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Chapter 1: What recommendations can enhance your podcast experience?
Recommendations can be great. Maybe someone recommended this podcast, and here you are. But home projects are a little different. If the podcast isn't your thing, you might lose a few minutes from your day. But if you hire your cousin's neighbor to mount your TV, you might end up with a lopsided screen and wall damage. I know a guy isn't a good strategy for your home.
That's why Thumbtack works so well. It matches you with top-rated local pros with photos, reviews, and credentials all in one convenient place. For your next home project, try Thumbtack. Hire the right pro today.
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Chapter 2: How does Thumbtack help with home projects?
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Odoo replaces multiple expensive platforms for a fraction of the cost. That's why over thousands of businesses have made the switch. So why not you? Try Odoo for free at odoo.com. That's O-D-O-O dot com.
I'm Scott Galloway, and this is No Mercy, No Malice. Artemis II was more than a photo op. It was, to paraphrase Neil Armstrong, one small step for humans and one giant step for humankind toward Mars. Moonshot, as read by George Hahn.
It's more interesting, and you sound smarter, to catastrophize versus articulate the arc of history. Things will likely get a bit better. Every day. Yawn. But it's always healthy to ask, what could go right? Last week, with so many things on Earth going wrong, something went right. In space. Let's talk about NASA's Artemis II mission.
One query I get often, what class or skill would you suggest our kids take or learn to compete in the modern economy? A, storytelling. The flow of capital, like the trajectory of history, clots around compelling stories. Entrepreneurs, aka storytellers, deploy a narrative that captures imaginations and capital to pull the future forward.
Before America was a nation, it was a story told by traitors who recast their rebellious colonies as bastions of liberty and themselves as patriots. Mastery of narrative is humanity's superpower, as the arc of evolution bends toward good storytellers. Communities with a larger share of skilled storytellers experience greater levels of cooperation and procreation.
Storytelling reinforces their evolutionary resilience, efficiently transmitting survival-relevant information. At the beginning of the space race, the story was about Soviet pioneering and American stagnation. The Soviet space program had put the first satellite into orbit, Sputnik, sent the first dog into space, Laika, and completed the first manned mission, Yuri Gagarin.
So how did we beat the Soviets to the moon in less than a decade? A. We changed the story from one about us falling behind, the space race, to one we could win, the moon race. Privately, President John F. Kennedy told NASA Administrator James Webb he wasn't that interested in space. But he said we were going anyway to demonstrate that starting behind, we passed them.
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Chapter 3: What was the significance of NASA's Artemis II mission?
As individuals, each broke barriers, but as a crew, they achieved greatness, as greatness is in the agency of others. A crew is a group that is in it all the time, no matter what, that is stroking together every minute with the same purpose, that is willing to sacrifice silently for each other, that gives grace, that holds each other accountable, Koch said.
The Artemis II crew went to the moon not for the money, astronaut pay tops out at around $150,000 per year, or to serve their egos, but for us. As mission specialist Hansen said at liftoff, we go for all humanity. Confession. I posted a lot of Artemis pictures, but privately wondered, what's the big deal? We've already been to the moon.
I didn't experience moon joy, a phrase from Capcom that went viral, creating a rare moment of unity and goodwill. This week, Mia Silverio, my research lead, wrote that NASA is one of the most underrated brands in the world. Many luxury brands, hundreds of rappers, and Ariana Grande have associated themselves with NASA or its logo. NASA's cultural cachet is, wait for it, on another planet.
The average age of the Prof G research and production team is 25. They never saw us land on the moon. The Apollo programs ended in 1972. The Challenger disaster is something their parents remember.
In their lifetimes, our biggest moments in space have been probes, great science, no story, commercial space flights and reusable rockets, great stories, for investors, and tourism, a story nobody wants. The Artemis program offers a story to inspire today's young people, just as the Apollo program inspired my generation.
The reason the Artemis II story is so much more compelling is not the script, but the actors. The crew fits a decent definition of an aspirational vision for masculinity, a wonderful attribute not sequestered to people born as male. These impressive people are optimizing for service versus attention.
This story is a welcome reminder to those whose lived experiences are shaped by forever wars, financial crises, pandemics, and an insurrection that America is still capable of moonshots, still capable of going where no person has gone before, still capable. We aren't going back. We're going farther.
Life is so rich.
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