Will Wright

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[Will Wright @WillWrightLLC]

After a generation of everything digital, some in #GenZ are drawn to #OldTimey #Technology.

In #Relationships aka #Networking a couple of weeks ago I sent cards so I could applaud friends' #Birthdays.

[Will Wright @WillWrightLLC]

This episode of Think Fast Talk Smart about personal #Branding @LorraineKLee via @StanfordGSB will help those who forgot about the virtues, realities and necessity of maintaining it: https://t.co/ka5KObxCLN

[Will Wright @WillWrightLLC]

In #Networking aka #Relationships last week I applauded a contact's, who used to work for the @MNOpera, #Birthday (and a successful health procedure).

[Will Wright @WillWrightLLC]

Last week in #Networking aka #Relationships I applauded someone at the @BizJournals for his more than 10-year tenure. @larsLeafblad @CatBreet

[Will Wright @WillWrightLLC]

In #Networking aka #Relationships, last week I bade handwritten #Birthday applause to friends who work at @Ameriprise and @FairviewHealth Services. #SendCards

[Will Wright @WillWrightLLC]

The creative talent space is so much of a #MindGame or #ConfidenceGame. Why?

Strangers make you blush by insisting w/your look, "you need to be modeling"...!

But, w/entertainment fickleness. there must be seasons for hiring #SilverFox.

Winter 2025 isn't the season?

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The creative talent space is so much of a #ConfidenceGame. Why?

Strangers can say you've a great voice for voice work...
https://t.co/J4eCpwUWcp

But, w/entertainment being fickle. there must be seasons for hiring voices.

Winter 2025 isn't the season for my distinct voice?

[Will Wright @WillWrightLLC]

After George Lara shared an article, from @TheAtlantic, about a frozen jobs market, this, from @NPR @Marketplace, describes a drop in new jobs: https://t.co/mr4XROVDuy

[Will Wright @WillWrightLLC]

*** Awards for journalism
*** Several years of experience as an independent journalist
*** BA degree in Communications Studies

*** Ambitious and artistic once-and-again member of Toastmasters

I can translate these credentials into taut speeches for scrappy principals.

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And 47/#TheCombover is supposed to the be the chief #Diplomat and #Negotiator for the U.S....

...and a slight majority of Americans voted for this volatile and thin-skinned person?

[PBS News @NewsHour]

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance got into a heated exchange with visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office on Friday over U.S. support for Ukraine in its ongoing fight against Russian forces.

The back-and-forth between the three men took place during what’s known as a pool spray, when the White House provides access for a limited number of members of the media to observe and report on a meeting or event.

After Zelenskyy shared his skepticism that U.S. diplomacy with Russian President Vladimir Putin will be successful, Vance told Ukraine’s president that it was “disrespectful for you to come to the Oval Office to try to litigate this in front of the American media.”

“You should be thanking the president for trying to bring an end to this conflict,” Vance told Zelenskky, while also noting that Ukraine has issues bringing more manpower into its military.

Trump told Zelenskyy, “You're gambling with World War III, and what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country, that’s backed you far more than a lot of people said they should have.”

Ukraine has been pushing for security guarantees from the U.S. to prevent further Russian incursion on Ukrainian territory. While Ukraine is set to sign an economic agreement that will give the U.S. access to the European country’s rare earth minerals, Trump has said in recent days that the U.S. was not going to make security guarantees “beyond very much. We’re going to have Europe do that.”

After the meeting, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that he has “determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations.”

“He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office,” Trump said. “He can come back when he is ready for peace.”

[Will Wright @WillWrightLLC]

Last week in #Networking aka #Relationships I applauded an acquaintance's 3_th birthday.
Among the problems in our mostly digital world is that we haven't seen each other since before Covid.

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If you struggle w/your purpose, and how you manage energy, time as a way to convey it, this from @StanfordGSB will engage you https://t.co/FPWcbAF5qZ

Being days past the common #NewYearsDay quit day, everyone can resume progress on their individual #Strategies. @Sree

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How many professionals follow the podcast "Think Fast, Talk Smart" from the @StanfordGSB ? It has a #NewYear2025 themed series about #Happiness and #WellBeing:

https://t.co/Hn37t7JbDG

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Again, are you at an age ('round middle age) where you "knew" that you would've attained a certain kind of #Success – Except that you haven't?

@NPR UpFirst has this segment, "Can Old Age Be a New Beginning". This might intrigue you. #MiddleAge https://t.co/lVKxdAOJ3i

[Will Wright @WillWrightLLC]

Are you at an age ('round middle age) where you "knew" that you would've attained a certain kind of #Success – Except that you haven't?

@NPR UpFirst has this segment, "Can Old Age Be a New Beginning". This might intrigue you. https://t.co/FNSnVxVrrX

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As a writer, I wonder which cultural and politican polls and surveys @CapehartJ monitors regularly?

I presume that that info informs his columns and on-screen commentaries.

And I wonder this re: @jdickerson too.

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Trying to find time, energy to assess the market for my conversation podcast, which I might call "I Only Asked," this source tells me that the milieu for Black-oriented content is peculiar: https://t.co/NnqU0gcqMI

According to this their followerships vary widely!

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A @WSJ "Your Money Briefing" segment on optimism connotes a "less miserable" time for #JobSeekers.

As a man w/substantive #Communications, #Message credentials, incl a BA @UMNCLA, awards @MNSPJ, yrs of #Journalism experience, a bogeyman of #AI lurks.

How to brace yourself?

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This writer at @FastCompany had me at our brains "crave face-to-face social engagement".

But he is more hard-nosed than me in, A, describing the damage done to human brains by, and, B, arguing for humans choosing ever-reduced #ScreenTime #PublicHealth:
https://t.co/PNR94faBFT

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Again, this piece on #NeverTooLate #Fitness @NPR Consider This reminds me of stories, which I want to report as an independent journalist.

https://t.co/CtOoRQza4w

"Every story" on #Fitness addresses young adults. What of #MiddleAge training? Twin Cities stories must abound!