George Hahn Humorist, urbanist, satirist, sartorialist, minimalist, soloist, bicyclist, mid-century modernist on no one’s to-do list.

“Asymmetry gives an army a lead, not a moat. David wins one round with a new slingshot, but in the second, Goliath has a factory in Yalabuga, manufacturing thousands of slingshots at a lower unit cost.”

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · Tech Strategy & Big Tech · October 2026

George Hahn reading Scott Galloway's No Mercy / No Malice essay "Asymmetry". The passage follows the observation that Ukraine innovates with drones and Russia copies them months later at scale, which Galloway compares to the second-mover advantage in business.

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I'm Scott Galloway, and this is No Malice:, No Malice:. The silver lining of the wars in Ukraine and Iran. The opportunity to reduce America's defense budget by 50%. Asymmetry, as read by George Hahn.

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…told me. Everything the Ukrainians do, the Russians are able to do a few months later, but at scale. In business, this is called the second mover advantage. Netscape commercialized the web browser. Microsoft scaled it. Diners Club introduced the credit card. Visa turned it into a financial empire. MySpace pioneered social networking. Facebook perfected it. And Apple is the ultimate second mouse. Asymmetry gives an army a lead, not a moat. David wins one round with a new slingshot, but in the second, Goliath has a factory in Yalabuga, manufacturing thousands of slingshots at a lower unit cost. In his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower famously warned that the influence of America's growing military-industrial complex endangered our liberties and democracy. He also highlighted the connection between debt and national security, although few Americans remember that part of the speech. As we peer into society's future, we, you and I and our government, must avoid the…

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