#53: List-a-Mania!

A bunch of stuff to catch up on while you're quarantined!

Bryan Fischer @BryanDFischer

A chronological sampling of events from the day that was Wednesday, March 11.

In light of recent events, I’m instituting an emergency e-mail packed to the gills with cool/interesting/non-coronavirus stuff that you may have missed. Welcome to List-a-Mania.

CULTURE THINGS:

• Why Are Rich People So Mean?

• Why The U.S. Sucks at Building Public Transit

• There’s an Entire Industry Dedicated to Making Foods Crispy

• For fans of Narcos: Mexico: How A Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions

• “American Psycho”: An Oral History

• Will The Millennial Aesthetic Ever End?

• No, Facebook is not telling you everything.

• How ultra-processed food took over your shopping basket

• 25 Movies and the Magazine Stories That Inspired Them

• How “Friends” Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization

• Why beating impostor syndrome is so difficult

MUSIC THINGS:

• Read every back issue of Music Journalism Insider and then subscribe to it. The Todd-father is doing yeoman’s work compiling Q&A’s, links, podcasts and more.

• Why Apple Should Spin Off Beats By Dre (You should subscribe to Trapital!)

• An oral history of Frank Ocean’s former songwriting alias, Lonny Breaux

• For fans of Netflix’s Cheer: Inside the Strange, Insular World of Cheerleading Music

MARKETING THINGS:

• The Best Twitter Threads About Advertising, Marketing, And Creative Strategy

• How To Market Yourself Without Marketing Yourself

• Why All the Warby Parker Clones Are Now Imploding

• There’s Only A Few Ways to Scale User Growth

• 4 lessons I learned after spending $6 million on Google Ads last year

1099:

• Heads up: The next 1099 event is scheduled for Thursday, April 16th at Pilot Project Brewing. Obviously, we will be on hold until we get further details re: COVID-19 but feel free to RSVP if you’d like!

• 101 Things You Need to Know Before Going Freelance

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TUNES!

If you’re behind on rap this year, I make a playlist every quarter and dump in songs that came out during that quarter/songs I discovered during that quarter. Q1 2020 is live.

I feel bad for the band 311. Those guys had a rough one yesterday and I want to be there for them now like they have been there for me all these years, so I’m blasting 311’s Greatest Hits all day in support. 🤙🏿🤙🏿

OK, SOME CONTENT FEATURING THAT ‘RONA

WASH YOUR HANDS! CHECK ON YOUR LOVED ONES! BE SAFE OUT THERE!

Office Hours is written by Ernest Wilkins. Follow me on Twitter/IG @ErnestWilkins or email me here.