. @MarcusCooks of Red Rooster. & Newark’s Marcus BP spoke of how success requires both humility and arrogance. He framed entrepreneurship as curiosity & curiosity about people. @MontclairFilm
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Marcus also of the synergy of art, music and food in creating an experience and of the rhythmic jazz sounds of the kitchen. It was mouth-watering! @MontclairFilm@MarcusCooks
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I particularly appreciated Chef Samuelsson’s comments about
building businesses with thoughtfulness and intention and how giving leadership opportunities to the underrepresented helps to create next gen opportunities that shift culture. @MontclairFilm@MarcusCooks
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The conversation also focused on the audio doc, “A Seat at The Table,” an inspiring elegy on food and people and relationships and restaurants and history. @MontclairFilm@MarcusCooks
The final comments about the goldmine in everyone’s family recipes - “pay attention to family recipes” — and @MarcusCooks fried chicken with hot honey recipe left us starving. So we finished up the night at Montclair’s Bare Burger!
THREAD 🧵 on developing NFT commercialization/licensing standards/templates:
@boredjob released a free-to-use NFT contract template called the PLAN to help NFT owners (e.g., owners of @BoredApeYC & @GutterCatGang Gang) to more quickly & efficiently do IP licensing deals.
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Bored Jobs - a platform that facilitates NFT owners who have IP commercialization rights to make licensing deals with established brands - is one of a number of projects I’ve been closely following in the web3 space. And not just because of the clever commercials:
It was not a new cat avatar collection. But a product that could be purchased and then used by cat 🐱 holders to create “clones” of their cat with new features.
Old Cat + Sacrificial Cat + Juice = Old Cat + Clone Cat
Mitch Lowe, one of the founders of Netflix, is the keynote speaker today @PulseCon_ . Speaking now.#pulsecon2022
“You may start out in one direction (mail order DVDs) and then need to pivot and change direction (streaming). The best employees are the ones who are comfortable with that ambiguity.” - Mitch Lowe
We are now at the sickening part of the DeShaun Watson story where the serial sexual abuser gets a woefully short suspension, after signing a contract that makes him the highest paid QB in NFL history. And he is supported by his team and their fans.
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Here are 10 Tweets on this mess. Because it says a lot about our culture and society, none of it good.
I wrote about the history of this up through the point that Watson was traded to the Browns and signed his monster contract here for @GoodMenProject: