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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

31 Dec 21, 13 tweets, 10 min read

@getcallin

No Pull Request end of year review would be complete without a rundown of the @getcallin side.

I'm a big believer in social audio: the unscripted candor of what seems a bartop conversation distinguishes it from edited (and scripted) podcasting.

callin.com/show/the-pull-…

@getcallin

@getcallin My first interview was with @bgmasters, who's a prominent member of a new crop of GOP politicians. Former Valley guy, he quit the Bay Area to return to his native AZ to run for Senate. He was novel and compelling and like no pol I've ever talked to.

callin.com/episode/blake-…

@getcallin

@getcallin @bgmasters My interview with @DouthatNYT about his new book 'The Deep Places' (which I read twice, the first time in one sitting) was a serious fanboy moment. I'd read more or less anything he writes. His modesty and thoughtfulness in person were disarming.

callin.com/episode/nyt-co…

@kmele

Then there was the mutual podcast appearance of having @kmele on Pull Request. He's always this ball of wild media energy, going in a dozen directions at once (not sure how he does it).

callin.com/episode/kmele-…

@DaraHorn

One of the best books I read this year was 'People Love Dead Jews' by @DaraHorn, about the curious love of the gentile world for disappeared Jewish worlds, but rather less love for existing Jewish ones.

callin.com/episode/dara-h…

@ZaidJilani

Probably my most interesting Twitter follow is @ZaidJilani, whose writing is politically unclassifiable but always thought-provoking and heterodox (without curdling into culture-war rage).

callin.com/episode/zaid-j…

@RyanHoliday

Every writer should aspire to be @RyanHoliday: a large, loyal audience addressed via a series of bestselling books around central themes. What's more...he owns a really cool-looking bookstore.

callin.com/episode/ryan-h…

@balajis

The most popular (and wildest) show was with the irrepressible @balajis. As with most convos with him, it was nominally about the 'Metaverse', but then went full-speed in a dozen different directions.

callin.com/episode/balaji…

@jacobhelberg

'Wires of War' is a book that seems to be on every Silicon Valley person's reading list this year, and I had a long convo with @jacobhelberg about it: China, Russia, the Internet, Facebook...all of it.

callin.com/episode/jacob-…

@jacobhelberg

@jacobhelberg I take that back: the wildest show was @bungarsargon, @balajis and @AshleyRindsberg talking about Batya's book 'Bad News', about woke media and how journalists can be complicit in historical awfulness.

callin.com/episode/batya-…

@ShellenbergerMD

The book that has dropped like a nuclear bomb in the SF political scene is @ShellenbergerMD's 'San Fransicko', about how progressive politics inevitably create a dystopia rather than the utopia of their imaginings.

callin.com/episode/michae…

@ShellenbergerMD

@ShellenbergerMD The last show ended on a forward-looking note: @PatrickWStanley and @balajis (again...he's practically a co-host) on @mineCityCoins: how cities like Miami and NYC mint their own crypto-currencies, creating completely novel urban economics.

callin.com/episode/patric…

@ShellenbergerMD

@ShellenbergerMD @PatrickWStanley @balajis @mineCityCoins These are just the highlights!

More shows from 2021 below, and more to come in 2022.

Finally, thanks to @DavidSacks for convincing me to do this as a regular part of Pull Request, and to @wisercharlie for putting up with my annoying fumbling.

callin.com/show/the-pull-…

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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

@antoniogm

30 Dec 21

The 2021 Pull Request Year In Review is here!

Last thoughts on Apple, Judaism, Miami, Cuba, everyone I interviewed, all the viral posts, thoughts on present and future technology....in one over-long post.

Begin thread!

thepullrequest.com/p/annus-horrib…

What to say about my former employer and most valuable company in the world?

I abandoned forever the bohemian shenanigans of the writing and media life … but somehow the shenanigans found me.

From loyal Apple employee to combatant within 24 hours.

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No catalog of 2021’s top tweets would be complete without the opening salvo in the AGM/Apple media battle, my five-point summary of the manufactured brouhaha.

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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

@antoniogm

27 Dec 21

@aripap

Since the intersection of ads and Web3 seems to be rather ... desolate ... at the moment and nobody has written much here (kudos to @aripap for doing so), I'm going to do a point-by-point analysis of this thread, some of which I agree with (and some not).

https://twitter.com/aripap/status/1474039478671003652

@aripap

@aripap True, and one of the great open questions to me is whether tokens are enough to bankroll Web3 or if you still need ads (or if Web3 can contribute to the existing ads ecosystem in some way). Nobody has a hard, informed answer here yet. Early days, etc.

https://twitter.com/aripap/status/1474039534274949128

https://twitter.com/aripap/status/1474039580957499395

Yes, much of Web3 interest is not necessarily that it's vastly superior technology, it's the fact it undermines the existing media firmament, and is still an unregulated frontier. It's not just a better mousetrap, it's an unregulated and un-dominated one.

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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

@antoniogm

26 Dec 21

I was exposed to the mind virus of 'Fleabag' by the gf, and now I'm watching season 2 to make up my mind about which character I detest the most, given they're all loathsome.

One of the oddities of publishing narrative non-fiction like 'Chaos Monkeys' is the number of readers who feel they have to like the characters, as if literature is some sort of popularity contest. Rather than the reverse: a gallery of personalities you can relish despising.

Why did nobody mention Kristin Scott Thomas is in this thing!!

Always a delicious shock when one of the greats rolls in on a cameo.

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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

@antoniogm

23 Dec 21

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1474061807258066947

It's hard to convey to the present generation what literary figures like Didion, who defined a time and a literary style, once meant.

We just don't have such people in our culture anymore. The very role itself, much less the talent, just doesn't exist.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1474061807258066947

Didion penned the best portrait of the wild 1980s Miami of my childhood, and the scheming and imperious Cuban exiles who populated it.

Told by a wide-eyed New Yorker, of course, but still....a snapshot of a budding metropolis and its febrile origins.

amazon.com/Miami-Joan-Did…

'Miami' opens at Woodlawn Park Cemetery, where many a generation of Cuban exile, victims of volatile politics, were laid to rest instead of the island that obsessed them.

(My family's plot is a stone's throw from the lapidary flags described there.)

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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

@antoniogm

20 Dec 21

@benshapiro

Finally! My conversation with @benshapiro is out.

We discuss dominating Facebook, what Israel should do about the Temple Mount, and why I should keep kosher more.

thepullrequest.com/p/ben-shapiro-…

@benshapiro

Both @benshapiro and @realDailyWire absolutely dominate Facebook, driving more traffic than any other network.

And yet, per Shapiro, recent moves by Facebook have made their engagement numbers decline, favoring once again legacy media.

We did agree that the entire narrative around the Russians somehow throwing the 2016 election via Facebook was patently absurd, a cope for a political side that didn't want to accept an electoral defeat.

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