03 Oct A Slow Roll Down a Bad Hill
I originally published this piece on Patreon on July 24th of this year. Whenever I'm on YouTube and see clickbait titles and photos, I wince. You know what I'm talking about...
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02 Oct Company Culture Bull đŠ
What even is company culture anyway? When I was working for other people in an office â or worst of all, a so-called âbull penâ environment â it was awful. Iâm sorry, I canât sugarcoat it to avoid hurting anyoneâs feelings. I hated it. Being...
01 Oct Saturday Broadcast 18
[buzzsprout episode='11388670' player='true'] Key topics: âď¸ ICYMI news, 9/26 - 9/30. âď¸ Russell Brand is moving his content to Rumble. I predicted on Saturday Broadcast 16 that he'd be slapped down and censored soon. Happened even faster than I thought. (And yes, I finally got a hype man to announce my...
30 Sep Who still believes this?
-https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/29/jobless-claims-hit-five-month-low-despite-feds-efforts-to-slow-labor-market.html "There's no such thing as a winnable war / It's a lie we don't believe anymore...
29 Sep When Does Optimism Become . . . Cruel? đ¤
[buzzsprout episode='11328447' player='true'] Where is the threshold for when positive thinking and optimism become toxic? Or perhaps worse than toxic - downright cruel ? Key topics: âď¸ Lauren Berlant's book Cruel Optimism. âď¸ What if a dream of "the good life" is actually holding you back from living a good life? Or...
28 Sep Imagine that!
Photo by Marten Bjork on Unsplash "GM delays return-to-office mandate after employee backlash." -https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/27/gm-delays-return-to-office-mandate-after-employee-backlash.html You mean people don't actually wanna go back? Imagine that! "The companyâs senior leadership team on Friday said corporate workers would be required to return to physical locations at least three days a week, beginning...
27 Sep Scammers, Email Bombers, Desperate Marketers, etc.
Image by AndyPandy from Pixabay A couple of years ago, I was on the Pirate Broadcast with Russ Johns. One of the things we talked about was how email used to be exciting but then it turned into a cesspool of spam. I remember he said something like, "Marketers...
26 Sep Bonus Episode: “Scam Frameworks” & Hopium
[buzzsprout episode='11341390' player='true'] Recently, I read the article "Why Successful People Donât Teach Success: Gurus, income experts, and business coaches preach personal success systems" by Jim Clair. Unfortunately, some of these personal success systems don't actually help you achieve that success...
25 Sep This Might Be the Most Warning You Get
âI think itâs very important to look at the number of job openings,â Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter, told CNBC. âThe question is how steeply they will fall, how sharply they will fall, if they go back to 7 million [job openings], the level...
24 Sep Saturday Broadcast 17
[buzzsprout episode='11347293' player='true'] Key topics: âď¸ ICYMI news, 9/19 - 9/23. âď¸ It's funny that these cities are telling people to have bug out bags but then at the same time acting like "nothing to see here, no big deal, no need to worry." What?! âď¸ It's also funny...