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Hello! I'm Faris. I'm looking for the awesome. Founder/Genius Steals. Nomadic strategist/speaker. Author/Paid Attention. Husband/.
On The Roadgeniussteals.substack.comJoined December 2006

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Final chapter But with room for a sequel 🤣
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Someone asked this question & I love it! Want to hear what you all think… If your life was a book, what’s the name of this chapter you’re in now?💭
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Rewatched Labyrinth last night and they're absolutely working on a Disney+ sequel where Jason Segel plays the grown-up baby who was always very buttoned-down and has to learn the value of Fantasy by returning to Labyrinth world to save his child
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'Creative is king' 'Go broad or go home' Paid social default advice has totally flipped from 'uber precise targeting with the creative as an afterthought' to 'focus on broad reach and creative is your most important lever'. Funny how things have come full circle.
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I hop on calls with media buyers every week. Worrying to see how many are focusing on the wrong things like testing audiences.
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My unpublished Amisesque novel about my time at Oxford was good AND YOU LAUGHED AT IT WELL NOW THE MACHINES WILL GRIND YOU AND YOUR WEIRD CLOTHES INTO DUST
Times of London op-ed headline January 25th 2023, " AI spells trouble for creatives - about time too: Machines that can write and paint are a welcome rebuff to the prestige enjoyed by artistic types." by James Marriott.
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Roll call Auckland - everyone ok? This seems brutal. Sending love
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“A state of emergency was declared in New Zealand's biggest city Auckland on Friday as torrential rains caused widespread flooding and evacuations” reuters.com/business/envir
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I mean he stole his slogan from Reagan so makes sense 🤣
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New: Trump is unveiling a missile defense policy plan today, promising “to build a state of the art, next–generation missile defense shield” should he take office again: semafor.com/article/01/27/
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What’s that novel that opens with the guy in a astronomical observatory training the AI that will replace him?
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🟡 SCOOP: OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete, @ReedAlbergotti and @lmatsakis report in Semafor Technology semafor.com/article/01/27/
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Can someone build me a streaming dashboard that shows me all my subs and then let’s me easily turn them on and off in one place so I can watch Poker Face and Star Trek for a month or whatever thanks.
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I’m not a scholar but I’m pretty sure sharia allows women to work outside the home if they have husband permission? Obvs I don’t know really but feels like there is more nuance in Islam than this guy makes out
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The Taliban’s Minister of Disaster Management — “There is no need for women to work. Our religion DOES NOT ALLOW women to work”. Afghanistan has turned into a prison for women in the 21st century.
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The past is another country and besides the links are dead
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Whoever claimed that the "internet is forever" didn't have to go back to the internet of 2009 for a research project only to find that 75% of the links go nowhere now.
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“The vast majority of people beating the drums of hustle-mania are not the people doing the actual work,” “They’re the managers, financiers, and owners.” “For the rich […] building wealth is a creative process, and the closest thing they have to fun,”
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A major study finds that having COVID-19 makes you much likelier to suffer over twenty different heart conditions, including heart failure and strokes. “It doesn’t matter if you are young or old, diabetic or not, obese or not, if you smoked, or didn’t.”
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EEAAO is going to be back in 1400 theaters nationwide tomorrow. To all of the people who: -regret missing it in theaters -fell asleep watching it on an airplane -accidentally left at “THE END” -want to hate-watch the film Cats style with your friends now is your chance!
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A GLIMPSE OF WHAT IT’S LIKE TO LIVE WITH A MARKETER Overheard my gf this morning explaining to her client how Diet Coke & Coke Zero are two different flavour & sensory profiles. (Intrigued, the pesky little marketer in me😏patiently waits she ends her call to inquire further.)
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""It's not about what we wear, it's not about what we do," she says. "It's about them wanting to silence and control you and them wanting to have power to make you feel like they've got a piece of you."
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"It's so out of control, the only way that those that love you can control it is to change you," she says. "That all goes in somewhere, so I started looking inward. My whole life I just blamed myself because of that." Emily carried this sense of blame into her adult life."
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