Hot and cold takes

Some bad news: I’m travelling at the moment and have had to chuck away my ADHD meds because apparently they’re extremely illegal in Japan (jail time illegal, rather than small fine illegal). People have told me that drugs are not something to mess around with in Japan so I’ve decided not to take the risk of carrying them around. The battery on my laptop is also fucked, so don’t expect much content until I get to the US and get it sorted in April (if anyone wants to hang out, I’ll be in SF for around a month, then maybe New Orleans, then NYC).

But anyway, I figured I’d throw together some hot and cold takes to keep Samstack at least semi-active while I’m in this unproductive phase:

Grow, baby, grow! 

Economic growth is obviously really important in a load of ways, but I think some people I read on Substack and elsewhere have gone back around to overrating it. One problem here is that people see the correlation between economic growth and loads of other good stuff, acknowledge that it’s no…