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18 Feb, 22 tweets, 8 min read
Welcome new friends! I do threads like this sometimes, so you might want to mute the thread:

Ask me anything about today's "Shitposter in Profile" issue of the NYT and I will answer in this thread.

nytimes.com/2021/02/17/tec…
Understanding who you're talking to is important. Actual journalists like @daiwaka don't just print any random crap you tell them. This isn't a gossip rag. If I say "Larry Ellison has no friends" they've gotta fact check that if they want to run it.

Yes. I swapped this out for "getting the obituary in @TheEconomist" on my bucket list. The next item is "my own @netflix special."

I don't own the copyright; the photographer / @nytimes do.

I can look like a jackass in front of a camera any day; it's all the same to me!
Surprisingly, though it's fun to pick those fights, it wasn't top of mind. Others carry that particular torch.

I own clothing. I used bobby pins for my hair. You can do a lot to match complexion in post-processing.

Ethel. She's a chihuahua-weasel hybrid who's fifteen years old.

Pitching a story to a Serious Outlet is no small feat, and I'm not one of those who conflates "the press" with "public relations." Entirely their idea; I was too busy shitposting here on Twitter to organize this.

My maiden name. No, I'm not sharing it.

Always. Chihuahua mixes are always looking for good foster homes.

I'm quite sincere when I say this: *DO NOT LIE TO JOURNALISTS*. They are better at this than you are, and you will get found out. And then you're whatever the journalist version of "burned" is.

I already am, and I do except for the part that an awful lot of you are taller than I am.
I used to worry about this; I don't anymore. Simply put: I'm not trash, and when I get it wrong I apologize and do better.

Not explicitly. "I won't violate NDAs" is a given in these conversations. There were questions I couldn't answer. There was a LOT of background material that didn't make it in. The unabridged version would be FASCINATING.
It was harder on them than you'd think.

About a week. Story ideas don't usually hang around for months on end. "Publish or it rots."

Well... maybe. It's a tremendously flattering honor, there's no denying that.

But think about it for a second--how is next week different than last week?

No. I strongly suspect that if it came up as part of the interview it'd have been a potential ethics violation.

It didn't "fit" into the story, but I told the tale of getting expelled from two different boarding schools.

Surprisingly, that isn't generally how we tended to imagine a business unfolding.

Somehow it never came up, because it is ridiculous.

Not really. There were a bunch of people who weighed in.

Remember, different people specialize in various areas. Don’t ask an accountant for legal advice.

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I believe I owe the Twitter a thread on my "Rules of Shitposting." This is that thread.
It's in our Corporate Docs at the Duckbill Group under the more prosaic headline "Our Marketing Beliefs & Rules."

There are seven of them, and were collected by @mike_julian based upon the things I've said and we've ruminated upon.
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Oh my god.

@azure had a GOLDEN opportunity to pull a "we don't mine your data, we don't compete with you, WHO KNOWS what @GCPcloud and @awscloud do with your confidential cloud info!"

Instead they legit did exactly what their competitors don't, but we worry about.
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If AWS would sell me information like that you would be best served by evacuating their cloud immediately.
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If you found a customer to go full time consulting with, you're basically an FTE without a raft of employee protections.
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