jonathan robinson

building local community & commerce hubs @indie_shops

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

tldr: read a book

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

@PEoperator hilarious thread, service providers & spouses 😂

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

@robgo read this linked in the newsletter; appreciated this line!

“The opportunity set in front of us is so vast that it’s not about winning every opportunity but winning the right opportunities for you and your model.”

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

@robgo True for adults in credentialism world as well
“The most dangerous thing…is that it is very easy to do nothing for four years and still come out looking successful.”

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

@almostcmb soak up every moment - before you know it, it’s kid pitch & you’ll wonder where it all went. and fyi, the team parents are (counter-intuitively) harshest in the early years 😂

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

Vacation rental has a N64 and my wife is DIALED IN. Our brains haven’t seen these images in 25 yrs

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

Something in here about real-life friendships being more important than the internet

https://t.co/c8iQxxL0rA

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

Reminder: Gran Torino is a great movie

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

@PEoperator this book is pure gold
(and really fun to read)

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

@AdnanYonathan 🙋‍♂️

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

🙋‍♂️🎲

[MarketWatch @MarketWatch]

Why analysts are as excited for McDonald’s Monopoly as customers are https://t.co/SNQpS9jOg2

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

“Marketing your memories desecrates them.” https://t.co/d2VQSNBi3y

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

@davempayne thanks for visiting my friend!

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

@candrewclark business insider 🙃

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

Thought this was an Onion article

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

@PEoperator love mixing it in on a workday... hit a productivity wall; read/walk/listen for 30-45 mins, re-engage with fresh perspective. amazing how disorienting it is to others when i pull a book out at my desk

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

@PEoperator secular: i win
moral: we win
spiritual: i sacrifice

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

@PEoperator appreciate this parody post

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

@candrewclark @lukeburgis Thanks AC
Luke - lot of thoughts here on author tours, distribution, and what publishers do/don’t do on your behalf. Happy to chat if it’s of interest.

[jonathan robinson @jrobinbhm]

@winsletts this is a good take