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The Connection Newsletter 57 - Meetup
The Connection Newsletter 57 - Meetup
Hello!
This is edition #57 of
The Connection
, the weekly email I send family, friends, and future friends (hi!) Glad you're here, and for those of you stateside, hope you enjoyed the long weekend.
Last week, I squeezed in a trip to NYC for one of my favorite things: hosting a
alumni event.
I’m consistently stunned by this intelligent, ambitious group and love getting them together to casually hang. So much so, I’ll make the 24-hour trip (literally -- got into Brooklyn at midnight Monday, back in Albany midnight Tuesday), by driving 6-hours round-trip, to host the 2-hour meetup.
Which means I take the trip with the mindset of making every minute count. I’ll set up a breakfast, lunch, multiple coffees, a walk around Madison Square Park… anyway to make it happen. In between meetings, I’ll drop into coffee shops and bang out work.
Why all the gyration for some facetime? Because if there’s one thing that working as a Hollywood assistant instilled in me, it’s the belief that one in-person meet is worth more than 100 emails or 400 DMs.
On that note, I try to share any upcoming trips on this newsletter. If I am ever coming to your city, let me know, would love to meetup.
Make sure to hit "Display Images" above to see puppy pics.
Everything GoT 🐺🐉
Obviously, so much
Game of Thrones
last week, and so many feels. Let’s start with
, the show’s first writer’s assistant and anointed “Third Head of the Dragon” by George R.R. Martin himself:
How did Cogman land the writer’s assistant gig?
Why does everyone from GRRM to Sophie Turner consider him the backbone of the series?
Why was he passed over for the GoT prequel series?
This brought back tough memories of being Dennis’s assistant and
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The success of
GoT
built careers and launched an entire
, from the actors it catapulted into stardom, to the Hollywood reporters covering the
GoT
conventions, to the podcasters analyzing every twist in every episode.
“Even as the conversation around the show has grown painfully out of control, those of us who have made a name for ourselves covering Game of Thrones don’t have the luxury of logging off—someone has to stick around to talk about it. But there’s a comfort in knowing that like the awe-struck population of King’s Landing watching the shadow of Daenerys’s dragon blot out the sun, we’re all in this together, unable to look away. To paraphrase George R.R. Martin: We shall never see Thrones like again. And now our watch has ended.”
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Speaking of out of control...
signed a petition to remake the season.
It’s easy to be a critic, but only a handful can fathom the challenge of greenlighting a TV show, nevermind 8 seasons of arguably the best TV ever produced. It’s not just the writing, but being on set, owning feature film budgets for a single episode, and navigating the politics that is Hollywood.
Shit is hard, people.
Sophie Turner put it best:
“All of these petitions and things like that — I think it’s disrespectful to the crew, and the writers, and the filmmakers who have worked tirelessly over 10 years, and for 11 months shooting the last season. Like 50-something night shoots. So many people worked so, so hard on it, and for people to just rubbish it because it’s not what they want to see is just disrespectful.”
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On the flip side, this is the
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The last one, I promise. The
, but not the one it needs right now.
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About Companies
.
Nadella’s turnaround over the five years since he replaced Steve Ballmer as CEO has been nothing short of historic. The company had… missed almost every significant computing trend of the 2000s—mobile phones, search engines, social networking—while letting Windows stagnate. Under Nadella, it cut funding to Windows and built an enormous cloud computing business—with about $34 billion in revenue over the past year—putting it ahead of Google and making progress in key areas against the dominant player, Amazon Web Services.
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As WeWork preps for its IPO, the cash-burning startup
to continue its expansion.
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“Don’t be evil” was the original motto used within Google’s corporate code of conduct. Once it restructured under Alphabet Inc in 2015, the motto changed to “Do the right thing.” Many of its employees feel Google has betrayed both mottos.
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? The Hustle breaks down 10 years worth of Shark Tank data.
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Other
. Respect.
“Wong’s clocked plenty of such adult experience in the last three years. In addition to birthing and caring for two humans, recovering from two C-sections, adjusting to motherhood, and co-starring on three seasons of American Housewife, she wrote Dear Girls and a new stand-up act; voiced Netflix’s Tuca & Bertie with Tiffany Haddish; and co-wrote, produced, and starred in Always Be My Maybe.”
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Buzzfeed published an investigative report
of berating abuse victims and making unwanted sexual advances.
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My friend Ramit Sethi
. This book changed the trajectory of my personal finances and my career. Strong recommend.
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