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The Connection Newsletter 73 - Have an idea
The Connection Newsletter 73 - Have an idea
Hello!
This is edition #73 of
The Connection
, the weekly email I send family, friends, and future friends (hello!) Glad you're here.
I’m in San Francisco this week, excited to meet this season’s Reforge participants in the area. Plus, most of the Reforge team is meeting together in the city. The last time we all got together was six months ago, when we were a team of 5. We’re now a team of 16 (and counting)!
Dinner reservations are getting much harder to make 😉
Onto this week’s articles:
Profiles
Scaachi Koul's profile on Lauren Duca was easily the best article of the week.
With her new book, Lauren Duca wants to galvanize young people, but past controversies -- and a complaint filed by her New York University students -- threaten to undermine her message.
There's this gem (which I agree with):
“I think that they’re fucking corny. They’re making fun of me — for putting Twitter on my syllabus — on Twitter, which is the only place they have a voice. I wish the people who spent a ton of time criticizing me would use that energy to make a thing. To have an idea.”
Then there’s the case of
, which is facing massive ridicule on the Internets. (For the record, at least two of my journalism classes were less interesting and more out of touch than this.)
But if students were so strongly opposed to the contents of the class, instead of taking to Twitter or filing a complaint to put Duca on blast, why not simply withdraw from the class?
Source: Eddie Guy
Is Patreon funding the creative class or merely subsidizing the revenue-sharing model of behemoth distribution platforms like YouTube?
This profile is a terrific existential examination of the platform that helps creatives monetize. My favorite vignette: how Jacke Conte reverse-engineered Patreon’s origin story (the creation of
, which they knew they’d never be able to recover the costs to make) to launch the platform and drum up a rally cry for creatives.
Parenting & Relationships
Source: Jim Watson
Across many of the coastal cities, housing and rent costs have outpaced increases in wages since 1970. In San Francisco, house prices
increased about six times faster
than incomes;
in Los Angeles, 11 times
(!) Seems like the only place sane place left to buy a house is in the midwest and the south.
Source: Michael Driver
What if it suddenly dawned on you after 2 years of marriage that you've married an obsessive-compulsive hoarder? Would you stick it out? Or leave?
Travel
This is why traveling east to west is easier on your body:
On an east-to-west flight that touches down just before dusk, sleep finds you early and you wake up—often naturally—early enough to take in a full day somewhere new. New York to Los Angeles business trips allow for early morning swims in the Pacific. Hawaiian vacations include the spectacle of sunrise over the islands.
Growing up, my dream home was the RV I was going to buy then park in the driveways of relatives who preferred McMansions and more traditional trappings of suburban success.
I thought I could escape the nuisances of home maintenance with this alternative housing, but turns out RV maintenance is equally laborious.
(So far the RV life has only been a pipe dream but check out my buddy
, where he lived out of an RV while traveling the Pan American Highway, from San Francisco to Brazil.)
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