We Love the Internet 2022/09: The Power of a good cry edition

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 didn’t Vanity Fair break the Jeffrey Epstein story
• The Rabbit Hole Beneath the Crypto Couple Is Endless

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• BRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTT
• You will not regret spending 1 minute and 9 seconds of your life on this video.

Things to look at/read:

• The True Story of the Viral False Teeth That Fooled the World
• OK, WTF Are Wordcels and Shape Rotators?
• Hollywood’s First Family of Putting It Out There
• Inside Shonda Rhimes’s Strikingly Regal New York City Apartment

Animal corner:

• Oh so handsome
• Apparently you’re not supposed to laugh
• him gets very excited

Tweets of the week:

• Timothy Olyphant is the result of giving a +1 to every single Josh Duhamel attribute
• Alright Lionel, it’s not a competition
• This is it guys. The pinnacle of the internet. We’ve done it! Pack it up, it’s over.
• Has a man… posted himself?
• There’s a step at Reading FC that everyone falls over..
• How bigs his suitcase ?
• we went from a deadly virus to WW3, which one of you mfs changed it from zombies to multiplayer

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The power of a good cry
• How to want less
• What It’s Like to Attend the Brits as a Non-Celeb
• The Talented Mr. Bernardini
• The common tongue of 21st century London

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