FT: “In the 10 years since, Greece has staged a remarkable rebound, exiting its bailout programme, maintaining fiscal discipline and outgrowing richer economies…The difficult reforms Greece finally adopted in the wake of the crisis have transformed its fortunes. The brush with catastrophe also profoundly reshaped the Eurozone, spurring it to shore up a fragile single currency with new tools and institutions.”
Ryan Allis: “Revenue isn’t revenue anymore. Investors aren’t just buying numbers on a P&L. They’re buying motion. A dollar earned through AI-native GTM carries more weight than one earned through old-school outbound and AE headcount. Because it: scales faster, converts with less friction,comes with a higher margin and leverage.”
ET: “Nearly 200 brands launched over the past decade or so now control 6% of the overall consumer goods and lifestyle market, steadily nibbling into the share of established players, said a joint report by Bain and DSG Consumer Partners. These insurgent brands, which had just 2% market share five years ago, have expanded five times to reach a combined annual revenue of $5 billion, indicating why large companies, including Hindustan Unilever (HUL), ITC and Marico have been acquiring smaller firms that posed a threat to them in new-age or niche categories.”
NYTimes: “Literature plays a much smaller role in our national life and that this has a dehumanizing effect on our culture. There used to be a sense, inherited from the Romantic era, that novelists and artists served as consciences of the nation, as sages and prophets, who could stand apart and tell us who we are. As the sociologist C. Wright Mills once put it, “The independent artist and intellectual are among the few remaining personalities equipped to resist and to fight the stereotyping and consequent death of genuinely lively things.”…Literature and drama have a unique ability to communicate what makes other people tick. Even a great TV series doesn’t give you access to the interior life of another human being the way literature does. Novels can capture the ineffable but all-powerful zeitgeist of an era with a richness that screens and visual media can’t match. It strikes me as highly improbable that after nearly 600 years the power of printed words on a page is going to go away. I would put my money on literature’s comeback, and that will be a great blow to the forces of dehumanization all around us.”
