I just got back from a weeklong camping trip across the American West. Deep into the National Parks and National Forests of Utah, Nevada, and Eastern California. The best part? I couldn’t check my email, even if I wanted to. No service! Zero bars. A beautiful scene. The one time I did check my email, I forwarded something that was not urgent—and, in hindsight, kind of useless—to Noah and he replied “stop checking your email.” That’s a good business partner, taking the wheel while you’re away.
This ends my endorsement of not checking your email on vacation. Onto the links.
A concert
I ended my Clark Griswold trip in San Francisco to catch two of the “final” Dead & Company shows at Oracle Park. Good tunes, good t-shirts, good people. One song even went viral on Twitter. I’m sure they’ll announce their Final Final Tour before the end of the year.
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An article
Friend of the newsletter and occasional Three Point Four Media contributor Alex Beggs wrote about John Mayer’s guitar face for the Times. Important enterprise reporting here:
“And then you look at John, and he looks like pictures of old Catholic saints when they’re getting visited by an angel.”
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A project
Working on a package of stories for [redacted luxury watch brand] that will launch later this summer and early fall. We’re firmly in the doldrums of summer. We haven’t reached “let’s just talk after Labor Day” territory yet, but we’re not far off.
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A video
Everything is coming up John Mayer, I guess? I was doing research on YouTube for a client yesterday and, after I finished watching a video about Medicaid, the algorithm fed me this time capsule from 2002. What a time to be alive! He looks like a child. Sometimes the algorithm knows what your soul needs (a goofy MTV video from 20+ years ago).
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A hike
Not much running on vacation, but we did do a lot of hiking. That’s me pictured above rocking my team-issued Three Point Four Media hat at Lake Margaret in the Sierra Nevadas. All the alpine lakes and mountain streams are deep after record snow this winter—excellent for mid-hike dips.
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Fare thee well
Thanks, as always, for listening. Back to regularly scheduled—and non Grateful Dead and Grateful Dead-adjacent—programming in two weeks.