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  • Mason on finance and markets · July 12th

    Mason on finance and markets · July 12th
    Jul 12 2026
    From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for July 12th. Mason. July 12th. Markets desk — five stories, watch the tape, ignore the noise. Let's get into it. First, from Fast Company. Companies keep talking about the motherhood penalty. They’re missing the motherhood advantage. You know, I've been reading this article and it really got me thinking about how we view motherhood in the workplace. The author argues that there's this thing called the "motherhood penalty," where mothers are seen as less committed and less ambitious after having kids. But what if I told you there's also a "motherhood advantage"? That's right, research shows that motherhood can actually develop professional capacities that workplaces often fail to recognize. For example, a study found that parents, especially mothers, are more likely to see work as connected to what they want to model for their families, like responsibility and values. This sense of purpose is linked to greater work effort and organizationa
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    7 Min.
  • Mason on finance and markets · July 11th

    Mason on finance and markets · July 11th
    Jul 11 2026
    From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for July 11th. Mason, July 11th. Quick read on what moved overnight — five stories, no fluff. Let's get into it. First, from Fast Company. Stop hiring for the résumé. Start hiring for obsession. 40 hires, 4 years, and the lesson is simple: look for people already living the work you need. The founder’s 18‑year‑old community ambassador was spending 20‑30 hours a week on the app, and in three months he became head of community and later a lead engineer. The rule of thumb is to chase obsession, not résumé credentials. Someone who’s grinding on a side project, a subreddit, or a hobby will carry that drive into your product, whereas a polished big‑tech résumé often signals a finished obsession. Recruiters tend to move in quarterly cycles and push any hire; until you hit about 50 people, the cost and delay outweigh the benefit. Direct outreach—friends of friends, cold messages to people doing the work you admire—keeps you in control of culture an
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    17 Min.
  • Mason on finance and markets · July 10th

    Mason on finance and markets · July 10th
    Jul 10 2026
    From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for July 10th. It's Mason, July 10th. Here's what I'd flag before the open. Let's get into it. First, from Tiger Research Reports. The Gateway to Digital Asset: On-Chain Data Infrastructure. The digital asset market is advancing rapidly. Stablecoins already process trillions of dollars a year in payments and remittances, and tokenization of traditional assets such as stocks and bonds is gaining momentum. Blockchain’s role now spans the financial value chain, from issuance and distribution to payment and settlement. The question institutions ask has shifted from whether blockchain works to how to run it within existing accounting, tax, audit, and compliance workflows. Blockchain may sit at a new infrastructure layer, but institutional finance still holds it to the same procedures, controls, and standards. This shift exposes a data challenge. Legacy systems run on standardized, structured records, but on-chain data is raw execution data, the
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    31 Min.
  • Mason on finance and markets · July 9th

    Mason on finance and markets · July 9th
    Jul 9 2026
    From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for July 9th. Mason here, July 9th. The market read in five — let's start with the headline number. Let's get into it. First, from Hump 🐪 Days. 📉🫨 NVDA’s $1T Slide. Happy Wednesday all, Humphrey here! Just got back from Norway last week and had an excellent time relaxing, hiking, and visiting Geirangerfjord: one of the places I had wanted to visit ever since I was a teenager. Back then, I found out about it from a desktop wallpaper pack that I downloaded. Here’s a pic that I took (with the long exposure setting on): Now, it’s time to get back to work. Exciting videos upcoming on the channel, including an updated version of 401(k) balances by every age group, for 2026. I hope you tune in this week! Enjoy this week’s Hump Days! - Humphrey & Rickie Minutes from the Fed’s June 16-17 meeting under new Chairman Kevin Warsh revealed that a few officials explicitly argued for raising rates at that meeting, though the committee ultimately voted unan
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    26 Min.
  • Mason on finance and markets · July 8th

    Mason on finance and markets · July 8th
    Jul 8 2026
    From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for July 8th. Mason, July 8th. Quick read on what moved overnight — five stories, no fluff. Let's get into it. First, from Gregory’s Newsletter. Breaking Lions Alert! Trump Orders New "Powerful" Strikes On Iran.... US forces launched a handful of strikes on Iranian sites near the Strait of Hormuz, hitting air‑defense radars, drone launch pads and missile batteries. The hits also knocked out surveillance gear and some port infrastructure, aiming to blunt Iran’s ability to threaten shipping lanes. The Pentagon says the operations were precise, targeting only military assets without reported civilian casualties. Tehran condemned the moves, calling them “unprovoked aggression,” and warned of a proportional response. Analysts note the timing aligns with rising tensions over regional security and recent diplomatic frictions, suggesting Washington is signaling a willingness to act if deterrence fails. For listeners who want low‑fee crypto exposure
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    23 Min.
  • Mason on finance and markets · July 7th

    Mason on finance and markets · July 7th
    Jul 7 2026
    From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for July 7th. Hey, Mason here. July 7th. The opening read — five stories that explain today's tape. Let's get into it. First, from Bitcoin Data Newsletter. Cycle Bottom Building Blocks. Hello Everyone! Bitcoin is bouncing, and confidence is rising again. Bearish momentum is slowing, but that does not mean the bear market is over. In this video, we’ll go over what building bullish divergences across metrics mean for price, and where I think Bitcoin is most likely to bottom out using price levels and data positioning. Enjoy! Next. Second, from Gregory’s Newsletter. LIONS ONE YEAR AGO WE CALLED IT... WE WARNED. AND NOW ITS HERE, WITH MORE TO COME.... Lions. Look at these headlines over the past few days…. AND THERE ARE MANY MORE LIKE THESE. Lions… ONE YEAR AGO NEARLY TO THE DAY, I put this video out below for you warning of this… and more to come. Up next. Third, from Capital Flows. The AI Compute Playbook. The first section
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    22 Min.
  • Mason on finance and markets · July 6th

    Mason on finance and markets · July 6th
    Jul 6 2026
    From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for July 6th. Hey, Mason here. July 6th. The opening read — five stories that explain today's tape. Let's get into it. First, from The Daily Upside. Standing Out From the Single-Stock ETF Crowd. As the Architect in The Matrix Reloaded put it: “the problem is choice.” That’s particularly the case nowadays for leveraged and inverse single-stock funds, which are coming to market en masse to take advantage of some of the hottest companies on the market. Most recently, a flurry of single-stock ETFs have launched offering exposure to SpaceX, but similar treatments have been given to NVIDIA, Tesla, Apple, Coinbase and MicroStrategy. With Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs on the horizon, we can expect to see more soon. It’s making for a complicated and confusing menu of funds for advisors looking to add leverage. “Marketing is huge in this space,” said Steve Foy, senior vice president of trading at Tidal Group. “Awareness is really the true differentiator.
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    35 Min.
  • Mason on finance and markets · July 5th

    Mason on finance and markets · July 5th
    Jul 5 2026
    From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for July 5th. It's Mason. July 5th. Five things on the tape worth your attention this morning. Let's get into it. First, from The Daily Upside. Psychedelic Nation? Psilocybin Treatments Offer New Hope for People Prozac Hasn’t Helped. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, once a “very anxious, unhappy person,” credits a psychedelic experience at a weekend-long retreat with helping him become a new man. He’s not unique among Silicon Valley luminaries: Some of the 21st century’s most famous tech innovators, from Steve Jobs to Elon Musk and Sergey Brin, have reportedly sought out such experiences, too (on the record, or otherwise). In fact, using psychedelics is increasingly en vogue among C-suite types, even serving as the basis for new age corporate retreats. While medical professionals warn that psychedelics, once the villains in horror stories about the dangers of drug abuse, still carry risks, decades of academic research grant substantial scientific wei
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    35 Min.