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Showing posts with label New York City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York City. Show all posts

Thursday, July 03, 2025

3: Zohran Mamdani

How Extremely Online Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Learned to Embrace the Cringe The young democratic socialist has been building buzz and raising money from New Yorkers online, but it remains to be seen how that will translate into votes IRL. ........ and Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, who donned a $30 business suit he had bought the day before from one of his constituents’s thrift stores on Steinway Street in Astoria, Queens. .......... “I’m freezing … your rent as the next mayor of New York City,” Mamdani said to the camera. “Let’s plunge into the details,” he continued, before jumping into the 40-degree water and emerging soaking wet to talk about his affordable housing proposal......... The video went on to garner more than 800,000 views across social media platforms. ......... “I think that you’ll find more people heard about my policy on freezing the rent by me jumping into the water than me being at any number of political forums where I’ve said the same thing,” Mamdani told THE CITY in a phone conversation about his social media strategy on Wednesday. .......... Two days later, his campaign released a sincere video of him talking with some of the New Yorkers who gave to his campaign. That clip quickly racked up more than half a million views on Twitter. ........ Part of the reason Mamdani’s been able to appear so comfortable in front of the camera, he said, came from his experience of being a self-described C-list rapper — including attempts to sell CDs on public buses in visits to Kampala, Uganda. ........ (He was born in the African nation to award-winning indie filmmaker Mira Nair and noted scholar of postcolonialism Mahmood Mamdani before they moved to New York City when he was a child. Despite her filmmaking expertise, Nair hasn’t offered her son tips for his campaign videos, he said.) ........ Those moments of “humiliation,” he added, were part of what prepared him for the harsh truths of the campaign trial, especially the early morning attempts on subway platforms to stop people for petition signatures when they’d rather not speak to anyone. ........... “You have to throw yourself out there, you have to put yourself out there, you have to also just crave rejection like water on your back.” ........

Mamdani, for his part, likened campaign content creation to door-knocking.

........ “With low turnout events, any bit of turnout matters a lot,” Sanderson said — especially when New York City’s last two mayoral contests were effectively decided in Democratic primaries where the winner was the first choice of not even 300,000 voters. ........... “I began this race with most New Yorkers not knowing who I am, but if I want to change that reality I have to be everywhere all at once,” he said. “I have sought to fulfill that commitment by physically going to three to four boroughs in a single day and also by ensuring that when New Yorkers open their phone and they’re scrolling through Instagram or Twitter or TikTok, they may also see a video from this campaign.” ....... Mamdani’s isn’t just working with content creators. He’s also becoming one of them. ......... organizing and hunger-striking with taxi workers drowning in debt back in 2021.

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Thursday, June 26, 2025

26: Mamdani

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025

The Plateau of Plenty: Why VCs Are the Seers of Our Time



The Plateau of Plenty: Why VCs Are the Seers of Our Time

The venture capital game is not about what exists now. It’s about what could exist tomorrow. It plays out in the foggy frontiers where new products, services, companies, and sometimes even entirely new industries are born. This is not the world of proven revenue models or stable income statements. This is the world of potential. Of “what if.” Of “not yet, but soon.”

And most often, this world is shaped by technology—by advances in AI, robotics, biotech, quantum, and more. These are the tools of transformation. But sometimes, innovation comes from reorganization. From remixing what already exists. McDonald’s didn’t invent the hamburger; it restructured the system. It optimized service. It scaled operational efficiency. Innovation isn’t always inventing—it’s often refining, reimagining, and recontextualizing.

Still, when people say “VC,” they usually mean tech. They mean what’s happening on the bleeding edge. The reason places like San Francisco, Bangalore, or Shenzhen matter is not just the talent or the capital—it’s the concentration of context. It’s easier to grasp the future when everyone around you is building it. You stand on the shoulders of giants, and suddenly, tomorrow isn’t so far away.

But here’s the truth: even when you raise venture capital, you’re not winning the game. You’re buying time. Time to figure it out. Time to build. And unless the thing you’re building has the potential to grow exponentially, you’re probably not playing in the right arena. Venture capital is about scale. If you’re not dreaming in exponents, you’re not dreaming big enough.

Right now, we are standing at the edge of an incredible wave. AI, synthetic biology, decentralized infrastructure, spatial computing—it’s all accelerating. The landscape looks chaotic unless you zoom out. That’s when the fractal patterns begin to emerge. Innovation doesn’t flow linearly; it blooms from the edge cases. It looks small—until it changes everything.

But this wild ride won’t last forever.

All exponential growth curves eventually flatten. The plateau is inevitable. But this isn’t a plateau of failure—it’s the plateau of plenty. The Age of Abundance long foretold in ancient scriptures. The promised land. The world where scarcity is a design flaw we’ve finally overcome.

AI, for all its buzz and complexity, is just another tool. A mental bicycle. A cognitive rocket ship. But tools alone don’t determine right or wrong. That happens at the level of the soul. The next generation of innovation won’t just need engineers—it will need navigators. People with discernment. People who’ve undergone spiritual training as rigorous as a pilot’s or an astronaut’s. To wield the power of AI and exponential tech, we will need a new kind of ethics, rooted in wisdom.

In that sense, the best venture capitalists aren’t just funders—they’re seers. They don’t just see returns. They see realities yet to be born. The greatest among them will already sense the plateau of plenty, even as others are still chasing the curve.

And so, the VC game continues—not just as a financial activity, but as a spiritual exercise in vision. A discipline in foresight. A leap of faith that, one day, we will arrive.



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