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The Connection Newsletter 67 - Hot Summer Nights
The Connection Newsletter 67 - Hot Summer Nights
Hello!
This is edition #67 of
The Connection
, the weekly email I send family, friends, and future friends (hello!) Glad you're here.
We’re already more than halfway through August, which means summer 2019 is almost over. Quick highlights off the top of my head:
Oliver’s first beach holiday.
We spent it in Long Beach Island, NJ. The first day he was pretty nervous around the waves, but was straight frolicking by the last day.
Deefer turned 5(!) this year.
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Lots of friends and family time.
We got to see so much family for Oliver’s first birthday, and have been making conscious efforts to carve out time for friends this summer: had a guy’s holiday a couple weeks ago, a wedding in a few weeks, and a trip to visit friends in Raleigh, NC over Labor Day.
What’s next? At
, we’re deep into application review and kicking off our fall programs. This whole year I was focused on building new skills, so I deprioritized writing. 2020 I’ll ramp writing back up, so will take the fall to plan out articles and the system to make sure I’m publishing content consistently.
As always, thanks for reading this newsletter and following along.
Onto the articles:
Make sure to hit "Display Images" above to see puppy pics.
This profile stands above the Rolling Stone profile by Josh Eells and the GQ story by Chuck Klosterman. Like all her profiles, it’s as much about the newest album (“Lover”, in this case) as it’s about the life experiences that shaped the album:
Battling both Spotify and Apple so that artists could earn their royalties when played on those platforms
Suing DJ David Mueller for $1 and testifying in Colorado Federal court
Calling out Senator Marsha Blackburn and endorsing Democrats for the Tennessee Legislature
Calling out Scott Borchetta for selling her master recordings to music manager Scooter Braun
When you look at these events and Taylor’s growing body of work, you’re better able to appreciate the grit and savvy it takes to emerge from it all with sanity intact and still one of the reigning Queens of pop.
“It’s so strange trying to be self-aware when you’ve been cast as this always smiling, always happy ‘America’s sweetheart’ thing, and then having that taken away and realizing that it’s actually a great thing that it was taken away, because that’s extremely limiting.
“We’re not going to go straight to gratitude with it. Ever. But we’re going to find positive aspects to it. We’re never going to write a thank-you note.”
The idea is simple:
If you want to be a better (knowledge) worker you should train like an athlete.
...but the implementation isn’t easy. Success is harder to measure. The metrics for improvement aren’t clear. This article outlines one framework to make it work.
“For many knowledge workers, they’re reactive. They don’t plan. Like surfers in a violent ocean, they surrender to their environment.”
If you take the interview at face value, it sounds like it’s possible to raise a conscientious child while tethered to the Internet 51 out of 52 weeks of the year (thank goodness). H/t Amy
No real takeaway. Just a sad story of what happens to a person and their family when they’re easily persuadable and prioritize hurting someone else’s feelings over the well-being and care of their family.
“The next day, Hay called the Cambridge police. When the officer accompanied him to his house, the women came to the door — his door — and furnished a lease renting them the $3.2 million home for two years for $1,500 a month. He says Shuman had used his laptop while they were in Quebec to send an email to her lawyer from his Harvard account, in which he purportedly said the “lease” “looks good.” Then they produced a copy of the $3,000 check they’d made out to Hay before the Quebec trip. See, we paid a security deposit, they said.”
Bird, the dockless scooter company valued at $2.5 billion, is suing a 2-man repo shop called ScootScoop, that specializes in removing scooters from private property.
In the suit, Bird demands that:
“ScootScoop stop doing business, release all Bird scooters, and pay Bird back four times the amount of the fees that they are attempting to bill Bird for the scooters. The company is also demanding punitive damages and “any profits made by Defendants” in the course of their entire scooter-towing career.”
Shorts
Athleisure is expected to generate $232 billion in global sales by 2024. Activewear claims 24 percent of all global apparel purchases. Here’s an interesting
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Will
to be our friend (by the hour) make us less lonely?
Useful tool alert:
. Allows you to edit the web. Great for when you want to see how changes to copy will look on your browser.
The
that top Instagram Influencers make per post.
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