We’ve been working on an RFP the last week. (Noah’s been doing all the work while I rest up for the stretch run.) Feels kind of like a writing prompt from a freshman-level English class, except we have to include a rate card and an editorial plan. It’s part solo endeavor, part group project.
I enjoy this part of the job because it reminds me of my favorite part of high school and college classes: making dumb stuff and taking it seriously. “Filming” a very, very bad movie for 7th grade science class with a camcorder. Assembling an insect collection. Editing and designing a pretentious and bad literary magazine. (I guess I’ve been a project manager all along?) It was fun to make those things and it’s fun to pitch new business—it’s even more fun when you win it.
Pitch decks are just group projects.
The links? The links!
A Project
We launched a new theme over at Where to Next, the editorial platform we help run for Acumen America. This one is all about the wealth gap in America, why it persists, and what could be done to ameliorate some of the problems.
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An Article
“The Gator Finds a Place at the Tailgate”
College football tailgates are a spectacle. Smoked meats. Elaborate breakfast sandwiches. Pots of chili. Bloody Marys stuffed with pickles and cured meats. My neighbor I are already talking about our plans for next season. Extremely into LSU fans cooking a bunch of gator for their tailgates when the Florida Gators come to town and impressed by this fella’s enterprising engineering: “Mr. Cortez’s gator and another, larger farm-raised one were tied down to a homemade rotisserie built with a windshield-wiper motor.”
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A Movie
The Bourne Movies
Been slowly making my way through blockbusters from the late 90s and early aughts on various streaming services. And let me tell you: the Bourne movies hold up. They are incredible and perfect in every way. Chase scenes! People crashing through windows! Explosions! Going off the grid! Everything you want in an action (thriller?) movie. Pop a big-ass bowl of popcorn, turn off the lights, and crank up the volume.
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A Run
The Three Point Four team ran the best race of the year last week: our respective Turkey Trots. Wearing a Matthew Stafford jersey while trying to keep pace with a group of 8th graders? That’s a tradition that will never get old. Noah was one second off his high school 5k PR—shoulda kicked harder. There’s always next year.
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Noah will wrap up the year with you in a couple weeks. I’ll see you in 2022.