• COURTESY GUIDANCE: As traditionally in our quieter months, DCG offers courtesy Consultation focusing on implementation of strategic, financial and tactical steps for optimizing Business results, including: Advisory Board Development/ Business Plans/ Capital Raise/ Crisis & Continuity Planning/ Cybersecurity protection/ Employee Productivity, Evaluation & Retention/ Executive Coaching/ Financial Reporting, Forecasting & Budgeting/ Infrastructure Development/ Systems, Procedures & Controls/ Tax Minimization/ Time Management Techniques/ Working Smarter Not Harder/ Dispute Mediation. Contact Dennis for direction during this uncertain economic future.
• YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY ARE INCREASINGLY TURNING TO UNCONVENTIONAL HIGH-RISK ASSETS, including betting on sports, crypto, and speculating on exotic assets because they believe it is the only way to build wealth. Surveys suggest that 80% of Gen Z and over 70% of Millennials feel behind financially… [BLOOMBERG]
• “AMERICA’S GREAT CITIES ARE BLEEDING OUT, as radicals dismantle urban centers in the name of ‘Equity,’… In California, some 1.6 million have left; in San Franscisco, office vacancy rate is nearing 25%, leaving downtown corridors as desolate ‘Doom Loops,’ with retailers projected to have lost nearly $48 billion last year from systematic looting…” [PRICKLY PEAR]
• FINDING A COMFORTABLE SLEEPING POSITION THAT ALLOWS THE MOST REST is what optimizes health, but there is no one best position. According to American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the critical factors of respiratory therapy are maintaining open Airway, Breathing and Circulation… Recommendations include: (1) if lying on back… (2) lying on right side… (3) lying on left side… (4) Sleeping on either side… (5) Curling up… [POPULAR SCIENCE]
• THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK: Automated Speed Cameras are being installed in Los Angeles starting this week – up to 125 cameras… First locations are scheduled for Mulholland Drive, Slauson Avenue and Vista Del Mar. Violations will involve citations mailed to and responsibility of the registered owner – regardless of who was driving at the time, with fines of $50 for 11-15 speeds above the limit, $100 if 16-25, $200 if 26 above, and $500 if speed exceeds 100 mph.
• A.I. impacts will be almost the opposite of the Industrial Revolution. Instead of replacing physical jobs, AI replaces mental jobs… Facebook announced this month a pending layoff of some twenty thousand salaried workers (a fifth of the company), ironically transitioning those dollars into building more AI data centers.
• “There is no distinctly Native American criminal class, save Congress.” “No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.” “Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.” “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed, if you do you are misinformed.” — MARK TWAIN
• Reality of the AI Singularity: coordination costs are collapsing, and once that happens, the structure of the firm itself starts to break. The real shift is from human-coordinated organizations to agent-centered ones, with humans moving into judgment and exception roles.