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Spark of the Week
Heading into the holiday season with a serious slowing down, the story I’m telling myself is that this is a good thing.
Since coming back from Asia, I’ve been struggling to get to full speed, and now everything is about to get upside down for the holidays. This week, I am lucky to have the kids home for a bit (oldest arrived late last night for a week, youngest won’t get home until late Wed for a few days – having them both home together is such a gift.)
As I reflect with gratitude on this year, I am full of enthusiasm for this unique phase of my life. Not since graduating college and starting my first job have I had the full focus of my time and energy on my personal goals - it’s a huge shift to be so self focused and I feel lucky this time around to have the benefit of crystallized intelligence and financial independence.
I can’t have a gratitude moment without appreciating my Truth Council – having found “my humans” who challenge me and protect my heart to say I cherish these relationships is to show the limitation of language.
2024 TruthCouncil Offsite
Lastly, I want to thank all our followers, listeners and friends who have supported The Meg & Amy show. We set out to put something into the world that matters and we are beyond grateful for all your help.
I have always known that together we are more powerful than we know and that Inventing the Future is a team sport.
Wishing you all happiness, whimsy and joy as we kick off the holiday season - don't forget to Make Every Day Count (maybe by giving yourself permission to do less ...).
Notice the mud on our pants - Amy will happily sacrifice your body for a photo.
Reading and Pondering
GLP-1 growth - and a good deeper dive on the topic with a focus on menopause and post weight loss.
Macho caregivers - how cool is this?
Amazon deep dive and a good overview of the robotics situation
Doctors paid more for male vs. female procedures - And we wonder why women’s healthcare is suffering in the US.
Solar abundance - Australia gives free power – Meg POV: What happens in a world where energy is free and abundant? Who would be against this? How might policy conversations be understood differently with this context? A long way to say, follow the money. If you read the comments you also see that power costs for Australians are up 40%. When entire financial systems are built with energy profits as a foundation, what breaks when you topple that cash cow?
US has 14 women governors (28%) - is this a tipping point? (~30%).
Wealthspan - This is a lot of what we covered in our Financial Freedom episode but with a focus on longevity.
Gun violence reducing (yay!)
China changing the economics of green energy
Global Debt to GDP visualization
Global Population by age (note working age is 15+ and “elderly” is 65+ (!!!) )
Bias for girls (babies) on the rise
Just say no already
Female crash test dummies - Women are finally considered to be valid drivers worth protecting from injury.
Work and Jobs
Goldman Sachs predicts 11% job reduction in 3 years
October job cuts - highest since 2003
AI setting wages - Meg POV: struggled to decide to put this one in the work or enshittification list - I found it unsurprising that age pushed up prices for freelance and down for employment - I have seen this with many (many) experienced friends job search experience.
Working moms - outstanding role models for kids.
Elon predicts the end of work (10-20 years from now)
Gemini 3 - “human in the loop” is evolving from “human who fixes AI mistakes” to “human who directs AI work.”
Enshittification and P(catastrophe)
AI bias against older women - [ made me think of this -NSFW]
AI cyber attack (shits getting real!) - h/t to Anthropic for being so transparent about downside risks
Texting with Jesus (WWJD? - this was an obvious next step in the chatbot companion situation)
Fun and Funny
AI music is quite good (you only think you know otherwise)
May I meet you - both cringe and legit - Meg POV: I love this so much, the essence of 2025 in a nutshell right here. Both an inside joke and somehow solid advice on the need to show up and take risks to meet people.
COBOL - alive and well processing unemployment payments (h/t Akash Bhatia )
Lifehacks - AI and Others
AI autonaming screenshots - Meg note: I haven’t done this yet but I have saved it in my “I should do this” pile.
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