Applied mechanics

• Fidelity Investments® today announced the launch of three actively managed liquid alternatives (alts) ETFs: Fidelity Dynamic Buffered Equity ETF ( FBUF ), Fidelity Hedged Equity ETF ( FHEQ ), and Fidelity Yield Enhanced Equity ETF ( FYEE ).
• The options-based ETFs are listed on CBOE and available commission-free for individual investors and financial advisors through Fidelity’s online brokerage platforms today, adding to Fidelity’s $14 billion alts lineup.
• This strategy leverages a multifactor model to help select companies with desirable fundamental characteristics, including attractive valuations and strong quality metrics.
• Fidelity’s ETF lineup consists of 69 products, including 25 actively managed equity ETFs, 13 fixed income ETFs, 13 equity factor ETFs, six passive thematic ETFs, 11 passive equity sector ETFs, and Fidelity ONEQ.

• Defense Unicorns , a veteran-owned startup providing open-source software and Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities for National Security systems, announced a $15 million U.S. Space Force Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) in partnership with Program Executive Office Assured Access to Space (AATS).
• To hit this demand, the nation needs to rethink how we manage our secure access to space,” said Jeff McCoy, Co-Founder of Defense Unicorns.
• “Defense Unicorns is honored to help and support the Space Force as they transform the nation's space capabilities."
• STRATFI was established to offer qualified small businesses with promising technologies up to $15 million in funding to scale and deliver strategic capabilities to the United States Air and Space Force.

• Geographically, the market showcases diverse adoption patterns; North America leads in satellite and aerial imaging technologies applications across varied domains.
• The key players in the Remote Sensing Services Market include Hexagon AB, BAE Systems PLC, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., General Dynamics Corporation, Airbus SE, and others.
• We proudly unveil ThinkMi, a cutting-edge AI product designed to transform how businesses interact with the Remote Sensing Services Market.
• "Dive into the Remote Sensing Services Market Landscape: Explore 183 Pages of Insights, 568 Tables, and 28 Figures"

• Some may argue this social media generation does not seem to struggle with loving themselves.
• But is the look-at-me-ism so easily found on TikTok and Instagram the kind of self-love we need in order to flourish?
• The language of positive psychology can be – and often is – appropriated for all kinds of self-importance, as well as cynical marketing strategies.

Philosophy and self-love

• Psychology researcher Li Ming Xue and her colleagues, exploring the notion of self-love in Chinese culture, claim “Western philosophers believe that self-love is a virtue”.
• In the Christian tradition and in much European philosophy, says philosopher Razvan Ioan, self-love is condemned as a profoundly damaging trait.

• In particular, Aristotle.
• Read more:
  Friday essay: 3 ways philosophy can help us understand love

Bar too high?

• Aristotle might set the bar too high.
• Many psychologists claim self-love is important for adopting the kind and compassionate self-perception crucial for overcoming conditions that weaponise self-criticism, like clinical perfectionism and eating disorders.
• For this reason, a compassionate form of self-love is often necessary to follow Socrates’ advice to “know thyself”, says philosopher Jan Bransen.

Self-love ‘misguided and silly’

• His ideas are mostly rejected by philosophers of love, but pointing out where they go wrong can be useful.
• When you love someone, he said, you’re prepared to sacrifice your own interests for those of your beloved.
• But he thought the idea of sacrificing your own interests made no sense – which shows, he concluded, we can’t love ourselves.
• In pop culture, love is often depicted as a willingness to sacrifice, but ancient philosophers took a different view

Self-compassion

• We might need this self-compassion, too, in order to admit our failures – so we can overcome our defensiveness and see clearly how we’re failing to fulfil these interests.
• Self-love, as promoted by contemporary psychologists, means standing in a compassionate relationship to ourselves.
• It promotes comfort with the kind of critical self-assessment that helps us grow – which leads to resilience.

Ian Robertson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.