Amie Pollack

I have just realized: I don’t want to see everything. I don’t want to know what people do until it’s a story, until the narrative has been constructed. Gatekeep the location, please. Tantalize me with a taste. Give me the tone, not the totality, until it’s ready.

Brands who have found resonance with their ideas are “Multi-Platform Narrative Threading” - and telling different but overlapping versions of their story on different social networks, such that fans that are reached across different mediums begin to get a bigger, more holistic view, and feel truly in on the brand story in ways that have never... See more

1) It must be exhausting to read things in order to get mad at them. 2) The social-media internet was built around finding things to get mad at. 3) That motivation ultimately made everything bad. 4) I don’t want to do that; I want people to read newsletters (or articles) because they want to be surprised and delighted by them, because we’re on... See more

In this way, print magazines free all sides of the media economy from some of the things people commonly dislike most about reading online. There’s no algorithmic intervention serving things up to readers, no paywalls that refuse to remember your password, no constant bids for your attention crowding the edges of your screen. They allow both... See more

Search with your voice

Create

Notifications

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","description":"Make the switch to Musicbed and start your 14-day free trial today: https://fm.pxf.io/lucidfreetrial\n\nSTANZA SERIES: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN4MQEkghycfzlNiBf5XcGSsYKPno6EfS&si=jhTK_Ri6SjU392UH\n\nAn essay by Shaffer Nickel -... See more

And although the Senate failed to reach the two-thirds majority required for conviction, seven Republican senators voted to convict—the most members of a president’s own party to vote for an impeachment conviction in history