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Lulu Cheng Meservey: Meet Silicon Valley’s Top PR Master

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Carolynn and I have known Sam Altman for his whole career. In fact it was Sam who introduced us. So today's Social Radars is a special one. Join us as we talk to Sam about the inside story of his journey from Stanford sophomore to AI mogul. https://t.co/V0ncw3J5an https://t.co/qrgHIlazOC

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There are things I can’t stomach anymore—I never listen to NPR in the car now. I’ve replaced it with top-forty stations; vacuity seems preferable to pandering.

Elisa Gabbert • The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays

Gina Gotthilf (@ginag) led early growth at @Duolingo, scaling the app from 3m to 200m users, led paid growth for the @MikeBloomberg presidential campaign, led international expansion for @Tumblr, and is now co-founder and COO of @LatitudLatAm, a startup platform supporting the next generation of iconic tech startups in Latin... See more

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But how about Lulu?

waitbutwhy.com • A Story of Stories — Wait But Why

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My conversation with Lulu Cheng Meservey (@lulumeservey), founder of Rostra. Lulu and her team (@SAlexashenko and @gaby_goldberg) are leading a new generation of AI-native founders to unapologetically craft their own stories and "go direct" — a rallying cry for speaking directly to audiences and not leaning on... See more

Michael Mignano

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### Joan Didion

- Best Known Work:

- Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) – A seminal collection of essays capturing the spirit of the 1960s, particularly in California.

- The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) – A powerful memoir about grief and the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne.

- Underrated/Underdiscovered Work:

- Play It As It Lays (1970) – A

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Sally Rooney’s novels all share similar themes, and she’s fine with that. “There is a huge cultural fixation with novelty and growth. Everything has to grow all the time. Get bigger, sell more and be different — novelty, reinvention. I don’t find that very interesting,” she said. The... See more

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The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han review – how big tech altered the narrative

Stuart Jeffries

Mon 19 Feb 2024 03.00 AEDT

In Charlie Kaufman’s puppet animation Anomalisa, everyone looks and speaks the same. It’s as though a scene in an earlier Kaufman-penned film, Being John Malkovich, in which Malkovich surveys a restaurant from his table and