Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
A few weeks ago, I went on one of my favorite podcasts — The Ezra Klein Show — to talk about burnout, workism, and our relationship to labor. In our conversation, I invoke the idea of “LARPing” your job, a phrase my partner uses to describe the way we try and show evidence that LOOK, OVER HERE,…
Ever since “people-based marketing” was introduced at Advertising Week in 2014, it has become a strategic imperative for almost every brand. Fortune 500 companies are investing in and adopting the tech, agency media buyers are mandating it in insertion orders, and DSPs, DMPs and measurement providers are strategizing around how they can implement this into…
We had a town house, but we weren’t allowed to touch it. I had to be lifted up by the armpits to peer inside. The brick façade appeared to be cut from a single sheet, but, if you looked closely, you could see how my father had smeared cement onto miniature bricks with a butter…
meta: bylines, bios, shares, tip The New York Daily News reports that next week, Mayor Bill de Blasio intends to announce he’s going to stuff his incredibly tall and awkward frame into the already-far-beyond-overloaded clown car of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. When I was a tiny child and there were no safety rules in…
Illustration: Jim Cooke Earlier this month, a non-existent bear named Ron did not attend an anti-vaccine rally. Neither the bear nor the rally in Hawthorne, Florida, were real, and Wendy Callahan, a local anti-vaccine activist, had no idea her name was being used by a person posing as her to file a permit for the…
Illustration: Benjamin Currie/GMG THE FUTURE OF LABORWhat’s next for work and workers Every morning, the Portland chapter of the Black Panther Party had a routine. Just before 6 a.m., a driver would pick up former U.S. Navy cook “Big Jeff” along with a heavy haul of food, and they would head over to the…
The Guardian is a weird newspaper. Most newspapers don’t have nearly two-thirds of their readers coming from outside the country they’re based in. Most newspapers don’t start in one city and then move to another one. Most newspapers aren’t owned by a trust that mandates it promote “liberal journalism both in Britain and elsewhere.” And…
Last July, ahead of its planned launch in the United States, The Correspondent made its first U.S. hire: Zainab Shah, who’d previously been global lead for strategy and operations at BuzzFeed. Ernst Pfauth — CEO of De Correspondent, the Dutch site for which The Correspondent was to be a new sibling — wrote that, as…
Marketers thought the Web would allow perfectly targeted ads.Hasn’t worked out that way. Ron Amram has been in the brand marketing business for about 20 years. In the 2000s he was media director for Sprint’s prepaid cellular group, mainly figuring out where the carrier should spend its ad dollars—print, outdoor, digital, or broadcast. TV was…
They strung up the guilty and, in the interest of prevention, a robust percentage of the innocent Subscribe now ICE is going to get him? the judge asked before ordering the court’s recording device to be turned off. It was March 2018 and one of old uncle Donnie’s hernia dads from the racism squad was…