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Marlon Brando once told Dick Cavett that everyone on Earth is an actor. Then he proved it, live on air, by dissecting Cavett himself. It remains one of the most disarming exchanges in talk show history. Cavett opened by pressing Brando on something he had read for years: that Brando considered acting "not a fit profession for a man." Brando deflected at first. "We can't believe the press; I don't know what we can believe in this country." But then, in his words, "in an effort to help your ratings," Brando laid out his real view of acting: "I think that we couldn't survive a second if we weren't able to act; acting is a survival mechanism, a social lubricant, and we act to save our lives every day." People lie constantly, he explained. By not saying what they think. By showing something they don't feel. By trying to give the appearance of feeling something they don't actually feel. Cavett pushed back: "But that's not acting." Brando disagreed: "That is acting. When you're nervous or frightened in this chair, or distressed and angry, you know that is not what is necessary to be shown here, so you control your face. You're a highly controlled person and you have to do that." Cavett argued there had to be gradations. He was motivated in the moment, but he couldn't wake up the next morning and repeat that same performance on command, take after take. Surely that skill, the thing Brando did better than almost anybody, was something different. Brando refused the compliment. He pointed to the office worker who hates his boss but performs enthusiasm for his "impossible notions" day after day to keep his job. Cavett countered that delivering the same line six times, getting "something deeper into it time after time," takes an actor. Everyday performances are one-time things with immediate motivation. "No, they're not one-time things because it's a daily procedure," Brando replied. "The dialogue changes but the motivation doesn't." Then came the moment the interview is remembered for. Brando turned the lens directly on his host: "Right now, you're thinking of 60 things at once: 'Is it getting dull? Is he upset? Is he bored? Is he offended? Here's a good time for a joke.' You're doing this editing at an insane rate with a demeanor of levity and zest, and that finally isn't what goes on in your mind or feelings at all." Cavett's response said everything: "I just feel like all my clothes have been taken off." Brando softened it. "I couldn't do what you do, and that's a different kind of acting; you're playing a different kind of role." Cavett tried one final test. He handed Brando a commercial script and challenged him to read it, any way he wanted. Brando refused flatly: "No, I won't do it." Cavett's closing line: "I'm glad you didn't. The man's incorruptible, and that's what I hoped." Source: The Dick Cavett Show, interview with Marlon Brando (1973)
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Marlon Brando once told Dick Cavett that everyone on Earth is an actor. Then he proved it, live on air, by dissecting Cavett himself. It remains one of the most disarming exchanges in talk show history. Cavett opened by pressing Brando on something he had read for years: that Brando considered acting "not a fit profession for a man." Brando deflected at first. "We can't believe the press; I don't know what we can believe in this country." But then, in his words, "in an effort to help your ratings," Brando laid out his real view of acting: "I think that we couldn't survive a second if we weren't able to act; acting is a survival mechanism, a social lubricant, and we act to save our lives every day." People lie constantly, he explained. By not saying what they think. By showing something they don't feel. By trying to give the appearance of feeling something they don't actually feel. Cavett pushed back: "But that's not acting." Brando disagreed: "That is acting. When you're nervous or frightened in this chair, or distressed and angry, you know that is not what is necessary to be shown here, so you control your face. You're a highly controlled person and you have to do that." Cavett argued there had to be gradations. He was motivated in the moment, but he couldn't wake up the next morning and repeat that same performance on command, take after take. Surely that skill, the thing Brando did better than almost anybody, was something different. Brando refused the compliment. He pointed to the office worker who hates his boss but performs enthusiasm for his "impossible notions" day after day to keep his job. Cavett countered that delivering the same line six times, getting "something deeper into it time after time," takes an actor. Everyday performances are one-time things with immediate motivation. "No, they're not one-time things because it's a daily procedure," Brando replied. "The dialogue changes but the motivation doesn't." Then came the moment the interview is remembered for. Brando turned the lens directly on his host: "Right now, you're thinking of 60 things at once: 'Is it getting dull? Is he upset? Is he bored? Is he offended? Here's a good time for a joke.' You're doing this editing at an insane rate with a demeanor of levity and zest, and that finally isn't what goes on in your mind or feelings at all." Cavett's response said everything: "I just feel like all my clothes have been taken off." Brando softened it. "I couldn't do what you do, and that's a different kind of acting; you're playing a different kind of role." Cavett tried one final test. He handed Brando a commercial script and challenged him to read it, any way he wanted. Brando refused flatly: "No, I won't do it." Cavett's closing line: "I'm glad you didn't. The man's incorruptible, and that's what I hoped." Source: The Dick Cavett Show, interview with Marlon Brando (1973)

History Nerd

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I remember the “protesters” outside the abortion clinic I was taken to. I remember being escorted away from them and into the planned murderhood clinic. I remember the nurse telling me as a teen who was shaking and scared (why was I shaking and scared you might ask? Because deep down I knew it was so wrong)…the nurse told me “it’ll be okay. This is the best thing you can do for your life right now. You won’t even remember this day.” I remember they did an ultrasound but turned the screen away so I couldn’t see my baby. Sadly I didn’t even ask to see. it was a Saturday in February. Cold and snowy. All 12 of us packed in a waiting room in an abortion mill. I’ll never forget all the crying. A young teen sobbing and sobbing... I had the thought to run. But I stayed. Afterwards we couldn’t leave the abortion mill until we stopped filling pads with blood. Any woman who is reading this who has an abortion in their past, you KNOW I’m right. We all know abortion is murder. I believed all the lies. All the propaganda. I would be god. Deciding who lives and dies. I was so so stupid. Yet. Years later. God opened my eyes through His Son Jesus Christ. Repentance. Forgiveness that I DO NOT deserve. A SAVIOR who came to take away the sins of the entire world through the Cross. Amazing Grace. Apart from Christ, men and women are capable of anything. Including murder of their children in the womb. God help us. Thank you for my fellow brave brothers and sisters in Christ doing the Lord’s work. Psalm 40:2-4 King James Version 2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord
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I remember the “protesters” outside the abortion clinic I was taken to. I remember being escorted away from them and into the planned murderhood clinic. I remember the nurse telling me as a teen who was shaking and scared (why was I shaking and scared you might ask? Because deep down I knew it was so wrong)…the nurse told me “it’ll be okay. This is the best thing you can do for your life right now. You won’t even remember this day.” I remember they did an ultrasound but turned the screen away so I couldn’t see my baby. Sadly I didn’t even ask to see. it was a Saturday in February. Cold and snowy. All 12 of us packed in a waiting room in an abortion mill. I’ll never forget all the crying. A young teen sobbing and sobbing... I had the thought to run. But I stayed. Afterwards we couldn’t leave the abortion mill until we stopped filling pads with blood. Any woman who is reading this who has an abortion in their past, you KNOW I’m right. We all know abortion is murder. I believed all the lies. All the propaganda. I would be god. Deciding who lives and dies. I was so so stupid. Yet. Years later. God opened my eyes through His Son Jesus Christ. Repentance. Forgiveness that I DO NOT deserve. A SAVIOR who came to take away the sins of the entire world through the Cross. Amazing Grace. Apart from Christ, men and women are capable of anything. Including murder of their children in the womb. God help us. Thank you for my fellow brave brothers and sisters in Christ doing the Lord’s work. Psalm 40:2-4 King James Version 2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord

Angie Wright

119,855 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

JANJINGJING FOREVER BLOOM #BBFanFest2026D2 #JanJingjing #JANHAE 🦊: first of all, i would like to thank GMMTV, p’tha, and seniors for always giving me opportunities. many people probably know that i like to be on stage, to perform, and to sing. before, i thought i might not get another opportuntity to do these things ever again. actually, i told ciize a lot, “we like doing this. let’s not give up, ciize! we must come back on stage together again.” and today is day 2. it is a very important day for me. it means a lot to me. i got to come back on stage with ciize as the owners of this stage 🦊: i’m happy that today happened, and that i got to come and sing for everyone to listen, come and perform for everyone to watch. i also have to thank our friends here, because everyone worked so hard. just from what i’ve heard, many said they’re not good enough and couldn’t do it. but everyone did it, right? everyone did it. everyone worked so so hard. many people had busy schedules, where our rehearsal schedules often couldn’t line up. but everyone found time to do this and create a wonderful concert like this. i’m so impressed. every time i went to rehearsal, even when i’ve been on stages before, i felt that it isn’t easy to put on a concert like this. but our friends here did it. they did so well. could we clap for them? no matter how many mistakes there might have been today, or yesterday, everyone gave it their all. there wasn’t anything wrong. everyone was amazing. i also thank you for bring dedicated together. i’m happy that we got to know each other. because with some people, i may not have had worked together, or even met before. when we started rehearsing for the concert, i made new friends and nongs, and lots of new people. like everyone said, now when we see each other, we can say hi to each other and joke around. i’m very happy. 🦊: thank you jingjing for coming into p’s life. i’m so happy that i get to be with jing. before this, p’ would sometimes run out of energy and would get discouraged. jing is someone who always encourages me and tries to lift me up, “hey p’jan! are you not ok?” or “what do you want me to do? i’ll help!” “i’ll take you to do this and that!” whenever something wasn’t going well, “i’ll take you to make merit!” jingjing is always here to help me. thank you for working so hard and trying together. i’m very happy that we got to know each other. thank you so much 🦊: most importantly, i’d like to thank all our fans here, via livestream, people watching from home who couldn’t come, or through social media. we wouldn’t be standing here at all if we hadn’t received love from everyone. so i hope these two days become a great memory for everyone as well. thank you!
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JANJINGJING FOREVER BLOOM #BBFanFest2026D2 #JanJingjing #JANHAE 🦊: first of all, i would like to thank GMMTV, p’tha, and seniors for always giving me opportunities. many people probably know that i like to be on stage, to perform, and to sing. before, i thought i might not get another opportuntity to do these things ever again. actually, i told ciize a lot, “we like doing this. let’s not give up, ciize! we must come back on stage together again.” and today is day 2. it is a very important day for me. it means a lot to me. i got to come back on stage with ciize as the owners of this stage 🦊: i’m happy that today happened, and that i got to come and sing for everyone to listen, come and perform for everyone to watch. i also have to thank our friends here, because everyone worked so hard. just from what i’ve heard, many said they’re not good enough and couldn’t do it. but everyone did it, right? everyone did it. everyone worked so so hard. many people had busy schedules, where our rehearsal schedules often couldn’t line up. but everyone found time to do this and create a wonderful concert like this. i’m so impressed. every time i went to rehearsal, even when i’ve been on stages before, i felt that it isn’t easy to put on a concert like this. but our friends here did it. they did so well. could we clap for them? no matter how many mistakes there might have been today, or yesterday, everyone gave it their all. there wasn’t anything wrong. everyone was amazing. i also thank you for bring dedicated together. i’m happy that we got to know each other. because with some people, i may not have had worked together, or even met before. when we started rehearsing for the concert, i made new friends and nongs, and lots of new people. like everyone said, now when we see each other, we can say hi to each other and joke around. i’m very happy. 🦊: thank you jingjing for coming into p’s life. i’m so happy that i get to be with jing. before this, p’ would sometimes run out of energy and would get discouraged. jing is someone who always encourages me and tries to lift me up, “hey p’jan! are you not ok?” or “what do you want me to do? i’ll help!” “i’ll take you to do this and that!” whenever something wasn’t going well, “i’ll take you to make merit!” jingjing is always here to help me. thank you for working so hard and trying together. i’m very happy that we got to know each other. thank you so much 🦊: most importantly, i’d like to thank all our fans here, via livestream, people watching from home who couldn’t come, or through social media. we wouldn’t be standing here at all if we hadn’t received love from everyone. so i hope these two days become a great memory for everyone as well. thank you!

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A Yapper's Retelling of Her Crazy Taxi Interviews 🐰 🐰: Taxi drivers tend to talk a lot, right? They ask a lot of questions. So this happened the day before I left for Milan. I got into a taxi, and the driver kept talking to me. Like I mentioned earlier, I’m comfortable with everyday Korean in such situations, but outside of that, I often don’t understand. It was the same in this situation too, while I was in the taxi. The driver kept talking to me, and I think he realized something was off. "You’re not Korean, are you? You’re not Korean, right?" I said, "Yes, I’m a foreigner." He then asked, "Where are you from?" So I said, "I’m from Australia and Vietnam. Who's Australian and who's Vietnamese, your mom or dad?" I explained, "They’re both Vietnamese, but I was just born and raised in Australia, so I’m Australian-Vietnamese." Then he asked, "Why? Why? Why is your Korean so good?" So I told him, "I studied for about four years, so I can manage to speak this much, but it’s not that good. Only I think I’m good." We continued to small talk, and suddenly he asked, "But why did you come to Korea?" 🐰: That’s when I got caught. You see, whenever I take taxis, I always sort of create a situation. Well, not exactly create a situation, but I pretend to be a student. Because they always ask, and since I’m not Korean, naturally they get curious about why I’m in Korea. So I pretend to be a student. I was laughing to myself while riding. But the driver kept calling me "sister." He said, "Why did our sister come to Korea?" I said, "Oh, I came to study." Then he asked, "How old are you?" I said, "I’m 19." It felt like an interview. Most of the time, once they figure out I’m a foreigner, the interview begins. So I said, "I’m 19." He confirmed, "So, you were born in 2004, right?" I replied, "Yes, I was born in 2004." Then he asked, "Which university do you attend?" 🐰: At that moment, when he asked me which university I attend, my mind quickly flashed back to the universities I remembered visiting during our How Sweet tour. Honestly, I only know the universities we visited for those festivals. So I tried to think of a university quickly and the first one that came to mind was Chosun University. "Seoul?" I said I went to Chosun University, and while the driver was driving, he thought for a moment and said, "Hmm, but Chosun University isn’t in Seoul, is it?" That’s when I realized I’d messed up, recalling a university that isn’t in Seoul. I panicked a bit, so I said, "Yeah, it’s not in Seoul." Then he asked, "How do you attend it?" I said, "Well, I just go back and forth. Sometimes I go to Chosun University, and sometimes I go to Seoul National University too." Which, of course, was total nonsense. The driver was surprised, "Is that possible?" I just replied, "Yes, it’s possible." So while driving, he kept asking, "What do you do? What do you do?" Then he asked, "Where did you graduate from, high school?" At that moment, I thought, "Oh no, I’m in trouble again." During my trainee days, I often found myself in similar situations with taxi drivers. Back then, I used to say I attended Hanlim Multi Art School, even though I didn’t. I’ve never been to Hanlim Multi Art School. So I’m really sorry to the teachers at Hanlim. I would tell taxi drivers, "I graduated from Hanlim Multi Art School" It’s totally untrue. I must have said I graduated from there more than 10 times. It was just a little white lie. I’ll have to apologize in person someday. When he asked me what high school I graduated from, I said Hanlim Multi Art School, but then I panicked because it’s not true. 🐰: Then he asked, "What did you come to Korea to study?" The questions just kept coming! So I said, "I sing." Then the driver started talking about trot singers. But I don’t really know much about trot. So he kept talking about it, mentioning how young people are so good at trot these days. "Does our sister sing trot?" he asked, looking at me through the rearview mirror. I said, "No, I don’t sing trot." He then named a bunch of young trot singers, but I couldn’t remember any of their names. At that point, I was just trying to survive the next 40 minutes, thinking about how I’d make it through. I just kept nodding along, agreeing with him, "Yes, they’re really good." I even said, "I think it’s amazing how young people sing trot so well." The driver then asked, "Are you with a company like YG or something?" I answered something like, "Yeah, something like that," and he said, "Ah, I see. You must sing really well. I’m driving a future star!" I told him, "No, I’m just working hard." 🐰: He then asked, "How do you live? Do you live alone?" I said, "No, I live in a dorm." He asked, "Who do you live with? Other Vietnamese people?" I said, "No, I live with other foreign friends. It’s fun, really fun." He replied, "Ah, that’s good. Does our sister eat well?" I said, "Yes, I eat well. They take good care of me." And that’s how the conversation went. He asked more questions than any taxi driver ever had before. But he was very kind. At one point, we were stopped at a red light, and I heard a rustling sound from the front seat. He suddenly handed me something from the front seat—it was a grape candy. He said, "Here, sister, have one." I thanked him and ate it, and that’s how our conversation started. 🐰: When we arrived, I had two suitcases, one heavy and one light. He pulled out the heavy one first, and I got out to help. I thanked him, saying, "That must’ve been heavy." When I grabbed the lighter one, he joked, "What’s this? Why is one so heavy and the other so light?" I told him, "I packed kind of weird." He was so nice. He waved as I left, and I thought he was really cute. 🐰: But that conversation—it was one of those crazy taxi interviews. Why did I say I went to Chosun University? I should’ve said a school in Seoul. Anyway, that’s what happened. I think I survived it pretty well. It was the most intense taxi interview ever. I’ve been in similar situations before, but this one was different because now I’m university-aged. Before, I was just a middle or high school student. I used to just tell people I went to Hanlim Multi Art School, and that ended things smoothly. I’d say I’m a student from Hanlim and that I’m here to study singing. But this time, I’m 19, born in 2004, so I should be in university. It was hilarious. 🐰: After I got home, I told my sister, and she burst out laughing. She said, "You’re so funny!" I wish I had recorded it because it was so funny. The driver kept calling me "sister," which confused me at first. I thought it was just a term of endearment or something, but it turned out he was really calling me "sister." He even asked, "Does our sister eat well?" I haven’t told my group members about this yet because I haven’t seen them; they’re still on vacation. But it was such a funny situation. I think Bunnies would find it really amusing too. 240919 Phoning live (Phoning live clip from bluemoon_hn)
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A Yapper's Retelling of Her Crazy Taxi Interviews 🐰 🐰: Taxi drivers tend to talk a lot, right? They ask a lot of questions. So this happened the day before I left for Milan. I got into a taxi, and the driver kept talking to me. Like I mentioned earlier, I’m comfortable with everyday Korean in such situations, but outside of that, I often don’t understand. It was the same in this situation too, while I was in the taxi. The driver kept talking to me, and I think he realized something was off. "You’re not Korean, are you? You’re not Korean, right?" I said, "Yes, I’m a foreigner." He then asked, "Where are you from?" So I said, "I’m from Australia and Vietnam. Who's Australian and who's Vietnamese, your mom or dad?" I explained, "They’re both Vietnamese, but I was just born and raised in Australia, so I’m Australian-Vietnamese." Then he asked, "Why? Why? Why is your Korean so good?" So I told him, "I studied for about four years, so I can manage to speak this much, but it’s not that good. Only I think I’m good." We continued to small talk, and suddenly he asked, "But why did you come to Korea?" 🐰: That’s when I got caught. You see, whenever I take taxis, I always sort of create a situation. Well, not exactly create a situation, but I pretend to be a student. Because they always ask, and since I’m not Korean, naturally they get curious about why I’m in Korea. So I pretend to be a student. I was laughing to myself while riding. But the driver kept calling me "sister." He said, "Why did our sister come to Korea?" I said, "Oh, I came to study." Then he asked, "How old are you?" I said, "I’m 19." It felt like an interview. Most of the time, once they figure out I’m a foreigner, the interview begins. So I said, "I’m 19." He confirmed, "So, you were born in 2004, right?" I replied, "Yes, I was born in 2004." Then he asked, "Which university do you attend?" 🐰: At that moment, when he asked me which university I attend, my mind quickly flashed back to the universities I remembered visiting during our How Sweet tour. Honestly, I only know the universities we visited for those festivals. So I tried to think of a university quickly and the first one that came to mind was Chosun University. "Seoul?" I said I went to Chosun University, and while the driver was driving, he thought for a moment and said, "Hmm, but Chosun University isn’t in Seoul, is it?" That’s when I realized I’d messed up, recalling a university that isn’t in Seoul. I panicked a bit, so I said, "Yeah, it’s not in Seoul." Then he asked, "How do you attend it?" I said, "Well, I just go back and forth. Sometimes I go to Chosun University, and sometimes I go to Seoul National University too." Which, of course, was total nonsense. The driver was surprised, "Is that possible?" I just replied, "Yes, it’s possible." So while driving, he kept asking, "What do you do? What do you do?" Then he asked, "Where did you graduate from, high school?" At that moment, I thought, "Oh no, I’m in trouble again." During my trainee days, I often found myself in similar situations with taxi drivers. Back then, I used to say I attended Hanlim Multi Art School, even though I didn’t. I’ve never been to Hanlim Multi Art School. So I’m really sorry to the teachers at Hanlim. I would tell taxi drivers, "I graduated from Hanlim Multi Art School" It’s totally untrue. I must have said I graduated from there more than 10 times. It was just a little white lie. I’ll have to apologize in person someday. When he asked me what high school I graduated from, I said Hanlim Multi Art School, but then I panicked because it’s not true. 🐰: Then he asked, "What did you come to Korea to study?" The questions just kept coming! So I said, "I sing." Then the driver started talking about trot singers. But I don’t really know much about trot. So he kept talking about it, mentioning how young people are so good at trot these days. "Does our sister sing trot?" he asked, looking at me through the rearview mirror. I said, "No, I don’t sing trot." He then named a bunch of young trot singers, but I couldn’t remember any of their names. At that point, I was just trying to survive the next 40 minutes, thinking about how I’d make it through. I just kept nodding along, agreeing with him, "Yes, they’re really good." I even said, "I think it’s amazing how young people sing trot so well." The driver then asked, "Are you with a company like YG or something?" I answered something like, "Yeah, something like that," and he said, "Ah, I see. You must sing really well. I’m driving a future star!" I told him, "No, I’m just working hard." 🐰: He then asked, "How do you live? Do you live alone?" I said, "No, I live in a dorm." He asked, "Who do you live with? Other Vietnamese people?" I said, "No, I live with other foreign friends. It’s fun, really fun." He replied, "Ah, that’s good. Does our sister eat well?" I said, "Yes, I eat well. They take good care of me." And that’s how the conversation went. He asked more questions than any taxi driver ever had before. But he was very kind. At one point, we were stopped at a red light, and I heard a rustling sound from the front seat. He suddenly handed me something from the front seat—it was a grape candy. He said, "Here, sister, have one." I thanked him and ate it, and that’s how our conversation started. 🐰: When we arrived, I had two suitcases, one heavy and one light. He pulled out the heavy one first, and I got out to help. I thanked him, saying, "That must’ve been heavy." When I grabbed the lighter one, he joked, "What’s this? Why is one so heavy and the other so light?" I told him, "I packed kind of weird." He was so nice. He waved as I left, and I thought he was really cute. 🐰: But that conversation—it was one of those crazy taxi interviews. Why did I say I went to Chosun University? I should’ve said a school in Seoul. Anyway, that’s what happened. I think I survived it pretty well. It was the most intense taxi interview ever. I’ve been in similar situations before, but this one was different because now I’m university-aged. Before, I was just a middle or high school student. I used to just tell people I went to Hanlim Multi Art School, and that ended things smoothly. I’d say I’m a student from Hanlim and that I’m here to study singing. But this time, I’m 19, born in 2004, so I should be in university. It was hilarious. 🐰: After I got home, I told my sister, and she burst out laughing. She said, "You’re so funny!" I wish I had recorded it because it was so funny. The driver kept calling me "sister," which confused me at first. I thought it was just a term of endearment or something, but it turned out he was really calling me "sister." He even asked, "Does our sister eat well?" I haven’t told my group members about this yet because I haven’t seen them; they’re still on vacation. But it was such a funny situation. I think Bunnies would find it really amusing too. 240919 Phoning live (Phoning live clip from bluemoon_hn)

1tokki

36,957 просмотров • 1 год назад

RESCUE OF THE KEEPER OF TARA EARTH This is going to sound like absolute fiction, but the story still needs to be told. Let me preface by saying I’m not just sane, but an autodidact polymath with multiple quantum physics patents under exclusively my own name, not part of any collaboration. So by dismissing my testimony as someone who is just nuts is really reading a book strictly through its cover. This all actually happened, even if you’ve never heard of anything like this before. What we don’t know about ‘the real worlds’ out there you could barely fit in all of our skies, we’ve been that isolated here. Everyone in this preschool dimension have preconceived notions about who ‘god’ is, inflated to the realm of all-knowing and all-powerful, able to create whole worlds, complete with millions of species of flora and fauna, and all in just 6 days. And while it is true such powers do exist, they are not without collaboration with other ‘gods’ to make that all happen, no matter how grandiose your captors want to make themselves seem. Just one species of your apples or oranges here represents possibly trillions of years of development and perfection. They didn’t just magically appear. “God” is a psyop term that stands for the word “perfect”, of which there is no such thing. The term perfect is strictly subjective, because what may seem perfect to a caveman is going to seem rudimentary kid’s stuff to George Jetson. The real term for the creator of all things is not ‘god’, but rather Prime Creator. “God” is actually DOG spelled backward and got its name from the Dog Star, also known as Sirius A, the headquarters of the Anuhazi Elohim’s breakaway group that call themselves The Michaelube, Suns of Ba’al. The ‘Arch Angels’ want you to believe they are the creator god of all things in this world. That was a lie 560m years ago and it is still a lie today. In reality, Tara Earth existed more than 4 billion years prior to the Anuhazi’s arrival to take the Human Elohim Project spirit essences hostage. They DID in fact help create Tara earth, just like you did, because they are fractals of Prime Creator. But to present themselves as ‘one guy with a long white beard who created the world and everything in it’ is word magic and gaslighting, designed to demoralize and subjugate Humans. For more on the why to this psychopathic plan, see my article: 👉 HISTORY OF THE CHIMERA. With that said, there are MANY beings in the world around you that are secretly ancient ‘gods’ of past eras who really do have more powers than humans do. I know, because I’ve met some and dealt with others during my years of education from the keeper of our simulation. There are also beings here who have roles to play to keep our world functioning correctly so Tara is able to continue offering a holographic platform for your manifestation adventure, who also have god-like powers, such as the keeper mentioned above, and others that are part of the team I refer to as the ‘crew’. You would call them angels, I call them people. Scary powerful people, but still people. Among the ‘crew’ is the main ‘keeper’ of the simulation that you wind up referring to as god down through the ages, because once in a while humans get to meet the keeper and witness the power for themselves which is very obviously not human. But the keeper doesn’t have a long flowing white beard, doesn’t sit on a throne in the sky and certainly isn’t perfect. But like you, a work in progress. Always seeking greater balance. That is the one common denominator among all fractals of Prime Creator, regardless if they are currently playing ‘bad guy’ roles, or ‘good guy’ roles. Understand there are beings here constantly at war against the keeper that has control of the universal elements of the hologram. Also understand, like the other beings who came here from much higher dimension with ‘god-like’ powers, they fractalize themselves into many, many different bodies, so it is effectively impossible to ever ‘kill’ each other. You would have to not only find all the many hundreds or thousands of them, but have a fool-proof way of killing them all at the same exact moment, making sure they are gone-gone, not just that one avatar holding their spirit awareness. That’s not going to happen. Not to any of them from what I’ve witnessed. Which means simply, as far as you are concerned, they are eternal beings, continuously here since 560m years ago in some case, depending when each one of them arrived. The ‘gods’, and the keeper, live in mortal bodies that age and die. But their positions are always held by the next one of themselves that can step into that role to maintain continuity of their offices. These are all the same person and can appear exactly identical to each other, or they can take on totally different appearances as well. I’m not sure why or how, but I’ve seen them both ways. After I was contacted by the keeper and informed of my role where I was in contract to supply protection and help to the crew back in 2013, eventually I was activated for that help in September of 2017. Both the keeper and a portion of the worldwide crew support staff as it were, had been taken hostage in California. I was tasked to bring them out to safety. I won’t go deeply into the details of this, but it was a serious situation where the invader races had stripped the keeper of all access to banks and cash, making it impossible to remain safe inside of the place they had been using as headquarters, literally casting them into the streets. And before you imagine this would be ‘impossible’, the keeper can’t just manifest stacks of cash out of thin air, and also there were a massive amount of beings all working together to neutralize them so they could possibly remove them from the levers of power of the simulation. That’s really all I can offer for details about that for now. The alphabet agencies were keeping the entire crew isolated in that one city, living in a car, camping in the woods and basically making it impossible to look after Tara. The keeper was able to get donations through various support mechanisms, but were shut out of getting off the streets. They brought in specialists to help them all escape, but the agencies wound up permanently disabling them, or taking them out altogether. That’s when I was contacted for assignment. Not being one of ‘the gods’ like they are, I was naturally terrified of having anything to do with this mission because I had no powers I was aware of that could provide anything they couldn’t. Which is really a fantastic understatement, since the keeper and crew can translocate anywhere in the world in seconds, have ‘thousands of avatars’ scattered out as vessels they can use in any city around the world, and basically everything they can do we can’t are about as intimidating as they can be. But I was told I was the only one who could rescue them. And while that may sound like the perfect scenario for a deluded mind seeking validation with illusions of grandeur, like a classic mental patient would come up with in their insane mind, this is what I was actually told, and I do mean in real life. To this day I find it as confusing to believe as you will trying to believe me now. Nonetheless, I carry certain powers I have been fitted with for my contract here on earth that I have had no education about at all. And the main one I’ve learned of now is I have a frequency shield that blocks out ‘the gods’ from doing harm. As long as the keeper and crew were within that field, the invaders were rendered powerless. Wow, even I want to roll my eyes at that. But I watched it play out first hand now multiple times after I got the crew off the streets in a ‘place of safety’ over the next couple of years. As long as I was at the safe house, nothing nefarious happened. When I went shopping every other week for groceries in town over 10 miles away, that’s when all hell would break out back at the compound. Those stories too would seem impossible to you to believe, just like everything else I am covering here, so I won’t go deeply into them. But they included black helicopters, 10’ long rattlesnakes sealing off the safe house & even assassinations. I was even requested to get to town and back as quickly as possible and not to linger due to these threats. I was told that my frequency shield while blended to the natural frequency shield the keeper and crew all have reached ‘87.3 miles’ apart (or so, going by memory now. But it was a very specific number). But even though the overall power of our combined fields still increased within that distance, the closer I was to the group, the more powerful the shield. I’m just telling you what I was told. You can believe it or not. I certainly wouldn’t believe it had I not actually witnessed it myself, so I’m right there with you if that’s your position. That brings us to the story I intended to pass along to you here; regarding that flight from ‘homeless bondage’ out across the deserts that spanned well over 1000 miles I was brought in for. The keeper and crew had been held hostage and homeless for 2 ½ years by the time I got the call requesting me to sell everything I owned and fly half way around the world for their rescue. Their lives had been hell, trust me. I arrived late at night where they picked me up and the hard part of the journey began. I will skip the details of the truly insane things I witnessed starting then for another time after the separation, for obvious reasons having to do with breadcrumbs and the very real fluid war we’re inside of still. But I will tell you about the ‘angels’ that were with us for that escape I would only learn about myself after 2 days of running. In the video below you will see what appear to be asteroids or a meteor shower, but they are traveling horizontally, not downward at all. We’ve seen this now since late 2024 a few times. This time I saved one of the videos taken on 2/19/2025 in Germany so I could actually show people what I saw first hand on that second night of our escape. We had covered whole states by this time, but we couldn’t stop and rest until we made it to a ‘frequency zone’ that was somehow outside of the reaches of the keeper’s enemies. I’m under the impression that there are certain key cross-leyline areas on earth that are too high in frequency for the low-vibration invader races to penetrate with their hyper-advanced psychotronic & scalar weapons, and that had been our destination ever since our escape that began at about 3:30-4am in the dead of night when the least amount of eyes would be surveilling us. Boy do I have outrageous stories about just how absolute that surveillance really is too. It is like they are not just tracking us, but using time travel to put agents in areas we would be arriving to, posing like homeless people and everyday folks. While in real life they were monitoring my every word in secret. I was surveilled many times during the weeks in that city while arranging for the escape and it blew my mind every time. The asteroids that really look more like comets in the video is what the "guardian angels" that had been secretly escorting us from overhead looked like, WHEN they were uncloaked. They only showed up in my visible view at the moment we broke over a ridge at about 3:30 in the morning 2 days later after our run began, at the exact same moment I could see the city lights way off in the distance below that was the ‘safe zone’. Suddenly overhead three giant comets appeared immediately above my head. I was in the lead vehicle the whole way, because the keeper was following my taillights. This is the only way they can navigate at night, because they don’t see like you and I do, looking at solid shapes and images, but everything through their eyes are light waves. I couldn’t make up something like that if I spent 10 years trying to write this article, mostly because it is still not believable to me now, 8 years later. These 3 comets were massive, what looked to be around 50 feet across, with tails of flame coming off that must have been 150-200 feet behind streaking VERY low across the sky. As I came down the hill to the desert floor for the final 10 miles between us and the safe zone (small town lights), the ‘comets’ started coming straight down toward ground, one at a time. They appeared they were going to crash into the highway, now traveling vertically at hypersonic speed, then just stopped 50 ft away from impact and vanished. You would have to try to imagine being in the total dark desert with only very faint, far-away lights off in the distance, only to have 3 comets traveling RIGHT DIRECTLY overhead suddenly uncloak, then turn straight down to get an idea of how insanely frightening they appeared, since their trajectory was to strike directly in front of your vehicle on the highway, as if you were about to slam right into them as they hit like giant bombs that would certainly blow up on impact and basically vaporize you and your moving van, to appreciate how absurd this event was. I was only about 150 feet away from where they were set to strike, so there was no hitting the brakes and avoiding anything. They were right there. Which means it was sort of like watching 'god' just fill the night's sky with fire. I saw 3 of them myself, but I was informed there were an additional 9 ‘angels’ that my own frequency wouldn't allow me to see according to the keeper. It is because this story is so unbelievable that I avoid talking about it, as you can imagine. Since 99 people out of a hundred are only going to accuse you of being insane upon hearing it, some possibly trying to have you committed at the same time, and the other person is likely already crazy themselves, so they just glaze over it. Until you see something like that with your own eyes, I'm pretty sure you will *never believe it could be a real thing. But this is what we call angels look like when they are decloaked and traveling at night. I don’t personally know if they were inside vehicles, or they are just simply traveling in their own Merkabah fields. That part was never explained to me. I was told they were with us 'flying overhead the entire journey' since we escaped California and were basically ‘signing off’ as I gathered it, now that we had reached the safe zone. You can believe I'm crazy all you want to, but now you can see them with your own eyes in this video, sure as hell not acting like meteors, but acting more like flaming time crafts (‘space’ ships). Are you crazy too? - On X, to search for my articles, simply type in the name of the piece, enter one space, then from: plus my username in parenthesis such as shown here: CASTING THE APOCOLYPSE (from:iontecs_pemf) Off-site, you can look up any of my writings through this link below for my other more than 100 recent articles and many thousands of comments on X, regularly updated thanks to Justin This message will only be seen by your eyes if not shared, and if you want to reference this article again later, you will need to cut and paste it in your own notes off line, as it will surely be erased. This is the most accurate translation of these events I am aware of at this time.
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RESCUE OF THE KEEPER OF TARA EARTH This is going to sound like absolute fiction, but the story still needs to be told. Let me preface by saying I’m not just sane, but an autodidact polymath with multiple quantum physics patents under exclusively my own name, not part of any collaboration. So by dismissing my testimony as someone who is just nuts is really reading a book strictly through its cover. This all actually happened, even if you’ve never heard of anything like this before. What we don’t know about ‘the real worlds’ out there you could barely fit in all of our skies, we’ve been that isolated here. Everyone in this preschool dimension have preconceived notions about who ‘god’ is, inflated to the realm of all-knowing and all-powerful, able to create whole worlds, complete with millions of species of flora and fauna, and all in just 6 days. And while it is true such powers do exist, they are not without collaboration with other ‘gods’ to make that all happen, no matter how grandiose your captors want to make themselves seem. Just one species of your apples or oranges here represents possibly trillions of years of development and perfection. They didn’t just magically appear. “God” is a psyop term that stands for the word “perfect”, of which there is no such thing. The term perfect is strictly subjective, because what may seem perfect to a caveman is going to seem rudimentary kid’s stuff to George Jetson. The real term for the creator of all things is not ‘god’, but rather Prime Creator. “God” is actually DOG spelled backward and got its name from the Dog Star, also known as Sirius A, the headquarters of the Anuhazi Elohim’s breakaway group that call themselves The Michaelube, Suns of Ba’al. The ‘Arch Angels’ want you to believe they are the creator god of all things in this world. That was a lie 560m years ago and it is still a lie today. In reality, Tara Earth existed more than 4 billion years prior to the Anuhazi’s arrival to take the Human Elohim Project spirit essences hostage. They DID in fact help create Tara earth, just like you did, because they are fractals of Prime Creator. But to present themselves as ‘one guy with a long white beard who created the world and everything in it’ is word magic and gaslighting, designed to demoralize and subjugate Humans. For more on the why to this psychopathic plan, see my article: 👉 HISTORY OF THE CHIMERA. With that said, there are MANY beings in the world around you that are secretly ancient ‘gods’ of past eras who really do have more powers than humans do. I know, because I’ve met some and dealt with others during my years of education from the keeper of our simulation. There are also beings here who have roles to play to keep our world functioning correctly so Tara is able to continue offering a holographic platform for your manifestation adventure, who also have god-like powers, such as the keeper mentioned above, and others that are part of the team I refer to as the ‘crew’. You would call them angels, I call them people. Scary powerful people, but still people. Among the ‘crew’ is the main ‘keeper’ of the simulation that you wind up referring to as god down through the ages, because once in a while humans get to meet the keeper and witness the power for themselves which is very obviously not human. But the keeper doesn’t have a long flowing white beard, doesn’t sit on a throne in the sky and certainly isn’t perfect. But like you, a work in progress. Always seeking greater balance. That is the one common denominator among all fractals of Prime Creator, regardless if they are currently playing ‘bad guy’ roles, or ‘good guy’ roles. Understand there are beings here constantly at war against the keeper that has control of the universal elements of the hologram. Also understand, like the other beings who came here from much higher dimension with ‘god-like’ powers, they fractalize themselves into many, many different bodies, so it is effectively impossible to ever ‘kill’ each other. You would have to not only find all the many hundreds or thousands of them, but have a fool-proof way of killing them all at the same exact moment, making sure they are gone-gone, not just that one avatar holding their spirit awareness. That’s not going to happen. Not to any of them from what I’ve witnessed. Which means simply, as far as you are concerned, they are eternal beings, continuously here since 560m years ago in some case, depending when each one of them arrived. The ‘gods’, and the keeper, live in mortal bodies that age and die. But their positions are always held by the next one of themselves that can step into that role to maintain continuity of their offices. These are all the same person and can appear exactly identical to each other, or they can take on totally different appearances as well. I’m not sure why or how, but I’ve seen them both ways. After I was contacted by the keeper and informed of my role where I was in contract to supply protection and help to the crew back in 2013, eventually I was activated for that help in September of 2017. Both the keeper and a portion of the worldwide crew support staff as it were, had been taken hostage in California. I was tasked to bring them out to safety. I won’t go deeply into the details of this, but it was a serious situation where the invader races had stripped the keeper of all access to banks and cash, making it impossible to remain safe inside of the place they had been using as headquarters, literally casting them into the streets. And before you imagine this would be ‘impossible’, the keeper can’t just manifest stacks of cash out of thin air, and also there were a massive amount of beings all working together to neutralize them so they could possibly remove them from the levers of power of the simulation. That’s really all I can offer for details about that for now. The alphabet agencies were keeping the entire crew isolated in that one city, living in a car, camping in the woods and basically making it impossible to look after Tara. The keeper was able to get donations through various support mechanisms, but were shut out of getting off the streets. They brought in specialists to help them all escape, but the agencies wound up permanently disabling them, or taking them out altogether. That’s when I was contacted for assignment. Not being one of ‘the gods’ like they are, I was naturally terrified of having anything to do with this mission because I had no powers I was aware of that could provide anything they couldn’t. Which is really a fantastic understatement, since the keeper and crew can translocate anywhere in the world in seconds, have ‘thousands of avatars’ scattered out as vessels they can use in any city around the world, and basically everything they can do we can’t are about as intimidating as they can be. But I was told I was the only one who could rescue them. And while that may sound like the perfect scenario for a deluded mind seeking validation with illusions of grandeur, like a classic mental patient would come up with in their insane mind, this is what I was actually told, and I do mean in real life. To this day I find it as confusing to believe as you will trying to believe me now. Nonetheless, I carry certain powers I have been fitted with for my contract here on earth that I have had no education about at all. And the main one I’ve learned of now is I have a frequency shield that blocks out ‘the gods’ from doing harm. As long as the keeper and crew were within that field, the invaders were rendered powerless. Wow, even I want to roll my eyes at that. But I watched it play out first hand now multiple times after I got the crew off the streets in a ‘place of safety’ over the next couple of years. As long as I was at the safe house, nothing nefarious happened. When I went shopping every other week for groceries in town over 10 miles away, that’s when all hell would break out back at the compound. Those stories too would seem impossible to you to believe, just like everything else I am covering here, so I won’t go deeply into them. But they included black helicopters, 10’ long rattlesnakes sealing off the safe house & even assassinations. I was even requested to get to town and back as quickly as possible and not to linger due to these threats. I was told that my frequency shield while blended to the natural frequency shield the keeper and crew all have reached ‘87.3 miles’ apart (or so, going by memory now. But it was a very specific number). But even though the overall power of our combined fields still increased within that distance, the closer I was to the group, the more powerful the shield. I’m just telling you what I was told. You can believe it or not. I certainly wouldn’t believe it had I not actually witnessed it myself, so I’m right there with you if that’s your position. That brings us to the story I intended to pass along to you here; regarding that flight from ‘homeless bondage’ out across the deserts that spanned well over 1000 miles I was brought in for. The keeper and crew had been held hostage and homeless for 2 ½ years by the time I got the call requesting me to sell everything I owned and fly half way around the world for their rescue. Their lives had been hell, trust me. I arrived late at night where they picked me up and the hard part of the journey began. I will skip the details of the truly insane things I witnessed starting then for another time after the separation, for obvious reasons having to do with breadcrumbs and the very real fluid war we’re inside of still. But I will tell you about the ‘angels’ that were with us for that escape I would only learn about myself after 2 days of running. In the video below you will see what appear to be asteroids or a meteor shower, but they are traveling horizontally, not downward at all. We’ve seen this now since late 2024 a few times. This time I saved one of the videos taken on 2/19/2025 in Germany so I could actually show people what I saw first hand on that second night of our escape. We had covered whole states by this time, but we couldn’t stop and rest until we made it to a ‘frequency zone’ that was somehow outside of the reaches of the keeper’s enemies. I’m under the impression that there are certain key cross-leyline areas on earth that are too high in frequency for the low-vibration invader races to penetrate with their hyper-advanced psychotronic & scalar weapons, and that had been our destination ever since our escape that began at about 3:30-4am in the dead of night when the least amount of eyes would be surveilling us. Boy do I have outrageous stories about just how absolute that surveillance really is too. It is like they are not just tracking us, but using time travel to put agents in areas we would be arriving to, posing like homeless people and everyday folks. While in real life they were monitoring my every word in secret. I was surveilled many times during the weeks in that city while arranging for the escape and it blew my mind every time. The asteroids that really look more like comets in the video is what the "guardian angels" that had been secretly escorting us from overhead looked like, WHEN they were uncloaked. They only showed up in my visible view at the moment we broke over a ridge at about 3:30 in the morning 2 days later after our run began, at the exact same moment I could see the city lights way off in the distance below that was the ‘safe zone’. Suddenly overhead three giant comets appeared immediately above my head. I was in the lead vehicle the whole way, because the keeper was following my taillights. This is the only way they can navigate at night, because they don’t see like you and I do, looking at solid shapes and images, but everything through their eyes are light waves. I couldn’t make up something like that if I spent 10 years trying to write this article, mostly because it is still not believable to me now, 8 years later. These 3 comets were massive, what looked to be around 50 feet across, with tails of flame coming off that must have been 150-200 feet behind streaking VERY low across the sky. As I came down the hill to the desert floor for the final 10 miles between us and the safe zone (small town lights), the ‘comets’ started coming straight down toward ground, one at a time. They appeared they were going to crash into the highway, now traveling vertically at hypersonic speed, then just stopped 50 ft away from impact and vanished. You would have to try to imagine being in the total dark desert with only very faint, far-away lights off in the distance, only to have 3 comets traveling RIGHT DIRECTLY overhead suddenly uncloak, then turn straight down to get an idea of how insanely frightening they appeared, since their trajectory was to strike directly in front of your vehicle on the highway, as if you were about to slam right into them as they hit like giant bombs that would certainly blow up on impact and basically vaporize you and your moving van, to appreciate how absurd this event was. I was only about 150 feet away from where they were set to strike, so there was no hitting the brakes and avoiding anything. They were right there. Which means it was sort of like watching 'god' just fill the night's sky with fire. I saw 3 of them myself, but I was informed there were an additional 9 ‘angels’ that my own frequency wouldn't allow me to see according to the keeper. It is because this story is so unbelievable that I avoid talking about it, as you can imagine. Since 99 people out of a hundred are only going to accuse you of being insane upon hearing it, some possibly trying to have you committed at the same time, and the other person is likely already crazy themselves, so they just glaze over it. Until you see something like that with your own eyes, I'm pretty sure you will *never believe it could be a real thing. But this is what we call angels look like when they are decloaked and traveling at night. I don’t personally know if they were inside vehicles, or they are just simply traveling in their own Merkabah fields. That part was never explained to me. I was told they were with us 'flying overhead the entire journey' since we escaped California and were basically ‘signing off’ as I gathered it, now that we had reached the safe zone. You can believe I'm crazy all you want to, but now you can see them with your own eyes in this video, sure as hell not acting like meteors, but acting more like flaming time crafts (‘space’ ships). Are you crazy too? - On X, to search for my articles, simply type in the name of the piece, enter one space, then from: plus my username in parenthesis such as shown here: CASTING THE APOCOLYPSE (from:iontecs_pemf) Off-site, you can look up any of my writings through this link below for my other more than 100 recent articles and many thousands of comments on X, regularly updated thanks to Justin This message will only be seen by your eyes if not shared, and if you want to reference this article again later, you will need to cut and paste it in your own notes off line, as it will surely be erased. This is the most accurate translation of these events I am aware of at this time.

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Technically is dead; long live Technically Some bittersweet news for you all today: after 5 years writing Technically and more than 100 posts about everything from APIs to data warehouses to Facebook DNS hacks, today I am (for the most part) shutting the Technically Substack down… …and replacing it with Technically 2.0, an amazing software product I’ve been working with David Krevitt on for the past 6 months. But first… For a newsletter that started with an innocent tweet while I was bored in Haneda airport, this thing has come pretty far. 70K+ subscribers, yada yada. But you’re here for the story so here it is. It was December 2019, I was traveling before moving to SF to start at Retool, and like I said, I was bored. Late 2019 – what an amazing time to start a newsletter! There weren’t that many of them out there. And then came 2020. Everyone was stuck at home with nothing to do but sign up for more and more Substacks, and talk about them on the internet. Every day, another one of your friends was announcing a newsletter on Twitter. It was the golden era, no doubt, and many people like me combined hard work, a good idea, and the old fashioned “right place right time” streak of luck to build a really nice Substack business. I’ll never forget the day Ben Thompson referenced Technically in Stratechery. I must have gotten 50 texts from friends. Everyone was reading Stratechery at the time…it was like becoming a made man. There was this almost communal vibe in the air with these newsletters. Everyone was reading the same stuff, talking about the same stuff. It was a scene is what it was. But by 2022 things were changing. People were outside again, and had less free time to read newsletters. Interest rates were going up, and people were working more (even in offices). In the paid Substack group chats, most of us were reporting stalling or negative growth, even though we hadn’t changed anything on our end. And with 50% churn rates on these subscriptions, if you weren’t growing you were dying. I’m listening to Neil Young’s “After the Gold Rush” as I write this and it couldn’t be more fitting. Although I imagine Mr. Young himself would disapprove of the whole paid newsletter endeavor. What happened to newsletters? David and I call what’s going on “Substack Fatigue” – people are just tired of reading yet another newsletter, let alone paying for one. Newsletters are just not the thing anymore. There are some fast growing news ones focused on AI, but the same story is going to play out in a few years when everything cools down. Political newsletters are fully investing in video and podcasts. Newsletters are not the thing anymore. We rode a cultural wave and the wave is over. You don’t have to die, but you have to adjust. The wrench in this whole story is that Technically was only (very) part time for me. I’m pretty sure at one point I was generating the most revenue on Substack for someone who wasn’t focusing on their newsletter full time. Which is a sick flex no doubt, but was also a huge problem, because I just didn’t have the time or mental capacity to make the big moves required to reverse the trend. Technically started to slowly lose paid subscribers every month, but I was at peace with that. I was entering a new phase in my life, settling down a bit, enjoying spending time on cooking, cocktails, and music. Approaching 30 and feeling really good about everything. It’s OK for some things to be temporary, and I was content with Technically to continue to be useful to people…just not make as much money. But in the back of my head, I always knew that Technically had a lot more potential, and deserved more than I could give it. That there’s no reason this thing couldn’t be a $1M+/year business. I continue to believe that technical literacy is going to be one of the defining social problems of our era, and the progress in AI only makes this even more critical. It should be way more than a newsletter, it should be how everyone learns what the fuck is going on in this digital world. I needed some help. But I had a bad track record of getting people to work on Technically with me. It’s hard to share custody of your child. And I am extremely particular. I’m not always the easiest to work with. Worked with some contractors here and there, but never found a more long term partner. I’m extremely grateful that David Krevitt reached out to me when he did or this paragraph would end here. Instead, after regaling you with my boring tale for many paragraphs now, I can finally share what we’ve been working on since last year. It’s called Technically 2.0. It’s all of the content you know and love, but built as a piece of software specifically aimed at helping people get more technical. No more newsletter – it’s a learning platform now, complete with reading lists, bookmarks, a dictionary, and guided learning tracks. Our goal was to make a Wikipedia kind of experience: click around to follow your curiosity on whatever software you’re learning about. You can sign up on the Technically site ( You’re going to have to pay for it, but if your experience is anything like that of the other thousands of people who already have, you won’t regret it. Enjoy the soothing sounds of David's voice as he walks you through it in the video below. It’s hard to say goodbye completely to something you’ve been doing every week for 5 years. Any readers with their own long running newsletters will understand the odd, para-social relationship you develop with your audience. So I’m going to keep publishing on Substack a little – monthly roundups of the new stuff we’re publishing on Technically 2.0, plus some good sponsored posts. So while the newsletter might be dead, it is also only just beginning (or something). Hope to see you on the other side, ~ ❤️ Justin
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Technically is dead; long live Technically Some bittersweet news for you all today: after 5 years writing Technically and more than 100 posts about everything from APIs to data warehouses to Facebook DNS hacks, today I am (for the most part) shutting the Technically Substack down… …and replacing it with Technically 2.0, an amazing software product I’ve been working with David Krevitt on for the past 6 months. But first… For a newsletter that started with an innocent tweet while I was bored in Haneda airport, this thing has come pretty far. 70K+ subscribers, yada yada. But you’re here for the story so here it is. It was December 2019, I was traveling before moving to SF to start at Retool, and like I said, I was bored. Late 2019 – what an amazing time to start a newsletter! There weren’t that many of them out there. And then came 2020. Everyone was stuck at home with nothing to do but sign up for more and more Substacks, and talk about them on the internet. Every day, another one of your friends was announcing a newsletter on Twitter. It was the golden era, no doubt, and many people like me combined hard work, a good idea, and the old fashioned “right place right time” streak of luck to build a really nice Substack business. I’ll never forget the day Ben Thompson referenced Technically in Stratechery. I must have gotten 50 texts from friends. Everyone was reading Stratechery at the time…it was like becoming a made man. There was this almost communal vibe in the air with these newsletters. Everyone was reading the same stuff, talking about the same stuff. It was a scene is what it was. But by 2022 things were changing. People were outside again, and had less free time to read newsletters. Interest rates were going up, and people were working more (even in offices). In the paid Substack group chats, most of us were reporting stalling or negative growth, even though we hadn’t changed anything on our end. And with 50% churn rates on these subscriptions, if you weren’t growing you were dying. I’m listening to Neil Young’s “After the Gold Rush” as I write this and it couldn’t be more fitting. Although I imagine Mr. Young himself would disapprove of the whole paid newsletter endeavor. What happened to newsletters? David and I call what’s going on “Substack Fatigue” – people are just tired of reading yet another newsletter, let alone paying for one. Newsletters are just not the thing anymore. There are some fast growing news ones focused on AI, but the same story is going to play out in a few years when everything cools down. Political newsletters are fully investing in video and podcasts. Newsletters are not the thing anymore. We rode a cultural wave and the wave is over. You don’t have to die, but you have to adjust. The wrench in this whole story is that Technically was only (very) part time for me. I’m pretty sure at one point I was generating the most revenue on Substack for someone who wasn’t focusing on their newsletter full time. Which is a sick flex no doubt, but was also a huge problem, because I just didn’t have the time or mental capacity to make the big moves required to reverse the trend. Technically started to slowly lose paid subscribers every month, but I was at peace with that. I was entering a new phase in my life, settling down a bit, enjoying spending time on cooking, cocktails, and music. Approaching 30 and feeling really good about everything. It’s OK for some things to be temporary, and I was content with Technically to continue to be useful to people…just not make as much money. But in the back of my head, I always knew that Technically had a lot more potential, and deserved more than I could give it. That there’s no reason this thing couldn’t be a $1M+/year business. I continue to believe that technical literacy is going to be one of the defining social problems of our era, and the progress in AI only makes this even more critical. It should be way more than a newsletter, it should be how everyone learns what the fuck is going on in this digital world. I needed some help. But I had a bad track record of getting people to work on Technically with me. It’s hard to share custody of your child. And I am extremely particular. I’m not always the easiest to work with. Worked with some contractors here and there, but never found a more long term partner. I’m extremely grateful that David Krevitt reached out to me when he did or this paragraph would end here. Instead, after regaling you with my boring tale for many paragraphs now, I can finally share what we’ve been working on since last year. It’s called Technically 2.0. It’s all of the content you know and love, but built as a piece of software specifically aimed at helping people get more technical. No more newsletter – it’s a learning platform now, complete with reading lists, bookmarks, a dictionary, and guided learning tracks. Our goal was to make a Wikipedia kind of experience: click around to follow your curiosity on whatever software you’re learning about. You can sign up on the Technically site ( You’re going to have to pay for it, but if your experience is anything like that of the other thousands of people who already have, you won’t regret it. Enjoy the soothing sounds of David's voice as he walks you through it in the video below. It’s hard to say goodbye completely to something you’ve been doing every week for 5 years. Any readers with their own long running newsletters will understand the odd, para-social relationship you develop with your audience. So I’m going to keep publishing on Substack a little – monthly roundups of the new stuff we’re publishing on Technically 2.0, plus some good sponsored posts. So while the newsletter might be dead, it is also only just beginning (or something). Hope to see you on the other side, ~ ❤️ Justin

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29,390 просмотров • 1 год назад

Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about Twitter > X and figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my experience at the company. I tweeted for years into the void for the love of it like many of you, but after selling my startup to Twitter in 2020 I finally got to see it from the inside. Up close it was both amazing and terrible, like so many other companies and things in life. As someone with a maniacal sense of urgency built into me, Twitter often felt siloed and bureaucratic. Dumb power plays, reorgs and team name changes for the sake of someone’s ego were distractions that occurred too regularly. You couldn’t just be a builder — you also needed to be a politician. I was shocked by how old and bespoke the infrastructure was, but there was little will to think beyond quarterly earnings calls because we were all beholden to the masters of mDAU and revenue growth as a public company. It often felt like things were held together with duct tape and glue, and that many people had just accepted that a small product change could take months or quarters to build. Management had become bloated to accommodate career growth and the company culture felt too soft and entitled for my own taste. Healthy debate and criticism was replaced by a default refrain of “no, that can’t be done” or “another team owns that so don’t touch it”. Teams could spend months building a feature and then some last-minute kerfuffle meant it’d get killed for being too risky. Just talking directly to customers could turn into a turf war and create deadlocks between functions. I recall one such episode where a teammate spent a month trying to get clearance to reach out to some creators. He went through 3 layers of management and 6 different functional teams. In the end 4 executives were involved in the approval. It was insanity, and unfortunately I saw several top performers get burnt out and demoralized after exhausting experiences like that. Most people were good at their jobs but it was nearly impossible to fire poor performers — instead they got shuffled around to other teams because few managers had the will or resources to figure out how to get them out. A high performance culture pulls everyone up, but the opposite weighs everyone down. Twitter often felt like a place that kept squandering its own potential, which was sad and frustrating to see. The person who was best at cutting through the BS and inspiring a vision during my tenure was Kayvon Beykpour, but he wasn’t fully empowered to run the company since he wasn’t the CEO. Despite those real issues, I was lucky enough to work with some of the most talented people in the business at Twitter in product, design, engineering, research, legal, BD, trust & safety, marketing, PR and more. Often it was a small cross-functional team of intrinsically motivated people who made the biggest impact by challenging some core assumption. Those teams were very fun to be on but they felt like the exception rather than the rule. The months of waiting for the deal to close in 2022 were particularly slow and painful; it felt like leadership hid behind lawyers and legal language as all answers about the company’s future notoriously included the phrase “fiduciary duty”. Colleagues openly talked about how Twitter was being sold because leadership didn’t have conviction in their own plan or ability to fix longstanding problems. Although I didn’t know much about Elon I was cautiously optimistic – I saw him as the guy who built incredible and enduring companies like Tesla and SpaceX, so perhaps his private ownership could shake things up and breathe new life into the company. My take on what’s happened since then is full of lived nuance. When people ask why I stayed it’s easy to answer: optimism, curiosity, personal growth and money. From the beginning I saw that some changes Elon was going to make were smart and others were stupid, but when I’m on a team I uphold the philosophy of “praise in public and criticize in private”. I was far from a silent wallflower. I shared my opinions openly and pushed back often, both before and after the acquisition. I made peace with the fact that I didn’t have psychological safety at Twitter 2.0 and that meant I could be fired at any moment, and for no reason at all. I watched it happen repeatedly and saw how negatively it impacted team morale. Although I couldn’t change the situation I did my best to shine a light on folks who were doing important work while being an emotionally supportive leader for those who were struggling to adapt to the more brutalist and hardcore culture. In person Elon is oddly charming and he’s genuinely funny. He also has personality quirks like telling the same stories and jokes over and over. The challenge is his personality and demeanor can turn on a dime going from excited to angry. Since it was hard to read what mood he might be in and what his reaction would be to any given thing, people quickly became afraid of being called into meetings or having to share negative news with him. At times it felt like the inner circle was too zealous and fanatical in their unwavering support of everything he said. When individuals encouraged me to be careful about what I said I politely thanked them and said I would not be taking their advice. I had no interest in adding to a culture of fear or walking on eggshells around Elon. Either he would respect me for being real or he could fire me. Either outcome was okay. I quickly learned that product and business decisions were nearly always the result of him following his gut instinct, and he didn’t seem compelled to seek out or rely on a lot of data or expertise to inform it. That was particularly frustrating for me since I believed I had useful institutional knowledge that could help him make better decisions. Instead he'd poll Twitter, ask a friend, or even ask his biographer for product advice. At times it seemed he trusted random feedback more than the people in the room who spent their lives dedicated to tackling the problem at hand. I never figured out why and remain puzzled by it. I don’t think things had to be as difficult or dramatic as they turned out to be but I can’t say I’d bet against Elon or count him out. He’s smart and has enough money to make a lot of mistakes and then course correct when things go awry. As the largest shareholder he can tank the value in the short-term, but eventually he’ll need things to turn around. His focus on speed is incredible and he’s obviously not afraid of blowing things up, but now the real measure will be how it get reconstructed and if enough people want the new everything app he is building. I learned a ton from watching Elon up close – the good, the bad and the ugly. His boldness, passion and storytelling is inspiring, but his lack of process and empathy is painful. Elon has an exceptional talent for tackling hard physics-based problems but products that facilitate human connection and communication require a different type of social-emotional intelligence. Social networks are hard to kill but they’re not immune from death spirals. Only time will tell what the outcome will be but I hope X finds its footing because competition is good for consumers. In the meantime, I have a lot of empathy for the employees who are working tirelessly behind the scenes, the advertisers who want a stable platform to sell their stuff on, and the customers who are experiencing chaotic updates. It’s been a madhouse. Twitter moved at the speed of molasses and suffered from bureaucracy but now X is run by a mercurial leader whose instinct is driven by the unique and undoubtedly weird experience of being the biggest voice on the platform. Many of you know me from the sleeping bag incident where I slept on a conference room floor, so I figure, let’s talk about that too. Going viral was an odd and interesting experience. I was attacked by people on the left and called a billionaire bootlicker, while simultaneously being attacked by people on the right for being a working mom who was demonized as an example of a woman choosing her career over her family. Thankfully I can laugh at myself and I don’t take armchair keyboard ideologues too seriously. Being the main character on the timeline, even for a few minutes, requires a thick skin and a strong sense of self. The real story is pretty simple. I was given a nearly impossible deadline for his first project and as the product lead I would never ask anyone to do anything I wasn’t willing to do myself. So I worked round the clock alongside an amazing team spanning many timezones, and we delivered it on schedule – truly against the odds. It was intense but also fun. Those first few months were wildly crazy but I wanted to be there and I have no regrets. Showing up and giving it your all should, in most cases, be celebrated. Obviously you can’t work at that pace forever but there are moments where bursts are mission critical. I’ve pulled many all-nighters in my career and also when I was a student for something that mattered to me. I don’t regret putting in long hours or being ambitious, and feel proud of how far I’ve come from where I started thanks in part to that type of work ethic. I think of life as a game, and being at Twitter after the acquisition was like playing life at Level 10 on Hard Mode. Since I like taking on difficult challenges I found it interesting and rewarding because I was growing and learning so rapidly. I realize our society today trends toward polarization but when it comes to this app, its owner, and its future, I am neither a fangirl nor a hater — I’m an optimistic pragmatist. This may really irritate the internet but you cannot pigeonhole me into some radical position of either loving or hating every change that’s occurred. I escaped my fundamentalist upbringing and am a free thinker these days. Everyone can be seen as both a hero or a villain, depending on who is telling what angle of the story. Elon doesn’t deserve to be venerated or vilified. He’s a complicated person with an unfathomable amount of financial and geopolitical power which is why humanity needs him to err on the side of goodness, rather than political divisiveness and pettiness. I disagree with many of his decisions and am surprised by his willingness to burn so much down, but with enough money and time, something new & innovative may emerge. I hope it does. Sometimes I get asked about how I felt when I got laid off, and the truth is it was the best gift I’ve ever received. Sure the headlines and punchlines wrote themselves but I was battle hardened by then. I knew that I’d worked in a way where I could walk out with my head held high. I have no bitterness about the Product Management team being dismantled, and it made sense for me to exit as nearly all of the remaining PMs were let go. Going on a sabbatical afterward has been exactly what I needed to decompress and I’m finally feeling rested and relaxed. I’m a creative and a builder, so sooner than later I’ll jump back into a high intensity company but I’m grateful for this season of thinking, reading, traveling and being with people I love. After having time to reflect I believe more than ever that the very best outcomes flow from great leadership that combines the head and the heart. I’d be remiss if I didn’t note that in all of this there is also a cautionary tale for anyone who succeeds at something — which is that the higher you climb, the smaller your world becomes. It’s a strange paradox but the richest and most powerful people are also some of the most isolated. I found myself frequently looking at Elon and seeing a person who seemed quite alone because his time and energy was so purely devoted to work, which is not the model of a life I want to live. Money and fame can create psychological prisons which may worsen mental health conditions. We’ve all seen high profile cases of celebrities who end up with some combination of depression, paranoia, delusions of grandeur, mania and/or erratic behavior. Living in an echo chamber is dangerous and being at the top makes a person even more susceptible to being surrounded by yes people when nearly everyone around you is on the payroll and somehow stands to benefit from being in your orbit. Figuring out how to keep “better angels” around in the form of family, friends, and teammates is critical to staying on the rails and enduring intense ups and downs. Everyone needs to hear hard truths sometimes and if you fire all the people who speak up then the reality distortion field may just turn into a vortex. I was drawn to Twitter because I’m obsessed with the problem of loneliness and connection between people. I find it fascinating & troubling that humans are getting lonelier as we simultaneously create a world that’s both safer and wealthier. I don’t believe that trade-off has to exist, which is why I keep returning to that theme in my personal and professional life. I realize this is too long of a tweet but Twitter was a weird and special place on the internet, and I’m grateful to have played a teeny tiny role in its story and evolution. I’m here for whatever comes next — on this app and in new places. Consumer social is very much alive and at a fascinating juncture, so I’ll be watching and participating and sharing hot takes because I don’t want to, and probably can’t, turn that part of me off. Perhaps X becomes a resounding success. Or it fails epically. Either way, I expect it will continue to be a very entertaining ride. 🫡
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Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about Twitter > X and figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my experience at the company. I tweeted for years into the void for the love of it like many of you, but after selling my startup to Twitter in 2020 I finally got to see it from the inside. Up close it was both amazing and terrible, like so many other companies and things in life. As someone with a maniacal sense of urgency built into me, Twitter often felt siloed and bureaucratic. Dumb power plays, reorgs and team name changes for the sake of someone’s ego were distractions that occurred too regularly. You couldn’t just be a builder — you also needed to be a politician. I was shocked by how old and bespoke the infrastructure was, but there was little will to think beyond quarterly earnings calls because we were all beholden to the masters of mDAU and revenue growth as a public company. It often felt like things were held together with duct tape and glue, and that many people had just accepted that a small product change could take months or quarters to build. Management had become bloated to accommodate career growth and the company culture felt too soft and entitled for my own taste. Healthy debate and criticism was replaced by a default refrain of “no, that can’t be done” or “another team owns that so don’t touch it”. Teams could spend months building a feature and then some last-minute kerfuffle meant it’d get killed for being too risky. Just talking directly to customers could turn into a turf war and create deadlocks between functions. I recall one such episode where a teammate spent a month trying to get clearance to reach out to some creators. He went through 3 layers of management and 6 different functional teams. In the end 4 executives were involved in the approval. It was insanity, and unfortunately I saw several top performers get burnt out and demoralized after exhausting experiences like that. Most people were good at their jobs but it was nearly impossible to fire poor performers — instead they got shuffled around to other teams because few managers had the will or resources to figure out how to get them out. A high performance culture pulls everyone up, but the opposite weighs everyone down. Twitter often felt like a place that kept squandering its own potential, which was sad and frustrating to see. The person who was best at cutting through the BS and inspiring a vision during my tenure was Kayvon Beykpour, but he wasn’t fully empowered to run the company since he wasn’t the CEO. Despite those real issues, I was lucky enough to work with some of the most talented people in the business at Twitter in product, design, engineering, research, legal, BD, trust & safety, marketing, PR and more. Often it was a small cross-functional team of intrinsically motivated people who made the biggest impact by challenging some core assumption. Those teams were very fun to be on but they felt like the exception rather than the rule. The months of waiting for the deal to close in 2022 were particularly slow and painful; it felt like leadership hid behind lawyers and legal language as all answers about the company’s future notoriously included the phrase “fiduciary duty”. Colleagues openly talked about how Twitter was being sold because leadership didn’t have conviction in their own plan or ability to fix longstanding problems. Although I didn’t know much about Elon I was cautiously optimistic – I saw him as the guy who built incredible and enduring companies like Tesla and SpaceX, so perhaps his private ownership could shake things up and breathe new life into the company. My take on what’s happened since then is full of lived nuance. When people ask why I stayed it’s easy to answer: optimism, curiosity, personal growth and money. From the beginning I saw that some changes Elon was going to make were smart and others were stupid, but when I’m on a team I uphold the philosophy of “praise in public and criticize in private”. I was far from a silent wallflower. I shared my opinions openly and pushed back often, both before and after the acquisition. I made peace with the fact that I didn’t have psychological safety at Twitter 2.0 and that meant I could be fired at any moment, and for no reason at all. I watched it happen repeatedly and saw how negatively it impacted team morale. Although I couldn’t change the situation I did my best to shine a light on folks who were doing important work while being an emotionally supportive leader for those who were struggling to adapt to the more brutalist and hardcore culture. In person Elon is oddly charming and he’s genuinely funny. He also has personality quirks like telling the same stories and jokes over and over. The challenge is his personality and demeanor can turn on a dime going from excited to angry. Since it was hard to read what mood he might be in and what his reaction would be to any given thing, people quickly became afraid of being called into meetings or having to share negative news with him. At times it felt like the inner circle was too zealous and fanatical in their unwavering support of everything he said. When individuals encouraged me to be careful about what I said I politely thanked them and said I would not be taking their advice. I had no interest in adding to a culture of fear or walking on eggshells around Elon. Either he would respect me for being real or he could fire me. Either outcome was okay. I quickly learned that product and business decisions were nearly always the result of him following his gut instinct, and he didn’t seem compelled to seek out or rely on a lot of data or expertise to inform it. That was particularly frustrating for me since I believed I had useful institutional knowledge that could help him make better decisions. Instead he'd poll Twitter, ask a friend, or even ask his biographer for product advice. At times it seemed he trusted random feedback more than the people in the room who spent their lives dedicated to tackling the problem at hand. I never figured out why and remain puzzled by it. I don’t think things had to be as difficult or dramatic as they turned out to be but I can’t say I’d bet against Elon or count him out. He’s smart and has enough money to make a lot of mistakes and then course correct when things go awry. As the largest shareholder he can tank the value in the short-term, but eventually he’ll need things to turn around. His focus on speed is incredible and he’s obviously not afraid of blowing things up, but now the real measure will be how it get reconstructed and if enough people want the new everything app he is building. I learned a ton from watching Elon up close – the good, the bad and the ugly. His boldness, passion and storytelling is inspiring, but his lack of process and empathy is painful. Elon has an exceptional talent for tackling hard physics-based problems but products that facilitate human connection and communication require a different type of social-emotional intelligence. Social networks are hard to kill but they’re not immune from death spirals. Only time will tell what the outcome will be but I hope X finds its footing because competition is good for consumers. In the meantime, I have a lot of empathy for the employees who are working tirelessly behind the scenes, the advertisers who want a stable platform to sell their stuff on, and the customers who are experiencing chaotic updates. It’s been a madhouse. Twitter moved at the speed of molasses and suffered from bureaucracy but now X is run by a mercurial leader whose instinct is driven by the unique and undoubtedly weird experience of being the biggest voice on the platform. Many of you know me from the sleeping bag incident where I slept on a conference room floor, so I figure, let’s talk about that too. Going viral was an odd and interesting experience. I was attacked by people on the left and called a billionaire bootlicker, while simultaneously being attacked by people on the right for being a working mom who was demonized as an example of a woman choosing her career over her family. Thankfully I can laugh at myself and I don’t take armchair keyboard ideologues too seriously. Being the main character on the timeline, even for a few minutes, requires a thick skin and a strong sense of self. The real story is pretty simple. I was given a nearly impossible deadline for his first project and as the product lead I would never ask anyone to do anything I wasn’t willing to do myself. So I worked round the clock alongside an amazing team spanning many timezones, and we delivered it on schedule – truly against the odds. It was intense but also fun. Those first few months were wildly crazy but I wanted to be there and I have no regrets. Showing up and giving it your all should, in most cases, be celebrated. Obviously you can’t work at that pace forever but there are moments where bursts are mission critical. I’ve pulled many all-nighters in my career and also when I was a student for something that mattered to me. I don’t regret putting in long hours or being ambitious, and feel proud of how far I’ve come from where I started thanks in part to that type of work ethic. I think of life as a game, and being at Twitter after the acquisition was like playing life at Level 10 on Hard Mode. Since I like taking on difficult challenges I found it interesting and rewarding because I was growing and learning so rapidly. I realize our society today trends toward polarization but when it comes to this app, its owner, and its future, I am neither a fangirl nor a hater — I’m an optimistic pragmatist. This may really irritate the internet but you cannot pigeonhole me into some radical position of either loving or hating every change that’s occurred. I escaped my fundamentalist upbringing and am a free thinker these days. Everyone can be seen as both a hero or a villain, depending on who is telling what angle of the story. Elon doesn’t deserve to be venerated or vilified. He’s a complicated person with an unfathomable amount of financial and geopolitical power which is why humanity needs him to err on the side of goodness, rather than political divisiveness and pettiness. I disagree with many of his decisions and am surprised by his willingness to burn so much down, but with enough money and time, something new & innovative may emerge. I hope it does. Sometimes I get asked about how I felt when I got laid off, and the truth is it was the best gift I’ve ever received. Sure the headlines and punchlines wrote themselves but I was battle hardened by then. I knew that I’d worked in a way where I could walk out with my head held high. I have no bitterness about the Product Management team being dismantled, and it made sense for me to exit as nearly all of the remaining PMs were let go. Going on a sabbatical afterward has been exactly what I needed to decompress and I’m finally feeling rested and relaxed. I’m a creative and a builder, so sooner than later I’ll jump back into a high intensity company but I’m grateful for this season of thinking, reading, traveling and being with people I love. After having time to reflect I believe more than ever that the very best outcomes flow from great leadership that combines the head and the heart. I’d be remiss if I didn’t note that in all of this there is also a cautionary tale for anyone who succeeds at something — which is that the higher you climb, the smaller your world becomes. It’s a strange paradox but the richest and most powerful people are also some of the most isolated. I found myself frequently looking at Elon and seeing a person who seemed quite alone because his time and energy was so purely devoted to work, which is not the model of a life I want to live. Money and fame can create psychological prisons which may worsen mental health conditions. We’ve all seen high profile cases of celebrities who end up with some combination of depression, paranoia, delusions of grandeur, mania and/or erratic behavior. Living in an echo chamber is dangerous and being at the top makes a person even more susceptible to being surrounded by yes people when nearly everyone around you is on the payroll and somehow stands to benefit from being in your orbit. Figuring out how to keep “better angels” around in the form of family, friends, and teammates is critical to staying on the rails and enduring intense ups and downs. Everyone needs to hear hard truths sometimes and if you fire all the people who speak up then the reality distortion field may just turn into a vortex. I was drawn to Twitter because I’m obsessed with the problem of loneliness and connection between people. I find it fascinating & troubling that humans are getting lonelier as we simultaneously create a world that’s both safer and wealthier. I don’t believe that trade-off has to exist, which is why I keep returning to that theme in my personal and professional life. I realize this is too long of a tweet but Twitter was a weird and special place on the internet, and I’m grateful to have played a teeny tiny role in its story and evolution. I’m here for whatever comes next — on this app and in new places. Consumer social is very much alive and at a fascinating juncture, so I’ll be watching and participating and sharing hot takes because I don’t want to, and probably can’t, turn that part of me off. Perhaps X becomes a resounding success. Or it fails epically. Either way, I expect it will continue to be a very entertaining ride. 🫡

Esther Crawford ✨

5,496,355 просмотров • 3 лет назад

BREAKING: Mark Carney tried to trick Rebel News — but we caught him and he backed down! I’ve got amazing news. It started out as terrible news. And the moral of the story here is: never trust a Liberal. Here’s the story: Remember back in 2019, when Trudeau’s hand-picked debates commission banned Rebel News and True North from sending reporters to the election debates? We went to court for an emergency hearing, and the judge said Trudeau had violated our constitutional rights, and ordered him to let us in. Trudeau’s staff spent the next two years studying that court ruling, scheming up new ways to get around it, to ban our reporters from the 2021 election debates. So we had to go back to court — and this time, it was just us. But a judge once again sided with us, and ordered Trudeau’s people to let us in. So here’s where the story gets crazy. It’s 2025 now. There’s another election. But Mark Carney is the PM, not Trudeau. And this time, when we applied for accreditation, they said we were welcome to attend! In fact, they said we could send as many reporters as we liked. Sixteen of us applied, and 16 of us were accredited. I knew that was a trick. I knew they were lying. And it proves my point about Mark Carney — he’s Trudeau 2.0. Just as evil, but smarter and harder-working. I knew there was something going on that they were hiding from us. So we had our lawyer Chad Williamson press them on it. Chad is the same lawyer who beat the debates commission in court in 2021. So Chad started interrogating them in a series of letters. And slowly but surely, he discovered their plan to block us. Carney’s debate commission said all 16 of us could attend. But they finally confessed their trick to Chad: only one of us would be allowed to ask questions. The other 15 would have to sit in silence. It was a new rule they made up. It was a secret rule. That applied only to Rebel News. And if we didn’t hire Chad to interrogate them, we would have walked into a trap — and by the time we realized it, it would have been too late to rush to court! They planned to keep it all a secret until we showed up. I know you might think I’m exaggerating. I’m not. Sixteen Rebels were allowed to attend. But 15 of us couldn’t ask any questions at the press conference. They said the rule was just one reporter per news company. But we know that’s a lie. The CBC has several reporters for English Canada. And they have several reporters for Quebec. Newspapers have multiple reporters too — for example, Postmedia is one company, but it is permitted to bring reporters for each of its newspapers, for example, the National Post and the Ottawa Citizen and the Calgary Herald. We pointed this out, and so the debates commission changed the rules again. They said the CBC was allowed multiple questions because they had different reporters in French and English. Well so do we — including our star Quebec reporter, Alexa Lavoie! They said that Postmedia was allowed multiple reporters because they covered different regions. Well, so do we. Drea Humphrey is in B.C., Sheila Gunn Reid is in Alberta, David Menzies is in Ontario, Alexa’s in Quebec and I’m always running around somewhere. Do you see what I mean? They were making it up on the go — special, secret rules just for us. They tried to trick us into NOT suing them, so that by the time we discovered this, there would be nothing we could do about it. But we found them out. And just a few days ago, we told them we were done negotiating, and they should get their lawyers ready, because we were going back to court for a third time, for an emergency injunction. Chad went back and forth with them NINE TIMES. You really have to read all nine letters. They knew we weren’t going to stop fighting. And that’s when Carney’s staff blinked. They let us in. They knew that if we took them to court for a third time, and if their tricky rules were shown to the Federal Court of Canada, they would lose for a third time. So Carney’s people blinked. They wrote back to us, at the last minute, calling off our lawsuit, by agreeing to allow not one, not two, not three, not four, but five Rebels to ask questions — and for each of us to have cameramen, too. Granted, it’s not the full 16 we asked for, but it still makes us the largest group of question-askers at the debates. Like I say: amazing news. But it started off as terrible news. There’s a moral to the story here. Number one: never trust a Liberal — especially Mark Carney. Number two: always fight for your rights. Sometimes the other side is more scared of you than you are of them. I think our lawyer Chad scared Carney’s lawyers. Number three: be sure to tune in to the leaders' debates, both the French one tomorrow night, and the English one, Thursday night. Because we’ll be at both — because it’s the question and answer scrum at the end that we’re interested in. Number four is where you come in. We told Chad to start preparing the lawsuit last week, and he put his full team on it. We truly thought we were going to court. Only when we had the written letter of surrender from Carney’s people did we stop the lawsuit. But between the lawsuit preparations and the negotiations, we racked up $9,000 in legal bills. That’s in addition to the costs of getting our whole team out there: Drea from B.C., Sheila from Alberta, etc. We’re all going to stay in an Airbnb together, to save money — oh, and we’re also bringing the billboard truck! It’s going to be huge. We really are going to make it our debate. And that’s only possible because of my last point — we have you to help us level the playing field. Our ability to attend the debates, and ask the questions you care about, rather than what the regime media like the CBC cares about, is only possible due to your generosity — to help us pay for our lawyers, not just this time, but the huge court victories in 2019 and 2021 that put us in a strong position this year. It’s insane that it has fallen to us, and the mainstream media hasn’t even mentioned these outrageous attempts at censorship. But then again, they don’t want Rebel News in there either, do they? Between Chad’s legal wrangling, the half-drafted lawsuit, our travel costs and our Airbnb, I estimate that we need $12,000 to cover our debate costs. Could I ask you for a personal favour to chip in? It was a David vs. Goliath battle just to get in. And once we’re in, it will be a David vs. Goliath battle to push aside the regime media types who will try to block us from getting to the microphones. And then it will be a third David vs. Goliath battle to actually put questions to Mark Carney and Jagmeet Singh and Pierre Poilievre, too. Rebel News and one other independent media outlet were both in court back in 2019 fighting the debates commission. By 2021, it was just us by ourselves — but our victory allowed all other independent media to attend. And our victory this time, too, will redound to the benefit of everyone. In other words, Rebel News fights for our reporters, and our viewers, but the benefits of our fights and the precedents we set benefit every journalist in the country, whether they admit it or not. REPORT by Ezra Levant 🍁🚛:
10:14

BREAKING: Mark Carney tried to trick Rebel News — but we caught him and he backed down! I’ve got amazing news. It started out as terrible news. And the moral of the story here is: never trust a Liberal. Here’s the story: Remember back in 2019, when Trudeau’s hand-picked debates commission banned Rebel News and True North from sending reporters to the election debates? We went to court for an emergency hearing, and the judge said Trudeau had violated our constitutional rights, and ordered him to let us in. Trudeau’s staff spent the next two years studying that court ruling, scheming up new ways to get around it, to ban our reporters from the 2021 election debates. So we had to go back to court — and this time, it was just us. But a judge once again sided with us, and ordered Trudeau’s people to let us in. So here’s where the story gets crazy. It’s 2025 now. There’s another election. But Mark Carney is the PM, not Trudeau. And this time, when we applied for accreditation, they said we were welcome to attend! In fact, they said we could send as many reporters as we liked. Sixteen of us applied, and 16 of us were accredited. I knew that was a trick. I knew they were lying. And it proves my point about Mark Carney — he’s Trudeau 2.0. Just as evil, but smarter and harder-working. I knew there was something going on that they were hiding from us. So we had our lawyer Chad Williamson press them on it. Chad is the same lawyer who beat the debates commission in court in 2021. So Chad started interrogating them in a series of letters. And slowly but surely, he discovered their plan to block us. Carney’s debate commission said all 16 of us could attend. But they finally confessed their trick to Chad: only one of us would be allowed to ask questions. The other 15 would have to sit in silence. It was a new rule they made up. It was a secret rule. That applied only to Rebel News. And if we didn’t hire Chad to interrogate them, we would have walked into a trap — and by the time we realized it, it would have been too late to rush to court! They planned to keep it all a secret until we showed up. I know you might think I’m exaggerating. I’m not. Sixteen Rebels were allowed to attend. But 15 of us couldn’t ask any questions at the press conference. They said the rule was just one reporter per news company. But we know that’s a lie. The CBC has several reporters for English Canada. And they have several reporters for Quebec. Newspapers have multiple reporters too — for example, Postmedia is one company, but it is permitted to bring reporters for each of its newspapers, for example, the National Post and the Ottawa Citizen and the Calgary Herald. We pointed this out, and so the debates commission changed the rules again. They said the CBC was allowed multiple questions because they had different reporters in French and English. Well so do we — including our star Quebec reporter, Alexa Lavoie! They said that Postmedia was allowed multiple reporters because they covered different regions. Well, so do we. Drea Humphrey is in B.C., Sheila Gunn Reid is in Alberta, David Menzies is in Ontario, Alexa’s in Quebec and I’m always running around somewhere. Do you see what I mean? They were making it up on the go — special, secret rules just for us. They tried to trick us into NOT suing them, so that by the time we discovered this, there would be nothing we could do about it. But we found them out. And just a few days ago, we told them we were done negotiating, and they should get their lawyers ready, because we were going back to court for a third time, for an emergency injunction. Chad went back and forth with them NINE TIMES. You really have to read all nine letters. They knew we weren’t going to stop fighting. And that’s when Carney’s staff blinked. They let us in. They knew that if we took them to court for a third time, and if their tricky rules were shown to the Federal Court of Canada, they would lose for a third time. So Carney’s people blinked. They wrote back to us, at the last minute, calling off our lawsuit, by agreeing to allow not one, not two, not three, not four, but five Rebels to ask questions — and for each of us to have cameramen, too. Granted, it’s not the full 16 we asked for, but it still makes us the largest group of question-askers at the debates. Like I say: amazing news. But it started off as terrible news. There’s a moral to the story here. Number one: never trust a Liberal — especially Mark Carney. Number two: always fight for your rights. Sometimes the other side is more scared of you than you are of them. I think our lawyer Chad scared Carney’s lawyers. Number three: be sure to tune in to the leaders' debates, both the French one tomorrow night, and the English one, Thursday night. Because we’ll be at both — because it’s the question and answer scrum at the end that we’re interested in. Number four is where you come in. We told Chad to start preparing the lawsuit last week, and he put his full team on it. We truly thought we were going to court. Only when we had the written letter of surrender from Carney’s people did we stop the lawsuit. But between the lawsuit preparations and the negotiations, we racked up $9,000 in legal bills. That’s in addition to the costs of getting our whole team out there: Drea from B.C., Sheila from Alberta, etc. We’re all going to stay in an Airbnb together, to save money — oh, and we’re also bringing the billboard truck! It’s going to be huge. We really are going to make it our debate. And that’s only possible because of my last point — we have you to help us level the playing field. Our ability to attend the debates, and ask the questions you care about, rather than what the regime media like the CBC cares about, is only possible due to your generosity — to help us pay for our lawyers, not just this time, but the huge court victories in 2019 and 2021 that put us in a strong position this year. It’s insane that it has fallen to us, and the mainstream media hasn’t even mentioned these outrageous attempts at censorship. But then again, they don’t want Rebel News in there either, do they? Between Chad’s legal wrangling, the half-drafted lawsuit, our travel costs and our Airbnb, I estimate that we need $12,000 to cover our debate costs. Could I ask you for a personal favour to chip in? It was a David vs. Goliath battle just to get in. And once we’re in, it will be a David vs. Goliath battle to push aside the regime media types who will try to block us from getting to the microphones. And then it will be a third David vs. Goliath battle to actually put questions to Mark Carney and Jagmeet Singh and Pierre Poilievre, too. Rebel News and one other independent media outlet were both in court back in 2019 fighting the debates commission. By 2021, it was just us by ourselves — but our victory allowed all other independent media to attend. And our victory this time, too, will redound to the benefit of everyone. In other words, Rebel News fights for our reporters, and our viewers, but the benefits of our fights and the precedents we set benefit every journalist in the country, whether they admit it or not. REPORT by Ezra Levant 🍁🚛:

Rebel News

96,962 просмотров • 1 год назад

From Creator to Founder: The Rollercoaster Journey of Building Chatter Social Man, what a journey it’s been so far. Four years ago, I was just another creator, spending late nights on Clubhouse during the height of the pandemic. Like so many others, I was searching for connection, for community, for something meaningful. But what I found there wasn’t just connection—it was purpose. Alongside my brother, Jonathan Bing, we built a nightly show that reached over 5 million people. Imagine that: 5 million lives touched by conversations that felt real and unfiltered, all on a platform that at its peak had 10 million monthly active users. Clubhouse was magic. But then the decline began. Watching the platform struggle, I couldn’t help but reflect: what made it great? What went wrong? And what could the future look like if we did things differently? The Spark of Chatter As a content creator, I understood the needs of both creators and users. I knew what excited people, what kept them engaged, and what made them leave. Clubhouse had tapped into something special, but it had missed the mark on scalability and sustainability. By September 2023, I couldn’t stop thinking about the potential for something new—something that brought back the magic of real-time interaction but made it scalable, engaging, and sticky. And so, I set out to build Chatter Social. But I wasn’t a tech founder. I didn’t have a background in software development or a network of Silicon Valley insiders. What I did have was determination and the belief that if I could bring the right people together, we could build something extraordinary. Building the Team The journey to build Chatter started with assembling a team. Through my network from my days on Clubhouse, I found Samir, my first CTO. He believed in the vision and was instrumental in getting the project off the ground. Shortly after, I connected with Tyler, our Head of Design, whose creativity brought life to our ideas. A developer joined us soon after, and we were off to the races. By the end of 2023, Samir had to step away due to other commitments, and we promoted the developer to CTO. At the same time, I brought on Banko, a Sony music executive, as our CMO. Banko’s connections led to one of our biggest early wins: landing Davido, a global superstar, as an owner-ambassador. To this day, I still marvel at the fact that Davido believed in our vision when all we had were Tyler’s Figma designs. From Dream to Reality Early 2024 was a whirlwind. We hired Yurii and Vasyl, two developers from Ukraine who brought incredible skill and dedication to the team. Vasyl, in particular, stood out as a leader and has since earned an equity position in the company. But despite these wins, we were facing growing pains. Our new CTO struggled to meet deadlines, and as a result, I found myself constantly pushing back the launch date. What started as a January release turned into February, then March, then April, then May. By then, people on Twitter Spaces—where I had been hyping up the platform—started doubting if we even had a product. Launch and Lessons June 1, 2024, marked a turning point. It was the day my son Noah was born and the day we launched Chatter in private beta. We started with just 40 users, but by the end of the month, we had grown to 1,000. The engagement was unbelievable. Users loved it, even though we had launched with just one feature: live rooms. This represented less than 20% of what we had planned, but it was enough to show that we were onto something big. In July, we launched our public beta on the App Store as an invite-only platform. Within 48 hours, Chatter ranked as a top 30 social app in over 30 countries. But our invite system throttled access, and most users couldn’t get in. While engagement metrics soared for those inside, our AWS costs exploded. In August, our AWS bill hit $10,000. By September, it had climbed to $15,000, and we were drowning in bugs and glitches. The breaking point came when our CTO became unresponsive, often disappearing during critical moments. Users were dropping off, frustrated by the issues, developers were confused and the team was also growing increasingly frustrated, I made the tough decision to let him go. A New Beginning Enter Horane, a long-time user of Chatter who had been with us since private beta. He was the first to discover some of the most innovative use cases for the platform and had a deep passion for its potential. After meeting him in person at a Chatter event, I knew he was the right person to step into the CTO role. When Horane took over, we discovered just how bad the situation was. Key areas of the codebase were locked, and there were no separate environments for development and production. Every fix seemed to break something else. But through sheer determination and countless 18-hour days, Horane stabilized the platform. Today, Chatter is far from perfect, but it’s stable. The bugs that plagued us have been reduced to moderate issues, and our core users—those who stuck with us through the chaos—are still engaged on the platform. Looking Ahead: Chatter V2 While the platform is stable now, we’ve shifted our focus to Chatter V2. This is where the magic really begins. V2 isn’t just an improvement; it’s a complete reimagining of the platform. It includes all the features we couldn’t release in V1 because we were too busy putting out fires. Imagine this: Chatter V1, with only one live feature, was incredibly sticky. Now think about what happens when we release a fully loaded platform with all the innovative features we’ve been working on behind the scenes. The possibilities are endless. V2 is slated to hit TestFlight by the end of December, with a public release in January 2025. And this time, we’re ready—not just with the product but with the lessons we’ve learned. The Hard Lessons This journey has taught me more than I ever thought possible: 1) Your Team is Everything: The right people can make or break your vision. Finding people who believe in your mission is just as important as finding people with the right skills. 2) Adaptability is Key: As a non-technical founder, I had to learn about development, DevOps, and product management on the fly. Challenges will push you to grow, whether you’re ready or not. 3) Trust the Process: Every setback, every delay, every bug—it all taught us something. Without those lessons, we wouldn’t be building the incredible V2 product we are today. 4) Resilience is Non-Negotiable: From technical disasters to predatory investors who tried to exploit my desperation, I’ve had to fight for this vision every step of the way. What’s Next December is shaping up to be an exciting month. We have some amazing events planned on the platform to close out the year, bringing our core community together as we prepare for the V2 launch. When V2 drops, it will mark a new era for Chatter. This isn’t just a social audio platform or a social audiovisual platform. Chatter is all about interactive experiences—making social media social again in ways that are truly unique. The public launch is slated for February 2025, and for the first time, we’ll have the marketing dollars to tell the world about Chatter. Our core community has been our biggest cheerleaders, and I can’t wait to see how the world reacts when they experience what we’ve built. Final Thoughts This has been the hardest year of my life, but also the most rewarding. To other founders, or anyone thinking about starting a company: know this—it will test you in ways you can’t imagine. You’ll face betrayal, doubt, and moments where you feel like giving up. But if you believe in your vision and refuse to quit, you’ll find a way forward. Thank you to everyone who has supported me, my team, and Chatter. We’re just getting started. Let’s talk about it. 🚀 If this story inspired you, please like and share it so others can learn from my experiences. The journey is far from over, but I’m more excited than ever for what’s to come.
0:25

From Creator to Founder: The Rollercoaster Journey of Building Chatter Social Man, what a journey it’s been so far. Four years ago, I was just another creator, spending late nights on Clubhouse during the height of the pandemic. Like so many others, I was searching for connection, for community, for something meaningful. But what I found there wasn’t just connection—it was purpose. Alongside my brother, Jonathan Bing, we built a nightly show that reached over 5 million people. Imagine that: 5 million lives touched by conversations that felt real and unfiltered, all on a platform that at its peak had 10 million monthly active users. Clubhouse was magic. But then the decline began. Watching the platform struggle, I couldn’t help but reflect: what made it great? What went wrong? And what could the future look like if we did things differently? The Spark of Chatter As a content creator, I understood the needs of both creators and users. I knew what excited people, what kept them engaged, and what made them leave. Clubhouse had tapped into something special, but it had missed the mark on scalability and sustainability. By September 2023, I couldn’t stop thinking about the potential for something new—something that brought back the magic of real-time interaction but made it scalable, engaging, and sticky. And so, I set out to build Chatter Social. But I wasn’t a tech founder. I didn’t have a background in software development or a network of Silicon Valley insiders. What I did have was determination and the belief that if I could bring the right people together, we could build something extraordinary. Building the Team The journey to build Chatter started with assembling a team. Through my network from my days on Clubhouse, I found Samir, my first CTO. He believed in the vision and was instrumental in getting the project off the ground. Shortly after, I connected with Tyler, our Head of Design, whose creativity brought life to our ideas. A developer joined us soon after, and we were off to the races. By the end of 2023, Samir had to step away due to other commitments, and we promoted the developer to CTO. At the same time, I brought on Banko, a Sony music executive, as our CMO. Banko’s connections led to one of our biggest early wins: landing Davido, a global superstar, as an owner-ambassador. To this day, I still marvel at the fact that Davido believed in our vision when all we had were Tyler’s Figma designs. From Dream to Reality Early 2024 was a whirlwind. We hired Yurii and Vasyl, two developers from Ukraine who brought incredible skill and dedication to the team. Vasyl, in particular, stood out as a leader and has since earned an equity position in the company. But despite these wins, we were facing growing pains. Our new CTO struggled to meet deadlines, and as a result, I found myself constantly pushing back the launch date. What started as a January release turned into February, then March, then April, then May. By then, people on Twitter Spaces—where I had been hyping up the platform—started doubting if we even had a product. Launch and Lessons June 1, 2024, marked a turning point. It was the day my son Noah was born and the day we launched Chatter in private beta. We started with just 40 users, but by the end of the month, we had grown to 1,000. The engagement was unbelievable. Users loved it, even though we had launched with just one feature: live rooms. This represented less than 20% of what we had planned, but it was enough to show that we were onto something big. In July, we launched our public beta on the App Store as an invite-only platform. Within 48 hours, Chatter ranked as a top 30 social app in over 30 countries. But our invite system throttled access, and most users couldn’t get in. While engagement metrics soared for those inside, our AWS costs exploded. In August, our AWS bill hit $10,000. By September, it had climbed to $15,000, and we were drowning in bugs and glitches. The breaking point came when our CTO became unresponsive, often disappearing during critical moments. Users were dropping off, frustrated by the issues, developers were confused and the team was also growing increasingly frustrated, I made the tough decision to let him go. A New Beginning Enter Horane, a long-time user of Chatter who had been with us since private beta. He was the first to discover some of the most innovative use cases for the platform and had a deep passion for its potential. After meeting him in person at a Chatter event, I knew he was the right person to step into the CTO role. When Horane took over, we discovered just how bad the situation was. Key areas of the codebase were locked, and there were no separate environments for development and production. Every fix seemed to break something else. But through sheer determination and countless 18-hour days, Horane stabilized the platform. Today, Chatter is far from perfect, but it’s stable. The bugs that plagued us have been reduced to moderate issues, and our core users—those who stuck with us through the chaos—are still engaged on the platform. Looking Ahead: Chatter V2 While the platform is stable now, we’ve shifted our focus to Chatter V2. This is where the magic really begins. V2 isn’t just an improvement; it’s a complete reimagining of the platform. It includes all the features we couldn’t release in V1 because we were too busy putting out fires. Imagine this: Chatter V1, with only one live feature, was incredibly sticky. Now think about what happens when we release a fully loaded platform with all the innovative features we’ve been working on behind the scenes. The possibilities are endless. V2 is slated to hit TestFlight by the end of December, with a public release in January 2025. And this time, we’re ready—not just with the product but with the lessons we’ve learned. The Hard Lessons This journey has taught me more than I ever thought possible: 1) Your Team is Everything: The right people can make or break your vision. Finding people who believe in your mission is just as important as finding people with the right skills. 2) Adaptability is Key: As a non-technical founder, I had to learn about development, DevOps, and product management on the fly. Challenges will push you to grow, whether you’re ready or not. 3) Trust the Process: Every setback, every delay, every bug—it all taught us something. Without those lessons, we wouldn’t be building the incredible V2 product we are today. 4) Resilience is Non-Negotiable: From technical disasters to predatory investors who tried to exploit my desperation, I’ve had to fight for this vision every step of the way. What’s Next December is shaping up to be an exciting month. We have some amazing events planned on the platform to close out the year, bringing our core community together as we prepare for the V2 launch. When V2 drops, it will mark a new era for Chatter. This isn’t just a social audio platform or a social audiovisual platform. Chatter is all about interactive experiences—making social media social again in ways that are truly unique. The public launch is slated for February 2025, and for the first time, we’ll have the marketing dollars to tell the world about Chatter. Our core community has been our biggest cheerleaders, and I can’t wait to see how the world reacts when they experience what we’ve built. Final Thoughts This has been the hardest year of my life, but also the most rewarding. To other founders, or anyone thinking about starting a company: know this—it will test you in ways you can’t imagine. You’ll face betrayal, doubt, and moments where you feel like giving up. But if you believe in your vision and refuse to quit, you’ll find a way forward. Thank you to everyone who has supported me, my team, and Chatter. We’re just getting started. Let’s talk about it. 🚀 If this story inspired you, please like and share it so others can learn from my experiences. The journey is far from over, but I’m more excited than ever for what’s to come.

Nelson Epega

43,371 просмотров • 1 год назад