Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Great Shift: Navigating the Global Energy Transition
The global energy transition, prompted by climate change and technological advances, is shifting from fossil fuels to renewables, promising reduced greenhouse gas emissions and a sustainable energy future. While coal, once a dominant energy source, faces decline due to environmental and economic pressures, natural gas serves as a transitional fuel despite methane leakage concerns, and…
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Top 10 reports this quarter
The Global Private Markets Report 2025 by McKinsey & Company discusses the growth and trends in private markets worldwide. It highlights the increasing investor interest, key geographical regions influencing the market, and the evolving strategies that businesses are adopting to maximize returns by 2025.
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The week in charts
The article titled « The Week in Charts » discusses recent trends and developments, including circularity and GLP-1s, with a focus on visual data representations. It offers insights into various statistical information and key opinions, emphasizing significant occurrences and patterns over the referenced period.
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Is your resource allocation strategy stuck in neutral?
The McKinsey Classics newsletter is dedicating a year to highlight timeless articles from McKinsey Quarterly, celebrating its 60th anniversary, including a special themed issue on the future of growth. Amidst rapid changes driven by disruptive technologies and volatile markets, companies are advised to adopt a dynamic resource allocation strategy, encompassing a target portfolio approach, seeding…
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Top regional hubs to watch in 2025
The Global Cities Index 2025 update identifies « Regional Leaders, » a group of over 60 cities worldwide, poised as significant economic drivers within their countries and regions despite their smaller scale compared to global giants like New York and London. These cities, including Denver, Bengaluru, and Brussels, feature robust economic growth, high business activity, and strategic…
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Disrupted or displaced? How AI is shaking up jobs
FT Edit offers an annual subscription for $49, discounted from the original price of $59.88, with two months free. Subscribers receive access to eight curated articles daily, selected by FT editors, and can read content on the FT Edit page on FT.com and receive the FT Edit newsletter.
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Meatballs
The article argues that the future of loyalty and engagement lies in private group chats rather than public comments on social media, as they offer more authentic and intimate interactions, particularly favored by Gen Z and millennials. Highlighting examples like venture capitalist Marc Andreessen’s political group chats and brand strategies like Charlie XCX’s super fan…
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Monetizing Meals: Advertising Ecosystems at Instacart, Uber Eats, and DoorDash
Instacart and Pinterest have partnered to enhance advertising by integrating Pinterest ads with Instacart’s Marketplace, allowing Pinterest users to easily add recipe ingredients to their Instacart cart for delivery. This collaboration is part of a broader trend where delivery platforms like Instacart, DoorDash, and Uber Eats are evolving into retail media networks, generating significant advertising…
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Fish Food: Episode 648 – Gigantomania and why big projects go wrong
The article discusses the challenges of large-scale projects like the UK’s HS2 rail, emphasizing that only 8.5% of such initiatives meet their original cost and timeline, with Peter Palchinsky’s early 20th-century principles of variation, survivability, and selection advocated as solutions. It highlights the importance of meticulous planning, realistic assessment, and aligned incentives to avoid failures,…
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CEO to a new VP of Marketing: We expect you to generate marketing-sourced revenue and leads. | Andrei Zinkevich
The article highlights the challenges faced by VPs of Marketing in B2B startups and scale-ups, where they are expected to quickly generate marketing-sourced revenue despite budget and team cuts, lack of collaboration, and a market that is often unaware of problems. It argues that the solution lies in leadership recognizing marketing as a strategic function,…
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