Trump, Mamdani, and Cluely - by kyla scanlon

This is Part 1 of a 2 Part series exploring attention as infrastructure and a main source of value creation across politics, markets, and the economy. This is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Trump bombed Iran over the weekend and announced it via Truth Social. Maybe not the first time posting became policy, but it’s hard to find a clearer example. I was in the middle of the grocery store grabbing bananas when I got the notification, which just underscored how strange and disorienting this all is. Yesterday, Zohran Mamdani won the NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary, a highly contested race that he ran with sheer narrative discipline and command of the digital. Even if you don’t like his policies (I think many of them are unworkable) the campaign was good! He walked the entire length of Manhattan. He was everywhere, all the time. And finally, a few days before both of those, a startup called Cluely1 raised a $15 million round led by a1

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