The battle between Gen Z and Gen XPublished inThe Medium BlogSent as aNewsletter3 min read8 hours ago-- Thursday! This week is whooshing by.Issue #212: lowercase diary entries, Angulars latest update, and the 4,000 weeks of your lifeIt was Netflixs first-ever livestreamed sports event: 27-year-old Jake Paul (masculinitys answer to the Kardashians?) v. 58-year-old Mike Tyson (once the youngest heavyweight champion in history). Actually, Paul is a pro boxing champ, too his record is 111. Tysons is 507.Netflix claims 108 million viewers tuned in. I didnt watch live, but I did watch the highlights. It looked like a draw to me? Definitely not a knockout, but Paul won.The fight itself wasnt eventful (both of them seemed tired), but the conversations around it were more interesting. Deadspin founder Will Leitch highlighted the hype-y moment at the beginning of every fight when the announcer bellows out the name of each contender, explaining why they should be feared or revered (think: introducing THE BONECRUSHERRR). His intro for Paul? In this attention economy, HE COMMANDS IT AND HE TURNS IT INTO CAPITAL!Wild. That sentence encapsulates what was at the heart of this fight, to me: a battle between Gen Z and Gen X. Two generations, two strategies. One demands respect through understated yet powerful actions. The other builds its reputation on image, influence, and visibility.One last note: Many of you couldnt watch at all, because Netflixs servers got overloaded during the stream. Moses Mwemezi Kemibaro, in Kenya, tried to watch on a few different internet service providers to no avail. Data scientist Risto Trajanov took us deep inside Netflixs tech stack to uncover what went wrong: the video couldnt be pre-cached, and Netflix wasnt prepared. Netflixs CTO apologized for the outage, but claimed the event was still a huge success. One man in Florida already sued the platform for interfering with his viewing pleasure.If you werent caught in buffering hell: What did you think? By 2030 will Netflix beat ESPN at its own game? Harris Sockel Two more things Im readingFeed Me, a newsletter by former Meta creative strategist Emily Sundberg, started as a venue for freaky little fictional horror stories like this one about a female founder who hides her employees in her basement. (I died at the baguette-shaped lamp.) Its now the fifth most popular paid newsletter on Substack in the business category. Sundbergs most popular story examines the dynamics of Substack itself, specifically how the platform spawns millions of lowercase diary entries that sound the same. (Semafor)Angular, the Google-built framework for creating digital interfaces used by everyone from Tesla to Microsoft to a humble blogging platform called Medium just released version 19. It includes new features to help your UI load more quickly, like incremental hydration (turning static HTML into a dynamic, interactive experience) and event replay enabled by default. (Angular Blog) Your daily dose of practical wisdomIf youre reading this at age 40, you have around 2,000 weeks left to live. Most lifetimes are ~80 years, or 4,000 weeks. Do something good with this one.