What I Miss: Event Report From A Grounded Marketer.

Constellation Research don’t usually write posts with great humour, but in this they did - with reasonable success.


‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ Draws Record 4.3 Million Viewers In 2Q.

So that’s roughly 360 million that didn’t watch him. Tell me again why we care?


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Issue 24 called out the People First newsletter


The Substack Fellowship for Independent Writers

I wont be applying, I am hardly qualified. BUT … It is clear that Substack (unlike (say) Medium) are doing all they can to support writers. Long established ones, new ones, famous ones and those of us just starting out.


R I P Carl


Greg Palast asking some pertinent questions …

”Palast and Josh Fox discuss the nightmare scenario presented by Article XII of the United States Constitution and ponder the elephant in the room: Do we have strength to challenge what could be a total coup?”



Higher Ed: Enough Already.

“Universities that, after siphoning $1.5 trillion in credit from young people, cannot endure a semester on reduced budgets do not deserve to survive.”

Scott Galloway


“The user experience angle only matters when the buyer of a product is also the user..”

Ben Thompson

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Cataloging all the house number styles.

“Dan Kois walked all of the blocks in his ZIP Code and collected data on whether houses used serif or sans serif fonts for their house numbers.”

Filed in the ‘way too much time on their hands’ bucket.


Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump over drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani.

Now we’re talking.

Kind of like the opposite of Capone - we can’t get him on his taxes - let’s try getting him on his other crimes.




🎵 The antithesis of streaming music … as you think about Apple and ‘AppStoreGate’ …. spare a thought for the musicians.




Russian bounties on American troops in Afghanistan resulted in deaths and Trump did nothing.

Why is this surprising?

He’s doing nothing about over 100k deaths of civilians in plain sight.



Amazon To Acquire Self-driving Car Startup Zoox

Zoox, a 6-year-old self-driving car startup raised $955 million in venture-backed funding.

Amazon paid around $1 billion.

Isn’t $955 million ‘around $1 billion?


Parlez on Parler?

Nah …. everybody there will just shout at me.