Dan Gould

some human things I’m tracking > religious schools, retreats, pilgrimages, and faith-based media rising as people search for moral certainty > “human-only” spaces: restaurants, schools, clubs, apps, and retreats that ban synthetic media, recording, phones etc > pet daycares, dog hotels, pet insurance, and premium pet food begging to skyrocket as loneliness increases and people defer to furry friends > post-career identity markets: people living longer and needing new titles, tribes, rituals, status games, and reasons to wake up after professional relevance fades > private members’ clubs solidify as paid social graphs for adults who lost community to remote work > dating apps fragmenting into belief-based and lifestyle-based matchmaking since infinite choice has become exhausting > family formation will become a premium service category: matchmaking, fertility, childcare, coaching, home design etc > eldercare will start shifting to more at-home treatments due to ai (over time it’ll be cheaper than care homes too) > analog cameras, vinyl, printed books, notebooks, “dumbphones,”and mechanical watches grow as anti-synthetic status objects > handmade goods becoming trust objects because machine abundance makes human effort valuable again > live events becoming more valuable as recorded media becomes forgettable > glp-1s are just the first mass consumer drug for editing desire, more to come. > fertility tech booming because career timelines and biological timelines are now in open conflict > oral exams, apprenticeships, portfolios, and live demonstrations returning because written work is becoming cheap to fake > digital detox products growing > air quality, water filtration, food sourcing, and sleep environments becoming mainstream status markers > luxury shifting from owning more things to accessing peace, beauty, privacy, time, and high-trust rooms > the biggest consumer opportunities coming from psychological scarcity: belonging, certainty, attention, embodiment, trust, and continuity

Bibliotecapleyades is great. Total relic from the original (and real) version of the internet...the one to which I belonged. It archives so many weird little web pages that no longer exist anywhere else. It's a completely underutilized treasure and highly recommended.

Totally amazed by the mass I attended this morning at St. Joseph’s in Greenwich Village A queue out the door. Standing room only + full of young people I’ve never seen a mass with this many young people. Average age was probably mid-to-late 20s Fr Jonah + the team are crushing it. The revival of Catholicism is very real

The idea that first world countries had less than two weeks of fuel reserves is just baffling to me. The modern world is built on eggshells and spit.

dropped an agent in discord with thousands users and after 30 minutes no one was sure if it was a person or not things are about to get much weirder

90s nostalgia is intense enough now that someone should just open a dedicated 90s holiday resort. Check in your smartphones on arrival. Every lodge has a CRT TV with N64 and a stack of tapes. Blockbuster on site. Four channels and a TV Guide. Bennigan’s and Pizza Hut for dining.