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  • Your Worst Is Not the Worst, the latest issue of Making It Work from Youngna Park, is powerfully relatable. Trying to explain to young children what’s happening in the world in 2025 is so, so hard.
  • Behind the Collapse of Technicolor and Why Its Failure Is Sending Shockwaves Through the VFX Industry
  • I quickly fell in love with the Hulu sci-fi series Paradise, starring Sterling K. Brown and James Marsden. Check it out.
  • How Pop-Tarts turned an easy-to-forget bowl into one of the college football season’s best moments
  • “There is not one Yeezy shoe left,” said Adidas chief financial officer. “It has all been sold and that episode is behind us.”
  • Protest at Yellowstone National ParkAnd now, the bad news:
    • How “DOGE” Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save
    • Marco Rubio is often the last to know when foreign policy decisions are made in the White House.
    • A truly troubling read: “We believe this rush to comply is a sign that universities are willing to become an institutional wing of the new segregationists.”
    • POTUS Signs Executive Order Handing U.S. Public Forests Over to Private Logging Industry
    • The Strategic Crypto Swindle: A bitcoin reserve would be a government-backed grift.
    • A leaked memo calls for VA to lay off as many as 83,000 employees this year.

#bowl games #business #climate change #college #college football #dailydavid #education #food #government #irs #marketing #parenthood #politics #potus #science fiction #television #white house

I have been in a great quandary over trusts. I do not know what attitude to take. I do not intend to play a demagogue, but on the other hand, I do intend to see that the rich man is held to the same accountability as the poor man. And when the rich man is rich enough to buy unscrupulous advice from very able lawyers, this is not always easy.
Theodore Roosevelt
in an August 15, 1899 letter to a friend

You eventually learn that true priorities are like arms; if you think you have more than a couple, you’re either lying or crazy.
Merlin Mann

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I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.
Mickey Spillane

#FridayFive: Worst Business Meeting Times

View the Friday Five from October 9th, 2009

#business #fridayfive #lists #work

Video Blog Business Models: SXSW 2006

Transcript of 2006 SXSW panel discussion

#blogging #business #coca-cola #marketing #podcasts #sxsw #video #youtube

The New Startup Cultures: SXSW 2006

Transcript of 2006 SXSW panel discussion

#business #email #internet #sxsw #websites

Game Theory at Work

This is one case where you can’t really trust the reviews at Amazon. Take it from me: Game Theory at Work: How to Use Game Theory to Outthink and Outmaneuver Your Competition is an excellent book. It’s been on my reading list for over a year now, and just last night I finally finished. Miller

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#books #business #game theory

Pyra Folds

This is not good. I’m actually very depressed about this. These guys were my heroes, y’know? [link via ]

#blogger #blogging #business #news

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