In this issue: Metaverse pessimism / Actual good use cases for the metaverse / Making $200k a year ghostwriting on Twitter / AI copywriters make decent prototypes / Prepping for a Joe Rogan appearance / RIP Microsoft Office / Welcome to the world, Netflix Basic With Ads.
If you know anything about me as a writer and as a professional human being who is paid good money to give PR and marketing advice, you know that I piss upon the metaverse frequently and with joy.
The “metaverse” is a sad, pathetic mess of legacy technology companies trying to convince eager marks to put on VR headsets and use buggy software. Absolutely noone wants to work on Excel sheets in VR. Creating a digital avatar of your doughy, merely average real-life human body is sad, not exciting.
If you want to talk about the metaverse as a continuum of online gamers doing cool stuff in Roblox or Minecraft, I’m all ears because the kids know where it’s at. But 99% of all corporate “metav…
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