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The Faith Stack: Gen Z Is the Most Religious Generation in America. Yes, Really. (opens the original)
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33% of Gen Z identifies as religious. That’s the highest of any generation in America. Nearly double the rate of Boomers at 18%.<img alt="A crowd of people at a concert with their hands in the air" class="sizing-normal" height
AI Revolt & Romance: Americans Are Protesting AI and Falling in Love With It. At the Same Time. (opens the original)
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I just got back from Aspen. Five years running presenting at the Forbes CMO Summit alongside our CEO John Gerzema. Brilliant minds, high elevation, golden trees, and tons of bears roaming Main Street. A beautiful setting, set againist the existential change we are navigating across the country and world. <div class="ima
Doomjobbing, Deepfakes, and a Broken Hiring Loop (opens the original)
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If you’ve applied for a job recently and felt like you were screaming into a void, here’s the number that explains why: the average job seeker now needs to apply to 400 to 750 jobs to land a single offer. Why? Blame the bot wars.<img alt
‘Back-to-Home’ The kids moved back home and it’s alright. (opens the original)
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A client told me her daughter graduated from NYU last spring, my alma mater. Honors. Great media internship that led to an offer.She also moved back to her childhood bedroom in New Jersey the following week. Because the math didn’t work. She sat down with a spreadsheet, ran the numbers, and the answer was clear: rent a studio apartment in Brooklyn and drain every dollar she earns, or move home and actually start building something.She chose home. And she didn’t whisper about it. She posted about
The Spending Hangover Killed FOMO (opens the original)
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A third of your friends still live at home. Half of them are cobbling together gig work because full-time jobs with benefits feel like a myth. Most of you are paying off student loans for degrees the economy doesn’t seem to care about. And now you want to go out on a Saturday night?Cool. Concert tickets are $133. Drinks run $15 to $25. The average date night costs $189. Do the math on a single weekend and you’re looking at a paycheck, not a night out.<a class="image
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