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Joe Berger@tallgrassmedia.bsky.social |
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Magazine media consultant specializing in print and digital audience building.
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Joe Berger
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Yeah….no. We’ve been heading to this outcome since the Reagan years. The only shocking thing is that it took so long to fully destroy all of the norms that held our government together.
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Further evidence that these generational divides are sheer bullshit. Exactly what, culturally does someone born in 1964 or 63 or 65 have in common with someone born in 1946? Or someone born in 1965 with someone born in 1980?
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Well which do you want? Breathable air and drinkable water or a supreme executive who can order your death ‘cause it’s Monday?
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Well sure, didn’t the founders in their incredible foresight and near godlike brilliance just want to trade the English king for their own king?
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Yep!
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Those would totally fry my brain
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yeah, but old habits die hard and the old dem way was to try and correct the record. They've been doing this since the 1980's and that's Biden's generation.
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They don't care who is running for their side and they don't care about policy. The anger, rage and victimization is the point.
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Wait...isn't he supposed to be the smart one of the six?
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So...you just wrapped up a Teams meeting?
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In some other parallel universe, this would be what happens to one of my more favorite authors when he went onto MS Teams for a meeting...
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That is impressive. 9 minutes.
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I just turned it off. Too painful to watch.
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So…beehiiv also has not so great people on it. Imagine that.
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How much would you bet that for the few million over x years they saved, they rewarded the c-suite multiples of those millions.
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I work in a declining industry mostly controlled by PE firms, so, yes! Almost every day.
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Especially because unsubscribed doesn’t seem to mean anything
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You mean, like not waking up at 2AM after dreaming that I was falling through the earth while being chased by rabid clients who wanted all the reports now and hadn’t paid in 90 days? Those dreams?
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Joe Berger
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So…. I should learn to code? /s
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I happen to know my mom pretty well. Ex school teacher in a Title 1 tri-lingual school. I can see it now: Mom: Richie, sit down and be quiet. Wait your turn. If he does not…oh boy!
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While out walking and on the phone with a potential client, Joe had a sudden epiphany...
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Done that dance…
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This is wild stuff. I spent much of my childhood being told by friends who were conservative or orthodox that I wasn't "Jewish" enough...now there's a NY Congressman, who isn't even Jewish, telling me that. What an absolutely weird, m-f'n world we live in...
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Or, how about this: Think of it as an election where your choices are Ron Klain... or Stephen Miller. I'm using this with some of my more "conservative" Jewish friends and relations.
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Joe Berger
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So sorry that happened. Mine usually wake me up at 2AM and then I have to go walking.
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Kind of like all those enshittificstion annual software updates where they rearrange everything and get rid of the stuff you actually use. I can hardly wait… /s
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As a former Illinoisan, yeah, I used to say stuff about Milwaukee 'cause they would say stuff about Chicago.
But Milwaukee is cool. So is Wisconsin.
So the orange dude can eff off. And his political instincts are terrible:
www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
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As a kid I was constantly re-reading ‘My Side of the Mountain’ and trying to figure out how to have adventures like that
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And Nixon and his little pal Spiro T. Agnew.
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I am terribly sorry… Narrator: No, he wasn’t. …but I’m kind of thinking evil thoughts.
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Ouch, they’ve only popped up in my life in the past year.
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They are the worst. I hope it gets better.
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What a great idea! Our landlord is too cheap to fix our backyard spigot so I’ve been schlepping multiple pots of water to the garden. Something like that would be way better.
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Honestly, an airdrop of millions of dragonflies would be incredibly cool.
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That’s true. But then there’s Outlook, Teams, and Amazon warehouses. And private equity.
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File under: “ She’s wonderful”
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Yes! Please! I can’t wait for the “Well,actually…” types to show up all bent out of shape!
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Yeah. No…
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Here's another fabulous example of non-stop consolidation...
Years ago I was a PrimeCo customer and US Cellular bought their business. Then US Cellular sold to Spring and then Spring was bought by T-Mobile and now T-Mobile is buying US Cellular...
wapo.st/3R1AY3Q
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I could totally see this.
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I’m still mad at myself that I sold the book for cash after the class was over. It was beautiful.
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Yay, I had a professor who had us do that too! Plus he had us recreate recipes for mead and and build a a lyre and then perform a part of the story for the class. I was originally there for the credit but once I got it it was a lot of fun.
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On other words, the Republican Party, the party of ideas, the serious voice of serious policy, has presidents who nominate weirdos, grifters and unqualified wackadoodles to the highest court in the land. Yay!
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Every time I begin to think maybe GW Bush wasn’t that terrible, I remember that he appointed Alito to the SupreyCourt
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All last week I found myself reading about my business and saying to myself "Really?" So that's this week's #newsletter.
I mean, Adam Neumann (formerly WeWork), still in real estate buys an indie mag and turns it into a house organ. Really?
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Why, yes. Yes I would.
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Wait ‘everything is done but the typing…’ Holy moly. Does that mean you write by hand? Like on a legal pad? Like DeMille?
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Further evidence that @swordsjew.bsky.social is a really good writer.
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As I work with numbers and databases all day, every day...yeah, this happens. Regularly. HT to @employeetears on Instagram for this.
#excel #wfh #freelancelife #permalancer
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Hey wait a minute!!! I thought we needed everyone back in the office right this very minute or the whole economy would collapse and the stock market would die and it would be the worst thing in the world...
www.cnbc.com/2024/02/04/w...
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