Weekend Links 2/06
Quick newsletter bc, dude, one of those weeks: The Neal Ungerleider Newsletter #76
Hello! Yo! Top of the day!
This weekend’s links are a little shorter by necessity. Busy with client projects, unexpected things came up, yadda yadda yadda.
Basically, running a small business while raising a toddler and navigating a pandemic where everything is kind of improvised is REALLY FUN. By REALLY FUN, I mean that you have to force yourself to be flexible, have to understand that unexpected things will come up, and (important! crucial! big life lesson here!) put less on your to-do list that you normally would because that—and that only—gives you the flexibility to work through the weird s**t.
Anyway, I miss having work-life balance.
Oh, and Rescuetime is awesome for blocking timesuck sites on your computer, and remember to militantly block social media software, games, or any other distractions on your phone. That’s important.
But here are some interesting things I read this week…
Former Huawei Denmark VP of communications Tommy Zwicky speaks about why he resigned over Huawei’s alleged Uighur-identifying facial scanning tech.
The Washington Post is hiring an Instagram editor to figure out new ways to turn the WaPo’s IG followers into paying Post subscribers.
Ed Zitron on the unspoken rules of Twitter for PR people.
A crazyass joint 7-Eleven-Airbnb-PlayStation 5 experiential campaign in Dallas.
Will Oremus on why “Clubhouse is the anti-Twitter.”
And, finally, it’s almost certain Planters and Skippy peanut butter will merge, forming an unstopppable legume juggernaut.
See y’all soon.
Neal