# 29 things I learned this year (2019)
2 min readDec 10, 2019
- Subscription fatigue is on the horizon
- WhatsApp is essentially a MEME playground
- Experience-driven and focused businesses are taking center stage
- A teenager is the most influential person on climate change in the world
- Lifestyle arbitrage is the new three comma club
- Video games are the most important growth business in the world that non-gamers know virtually nothing about
- No social media is the new influencer
- The 26 richest people in the world collectively are more wealthy than the poorest 3.8 billion people combined
- The rental car experience needs to be disrupted in 2020. Please.
- DTC can and should be replaced by ZWC (zero waste consumer)
- Athleisure isn’t going anywhere
- Bitcoin enthusiasts have been replaced by podcasts hosts in the pantheon of worst dinner table companions
- Applications for top MBAs decreased for the first time
- People are becoming famous by dancing next to a slow-rolling car
- The WeWork fiasco is tailor-made for a movie starring Ashton Kutcher
- 85% of transactions in Sweden are cashless… and growing
- Twitter use has largely been tainted by self-congratulating venture capitalists
- Underpopulated villages in Italy are offering 27k/year to attract inhabitants and prevent local communities from dying
- #meatlessmondays leading to #plantbaseddiet livin’ baby
- The number of “b*llshit jobs” is reaching its limit, should self regulate soon
- 42% of households worldwide own at least one bicycle
- Vaping has become the most culturally accepted WMD in our society
- O.K. is the most recognized and frequently used word in the world 👌🏼
- C.L.U.B. Sandwich stands for chicken, lettuce, under bacon 😱 🥪
- Slow travel movement is regaining steam
- Rafa, Roger, and Novak are still ranked 1,2,3
- Just under .07 suits per man were sold in the United States this year, compared to .50 in the 1950s
- Social Commerce is skyrocketing as people are streamlining the experience from discovery to purchase
- Everyone is still a DJ
#29thingsIlearnedthisyear
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