Literally decided on this like an hour ago as a forcing function for getting it all down for @bloomtech students.
@bloomtech students - do not buy this. Will get to you another way.
I set price intentionally obnoxiously high ($50). I know if I set at $5-10 I would get a whole lot of people who don’t need the info and don’t actually care about the contents. Don’t need those yet :)
The problem of cancel culture isn’t that people lose their jobs if they say something that crosses a line.
It’s that people become unwilling to say innocuous and reasonable things for fear of that happening.
That chilling effect eliminates entire topics of conversation.
I do think the power that Twitter mobs have is overstated 99% of the time.
But if that 1% of the time your life is flipped upside down and you no longer have a career, the downside risk of tweeting something controversial outweighs the upside by… a lot.
I’ve intentionally structured things in my life so that I know I’ll be fine no matter what Twitter mobs may try to do, and there’s a meaningful psychological shift when you’re not living in fear of potential mobs anymore.
Trying to watch football with neighbors to be friendly.
This game is 90% breaks. This does not work for my brain.
I grew up playing soccer and I totally get how people could be bored watching the tactical part of that game, but this is literally 50/50 game/commercial breaks
This is just an excuse to turn your brain off and drink beer isn’t it