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Monday Morning Memo

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Roy, I think God loves me.

I met with Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx today in New York. It was a very productive 4 hour meeting.

In the meeting they asked me to include in my monthly contract things I’m not good at. But I thought to myself that I have a partner in Phoenix named Austin Leonard (copied on this email)who may just be perfect for this.

So I left the meeting, made a small note in my calandar to “Call Austin tomorrow.” Then I ran off to catch the subway.

Unfortunately,  instead of jumping on the Q train, I inadvertently jumped onto the N train. After a few stops I realized my mistake. So I jumped off at the first stop I could to grab the Q train.

But that station didn’t have a Q train.

So I grabbed the R train. My thinking was that the R train goes in the same general direction as the Q train so “I’ll figure it out” along the way.

So I’m on the R train looking at a map of the different train schedules and there standing next to me was someone so familiar. “Austin is that you?” The blonde-haired gentelman turned to me and looked for a minute, then said “Morty?”

I didn’t need to wait a day to speak with Austin. God delivered him directly to me.

God does love me.

Morty Silber, MBA
Chief Executive Officer
MAD_STRATEGIES Inc.
a Wizard of Ads Partner

925-B Avenue Beaumont
Montreal Quebec,​ ​Canada
H3​N 1W2

  www.madstrategies.ca

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This isn’t the typical ‘side hustle’ trend where people drive Uber after work or sell crafts on Etsy. These are people systematically reclaiming their working hours to build real businesses while maintaining the security of corporate income. Using the skills, networks, and even office space their employer provides to prototype the work they actually want to be doing.

They’re not quitting, nor are they falling into the existential crisis you might expect. Instead, they’re using the corporate infrastructure, the steady salary, the laptop, the stability, as a platform for building something real.

All of this means the corporate role isn’t dying in some dramatic collapse. It’s dying like religion died for many people, slowly, through diminishing belief rather than disappearing churches.

The structures remain. The offices still gleam. The meetings still happen. The emails still flow. But the faith that this activity means something, that it’s building towards something worthwhile, that it justifies the life hours it consumes—that faith is evaporating.

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- Alex McCann, "How to Keep Your Soul in a Corporate Job," Oct 4, 2025

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