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Brigitte Lyons
@brigittelyons.bsky.social
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Sold my agency, now I'm helping other small business owners build themselves out of the day-to-day without exploiting your team.

https://brigittelyons.substack.com/p/inside-my-agency-sale
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A note to my agency owner and founder friends. If you're setting up accounts on apps and tools you want to retain access to after selling your company, do not use your branded email!

Signed, someone who spent an hour swapping emails over for a whole bunch of software.
February 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Because what else would I be doing on a Sunday
February 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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I got an email about a president's day sale this morning, and since I'm remodeling a bathroom, I wanted to go check out the discounts.

What is the late stage capitalism is wrong with this picture?!

SIX DOLLARS -- Wow, you really did something with this.
February 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Proud to be from Chicago today
January 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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"Zuckerberg just happens to be cursed with the reality that he became very rich at a very young age by being a pioneer in a technology that is basically harmful."
ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · Jan 17
- @mattyglesias.bsky.social is sharp on Zuck's latest about-face in his mailbag
www.slowboring.com/p/last-biden...
I think Mark Zuckerberg is basically correct that the "fact-checking" information control response to the problem of misinformation spreading on social media has basically been a failure. But the fact that social media sharing puts people who try to be scrupulous and accurate at a competitive disadvantage to people who try to be sensationalistic and prejudice-flattering is a real problem. I sympathized with almost everything he said about this to Ezra Klein during his lib turn in 2018, as well as with almost everything he said about it to Joe Rogan as part of his MAGA turn this winter. The underlying problem is that while technological progress is good in the aggregate, not every specific innovation is good. Zuckerberg just happens to be cursed with the reality that he became very rich at a very young age by being a pioneer in a technology that is basically harmful. He strikes me as a genuinely well-meaning person, and Meta has gone on to do lots of things that are more interesting and more promising than its core Facebook/Instagram business. But there's no way around the fact that an information ecosystem based on virality - whether Facebook or TikTok or Twitter or anything else - exacerbates the flaws of establishment media rather than improving them. But then there is the specific conservative angle, which is that conservatives have come to believe (accurately) that the baseline moral values of the academic expert community are hostile to them and therefore (inaccurately) that expert views should be categorically dismissed.
January 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...
Mr. Zuckerberg was amenable. He signaled to Mr. Miller and his colleagues, including other senior Trump advisers, that he would do nothing to obstruct the Trump agenda, according to three people with knowledge of the meeting, who asked for anonymity to discuss a private conversation. Mr. Zuckerberg said he would instead focus solely on building tech products. Mr. Zuckerberg blamed his former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, for Facebook’s culture, according to one of the people with knowledge of the meeting. He said new guidelines and a series of layoffs amounted to a reset and that more changes were coming.
January 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.
January 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Can we all admit now that capitalism isn’t the best driver of innovation and creativity…
January 15, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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There’s something I need you to know - something that is true for every business owner, no matter what your long-term goals are…

Everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) would be better off if you built yourself out of your business.

#agencyowner
January 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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lauraroeder.bsky.social
Stop looking for unicorn hires and start building systems that work with regular humans.
January 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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nelnelnellie.bsky.social
Authors, could I please beg you again to add the 📚💙 emojis to posts about your books so we can see them over on #BookSky? Please. It only takes 2 characters to reach your intended audience. There’s a Feed dedicated to people who went out of their way to want information about books! YOUR BOOKS!
January 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Can't decide which was worse today. Realizing that my architect made every single interior wall too small in the plans I already submitted to the city for my home renovation...

Or reading that Vulture article.

(definitely the second)
January 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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@hankgreen.bsky.social I can’t stop thinking about the post you did a year or so ago on Tik Tok creator compensation vs YouTube. With the app probably leaving the US, I’m curious: Is YouTube still better in terms of pay? What would be the benefits and drawbacks or Tik Tokkers moving to shorts?
January 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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As momentum builds to divest from Meta, I wonder how many Tik Tokkers are not already on Instagram. If you already have a community over there, it’s difficult to give up, but reach is 💯 pay to play, meaning there’s little value for new accounts.

Folks not joining at all is the best play.
January 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM