Jon Augustine

Clapping on two and four since 1971. UCLA music, PHI 🤘🏾BETA 🤘🏼 SIGMA 🤘🏿Spring ‘90 he/him

[Jon Augustine @Awgusteeen]

Hey @EspeSpalding thanks for the inspiration! Check out these kids at Folsom High and their rendition of #iadoreyou Hope you dig it...

20190111FHSJC 2019JEN Augustine https://t.co/uARGt7N9xY via @YouTube

[Jon Augustine @Awgusteeen]

@DavidMDrucker I swear the next time I see this (soon) I’m going to pull my phone out and aggressively film them in their face. In my revenge fantasy the person gets pissed and asks me what the hell I’m doing and I reply, “You are obviously extremely important and I don’t want to miss a thing.”

[Jon Augustine @Awgusteeen]

@TaylorRMcKay I know nothing about Patrick Cantlay but I find fault with your algorithmic logic.

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

From today’s Poetry Rx

[Jon Augustine @Awgusteeen]

@Speech__ @XXL Yes. Please keep talking.

[Jon Augustine @Awgusteeen]

@Theholisticpsyc A thousand thanks for this.

Sincerely,
Found My True Passion at 51

[Shawn Peters- UNFORGETTABLE LOGAN FOSTER 1&2 @ShawnTweeters]

Okay, billion dollar idea.

An app that you use when you're waiting in long lines. The app finds people nearby who will stand in your place so you can go to the bathroom, get a snack, etc.

Call it "AirBRB"

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Why so Serious? 💀

The Evolutionary Significance of Humor

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

This is one of the best videos to ever exist for entrepreneurs, creators... I think about it often.

In 2016, Pharrell Williams visited a NYU music production class to critique student songs.

At the beginning you could see student "Maggie Rogers" drenched with the absolute terror of sharing this with him.

Pharrell is there just trying to keep his excitement in.

The guy couldn’t wait to tell her this song is the bee’s knees.

After he listened to a song called “Alaska”, he explained why “I have zero, zero, zero notes for that:”

24 hours later, someone posted the clip to Reddit.

It blew up and the rest is history. Grammy nominated, millions of followers etc.

And Maggie responded to the Reddit thread (i'll share screenshot in the next tweet).

This story I find so cool because it inspires other artists to share what they got.

We all can all connect with the fear of showing our work. It ain't easy.

And to have a unique POV like Maggie. Easy to copy, harder to have something unique.

I’ve got a bunch of designs, creations that have never seen the light of day.

This video inspires me to publish more.

My point of sharing this video:

Publish your art anonymously.

Or publish your art proudly as yourself. Bonus points if it's one of a kind work.

But publish your darn art.

This is your new week's energy.

This is your 2024 energy.

Go get 'em.

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If you enjoyed this, go listen to some Maggie Rogers. And thank you to Pharrell for being so supportive to an up and comer.

And go follow me for more stories like this @gregisenberg, so you get more of it in your feed

I share stories about internet communities, free startup ideas and more. (link in bio for more info about me)

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

James Baldwin:

[Jon Augustine @Awgusteeen]

@UCLA_Alumni Got to fly over the conquered lands. Looks sad from up here. Very satisfying.

[Jon Augustine @Awgusteeen]

@mattmetten Doesn’t matter, as long as there are tears.

[Jon Augustine @Awgusteeen]

@danacarvey I’m so sorry, Dana. Our family is familiar with addiction and sending you love and peace. May his memory be a blessing.

[Jon Augustine @Awgusteeen]

@Speech__ @peteholmes @netflix It’s so good. He’s one of my favorite modern day philosophers (a title I don’t think he’d accept but would find hilarious.)

[Anne Serling @AnneSerling]

"A sickness known as hate. Not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ — but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone — look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether."
Rod Serling

[Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Benzi Sanders @BenzionSanders]

By far the most powerful Israeli response I have seen.

This 19 year old girl survived the horrific massacre in Kibbutz Be’eri.

This is her message to her fellow Israelis and to the world.

Watch the whole thing.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Real world problem:

You are a sovereign nation. A neighboring country attacks you, targets your civilians, brutally killing & kidnaping them. You must respond. But the problem is the country that attacked you is ruled by a terror organization that does not value life, not the lives of your people & not the lives of their people. For 16yrs, they’ve used their civilians as human shields, so their civilian & terror infrastructures are virtually one and the same

So I ask the all too familiar chorus of Israel critics, what would YOU do? Don’t just take a shot at Israel. If you were Israel, dealing with what Israel must deal with as spelled out above, what would YOU do?

[Mayim Bialik @missmayim]

Some of us have decided to read text messages sent from the last moments of people’s lives in Israel. Yes, this is disturbing and heartbreaking, but it’s something I have decided to do in hopes it can continue to convey the depth of pain and suffering the Jewish people and the Israeli population are experiencing as we defend our right to exist. #TheLastMessage #HamasisISIS