There is some principle or rule that needs defining (Faris’ law is tough grammatically etc but thanks) Technology advances always create more spam first

Heh the system works etc

I spoke to a teenager yesterday They had never heard of The Muppets Not doing that again

I just didn’t know where to post this but pitching in stream to someone who is writing an unaffiliated case study for a brand is a new one to me and I am not there for it so I put it here instead

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

I dont think I have set a very good example to my daughter by shouting “Fuck Off” at the adverts.

I used to work to live to party At Cannes I have realized I now look forward to sleep more So it goes

Wait am I pro testing Or protesting Or is it both

I start out talking about how agencies don’t work & how I’m developing some ideas that might just fix them, and end up talking about the nature of failure. Just another day at the office. My interview with @farisyakob.com & #rosie in #StrandsOfGenius: geniussteals.substack.com/p/1b9093a7-1...

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

“When I asked Hunter whether it was all about money, he said that profit was part of it, but so was power. “I think if you want to be seen as a god, then there’s no better way than to be a leader in one of these organizations.” apple.news/AorSxeXHuThe...

“What if it's actually about living your life now versus living your life later?" she added. (YOLO) Retirees planned to travel, but it might be too late and too expensive - Business Insider apple.news/APK4jfc39SAK...

Not to be dramatic but I spent months and months working on this video deep diving into the history of attacks on DEI. It is my baby and I’d love for y’all to check it out! 🙏🏻 youtu.be/nD1nJ7g8j94?...

“Monea had already sold a sham product for massive profits by preying on people’s frustration with pain. He was a savant at identifying basic, obvious human frailties and desires, then selling bullshit.” apple.news/AIvCPjULmQBm...

Latest episode of @crosstabspodcast.bsky.social is live, featuring @farisyakob.com talking about how useless the concept of the "average" American, consumer, voter, really is: www.crosstabspodcast.com/p/a-post-tru... Going to include the links we talked about in this thread 🧵

OPINION TODAY featured podcast — Why Averages Don't Exist: @farrahbostic.bsky.social interviews brand strategist @farisyakob.com about how misunderstood economic metrics mask the real consumer experience. (@crosstabspodcast.bsky.social) opiniontoday.substack.com/i/163118483/...

Within five years, he told Adweek, ‘there is no human that touches a media plan.' ht @farisyakob.com mediacat.uk/groupm-to-re...

anyone persistently coughing should not be allowed on planes or trains (Maybe with mask but ideally not at all)

wait what was happening before

Kids may say the funniest things But adults say the dumbest

Oddly ominous

Money quote: “As ever, this speaks to the discomfort financial executives have with the very idea of creatively leveraged alpha (above market returns).” @farisyakob.com In other words, creativity works, but how is an adamant mystery for some. www.warc.com/newsandopini...

Omg I just went back on @instagram for the first time in a year What a confusing mess

“Culture is the necessary art of perpetuating the disturbing rumor that reality is meaningful.” www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/04/28/i...

Oh my - forced breeding programs soon then

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

Every divorced dad would like to be able to flash this to the three-margarita divorcee at the bar at TGI Friday’s on a Tuesday night

Opinion | Where Did All the Classy Americans Go? - The Wall Street Journal

"Manufactured precarity and the Hobbesian competition of all against all, combined with the public insistence on moral rectitude, have us all scrambling for grievances so we can justify doing what we must—even presidents and billionaires insist they are victims now."

“It was midpoint between the door-to-door salesmen & the present-day dystopia of A.I.–robocalling—last few years before American credulity (& income) was strip-mined by post–9/11 disillusionment, internet, economy crisis, & petty cheats like me, the bedrock of this nation.” slate.com/life/2024/12...

The sky interface is deeply confusing and oddly nested

You can’t optimize human behavioral decisions because habitation sorry AI email spam

Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

So I am guessing that Google has some kind of new thing called classroom and it has messaging And lol thanks Liam Ronald

It’s Friday and that is good 😉

“Why am I so sad today?” I ask myself after staring at my little handheld sadness machine and clicking all the sad little things that will definitely make me sad

The shape of play report by Mattel corporate.mattel.com/the-shape-of...

Omg is the sharing economy back? Recession indicator lol

lol

So it turns out that Buffalo Wild Wings doesn’t not have mozzarella (I have no idea maybe it does it’s just funny wings Jessica Simpson ha ha but it really is buffalo milk in that cheese ya)

I know this is boring but the new chatGtp is really pretty impressive lol

“Ads: way too expensive, always getting more expensive, your competitors will just copy your copy, lots of fake/low-conversion clicks, your investors hate it, and it’ll kill you if you don’t have a strong business model already” open.substack.com/pub/andrewch...

So I’ve not been to Starbucks for ages but it seems pretty clear that mobile orders should be handled separately - it sort of ruins the in store experience

As she said You have no power over me You have know power over me

That sounds like me lol

I’m afraid that if I keep looking at the news it’s going kill me but I'm afraid that if I stop looking at the news I’m going to die.

@annadent.bsky.social wrote this, though of you

This is great fun from Joe Heath, and explains why political philosophers (me included) get so annoyed by this weirdly ubiquitous and misleading meme, and all this mystifying and imprecise talk of 'equity'. A great public service. Please read it! josephheath.substack.com/p/why-philos...