My 2024 wrap up:
- Taught my 6th and 7th semesters of the Digital Marketers Toolbelt at BYU (wild it’s been that long)
- Celebrated the first birthday of my adorable son, Arlo
- Supported my wife, Kat, as she performed as Miss Honey in Matilda at a community theater and now Meg in Little Women at Hale Sandy
- Launched a new ghost writing branch of my marketing agency and picked up 13 new clients
- Read the Book of Mormon in French
- Helped market Kat’s business, Poet Dresses, and launched tons of new dress styles and got some great sales
- Took on some messy projects that I shouldn’t have
- Finished the 4th draft of the novel I’ve been writing, now getting it professionally edited
- Finally got a backyard
@AndrewWarner Once you have been in this game for a while, you start to see that going viral is easy, but the question of why and how you want to go viral is hard.
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100K likes and I’ll go back to Minnesota and launch a full investigation into Ilhan 🤝 heres Ilhan Omar and Mayor Frey with some of the Quality Learing folks
@nathan_covey Very long, but it’s awesome. It’s fun that his most core skill set was just accounting. He was obsessed with getting every dime and dollar in the books exactly right.
US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate"
my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations.
poor people have always had kids. the poorest people on earth right now still have kids and the financial excuse is a story we tell ourselves because it makes us feel good and the real one is unbearable
the real mechanism is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point. somewhere in the last fifty years the cultural goal inverted and a child stopped being what life is for and became a line item competing with the lifestyle. once you frame it that way the math never works, because the math isnt supposed to work. that's the point
we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it
the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive
@MCovBrown What’s the point of a monster day if, after a few weeks, it’s not giving you additional energy it’s just getting you back up to what was your previous baseline? Haha
@nathan_covey I got my brother this gift that shows how many weeks left he has to live based on averages. That feels REALLY short. And hes 4 years younger than me