HeyJaredEqual Stake with Leisa Peterson
Leisa Peterson is a financial coach, author, and democracy activist who bridges the deeply personal work of money transformation with urgent calls for systemic change.
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Let’s explore price gouging today... (opens the original)
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Before you read this, say it with me: It’s not my fault.If you’ve been standing in the grocery aisle doing math that no longer works, seeing one price on your phone and another on your laptop, wondering how is it even possible for things to get even more expensive than one month ago, or spending three days fighting a chatbot for a refund you’re owed, you are not bad with money. You are not missing a trick. You are up against an industry built to find your breaking point and price right up to it.
Care Is Not a Bug (opens the original)
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Peter Thiel flew to Berlin this month to accept an award from Axel Springer. Over an hour with Mathias Döpfner, he laid out a worldview shared by most of the men who built Silicon Valley. The most revealing moment came when Döpfner asked about the Democratic Socialists of America. A socialist takeover of the Democratic Party, Thiel said, “seems catastrophic.” It would be “like, I don’t know, the end of America.”Not a policy disagreement. He’s saying it would be the end.To understand that answer,
Why People Start Businesses When the Odds Say Don't (opens the original)
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Roughly 22 percent of new businesses in the United States close within their first year. Just under half are gone within five years. By year ten, only about a third are still standing. These are the establishment survival numbers the Bureau of Labor Statistics has tracked since 1994. They barely move. The five year rate has held near 49 percent across every cohort for three decades.We launched a tech company anyway.Information and technology firms fail faster than almost any other sector. Close
The Edge of What the Mind Can Hold (opens the original)
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A lot of people are afraid right now.Not in a small, passing way. In a deep way. The kind of fear that sits in the body before the mind finds words for it. Things that once felt stable feel less certain. Systems people relied on feel like they are straining. The future has lost its shape, and no one can quite say what comes next.If that is where you are, I want to begin by explaining that our fear is not a flaw and it is not weakness. It is not a sign that you are doing life wrong and it is an h
Who Eats When the Ocean Warms (opens the original)
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Let’s start with the timing, because this totally surprised me. This isn’t a warning about 2100. It’s this year. NOAA has an El Niño Advisory up now, the odds of a very strong event through the winter are above 90 percent, and there’s a real chance it turns out to be the strongest since at least 1950. The equatorial Pacific is already running about 4.5 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, with coastal heatwaves spiking higher in places. What makes this one frightening is the fact that we have n
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