Erika Hall

Friday! Look, I *know* the business part is khaki pants, ugh, but we need a lot more of the people who want to do good things knowing their way around business. "Attract funding, do illegal shit" gets the most press coverage, but it's not the only way. www.eventbrite.com/e/2003749697...

The first spoken line in Darkman (1990) is “…‘cause he’s an asshole.” Honestly, movie for our times.

This is fantastic. We need more quality data visualization in the world.

There's no good reason to repost famous people saying ignorant shit. It just amplifies the ignorance.

nathan fielder interviewed by isaac chotiner

A Valkyries fan’s sign: “Move the Hawks game. Women = Prime Time”

I believe we really do just have to start new organizations/institutions/businesses, which sucks because it's exhausting and the money has to come from somewhere. But if only evil people are hiring, that means jobs aren't an option.

In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

Monday!

You have to have the relationships in place before you do the action or need the help.

Collective action is annoying, but necessary.

for reasons not too different from why that anonymous 45-year old professor stopped dating women his own age.

curse of knowledge, yo. www.muledesign.com/blog/curse-o...

"Get a bunch of old WIRED editors together these days and it doesn’t take more than one drink before we start asking each other whether we enabled the worst parts of the tech world’s rise to power. " www.wired.com/story/how-el...

There must still be a liberal arts college somewhere with a cross-disciplinary course on The Blond/e.

"amplify your people" is 100% the best strategy

This, from last year, sucks. Two most prominent people laid off, women. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

You Can See Everything will be taught in courses in like 10-20 different fields.

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

Since b-school is cooked, next week we're doing b-school. Come get your Mule of Business Administration. www.eventbrite.com/e/2003749697...

please don't let me down. please take a chance on me. here is an EPUB FIRST EDITION of my memoir i completed in Winter 2024. it's only 20 bucks and 200+ pages. i worked really hard on this. please purchase, share, and tell your friends juno-rylee-schultz.itch.io/dad-yelled-m...

pulling for the whole world to have this energy

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

I need to not be close to anyone’s face for a little bit.

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Holy shit, You Can See Everything. It’s going to take me days to recover.

I hate the Alamo Drafthouse phone thing so much. My phone just doesn’t work with it.

This week’s newsletter is about friendships ending. Read it, and then maybe reach out to someone you haven’t reached out to in a while. Or walk away from someone who has you doing all the work. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...