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This is my intro.
Onward.
An Article
This is a fun story from a former Senior Principal Technologist at Amazon about the company’s quick foray and then immediate about face into and out of blockchain technology. He sort of invents the concept of NFTs but discards them because they are dumb. Good stuff.
This piece came across my radar through my Twitter feed and running into this type of random ephemera is one thing I will really miss if the bird app goes away. Where are we going to find such serendipity? Newsletters? Gross.
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A Podcast
Not a big podcast guy, duh, but I do enjoy Odd Lots from time to time. Tracy and Joe talk to experts about the most esoteric things—Guyana Is the Most Exciting Story in the World Oil Market; Truckers Are Working Countless Hours That They're Not Getting Paid For—and I always come away feeling a lot smarter and a little more inquisitive and confused. This is a good place to be on the Venn diagram of life.
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A Project
For Dropbox, we talked to David Wilson, Senior Manager of Creative Technology and Production for Mary Kay’s U.S. Creative Services team about how he fits that title on a business card. We kid. It’s all jokes around here in early-to-mid-December. He walked us through the process of how Mary Kay makes a magazine. It turned out nicely, if we do say so ourselves.
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A Movie
I watched this on a plane, and, I dunno, it’s terrible? Maybe the parts are all there, but the sum is very much not. Disappointing. Would not recommend, and not just because the 15-minute scene where everyone gets seasick happened to coincide with a period of turbulence on the way from Atlanta to LaGuardia. (Hell of a new terminal experience, though! New York, we get the job done. Billions over budget and decades late but still.) After Sadness, I watched the first 33 minutes of Batman Returns before we landed, and I wish I had started with that movie.
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A Run
As previewed in our last newsletter, Three Point Four Media ran some Turkey Trots. We didn’t win. We didn’t set any PRs. We did, however, get a) a picture with a turkey (Bill) and b) obliterated down the stretch by a 12 year old (Noah), so we’ll count the experiences as Ws on the race of life. On to the next, always.
This is the last Loop of 2022. Thanks for reading, supporting us, and generally being wonderful humans.
See you in ‘23.