🔗 An attempt at humo(u)r over on Substack … by yours truly. I didn’t despatch it to the subscriber list - just experimenting with various engagement ideas over there.
This week Rob is a bit more serious than usual - but he’s on an important topic - the ‘truth in history’ versus ‘but it doesn’t make for good drama’ schtick. Something else we agree on - - even though he doesn’t know that!
He ends with how all of this is ‘kind of ok’ in Entertainment - but maybe not so much in reality. You know what I’m talkin' about!
🔗 VCs Can’t Get Enough of AI for Lawyers
It’s not going to end well.
🔗 Storytelling at scale - by David Szabo-Stuban I just joined David’s Discord - a refreshing insight into building your own Agents.
🔗 Becoming You. - by Rishad Tobaccowala
We transform and are not just transformed.
🔗 Daring Fireball: The Secretive Dynasty That Controls the Boar’s Head Brand
.. now there’s a headline I wasn’t expecting!
🔗 🎙️ Ta-Nehisi Coates on complexity, clarity, and truth - talking with Sean Illing.
// @Denny - right up your street.
I’m sorry he’s gone. But that is not what this is about.
It’s that phrase … ‘the UK version’
WTF … I never watch the show - not my cup of tea - but I do get pissed off about things like this. Original things do happen outside of the U.S.A..
The X Factor is a UK show. It ran from 2004 to 2018
🔗 It actually has several versions throughout the world. - that are all franchises of Cowell’s original show.
The US show started 7 years after the UK show started .. in 2011, lasting 3 seasons. It - like all the other shows around the globe .. were licensed courtesy of Cowell.
Better phrasing?
first formed in 2010 after each member appeared on the original X factor (reality competition show) in the UK.
The really sad thing about this posts is that I am writing it at all and then finding myself standing up for Cowell’s show which was essentially a latter day ‘[🔗 Opportunity Knocks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_Knocks_(British_TV_series)' 🤯