Founder of the Social Media Escape Club
I couldn’t imagine being a laid off Microsoft worker then waking up to this news.
Everything is cruel and cold. Be a robot. No emotions. Don’t rock the boat. Eh, you’ll probably still get laid off because paying for extra server capacity for AI bots is cheaper than rising health care costs.
People are the problem, it seems.
This podcast really hit home with me; all about gratitude, hustle, and all the other horrible things with modern capitalism. Found them via an Instagram Reel, and felt compelled to look them up on Spotify, and then found via YouTube, so I could share. Check ’em out.
JAN 12: Posted another GOODNIGHT, METAL FRIEND mix.
JAN 14: Wrote ‘CASSETTES & EMAIL MARKETING WILL OUTLIVE EVERY SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM‘ which includes a tune I wrote.
JAN 16: Put up this subscriber-only ‘YOUTUBE POOPS, VIRAL AI VIDEOS, AND WHY YOU DON’T NEED A TIKTOK ACCOUNT,’ which is a new thing for me.
Oh, I’ve been doing the audio editing for this podcast:
From ‘Forty Years In, Yo La Tengo Are Still Making It Up as They Go‘ over at Pitchfork.
When Yo La Tengo invited Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley to sit in with them for the entirety of their second-night set, the drummer pleaded, “I don’t know what I’m doing.” “You don’t have to,” Kaplan told him, adding, “We don’t know what we’re doing.” He only hopes that Yo La Tengo’s faith in their collaborators will spark “something interesting.”
The Wall Street Journal says “Bosses all over the U.S. are asking the same question: Where have all the go-getters gone?”
Are you kidding me?
I can’t say it any better than Georgia Garvey here:
That whole thread is a god damned treasure.
Great reminder as we head into the new year:
“It took many years of bad experiences to realize that overextending often yielded fruitless labor.”
Olivia Lopez via WeTransfer
Yeah, you could say I’m killing it on LinkedIn.
This quote rattles my bones:
‘I was working in film production and was responsible for what’s called “pulling focus” – as the character moves across the scene, the focus puller keeps them in focus. That’s what I did for 10 years, mostly for commercials. But commercials are the most transient things you can possibly make. It’s so much energy, but they last for 30 seconds and are gone from the world. I wanted to make something more permanent.
Adam McDermott of Linus Bikes
Who remembers quiet Fridays? When all the demands of the week regain momentum just to crash into your Friday afternoon like a dumptruck? Sure. Why not.
Been trying the Pomodoro method of time management, and time blocking, and whatever, but really the best for me is “I’m working on this one thing, all my notifications are off, I’ll tackle the next action item when this one is complete.”
Multi-tasking is a myth, and a brain drain.
Photo taken with my GoPro 8.
I’ve lately been leaning towards the higher-value work lately, and believing the lower value work will get done eventually. It’s hard, because I want everything done all the time, in a perfect schedule. I used to plan to have certain tasks done on certain days, but I’ve scrapped all that, and just started working on things as my energy allowed.
And while I love being wrapped up and done by 3 or 4pm, sometimes I need that workout in the morning, or that bike ride after lunch, which then pushes “closing time” back, and that’s okay.
