Mark McCormick

[Mark McCormick @verymarkm]

@meetup How is it not a priority on a platform with the sole function being setting up times and places for gatherings—the time displays don’t match! This creates massive early and late arrivals. Please fix! What bigger priorities do you have?

[Mark McCormick @verymarkm]

@Meetup How is this acceptable? If your whole platform is about getting people to “meetup” at a certain place at a certain time—you can’t fix the bug where the calendar time does not match the time in the little icon? What is your tech/product management working on more impt?

[Mark McCormick @verymarkm]

On rhe tarmac: This is the third @AmericanAir flight of my last three where take off was delayed because of “a mechanical issue” so I will miss my connection. I’m tired of giving this airline and its aging fleet my business. Has anyone else experienced this frequently lately?

[Mark McCormick @verymarkm]

@Not_the_Bee You might want to review the footage of the January 6th riots. You wreck public institutions and beat and kill cops with flagpoles. You're holier than . . . what? Whom? Tell me. You worship at the altar of a twice-impeached, four-time-indicted, convicted criminal.

[Mark McCormick @verymarkm]

@bergerbell and people wonder
why I left San Francisco and turned purple.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

This is a must read by all of us. People are dying. Children are dying. It’s true. And to deny it is a bold face lie. My brother @bobbyshriver and Bono spent their lives working on @PEPFAR. It started on President Bush’s watch & it saved millions of lives. People were grateful to the United States. Today, Children are dying. Pass it on. https://t.co/XFCU7mbYDL

[Mark McCormick @verymarkm]

@marcorubio do better

https://t.co/vFAWoQh75E

[Vinay Prasad MD MPH @VPrasadMDMPH]

To me, this NPR story is crazy. First of all, if somebody gets covid, you have no clue they got it on the airplane. I cannot believe doctors make shit up like this in good conscience. That person was traveling, staying in multiple locations, may have been sleep deprived, but of course they got it on the airplane? How can you respect yourself as a scientist when you just make things up? Second of all, where is the evidence that anyone is being hospitalized in any serious volume due to covid? Merely detecting covid on a swab at admission is not always the reason why someone is there. Third, recommending to the general public that they intermittently wear a mask has no evidence. It's disgraceful to recommend this year after year without generating evidence. Fourth, there are at least three reasons why covid is less severe. Vaccines, prior immunity from infection, variant has become less lethal-- I have yet to see any good evidence quantifying the relative contributions of these three things, but that does not stop these doctors from making shit up (vaccines did it). The biggest reason to not take any precautions against covid ever again is this is just what life is. You get sick, you get better, that's how life goes. Nearly every well done study of long COVID has undermined it. There is value to seeing faces, and there is value to not being a hypochondriac, checking CO2 levels in your car (not CO btw). There's a tiny subset of Americans who cannot let go of Covid. Sadly many of them work at NPR. It would be great to think of different types of mental health care we can offer these individuals to reintegrate into society. But articles like this have no value in my mind.

https://t.co/MsyE5CTxs2

[Mark McCormick @verymarkm]

I started following @VPrasadMDMPH during the pandemic, because he was an epidemiologist and policy expert who told the truth, and had the bravery to call out those who weren’t. He’s carrying that courage into his Substack. I encourage you to read and RT.

https://t.co/srgn2DRRjL

[Mark McCormick @verymarkm]

https://t.co/CigVpPQNXq
This solidified my already profound love for @MonicaGandhi9
She’s very articulate about the errors in public health messaging, media fear mongering, primacy of data, blue/red state culpabilities, etc Wish I could vote for her for literally anything.

[Mark McCormick @verymarkm]

@benryanwriter My hometown Pocatello, Idaho

[Mark McCormick @verymarkm]

@halvorson @hilarymarsh @maximolly Let's collaborate on this Kristina

[Mark McCormick @verymarkm]

@halvorson I wanted to “like” this comment but it’s kind of sad that those are still problems.

What I hope for content strategy leaders is that they will see themselves ascend to customer experience executives—they have the abilities to manage CX functions beyond their own specialty!

[Mark McCormick @verymarkm]

@halvorson Sorry for typos: proving my point that content strategists are / were not always good copyeditors--nor did they / do they need to be :-)

[Mark McCormick @verymarkm]

@halvorson 2/3
There's a good history of CS here
https://t.co/zbPVUb4R1k
And I one point entered a LONG response to that article, but comments no longer show up. I explained that I haven't published it, because it will seem somewhat dated now, but at the time, it was radical!

[Mark McCormick @verymarkm]

@halvorson 3/3 People have to understand that at the time it was graphic designers and technologists who were determining the customer experience. Coming from a publishing background, I knew it should be about content first. Ikonic was the first company to staff "content strategists"

[Mark McCormick @verymarkm]

@halvorson Hi Kristina! Actually I wrote that between '93 and '96 before Ikonic Interactive was acquired by US Web. Molly wasn't around yet, but she became prominent and spoke on content strategy at a conference in 99 I believe.

[Mark McCormick @verymarkm]

Dear Chrome, I've been seeing other browsers. It's not you, it's me. My tabs were so out of control, I couldn't concentrate! So I found another browser that gets me. I need space(s), profiles, and order. I'm sorry but you seem kind of . . . stuck @browsercompany #arc

[Mark McCormick @verymarkm]

Once again—as with Covid—we we saw the media foment fear as a business model. “Red wave!” “End of democracy!” Endless column inches of punditry and speculation. Note to the left: work on a new message.

[Mark McCormick @verymarkm]

@hubermanlab this great and same week @nyt did this article: was wondering which of your podcast episodes deal with circadian rhythms?

https://t.co/D4tm5z1rup