This week Carly, George and Dan get into what leads people to cults, what an exit strategy can tell you about your product market fit and values, and George tries (unsuccessfully) to validate the idea of making gimp bracelets or macrame instead of writing and publishing articles.
Show Notes
- A new book has been chosen for the book club and Carly is VERY excited and proud to announce it that we will be reading Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way
- The forgotten Gen X (but if you’re looking for more than a meme, check out this New York Times piece This Gen X Mess which is Carly is obsessed with)
- Are you a millennial?
- The Day After, a movie about a nuclear holocaust which haunted George’s youth
- Kevin Roose, a tech columnist for the New York Times, who shares the most viewed videos on Facebook, like the 9/11 Five Guys video
- Watch the trailer for The Vow, HBO’s show about the NXIVM self-help group turned sex cult
- The Umbrella Academy, Netflix’s show based on the comic book series of the same name written by My Chemical Romance’s lead singer, Gerard Way
- Occam's razor, the principle paraphrased by statements like "the simplest explanation is most likely the right one"
- Go get your free flu shot at CVS
- Jonathan Wyner’s Headroom, an iZotope podcast. Listen to ep 6 Blockchain in your Audio to hear George and Nicole d’Avis offer up some insights on the future of blockchain technology in music
- Take it from George and Hunter Walk, don’t mention exit strategies in your pitch deck
- Dan’s first Friday thread with new music releases and new ad campaigns. So nice, he did it twice! Follow us on Twitter to make sure you don’t miss these
- Dan’s Music Industry Swipe File
- Beyond Meat’s sausage and burgers. You’re welcome
- How much is too much mercury? (Swordfish is actually one of the worst offenders)
- For those of you unaware, these are gimp bracelets, and here is some macrame. This will be the last time you see either of these mentioned on this site, pinky swear
Three Things
George
- Reading: Jaron Lanier's—one the few true futurists—interview with GQ, The Conscience of Silicon Valley, in which he says, “When a person is empowered to make a difference, they become more of a full person. They awaken spiritually.”
- Quoting: Carl Jung, “If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”
- Eating: Wulf’s Fish, an incredibly fresh wholesale seafood seller (PS Pufferfish may not kill you, but climate change has created a mutant pufferfish in Japan)
Dan
- Watching: Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill and Ted’s Bogus Adventure on Apple TV
- Watching pt 2: David Blaine’s Ascension half documentary, half livestream on YouTube where he documents the set up and process of his most ambitious feat yet: floating 25,000 feet above the Grand Canyon with helium balloons and then parachuting down
- Listening: To The Gaslight Anthem's album American Slang
George
- Using: Glossier’s boy brow, the only “makeup” she’s using at all these days. It is pronounced gloss-ee-yay, not Dan’s gla-see-ur
- Drinking: Mezcal and thinking it deserves the top place in the cocktails to drink list, sorry negronis
- Watching: Arlo Parks play the piano and sing along side Phoebe Bridgers in their BBC radio session, where the two played Bridger’s “Kyoto” and covered Radiohead’s “Fake Plastic Trees”
