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The Washington Post was killed because they changed their audience into something that didn’t have any long-term sustainability, while completely ignoring their real problem of the news itself not being worth paying for — Read on baekdal.com/newsletter/washington-post-postmortem–from-the-perspective-of-a-media-analyst
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whenever i hear a young person confidently assert that humanity is cooked, my first instinct is to ask for their screen time report. because, yes, if you spend more time scrolling than you do participating in real life, it’s actually quite reasonable to conclude that we’re hanging on by a thread — Read on stephstiner.substack.com/p/a-gen-z-guide-to-fixing-your-doom
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“[It] was hardly a nursery for intellectuals, it was a hotbed of false values, it harbored an unattractive percentage of small-time crooks and con artists, and the chances of being successful there were minimal,” he writes. “But it was fascinating, and if you were lucky, it was fun.” — Read on www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/05/david-niven-memoir-scandals-old-hollywood
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Stranger Things was a show people loved because of the vibe. Now, Stranger Things is a show people watch because they remember loving that season one vibe, and they figure they might as well finish the rest of it. — Read on www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/scifi/stranger-things-vibe.html
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Despite Neal’s reputation as a frenetic hipster, “I just realized that there weren’t that many trips,” Carolyn said. “It sounds as though they were doing this all the time. Half of them were coming home again — people don’t realize that Jack was going home and Neal was coming home. There weren’t that many anyhow…Jack…
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when I was much more active on Twitter than I am now, I’d find myself, e.g., washing dishes and, without wanting to, thinking about various mundane things in the form of tweets. Some nascent half-kernel of an idea would come to me and, like a hack comedian for whom every banal thing is material, I…
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How to get control of YouTube. Shut off the algorithm and get a better landing page. How to get control of Spotify. Escape the algorithm, expand your listening. How to get control of Twitter. “Onboarding to Twitter is challenging. It’s not a rewarding experience for most people; your posts barely get any engagement at all…
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“The Serendipity Machine: Notes on Using Twitter.”Some guidelines for using Twitter as a superpower – meeting people, getting questions answered, learning. It covers how difficult it is getting traction at first. How to Be Found by Your People Online (YouTube) “Transform your Instagram Feed Into a Community Bulletin Board.” Make the Instagram algorithm biased to local…
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History tells us that the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer threw a woman down the stairs in a fit of anger that his thinking was interrupted when she insisted on talking in the hallway outside his door. The story is used repeatedly to help us understand Schopenhauer’s character. The problem is, it’s not true. So how did…
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“When you think, ‘Social media is terrible,’ which are you thinking of most?”
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