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18 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Ted Talk-ification is officially a disease. Don't even care if this is parody. It's become a pox on society that enables or demands others become psychopathic extrovert power pointers.

That still scams investors, among others.
Like: Ted Talks are what gave us Theranos. Fight me.
Would it shock you to later learn that Ted Talks is the new Dianetics? Not me!

Also audiences of rich white people digesting the oft-practiced routines of nice scholars...idk it's just become gross.
So the fact that a real estate investor is using A CHILD to get across his message—"say 10X if you agree... to work more, not less"—in a format that we've all been primed to ingest...

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21 Jun
Well this is going to take me down a Regency era publication rabbit hole Image
He’s a jerk, but at least he’s a reader! ImageImageImage
Ah, I forgot, he reveals himself to be not such a jerk.
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19 Jun
We should go back to barn raising ethos. Like if a few friends showed up to help me get some household/garden chore done, I’d happily do same.

If you’ve worked out an enduring, rotating labor exchange, tell me how you arranged?
Coming out of isolation means that getting together to help somebody clear out their basement sound like a blast 😹
I think it would work like Lise's: ~4 or 5 households (do they all need to be friends already?) that rotate a designated chunk of time (~4 hrs, every second Sunday?). Person getting the labor provides food (or maybe its a potluck?) and for sure drinks.
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18 Jun
3rd largest city in America, where the paper is being decimated (or ventimated) by Alden Capital
Chicago is: amazing, complicated, corrupt, dynamic, multi-ethnic, waxing and waning. All the things that make for great journalism.

And its main paper is being raided for parts.
Also think this is a failure of Chicago's many very wealthy people who did not step up to help buy just the Trib or all of the formerly Tribune/Tronc paper, a chance they had as recently as two months ago.
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17 Jun
College radio, zines, MTV, alt weeklies.

and there was a great alt/punk station in DC area for a time, whose call signs escape me.
A great thing about growing up inn DC in the 80s was it was such a mix of Go-Go and New Wave and Punk, and of course pop and the gods of MTV. Maybe that was the 80s everywhere. Well, not the Go-Go.
And it was WHFS. Thanks to @liambgray for reminding me. Such a great station.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHFS_(his…
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17 Jun
1/ Hey, something cool we're doing. @DavidCornDC wanted to try his hand at a newsletter. Rather than decamp to Substack, we decided to build a product ourselves. Why? Well...
2/ First, having a VC-funded entity skim talent from news orgs may be good for that talent (with good deals) for a time (or forever for the lucky few) but it's not great for the news ecosystem. And limits people to work they can do w/o larger teams, lawyers, fact-checkers...
3/ And those of us who've watched dozens of VC-funded plays for media unicorns, well...it doesn't always work out, shall we say.

Remember pivot to video? Remember all the Facebook broken promises? The Google CMS?
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16 Jun
1/ Favor: I’d like to tell you a little bit about @MotherJones and why I’m asking for your support as we, like you, emerge from COVID isolation and gear up for the next year. secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/7L…
2/ I’m incredibly proud of the work we did in the past 15 months. Here's a thread, and a report, on some of the most impactful work we've done in the last year:
3/ And incredibly proud that we made it through the pandemic without the layoffs that many/most news orgs went through.
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