Weekend Links: Another Unevenly Distributed Future
Best practices for goons. Context Collapse #130
In this issue: A whole lot of links.
So let’s do this thing.
New Futures:
Noone knows if your crypto is safe if Coinbase goes bankrupt?
How COVID stole our time and how we can get it back.
Zeynep Tufekci gets tenure at Columbia.
Advertising/Marketing/PR:
The rise of LinkedIn ghostwriting.
A guide to ad campaigns which failed in testing, were launched anyway and then did really well.
Woman says Coors paid her $1000 to successfully inject advertisements into her dreams.
Using Reddit to validate your product.
Epic Indonesian graphic design.
How McKinsey structures its global publishing team.
Media:
Instagram launched enhanced tags.
Washington Post: Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok.
Working at TikTok is different.
How to make writing easier to read for everyone.
Minimum brand management for journalists.
CNN+ is worth 0.143 of a Quibi.
A Demand Media content farming retrospective.
Tech:


When the Midwest was a tech hub.
WordPress’ market share is shrinking.
Misc.:
“What is a fact that sounds like a shitpost but is 100 percent real?”
Matt Nagy’s mansion is amazing.
MIT scans brains of hyperpolyglot who speaks 24 languages.
The politics of second passports.
New Dan Carlin Hardcore History.
This Poly Styrene documentary is solid gold.