September 4th • 3h 38m
Shownotes
Every new episode of No Agenda is accompanied by a comprehensive list of shownotes curated by Adam while preparing for the show. Clips played by the hosts during the show can also be found here.
Big Pharma
Big Tech AI and the Socials
Sam Altman quote
We had no idea we were going to make a chatbot that a lot of people were going to talk to,” Altman said at a dinner with reporters earlier this month in San Francisco that Lightcap also attended. “That was just not in the conception
Tariffs
Tariff's hurting my "business"
Listening to yesterday's episode and thought I would toss this out in case helpful.
The end of the $800 de minimis is affecting a lot
of small businesses like mine pretty heavily. I sell high quality
products from all over the globe. My margins are already very slim so an
extra few hundred dollars of duties is not insignificant. I sell a lot
of product from india which now has a 50% tariff, essentially taking it
out my rotation.
I appreciate trying to
impact
the raging river of garbage from China, but I assume there are a lot of
businesses like mine who care about providing quality products. Maybe
it's the way it should have always been, but it certainly doesn't feel
like a move to support US small business. I'd LOVE to get more products
from the US, but they simply don't exist in my industry.
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Gen Z and Millennials
Millennials not taking action
ITM Adam-
Been listening to you two since 2016, thanks for all you do.
You opined on show 1794 about millennials that don’t want to get involved in their local councils, school boards etc., they just want to bitch and moan. I agree. The millennials on my team at work want mommy or daddy (management, security, etc.) to enforce certain policies, but ultimately when it comes time for them to call a patient or family member out for breaking policy, they clam up, preferring to bitch and moan about it later rather than fix the problem in the moment. Perhaps a combination of millennials’ fear of conflict combined with being raised in a mommy-will-take-care-of-it socialist type mindset has them completely incapable of confronting issues head on.
Keep up the good work,
Baronet Michael
Millennial pity party
I heard the latest episode talking about the millennial mom who emailed you about how she was a victim.
I too am a millennial, I’m 1989 so maybe I’m younger than her but here is my perspective. Yes there were a ton of worthless degrees at my school and after taking physics and failing miserably I thought about going over to international studies. I kept asking counselors what types of jobs I could get, what the average salaries were and what was the job placement for that major. I kept getting vague responses, none of them providing the answers to my questions. I also considered history and realized all I could do with that was teaching and needed a PHD if I wanted to teach in college which is a loooot of schooling.
However my current major, Industrial Distribution, had 100% job placement, average salary 60k and most people went into sales or operations. So I decided to suck it up and take my physics, calculus and other hard classes. I don’t regret that decision.
No one forced this girl to get a worthless degree. We all could easily find out how pointless a communications major (and other obscure degrees) was if we asked our counselors. This was 2007 so a little before there was a ton of information online about degrees.
Also, we homeschool our kids and only do a little screen time on the weekends. Multiple people have described my 6 year old daughter as “precocious” or a “little adult.” Right now she reads over a hundred pages a day just for fun because our family focuses on reading as part of our culture, not tablets.
We also spank and set boundaries for our children and they are SIGNIFICANTLY easier because they are not the boss. It breaks my heart to see so many parents who are constantly trying to manage children and walking on eggshells because their children only how to get things by screaming or demanding.
Dads wanting to be friends with their children instead of fathers and mothers who are so stretched too thin from working full time while still managing the home and children.
I’m sad for the parents because they have made parenting so much harder than it should be and partly because these children will be my children’s future friends, boyfriend/girlfriends or possibly even a spouse.
Not every family is like this, but I would guess upwards of 85% of the families I am around in the Houston suburbs.
Anyways… that’s my perspective. The world is going to try and scam you wherever it can. You might not be able to avoid it all but you can avoid a lot if you do the research.
Appreciate everything you do,
Natalie
1. I understand the millennial wanting to play the victim because it’s easier. Most of my life I’ve had chronic health issues. Doctors could never tell me what was wrong, just that “something was cooking” and if I could just get more sick then maybe they can help me then. After years of only having more issues, due to side effects from medications, I gave up on western medicine. I started eating cleaner foods; grass fed cows, very little processed foods, no seed oils, less sugar, etc. Slowly over the years I have seen my improve, I have a long way to go but I can see what the food and medical industry have done to my body. Do I feel like a victim? Yeah a bit, but crying didn’t heal my body, doing the research and trying different things is what made the difference.
2. I also believe most children have dopamine imbalances. Screen time and processed foods provide high amounts of dopamine, far more than they should be getting. When you get into an imbalance it can cause a lot of distress and even physical pain in severe cases, but most of the symptoms are aggression, poor impulse control, and difficulty sleeping. Which most kids I know seem to struggle with.
