Be weird. Save Lives.

We don’t deserve dogs. 

So, I got a new puppy. I figure the lack of sleep and constant cleanups will eventually get me close enough to deserving this dog. 

This past week I wrote about how the rest of the newsletter world is waking up to the fact that this newsletter model is dead. ‘Bout time.

Then, I posted about how this artist’s weirdness in 1990 saved (at least) one life and inspired genre of music that would rule the charts a decade later with tens of billions of dollars in revenue. As Sally Hogshead says, “Different is better than better.”

Elsewhere, Mark Manson explains why no one is reading books anymore. His reasons are strong. So are his delusions that we can solve for the long-term, (and IMO natural) transition away from traditional books.

The idea that AI is too busy to take your job seems like wishful thinking, but it’s a great thought experiment too.

Thanks for reading! – CJ