The Marketing Guy

Pandering to any foreign president by buying his merch and standing in front of a Ford is just uniquely terrible comms strategy from Toyota.

Silicon Valley: Where some startups are born, some eaten, and most starve and die.

Being a cop has never sucked more and never mattered more. Most of the job is dealing with problems they can't solve or fix and shouldn’t have to. The last 1% is @#$! terrifying. That makes coppers hang together, and that causes trouble because they can’t belong to one another—but they inevitably do

Why Biden’s White House Press Secretary Is Leaving the Democratic Party Karine Jean-Pierre feels that Democrats were so mean to Biden that she is becoming an Independent.

This is one of the most shocking interviews with @ichotiner.bsky.social I have read in a while. How can Biden's head of communications be so bad at... communicating? Forming a clear and coherent argument?

Fun drinking game, but for every time you visibly cringe reading this @newyorker.com piece.

Construction is the unofficial soundtrack of sleep deprivation.

If states follow the will of the people and put Trump on ballots a 3rd time he can rewrite the Constitution. Boom. Legal!

Trump's new gold ballroom isn't about the economy or healthcare cuts. It's about doing what's right.

I think Trump was really brave for bailing out Argentina with our tax dollars.

*cue Vin Scully voice*

Take a bow!

Humans have walked the earth for 300,000 years and we get to live in the one where Shohei hits three home runs and gives up just two hits on 10Ks in 6 shutout innings. In the playoffs.

Is this the greatest game ever played? Did we just watch that?

If you can get your ego, worth and self esteem crushed slowly, you can get your ego, worth and self esteem crushed quickly.

The UN Security Council is broken. Countries in it are not aligned while countries that should be (India, Japan, Germany) are not allowed in.

What's not broken? The UN is a reminder of the things the US used to stand up for after WWII, things that we aren't so sure we are standing up for anymore.

I started thinking about building CreatorScore in November of 2024 and today have built something I'm especially proud of.

And it's just gets better and better with every push.

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I think the best business model is to be a good person. Not put the tease in striptease.

She certainly introduced sizzle. A century later, shameless promoters like Elon would be proud.

Her sister, June Havoc, brought the steak. While she made less money over her career, she was a great actor and supported small theaters, non-white artists, 1st amendment rights, and animal welfare.

He isnt perfect but his net effect is more positive than almost any human that's ever lived.

Why don't more billionaires create massive foundations and spend their own money to eradicate disease in africa or place moonshot bets in planet-altering companies?!

Because lames expect them to fly coach.

love it. we already had that though.

For too long we had bloviating 'experts' on every topic that mattered and many that didn't, we had racism and half-truths and propaganda and misinfo... and all that was generated by meatware.

Why should we expect software to be a massive improvement?

cybersecurity will capture more revenue than all the big AI companies over the next decade.

And that’s the opportunity. A GM doesn’t just sign players—he defines what the team stands for to the owners and fans. Until that statement is made and lived out, we’re going to keep getting a brand of baseball that feels tepid.

Minnesota and this stadium deserve more than that.

What’s missing is what the Twins are trying to do on the field. Swing for the fences? Play a modern, analytics-driven game of high % decisions? Deliver a grit-and-grind, hustle-first squad that plays with fire and risks it all, especially when losing?

Right now they are none of those things.

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Great sentiment.

Here’s the thing—they could be so much more.

When marketers think about building a great brand or product, they start with a statement of what that *thing* is trying to do. It's a singular idea that shapes culture, tone, and every decision that follows.

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"Fascism isn't coming. It is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet."

--William Gibson

After all that -- after turning it over a hundred times in my head, going back and forth on whether I should even share this at all, I've come to the only conclusion that feels remotely safe, fair, and true: I would like to say that I have absolutely nothing to say on this. So I’ll leave it at that.

But after looking at every perspective, asking experts I'm connected to, going back into the research and peer reviewed sources, studying the nuances & implications of decades of controversy -- how this could be insult or be misinterpreted, just completely land wrong no matter how I say it...

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Look I want to be honest -- but also careful, because I know everyone’s got a take on this, and the last thing I’m trying to do is offend anyone, seem overly emotional, or act like my view is the only one that matters. Basically, I’ve gone deep & really tried to look at this from all angles...

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Ppl saying he's washed, but defense like his takes a lot of heart. He had nothing to play for until now. Chip incoming, Rondo-style.

Huh? What a weird take.

The Eiffel tower has been photographed 10 million times *this month* but 100 years from now people are still going to take travel photos of their kids on the grass at this exact spot.

You might be saying something about influencer marketing, but I have no idea what it is.

You know, it's funny, every time I use google I think "Man I wish they would shove more stuff in my face before the actual search results."

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