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You talk a lot in the book about Instagram, and with good reason: Instagram gave way to the rise of momfluencer culture as we know it. But these days Momfluencer content is all over Tiktok, too, and that's a different format: Tiktok is more suited to raw, unfiltered videos. In what ways do you see Tiktok changing mom culture online at all fro

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Unsurprisingly, none of my childhood friends who took those piano lessons are professional pianists today. Nor was that ever the goal for the parents who enrolled them. That’s because creative expression is often used as a gateway to something more practical, and is rarely accepted as something practical in itself.

There is voting, of course, but to become an informed voter all one needs to do is read a short guide about the candidates and issues before the election. There’s no need to have to suffer through the daily back-and-forth of allegations and counter-allegations, of scurrilous lies and their refutations.

“Media scripts humans just like code scripts machines. Own a media corporation or be owned by one”

What’s really worried me over the years is not our stock price, but that we might someday fail to take care of our customers, or that our managers might fail to motivate and take care of our associates. I also was worried that we might lose the team concept, or fail to keep the family concept viable and realistic and meaningful to our folks as we g... See more

So accomplishments have a cost basis. What you gain or lose is always relative to where you began. And since we all begin at different spots, there’s a range in how people feel when experiencing the same thing.