This feels very early 2000s to me. Tech jobs were decimated, everyone smoked, thin was in, Girls Gone Wild was a thing, W as in the White House, being trashy and offensive were cool, everyone and everything needed a fragrance...
speaking of music, I was actually thinking today how some of the music artists coming up in 2024 (snow strippers, cortisa star, charli xcx) remind me of that early 2000s messy electronica, eg. crystal castles
2nd the analog prediction. the people yearn for physicality…. embodiment… along those lines i feel like physical tech is also going to be in like more emphasis on hardware
One of the IN submissions that didn't get included:
"Hardware engineering. Hardware used to be the ugly duckling of engineering, but now that AI-powered coding improvements are pretty stable and pretty decent (ask any eng and see how often they’re using Github Copilot), I bet chip-making (although that free money for Intel is almost certainly gonna dry up…) and hardware investments for electric vehicles and the space force will be the new promising space to make yourself reorg-proof. "
Wow, whoever the Feed Me education industry workers are: We exist (ed researcher here) and I love your input. Less sexy than the usual stuff on here, but education impacts just about everything.
Job security has been considered a thing of the past for a while now but it is truly terrifying that companies are attempting to make employing people full-time obsolete. I sincerely hope there is meaningful push back to this soon enough.
Gambling and cigarettes are so in with the youth. As is a specific brand of conservatism that emphasizes the aesthetic and the individual. Greek life, sororities, and southern sport culture are about to be the trendy and acceptable forms of collective gathering and social interaction with politicizing (therein making an inherently political declaration).
Thank goodness that Extravagant Caesar salads are IN! Phew! Huge save from Crispy cheese balls! Pouring out my last glass of Orange wine for the everyday poor's Caesar salad!
This entire roundup makes me feel so hopeful for the collective —truly refreshing read. kept nodding my head as I read through and just want to say I’m also here for moving past the better for you chasm and letting people indulge for indulgence sake. 2025 does feel like a reset in a sense GenZ waking up post pandemic, hence return to vice (also counterculture to the extremism millennials took to BFY everything)
"Every single agency meeting I'm in at the moment (run by leadership) talks about how ***we're going to step further into the embrace with AI in 2025 to produce creative quicker than ever before***.”
*** this is such a hilarious contradiction. christ...
Everything said about the tech industry resonated. Really depressing to see how much offshoring is happening in the industry, specifically. It feels like the tech industry is in its downturn era similar to the auto industry... it used to be a surefire path to a middle class job / lifestyle but now those jobs are moving abroad while all the companies keep reporting record profits, no less. Bleak times but we have to keep moving and staying as relevant as possible.
I work in food/coffee and the shop-y shops benefit our brand however I NEED THEM TO BE SO EXTREMELY OUT on a personal level. They’re all the same and it gets so bland
Would argue the decrease in DEI is coming from a US-centric reader base / maybe bias. European LPs in particular are continuing to press GPs for DEI improvement.
I’m based in Copenhagen and work in IR for a global infra fund! Continually seeing (including as of the week before Christmas) requests for DEI reporting as well as ongoing tracking and commitment to making DEI improvements, in particular tied to women in leadership roles. This is also true of larger U.S. pensions.
I would say that there’s a slowdown in investors looking for renewable investments purely for the sake of having a greener portfolio, but very few are turning away from renewable investments altogether, even in the face of Trump. Those that are are typically from red states in the US. Think the argument around renewables being cost effective has big sway, and generally larger pensions and similar LPs seem to lean more progressive than GPs and high net worth individuals. HWNI seem to be driven by returns and diversity of investments, so if renewables can provide that, they’re interested. They seem to care less about DEI but that’s maybe an unfortunate impact of most HWNI being old white men.
Yeah I work in climate advocacy and the consensus seems to be that outside of the US, countries like China are investing in renewables in the hopes of not having to import energy in the future. So any country that is an energy importer not an exporter is expected to invest heavily in building renewables infrastructure.
Would also agree with this. As the world becomes less globalized, every country is looking to be able to produce their own energy supply rather than import it. The U.S. has always had a secure energy supply (at least to a degree) through oil in particular, so there’s also less of a need for them to invest in renewables in the same way as other countries such as, as you mention, China.
“Truth as we learned it” being OUT is the most bleak thing I’ve read but is entirely on-point for the moment we live in.
This feels very early 2000s to me. Tech jobs were decimated, everyone smoked, thin was in, Girls Gone Wild was a thing, W as in the White House, being trashy and offensive were cool, everyone and everything needed a fragrance...
Totally. I hit the tanning booth recently.
gotta establish the baselayer
Well I guess the bright side is that we got some awesome music out of it!
speaking of music, I was actually thinking today how some of the music artists coming up in 2024 (snow strippers, cortisa star, charli xcx) remind me of that early 2000s messy electronica, eg. crystal castles
2nd the analog prediction. the people yearn for physicality…. embodiment… along those lines i feel like physical tech is also going to be in like more emphasis on hardware
One of the IN submissions that didn't get included:
"Hardware engineering. Hardware used to be the ugly duckling of engineering, but now that AI-powered coding improvements are pretty stable and pretty decent (ask any eng and see how often they’re using Github Copilot), I bet chip-making (although that free money for Intel is almost certainly gonna dry up…) and hardware investments for electric vehicles and the space force will be the new promising space to make yourself reorg-proof. "
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Wow, whoever the Feed Me education industry workers are: We exist (ed researcher here) and I love your input. Less sexy than the usual stuff on here, but education impacts just about everything.
You’re all sexy
Job security has been considered a thing of the past for a while now but it is truly terrifying that companies are attempting to make employing people full-time obsolete. I sincerely hope there is meaningful push back to this soon enough.
worker protections matter! unions matter!
"people are forgetting the difference between journalism and journaling" is a perfect line
Gambling and cigarettes are so in with the youth. As is a specific brand of conservatism that emphasizes the aesthetic and the individual. Greek life, sororities, and southern sport culture are about to be the trendy and acceptable forms of collective gathering and social interaction with politicizing (therein making an inherently political declaration).
Long, clairvoyant Feed Me —-> reading this on the big monitor
Yessssssssss
Thank goodness that Extravagant Caesar salads are IN! Phew! Huge save from Crispy cheese balls! Pouring out my last glass of Orange wine for the everyday poor's Caesar salad!
I'd be happy if in 2025 people stopped talking about what alcohol is trending and just chilled out and had a drink
My wish for 2025 is just that—less policing about what’s in or out
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This entire roundup makes me feel so hopeful for the collective —truly refreshing read. kept nodding my head as I read through and just want to say I’m also here for moving past the better for you chasm and letting people indulge for indulgence sake. 2025 does feel like a reset in a sense GenZ waking up post pandemic, hence return to vice (also counterculture to the extremism millennials took to BFY everything)
If anyone wants to get more into it, wrote about the incoming cocaine induced opulence era here: https://www.snaxshot.com/p/cocaine-induced-opulence
And subscribe to Snaxshot!!!!
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"Every single agency meeting I'm in at the moment (run by leadership) talks about how ***we're going to step further into the embrace with AI in 2025 to produce creative quicker than ever before***.”
*** this is such a hilarious contradiction. christ...
I cannot imagine working at a big agency in 2025, must be such a mindfuck
Where are big agency people going? Esp creatives?
Start their own practices, go in-house at brands
Everything said about the tech industry resonated. Really depressing to see how much offshoring is happening in the industry, specifically. It feels like the tech industry is in its downturn era similar to the auto industry... it used to be a surefire path to a middle class job / lifestyle but now those jobs are moving abroad while all the companies keep reporting record profits, no less. Bleak times but we have to keep moving and staying as relevant as possible.
I work in food/coffee and the shop-y shops benefit our brand however I NEED THEM TO BE SO EXTREMELY OUT on a personal level. They’re all the same and it gets so bland
Wrote the book on it: https://www.grubstreet.com/2023/01/why-every-shoppy-shop-looks-exactly-the-same.html
Would argue the decrease in DEI is coming from a US-centric reader base / maybe bias. European LPs in particular are continuing to press GPs for DEI improvement.
Def coming from US base, most of my readers are in the US. Curious about your thoughts/where youre located!
I’m based in Copenhagen and work in IR for a global infra fund! Continually seeing (including as of the week before Christmas) requests for DEI reporting as well as ongoing tracking and commitment to making DEI improvements, in particular tied to women in leadership roles. This is also true of larger U.S. pensions.
I would say that there’s a slowdown in investors looking for renewable investments purely for the sake of having a greener portfolio, but very few are turning away from renewable investments altogether, even in the face of Trump. Those that are are typically from red states in the US. Think the argument around renewables being cost effective has big sway, and generally larger pensions and similar LPs seem to lean more progressive than GPs and high net worth individuals. HWNI seem to be driven by returns and diversity of investments, so if renewables can provide that, they’re interested. They seem to care less about DEI but that’s maybe an unfortunate impact of most HWNI being old white men.
Yeah I work in climate advocacy and the consensus seems to be that outside of the US, countries like China are investing in renewables in the hopes of not having to import energy in the future. So any country that is an energy importer not an exporter is expected to invest heavily in building renewables infrastructure.
Would also agree with this. As the world becomes less globalized, every country is looking to be able to produce their own energy supply rather than import it. The U.S. has always had a secure energy supply (at least to a degree) through oil in particular, so there’s also less of a need for them to invest in renewables in the same way as other countries such as, as you mention, China.
So true—feminism is out. Suffs is closing, guess it’s back to the kitchen for us.