9:29
2
Why is the Professional Tennis Players Association suing?
9:29–10:02
3
How is BYD revolutionizing EV charging technology?
10:02–12:32
4
Are sports leagues exploiting monopoly power?
12:32
5
Why are ultra-luxury hotels focusing on richer clientele?
0:01–57:01
Speakers
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