Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Netflix’s Bad Habits Have Caught Up With It Netflix’s Big Wake-Up Call: The Power Clash Behind the Crash Movies and the Internet Inside the Implosion of CNN+ Reference points Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music Longer reads: Getting To Grips With The C-Word …

Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: This is as good as movies are going to get Back to the Future of Twitter Google’s New Tech Can Read Your Body Language — Without Cameras Confessions of an Information Hoarder The Miserable Lives of Cyborg Truck Drivers Reference points Communicating complex research Earth reviews …

Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: The Game-Defining Rivalry of ‘Elden Ring’ and ‘Horizon Forbidden West’ ‘I don’t let my wife use it’ — great TV theme tune composers savage ‘skip intro’ DALL-E, the Metaverse, and Zero Marginal Content Abbott Elementary Is the New Model for Network-Sitcom Success Reference points The 21st…

Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: ‘Morbius’ and When the Critical Consensus Bites Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok F1 Delta Time blockchain game shuts down This is how Twitter’s edit button can actually work Reference points WeWork’s Adam and Rebekah Neumann: Nine Crazy Real-Life Stories Longer reads: What Happens When…

Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: The Baby-Sitters Club Wasn’t Enough for Netflix Anymore Stand-Up Comedy Shines During a Tough Time for Music Touring Looking Back on the Origin of ‘Skip Intro’ Five Years Later How the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is Playing Out on English, Ukrainian, and Russian Wikipedia American Psychos…

Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: The video essay boom The rise of the meta ‘fake celebrity’ on TikTok Amateur open-source researchers went viral unpacking the war in Ukraine For young female pop stars, dropping choice F-bombs in songs proves liberating and profitable I’m a creator. You’re a creator. We’re all creators! …

Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: A Vibe Shift Is Coming From Instagram to Klarna, a super app strategy gains traction in the U.S. Content is not king, content is gold Reference points We Are Living in a Golden Age of Actors Doing Wild Accents Teen lives, interrupted by COVID Mean screens …

Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now Tracing Chris Lloyd’s path to the top of esports talent representation That broken tech/content culture cycle The Metaverse Finally Has a Killer App: Poker Reference points Book Notes: “Good Strategy Bad Strategy” by Richard P. Rumelt Longer reads: Why…

Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Call of Duty will skip a release next year. The traditional console gaming market will never be the same. Twitter and Meta rush to protect user accounts in Ukraine “The Minions Do the Actual Writing”: The Ugly Truth of How Movie Scores Are Made Reference points …