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2025 48

  1. The Streaming Wars and Affordability
  2. The Cult of Therapy
  3. The Next Opioid Crisis
  4. National Service
  5. Notes on Being a Man
  6. Big Tech Stock Pick of 2026: Amazon
  7. America’s Best Bet
  8. How Does the End Begin?
  9. Love Algorithmically
  10. Strike
  11. The End of the Blockbuster
  12. Violence Entrepreneurs
  13. Own Goal
  14. Lonely Fans
  15. Labor Day
  16. Good Ideas Will Save the Country
  17. See What Others Miss: The Prof G Storytelling Playbook
  18. The Attention Economy and Young People
  19. Friending
  20. Last Laugh
  21. Resist
  22. ICE Age
  23. The Grown-Up Tax Bill
  24. Pomp vs. Protest
  25. Stream On
  26. The Insiders
  27. Rich Kids
  28. Rise of the Toligarchs
  29. The Fix
  30. Brain Drain
  31. The Great Rotation
  32. Breaking the Silence
  33. United States of Debt
  34. Toxic Uncertainty
  35. Earners vs Owners
  36. Project 2028: Wages
  37. Porn
  38. Europe Becomes a Union
  39. Project 2028: Housing
  40. Marrying Up and Marrying Down
  41. DOGE: What Can Be Done?
  42. Elon Musk, Welfare Queen
  43. A New AI World
  44. Addiction Economy
  45. America For Sale
  46. After The Fires
  47. How to Survive the Next Four Years
  48. 2025 Predictions

2024 51

  1. Think Slow
  2. People Are The New Brands
  3. Killing the Cat
  4. Media Consolidation
  5. F1 Is at an Inflection Point
  6. The Testosterone Election
  7. The Podcast Election
  8. High Anxiety
  9. Endorsement: Vice President Kamala Harris
  10. Tesla WTF
  11. Origin Story
  12. Fallen Angels
  13. Unserious People
  14. Online / Offline
  15. Doing the Minimum
  16. Grief and Love
  17. Thought Partner
  18. Optimism as a Default Setting
  19. Art of the Plea Deal
  20. Weapons of War: Higher Ed
  21. Smaller
  22. Brand Harris
  23. Misdirects
  24. The Financial Frontier
  25. Time to Leave
  26. Age Gating
  27. AI Laundromat
  28. Second Mouse.AI
  29. Hoarders
  30. Agency
  31. Bubble.ai
  32. Earners vs Owners
  33. Big Energy
  34. Enemies
  35. Forewarned
  36. War on the Young
  37. Think Slow
  38. Roe2
  39. Prof K
  40. Mammal.ai
  41. Icebreaker
  42. The Algebra of Wealth
  43. Searching
  44. Corporate Ozempic
  45. Dopa Bowl
  46. METAstasis
  47. Rot
  48. Quitting Time
  49. Acktivism
  50. Peak Hollywood
  51. 2024 Predictions

2023 50

  1. What We Leave Behind
  2. Prof G Person of the Year
  3. Firewater
  4. Mammon
  5. The Line
  6. Webur
  7. Swingers
  8. Short-Form War
  9. The Netflix Effect
  10. Listen
  11. Seconds
  12. Private
  13. Think Bigger
  14. Losing My Religion
  15. Searching for a Breakup
  16. Least Bad
  17. Tell Me A Story
  18. Head of the Class
  19. Grief and Happiness
  20. Trump and Math
  21. Frenemies
  22. Boys to Men
  23. Threadzilla
  24. Super Drug
  25. Truth
  26. Origin Story
  27. Techno-Narcissism
  28. Isn’t That Spatial?
  29. Yes
  30. Goals
  31. Struck
  32. Ailone
  33. Storytelling
  34. The Mother of All Pivots
  35. Guardrails
  36. Scarcity
  37. Office Hours
  38. Fame
  39. Quitters
  40. Venture Catastrophists
  41. Emissions
  42. Taking Affection Back
  43. Post Post Corona
  44. Taxes
  45. Disinflation
  46. Luddites
  47. More Babies
  48. Porn and Tanks
  49. Compete
  50. How I Got Here

2022 51

  1. 2023 Predictions
  2. 2022 Predictions Review
  3. Friends
  4. Cognitive Dissonance
  5. The Cosmic Opportunity
  6. AI
  7. Hubris
  8. Elephants in the Room
  9. The Line
  10. Churn
  11. Incarcerated
  12. Text-ure
  13. ID
  14. House of Cards
  15. Attentive
  16. Labor Day
  17. Malignant
  18. A Tsunami Brewing
  19. Welfare Queens
  20. Work From Office
  21. Bottom’s Up?
  22. Prime Health
  23. A Touch Better
  24. Enablers
  25. TikTok: Trojan Stallion
  26. Migrant
  27. All Ears
  28. Trustless
  29. Notes on Work
  30. Big Stupid
  31. Advice to Grads
  32. TikTok Boom
  33. Tethered
  34. Wmds
  35. High School & CNN+
  36. Power
  37. Umpires, Not Kings
  38. Elon
  39. Film Credits
  40. NFT Unpack
  41. Wash
  42. College Town
  43. Yachts & War
  44. Down Round
  45. Apple: Thief
  46. Unreal Estate
  47. The Algebra of Decisions
  48. The Algebra of Wealth
  49. Tell Me a Story
  50. Web3
  51. Unlocks

2021 50

  1. 2022 Predictions
  2. The Last Last Mile
  3. Love Persevering
  4. Super-App
  5. Red Friday
  6. Inflated
  7. Feeding Frenzy
  8. Facebook … What To Do?
  9. Four Retail IPOs
  10. Mework 2
  11. Stream On ’22
  12. Carcinogens
  13. A Few(er) Good Men
  14. Facebook Inc. New Employee Manual
  15. Jumping the SPAC
  16. Back to School
  17. Meta… verse
  18. Seeing Red
  19. Hunger 2
  20. A Call For Help
  21. Hood
  22. Jeff Bezos Is Not My Astronaut
  23. Three Jackets and a Glove
  24. Bank
  25. Robinhood and iAddiction
  26. SPAC(e)
  27. A Reluctant Optimist
  28. Advice to Grads: Be Warriors, Not Wokesters
  29. What We Leave Behind
  30. Mework
  31. Calling Marshall
  32. Divorce
  33. The Martian
  34. Higher Ed 2.0 (What We Got Right/Wrong)
  35. Threats
  36. A Unifying Theory of Everything
  37. Scarcity Cred
  38. We (might) Work
  39. The Sonic (Entrepreneurship) Boom
  40. I’m Not Done Yet!
  41. Institutions
  42. Love Persevering
  43. Two by Two
  44. Cy Cordner
  45. The Algebra of Wealth
  46. Overhauling Twitter
  47. Innovation & Recasting Your Life
  48. Normalcy
  49. The Great Grift
  50. Stupid

2020 51

  1. 2021 Predictions & Person of the Year
  2. A Call For Help
  3. Roblox and the Dispersal of Creativity
  4. The Great Dispersion
  5. Thankful
  6. Twitter/CNN
  7. Corona Corps + Biden
  8. Twitter & Elections
  9. Disney’s Carousel of Progress & Facebook
  10. Life & Death
  11. AirbnBaller
  12. Tulips to Tesla
  13. Unleash the Mouse
  14. Father-Son Crime
  15. PalanThiel: The Uncola
  16. Not If But When
  17. (Not So) Evil Stepmother
  18. Shadows
  19. Speaking, the Family Business
  20. Microsoft + TikTok = nfw
  21. The Great Distancing
  22. Dawg on the Wall
  23. Fire & Fawning
  24. USS University
  25. Let’s Get Ready to Rundle
  26. Higher Ed: Enough Already
  27. iAddiction
  28. Four Weddings & A Funeral
  29. Just Don’t
  30. Post Corona: Higher Ed, Part Deux
  31. What We Leave Behind
  32. Campus Culture and iStanford
  33. The Fourth Great Unlock
  34. Post Corona: The Cosmic Opportunity
  35. United States Corona Corps
  36. Post Corona: The Four
  37. Capitalists or Cronyists?
  38. Post Corona: Higher Ed
  39. Corona as Vaccine
  40. Our Generation’s Test
  41. On Twitter
  42. Ma Ma Ma My Corona
  43. Carnivirus
  44. Father-Son Crime
  45. LAnd of the Undead
  46. IOWAt the fu*k?
  47. AirPods, Azure & Auschwitz
  48. 2020 Predictions 🔮
  49. CASPERhaps
  50. Oyomfg
  51. Unremarkables

2019 36

  1. FckdEx 🚚
  2. Third Base
  3. TWTR: Enough Already
  4. Stream On 🍿
  5. Time Machines & Species Failure
  6. Run 🇺🇸
  7. Xanax & Mean Girls
  8. When Reality Becomes Fiction
  9. MARGINal
  10. Unicorn Feces 🦄💩
  11. Yogababble 📿
  12. WeWTF, Part Deux
  13. Search Your Feelings
  14. Firewalls & Night Terrors 🔥
  15. HQ2 and Midlife Crises
  16. Tumbled
  17. Wewtf
  18. Porsche by VW
  19. Mueller & Night Invasions
  20. Earth vs. the Universe
  21. ProfG Coin — Scorpio
  22. Scott + DOJ/FTC = ❤️
  23. Facebook Inc. New Employee Manual
  24. Deep Thoughts and the Insurgent Who Loved Me
  25. Facebook & Tyranny
  26. Laddering
  27. LYFT-Off?
  28. How I Got Here
  29. Encryption
  30. HQ 451
  31. Engaged
  32. Speed Bag
  33. Signals & Immunities
  34. There Is no God, but Gods
  35. 2019 Predictions
  36. 3 Jackets and a Glove

2018 41

  1. Getting the Easy Stuff Right
  2. 2018’s Most Innovative Firm
  3. 0.4% and Addiction
  4. HQ2 … and 3
  5. Coarseness and Coddling
  6. Uber-Inequality
  7. Brands & Bone Saws
  8. Facebook v. Roe v. Wade
  9. Segmentation & Love
  10. The End of Snap & Tesla
  11. Alexa, Blow My Mind
  12. Every 36 Years
  13. Best and Worst Brand Moves of 2018
  14. Yay Capitalism.
  15. Billionaires Behaving Badly
  16. H-B-Oh No!
  17. Slam Cannes
  18. Mexico and Cannes
  19. Fast & Slow
  20. Apple’s Conscious Uncoupling
  21. What Is Heaven?
  22. Fallen Children’s Day
  23. Fissures
  24. There Is Another
  25. It Sucks to Be a Grownup
  26. Monogamy & the Mouse
  27. Happiness & the Gorilla
  28. Facebook 1, Congress 0
  29. Cy Cordner
  30. Facebook Needs a Contract With America
  31. The Business of Business TV
  32. Luxury and Passing the Baton
  33. I Do
  34. AR-Facebook
  35. Valentine’s Day
  36. Gut vs. Emotion
  37. Favorite Number
  38. Filters & Prayer
  39. HQ2 Much
  40. Passive-Aggressive Activism
  41. Annual Letter from Planet Earth

2017 56

  1. Predictions for 2018
  2. Bitcoin — Chaos Proxy
  3. Revisiting 2017 Predictions
  4. Net Positive
  5. Full-Throated Capitalist
  6. Trust vs. New
  7. 12 Questions for Big Tech
  8. Homecoming
  9. Partner vs. Parasitoid
  10. Ask Me Anything
  11. Clicks vs. Responsibility
  12. The Worm Has Turned
  13. From Russia with Likes
  14. Bread Crumbs
  15. (Not So) Evil Stepmother
  16. Tethered
  17. Coup
  18. Turn of the Worm
  19. Pets.now
  20. Unlock
  21. A Disturbance in the Force
  22. Cloud Cover and Natalie Portman
  23. Every Seven Years
  24. S Squared
  25. I Cannes
  26. AMZN + WFM = $1T
  27. Enter Uber
  28. Lie to Me
  29. User Review: VC Firms
  30. Shark Repellent — Fighting Amazon
  31. Commence
  32. “Alexa, How Can We Kill Brands?”
  33. Cash & Denting the Universe
  34. Are You an Entrepreneur?
  35. Losses Are the New Black
  36. Re-Accommodated
  37. The Long Tail Has New Life
  38. Back to the Past
  39. Reckoning in Retail
  40. Algorithms and Pork
  41. Last Exit to Brooklyn
  42. Scarcity
  43. Hunger
  44. Virtuous Reality
  45. Dead Canary
  46. Benjamin Button Economy
  47. Fool Me Twice…
  48. Warby Snarker
  49. Fake News…
  50. I Hate Myself Less and Less Every Day
  51. Race to a Trillion
  52. Miscalculated Metrics
  53. Gone Rogue
  54. Retail’s Anti-Christ
  55. Cadillac Sucks Less
  56. PlatformG & The Funky Bunch