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The Connection Newsletter 41 - Dorsey
The Connection Newsletter 41 - Dorsey, Katzenberg, and Willis walk into a bar
Hello!
This is edition #41 of
The Connection
, the weekly email I send family, friends, and future friends (hullo!) Glad you're here.
Albany has finally broken its cold snap. We’d been hitting 17 degrees below zero -- which made me appreciate the flexibility of work-from-home. In related news, I’m taking a work trip to San Francisco and Los Angeles in two weeks. If you’re around, let me know :)
Fatherhood continues to be an amazing trip. I am both incredibly excited to watch Oliver grow up and devastatingly sad that
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After much thought, research, and aggregated friend feedback (thanks Eric C, Alex R, Aaron S, Jen Y, Peter L, and Eva K!) I’m changing up my personal advisor. For the past couple of years we used StashWealth (
). Today we’re in the process of switching over to Vanguard. I hope to write an article explaining our thought process soon.
FWIW, nothing wrong with StashWealth. I think it’s a great service if you’re at a particular juncture of your life where you’d like more personalized guidance.
Let’s get into the articles.
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I read two profiles on Jack Dorsey (CEO of Twitter and Square) this week. The first was a
. The idea that resonated most with me, because I struggle to do more of it, was when he talked about “working in public:”
“I’m fascinated by this concept of working in public and allowing people to see you get better and better as time goes on. To me, it’s what the world needs. To me, that’s one of the greatest benefits Twitter provides. Elon does it so well. He works in public. He thinks in public. He ideates in public.”
The other article on Mr. Dorsey was a
by Ashley Feinberg. Mr. Dorsey agreed to sit down with Ms. Feinberg despite her repeated spam messages urging Dorsey to just “delete the website.”
It’s not that Ms. Feinberg doesn’t make good points (she does). But she deliberately goes out of her way to make him sound clueless by leaving in his filler words (um’s, hmm’s, uh’s) while conveniently removing hers from the interview. Tactics like that feel unfair and borderline bullying.
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. Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman talk about their new mobile streaming service, Quibi. Mr. Katzenberg’s modest plan is to “create the next chapter of film narrative:”
“Five or 10 years from now, we’ll look back and go, ‘There was the era of movies, there was the era of television, and there’s the era of Quibi.’ ”
Beejoli Shah also had a great write-up on the start-up in
(paywall).
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I don’t agree that regulation is the answer, but as I plan out ad spend for Shogun’s marketing, I’m empathetic to small businesses who think they’re partnering with a massive influencer but lack the savvy to recognize they bought more than half their followers.
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. I love these profiles, and The Ringer in particular does an exceptional job. In many ways, this piece on Bruce Willis makes you pause and think about the quality and legacy of your own work -- regardless of your particular craft.
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. Last week I watched the Fyre Festival documentary on Netflix, and started the Hulu documentary last night. Both are good, but this piece makes a strong case for why you should go out of your way to watch the Hulu documentary.
“The Hulu one is better because FuckJerry and Viceland collaborated in making the Netflix doc where they purposely do not portray themselves as the villain, which in fact they are.”
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. Finally, a good reminder for all content creators out there, myself included: Build to be useful, not to get links.
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