My top short reads of the week cause I did not finish a coherent reflection this week
What I'm Up To (Woobles maybe), What I Reflected On (Some readings), and What's Occupying My Mind (Lists vs Swipes) - all part of Allen's Friday Flights
HELLO to the Friday Flights
These are a flight of personal updates from me and it’ll be centered around what I’m up to, what I reflected on, and what book (or even thing) occupies my mind. Makes sense why I’d have a different selection of topics since I often choose samplers and flights when I go out to eat and drink.
Ciao!
Allen
Past Friday Flights
What I’m Up To
TL;DR: That’s a cat.
The Things:
I BOUGHT A WOOBLES. Haven’t made it yet.
To everyone at EY that got promoted, got their salary increases, and got their bonuses, congratulations. You earned it.
Do you eat at different food brands world wide? Comment on a LinkedIn thread on that. Daniel S., a Cultural Intelligence Expert, wants to know - what foods suck outside of the U.S. but it’s the same company (or the opposite).
I spent way too long trying to buy BUSD, a stablecoin by Binance, so that I could go do DeFi stuff with it. Short Answer: It’s absurdly difficult.
Want to learn about random things from fresh writers in Web3 including writing itself? You can listen in every Wednesday on Twitter Spaces from 9am to 10am. I’m the pizza slice.
Notion is free for students and educators.
Was in Bay Area this past weekend and discovered the best order at Taishoken, San Mateo. Get the Soupless Tokyo Classic Aburasoba, double the vinegar, mix, and enjoy Soy-Sauce Carbonara Deliciousness. Thanks Adrian. ;)
This place will change your relationship with Falafels. Get it in San Jose. I attribute Ray for introducing it to me during an EY training many years ago. Or was it Peter. Or was it the San Jose Gaggle of EY Folks. Can’t remember.
What I Reflected On
TL;DR: My top short reads of the week.
I didn’t get a chance to properly write down and reflect coherent thoughts.
But I did read a few different stories.
Here’s my favorite reads of the past week:
The Epic tail of a construction development contractor damaging a historic building, and the fallout of that. There is a Part 1 and 2.
Its rare dual-voice story that will stop you in your tracks. If there’s anything you should read today, read this story - part 1 and 2.Working with ADHD individuals, and what happens when you talk about “living up to your potential”.
What happens when you can’t “live to your potential” - or what you think your potential is.To be human is to participate in creation - a teaser.
An interesting thought on what the meaning of being human is - which isn’t to suffer, according to the author.Water in the Well
Never empty your well (energy, passion, whatever analogy) and learn to stop so that your well can refill and regenerate.The Death of The Middle
When you remove friction, more people default to either hyper-targeted “if” options, or default “else” options.
Do you have short, thread like reads? I love them. Send them over. Gracias!
What thing occupies my mind
TL;DR: TikTok beats out Google for Searches thanks to GenZ.
Lists are gone. Swipes are in.
So I met an entrepreneur in the Morning Brew Accelerator a few months back. His name is Zayd. He started a company this past Summer called FISH, a networking platform that connects investors with young founders.
Gen Z Founders.
I remember talking to him and he mentioned that Gen Z were used to “swiping” on people after watching a an authentic video to indicate their preference.
Gen Z, and swiping.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone, and it’s something that was known and publicized since 2019.
As many millennials and previous adults do, we take the fact and then say “cool fun fact” and do nothing with it.
That is until I started encountering more Gen Z folks and had content creators talk more about the rise of TikTok and its coincide rise of Gen Z user habits.
In December 2021, TikTok ousts Google to become favourite online destination. As of July 2022, Nearly half of Gen Z is using TikTok and Instagram for search instead of Google, according to Google's own data.
It’s clear that Gen Z have different digital behaviors than Millennials do (is it very millennial of me to mention anything about millennials?).
I had the luxury of spending frequent time with Gen Z folks. Turns out, the concept of yelping something doesn’t exist. They TikTok it. Googling a list isn’t a thing. They saw on a TikTok.
I had the thought that “Lists are gone" and “Swipes are in”.
I think that thought is more and more true everyday.
But before I resign myself to that, here’s my counter thought: It might look like GenZ prefers swiping. But that’s probably because they haven’t started working and becoming business-power users who have to Google their way to do their own job, and thus haven’t yet had work impose a love for lists.
Give it time, I suppose.