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I've wanted to learn Music Theory for about a decade (only learned guitar tabs as a teen and to read sheet music as an adult). Love what you made and just got the premium course.

Would require the headset being plugged in.

Some guests who got theirs removed complained on twitter, so this seems unlikely.

Norm's musings on death from his 2011 special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrFU5wyd_C0

The part about the algorithm might be referring to when you first join TikTok. THEN it shows you the most popular videos at the moment, adjusting quickly to a more personalized feed based on viewing/interaction behaviors.

Ben & Jerry's spent less than $5k on Facebook and Instagram ads last month. They'll get more publicity value from joining the boycott vs. paying to run ads for a month or two.

Rdio used to be my favorite app for music discovery before it got acquired/shut down.

I was a heavy Tumblr user until I discovered Reddit around then, which made it easier to find the same type of content with more consistency.

Big fan of https://pinboard.in

> If schools aim to boost students’ future income by teaching job skills, why do they entrust students’ education to people so detached from the real world?

Because the aim of school is to teach compliance, to sit quietly for 8 hours a day and do what you're told. I don't think it has ever been about learning truly practical skills. I don't even remember taking basic finance classes in high school.

Not sure why your comment is getting downvoted. It's absolutely true. It was obviously said as a joke.

Yep, the videos that autoplay on kids content can be super creepy, borderline fetish/brainwashing content. The channel H3H3 summarized a few of the videos (Spiderman and Elsa come to mind). YouTube didn’t take action against those videos until a year later.

Really hoping one of these wave pools makes its way to the midwest.

You likely mean ads for TikTok which Musically merged into after being acquired.

As someone who has made a lot of humorous memes professionally for brands, I agree that these aren't memes but are cute, funny pictures.

I don't understand the hate for Elon (though the response to Unsworth was disproportionate). His offer to help seemed to stem mainly from a curiosity in solving the problem and having the ability to potentially help. Great PR wasn't guaranteed from it (ex. if they used the sub and a kid died in it). Then came critiques from people on Twitter who have never built anything. Maybe it's a mix of envy + his willingness to fight back against inaccuracies.

One difference is that YouTube vloggers are kinda the new celebrity. A lot of kids would rather be vloggers than Hollywood celebrities.

You have to know things about weather and reading maps that you'll never use when flying a drone, bu it only takes a weekend of studying to pass the drone pilot test.

Flying a drone is much easier than most people think (at least drones from DJI or even the GoPro Karma). To not become a commodity, you have to provide something on top of just flying a drone to produce photo/video assets. For example, combining drone flying with storytelling (and ground footage) to create a video with a narrative is much harder, thus lucrative.

Probably because comments usually make it obvious if someone is using an automated bot to grow their Instagram account, which he definitely is.

I've read dozens of books on storytelling and Invisible Ink is one of my favorites.

As a marketer, videographer, and someone with a sweet tooth, I agree that it's a bad ad.

As a marketer, videographer, and someone with a sweet tooth, it's not a great ad. Get to the point. Show the actual product. Tease me with things I can expect to receive. Maybe show reaction videos of people opening and trying the candy (and loving it).

Also, you'd probably get higher ROI sending $14k worth of Candy Japan to YouTubers in the hopes they'd open it on their vlog and mention the website.

That seems very excessive, though regulation so far has been positive. Not that this is you, but fear of "voyeurism" is often said by people who aren't familiar with drones. I've owned multiple drones and would never consider them a spying tool since they aren't discrete/sound like a flying lawnmower. Additionally, most drones are equipped with wide-angle lenses which means you'd have to get pretty close to spy.

My main worry about drones comes from terrorists using them where crowds of people are gathered (concerts, events, etc), as other people have mentioned.

I've found baby advice books to be 85% fluff/filler and 15% actionable advice. But that 15% can dramatically improve quality of life / the amount of sleep I get each night.

Snapchat has object recognition. With a ton of photos/videos stored in memories, they could get a decent idea of one's interests based on object recognition and text used in Snaps.

> The latest conference call was very enlightening in that it showed me how much snapchat was doing wrong and what they can do to fix it.

Just curious, what did you think they were doing wrong and needed to fix?

I couldn't have written two books without Scrivener. Now I use it for a Commonplace Book.

It's easy to tell on an individual basis if an Instagram account has something screwy going on.

- Check comments to followers ratio. - Check comment quality (are people tagging friends or leaving generic/spam "great pic" comments?). - Follow the account and turn on post notifications. By doing this you'll see how many spammy ads they post then delete an hour later. Many of these posts will have fake social proof on them.