Curation Blog 1 - Impactful Reading I Want To Share

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James Moreau
November 10, 2025

I’ve been writing privately a bit more lately - clearly not on here. I won’t waste your time or eyeballs giving excuses about the myriad of reasons I haven’t been writing because let’s face it, things come up, bad habits get worse (don’t worry, I’m not drinking Schlitz in a back alley, just been busy and not focused on being creative) and we’re all looking for a little inspiration and a lot of community these days to get through the weird times we’re living through. 

I’ve been thinking a lot about what value I can offer if I’m going to write. After all, I could just give ChatGPT a prompt and have them bang a blog post out for me in a few seconds, post it and be on with my day. But what’s the point of that? I don’t want to be that kind of person who serves others AI slot as I don’t want to be fed AI slop - the Golden AI Slop rule of reciprocity, if you will. 

So I’m going to try to curate a bit of the best content I’ve been consuming elsewhere and sharing with you about why I like it, why it’s valuable and hopefully that’s good enough. I have a hunch this might be useful because I’ve had lots of disparate group chats with friends from all over the place where we discuss ideas ranging from macroeconomics, investing, hunting, parenting and all other sorts of topics that we fancy. I mean, if Tim Ferris can have his 5 Bullet Fridays newsletters, why can’t I share some signal to the noise as well? I’ve gotten enough compliments and gratitude from others who’ve benefitted from what I share that I think it’s worth trying. 

I’m going to experiment with how I structure this - so please feel free to give me feedback if anything doesn’t make sense or seems to lack context. I’ll start by doing this weekly and maybe i’ll pare it back or increase the frequency depending on how this goes. 

MacroEconomics and Investing - Have you heard the term “rare earths” lately and not had any real idea or concern about what it means? That was me about a year ago. I’ve found it interesting how mining and production of real things in the economy has become so front and center in the consciousness of geopolitical experts, economists, politicians and everyday citizens who make the physical world around us. I’ve found the following articles (long reads) extremely informative on breaking down what rare earths are, where they are in the world and why they matter. This just scratches the surface but I can’t say how grateful I am that research of this quality has been made available to the public. Avoid at your own risk.

Personal Development - Mark Manson was a favorite blogger of mine for a VERY long time before he became an international bestselling book author. In my heyday of blogging, we sort of were in similar circles, though I never achieved a fraction of his success - the guy’s good and speaks to my millennial soul in a big way. In his latest newsletter post he talks about the dangers of chasing and actually achieving a dream - something I’ve delt with in my own personal life and how important it is to have your dreams “diversified.” What do I take that as meaning? Well, don’t let some abstract (or concrete) idea become your entire personality lest you become lost with a 10,000 yard stare as you deal with an existential crisis. I really identified with this one: