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New to the Gorman canon? Start here. — Latest and Greatest The Revolution Will Not Be Monetized (8-min read) If I Could Start Again (13-min read) All-Time Bestsellers The 3 Keys to Becoming Irresistible (4-min read) 30 Years of Depression, Gone (38-min read) …

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May 10

The Interminable Hell of LinkedIn Fortune Cookie Wisdom

Agree? — “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly to start.” “Get up. Dress up. Show up. Never give up.” “Harsh truth: Success comes from hard work and determination.” “True leaders build leaders.” “It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.” Agree? Of course, you…

Social Media

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The Interminable Hell of LinkedIn Fortune Cookie Wisdom
The Interminable Hell of LinkedIn Fortune Cookie Wisdom
Social Media

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May 8

All These Insufferable AI Bros Were CryptoBros Last Year

We’re gonna do this all over again, aren’t we? — Y’all, I can’t even open LinkedIn anymore. (Not that anyone should. Stay wild, rebels.) Every third post is ChatGPT carousels or prompt eBooks or how-to guides on generative AI as the new creative department. I say this with all the well-earned wisdom gleaned from my decade-plus working in every possible…

Technology

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All These Insufferable AI Bros Were CryptoBros Last Year
All These Insufferable AI Bros Were CryptoBros Last Year
Technology

6 min read


May 7

The Creator Economy Is An MLM

Not all of it — just the part you’re thinking about right now. — Look. What I’m about to tell you isn’t, like, a new idea. Ain’t even new to me, but today we’re going to talk about “making it.” I’ve been rolling this around since college — right around the time I first watched Matthew Lesko hawk free federal grant money in his…

Marketing

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The Creator Economy Is An MLM
The Creator Economy Is An MLM
Marketing

6 min read


Apr 5

The Ghosts of Imagined Futures Past

On regression, self-mythology, unfulfilled promises, and learning to let it all go. — I never moved to Lisbon. I don’t suppose you thought I did, but I got really close. I had to cancel a flight and thus a house-hunt, slated for March 5–14, 2020; I don’t need to tell you why. You were alive on Earth back then. You know what happened. …

Self Improvement

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The Ghosts of Imagined Futures Past
The Ghosts of Imagined Futures Past
Self Improvement

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·Mar 3

Social Performance is so Exhausting

And also stupid, necessary, and everywhere — We are living in a golden age of lying. From men lying about their height on Bumble to LinkedIn gurus fudging the zeroes in their bank accounts, there’s never been a better time to bend or stretch the truth. If you want to make it in 2023, you’ve gotta be…

Social Media

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Social Performance is so Exhausting
Social Performance is so Exhausting
Social Media

8 min read


Mar 2

The Dark Side of the Moon at 50

Pink Floyd’s singular 1973 masterpiece is more than a popular album — it’s a generational rite of passage. — In last week’s Billboard 200, SZA’s S.O.S. logged its tenth week at №1. The album’s an eclectic tour de force of modern melodic R&B; it deserves to stay perched on the top for a while. SZA’s a spellbinding, hugely talented artist. Even before making her full-length debut on 2017’s sublime…

Music

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The Dark Side of the Moon at 50
The Dark Side of the Moon at 50
Music

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An Injustice!

·Mar 1

We Used to Watch Ads, Then We Became Them

Have we reached peak Internalized Capitalism yet? — Approximately 113 million people in the US watched the Kansas City Chiefs battle the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LXVII. [I was one of them; I love the Super Bowl.] While the game (and Rihanna!) …

Social Media

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We Used to Watch Ads, Then We Became Them
We Used to Watch Ads, Then We Became Them
Social Media

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An Injustice!

·Feb 27

Welcome to the Surreal World

Technology is evolving faster than humans can comprehend, adapt to, or regulate — “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.” — Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park (1993) This’ll be a quick take because I have a workday to get on with and maybe so do you, but lemme start with…

Culture

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Welcome to the Surreal World
Welcome to the Surreal World
Culture

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Feb 24

How to Lose Your Culture in 40 Years

Memories are long; life is longer. Away and back in five parts. — “Papa was born in France.” That was about the size of it. That’s what my Mama told me, in perfect English. I was maybe six years old. That, of course, was never the whole story — it never is. We don’t have time to really process the entirety of what…

Culture

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How to Lose Your Culture in 40 Years
How to Lose Your Culture in 40 Years
Culture

15 min read

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