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Writer at . Host of podcast CRAZY/GENIUS. Author of book HIT MAKERS. Talker on NPR's and . derek[at]theatlantic[dot]com

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  1. 11 hours ago

    The EPA was established in 1970. The first presidential report on climate change landed on LBJ’s desk in 1965.

    Kavanaugh doesn't believe the EPA "should be able to deal with climate change, because when Congress enacted the Clean Air Act, it didn't know about greenhouse gases and climate change, so it didn't specifically authorize the agency to regulate in that area."
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    Sep 4

    5/Some immigrants are genius engineers who invent cool stuff and start companies that hire Americans, and stuff like that. Others are humble child-care and elder-care workers. We need both.

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  3. Sep 4

    thermodynamics better make room for an extra law

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  4. Sep 4

    my understanding is that nike didnt replace its entire global marketing budget with a picture of kaepernick's face

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    This data makes the Kaepernick decision even worse, then. Certainly those growth markets won't be moved/motivated by an American Footballer who lacks global recognition or a ubiquitous brand.
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  5. Sep 4

    Some Nike facts: - 57% of last year's revenue came from outside the US - North American profits declined 7% last year - Profit growth in China/Latin America up 20+% Future of the biz is, in many ways, opposite of "America 1st"

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  6. Sep 4

    when this is all over, i strongly encourage my employer to publish 's excellent daily commentary as an anthology, entitled "Everything Is Terrible, and It's Going to Get Worse: My Life on the Trump Beat"

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    Today, launches a brand new Ideas section, edited by the fantastic — read 's mission statement for the section here:

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  8. Sep 4

    I would only add that these decisions are made: - not only for left-of-center (young + diverse) consumers - but also for prospective left-of-center EMPLOYEES In other words: A brand is a signal, not only to buyers, but also to talent.

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  9. Sep 4

    This is a great politico-socio-economic explanation of why we're seeing more corps pick sides in political debates—and why they're picking the left.

    The same “Big Sort” that makes the congressional map hard for Democrats is solidifying the dominance of liberal attitudes in consumer marketing. Which is to say, you’ll see more like Nike + Kaepernick and Delta vs. NRA:
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  10. Sep 4

    In all seriousness, it's fascinating to watch tech's rank-and-file shift from "I work here because we save the world" to "look, it's no worse than TV, ok? and the salary is higher"

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  11. Sep 4

    Even if you buy the idea that FB is arguably "good in the aggregate" that's a wild departure from previous Changing the World rhetoric. Breakfast cereal is arguably good in the aggregate. Same with TV, apparel, beauty products, Twitter ... well, let's not go crazy.

    One refrain I've heard from inside FB is that the *aggregate* impact of Facebook is still good, despite well-publicized edge cases. Which is pretty similar to the stories I heard young Wall Street analysts telling themselves in 2010 to justify sticking around until bonus day.
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  12. Sep 4

    Oh, also a bunch of these ppl ended up fascists. (this is not a prediction.)

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  13. Sep 4

    “fast machines” ✅ “nervous breakdowns” ✅ “undigested rushes of information” ✅ “an exploding supernova of raw verbiage” ... 🤔🤔🤔

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  14. Sep 4

    A one-paragraph description of 30somethings born in the “prosperous and relatively peaceful” 1880s and 1890s. i.e.: the previous century’s “Millennials”

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  15. Sep 3

    hard to imagine 8 consecutive words that better support kaepernick's collusion case

    Bills announce Nathan Peterman will start Week One
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  16. Sep 3

    I'm not even against astrology. But that's what it is.

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  17. Sep 3

    Myers-Briggs is astrology for capitalists.

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  18. Sep 2

    From The Vertigo Years, Philipp Blom

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  19. Sep 2

    Fascinating psychological harmony between early 20th and early 21st century: Esp. when you swap mass production/distribution of stuff (and its drawbacks) with mass production/distribution of media (and its drawbacks)

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  20. Sep 2

    Cars w internal combustion engines 1910 :: Smartphones w social media 2018

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