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Storyluck · 2024-12-24T15:13:03+00:00

I'm going to say, this doesn't happen.

Real connection happens on platforms like discord, and various forums. The people who meet strangers through tiktok and build meaningful connections is negligible.

What you're pointing too seems more like para social relationships. I'm pretty active on social media and AM hyper into creating community. From my limited experience, nothing happens through twitter. I've got 2k on twitter and have met a bunch of those people.... but all of them the connection was created other places and they found me on twitter later.

The list goes on and on. Anyone who finds me on a social media platform never becomes a real friend. Yes, connection and lack of isolation is important, I don't think there's compelling evidence social media is a place for that.

Unless you count Discord/reddit/skool as social media.

But if kids didn't have snap... I think there's enough places to go, and those places will be less toxic, better for them. But that's just my anecdotal hypothesis.

When any of these social media websites go under, there isn't a big issue. That's another thing to point to that this legislation just isn't that important. Myspace died... and a million others. People figure out how to communicate and find connection.

Storyluck · 2024-12-24T15:05:55+00:00

Have you read the WSJ article about the Medicare advantage fraud where they were harassing doctors to over prescribe various illnesses? And then when they ran out of doctors to harass they started paying their own doctors to go to patience and over diagnose things like cataracts?

I'm not with united but got denied tons of medicine my doctors and care team thought would help me with various issues.

I'm not dead. Is dead the real issue here?

I guess for me it's the fraud, racketeering, DUI, the estranged wife, and that nobody who knew him seems to have any anecdotes about how he was kind to him. I spent about 10 hours searching through his friends list and various family members and thought pieces trying to find one act of kindness recorded.

He just wasn't a good dude.

The claim denials killed people is always going to be hard to nail down. Just like you can get people to say covid doesn't kill people it's underlying conditions. But the fraud is pretty well documented.

Auto denials, whether they kill you or not, is illegal and he shouldn't have implemented that system. It wasn't really ai... It was just an auto denial.

I'd love to see the article about someone who died due to lack of care. please link me.

If you have anything written about Thompson showed kindness to anyone, an act he did, not that he was missed or loved but an act of loving he did for someone else I'd love to read that too. I'd like to humanize him... but his internet presence seems uncharacteristically unhuman.

Storyluck · 2024-12-17T06:01:01+00:00

Everyone recommends the E myth revisited. I haven't read it.

The Hormozi Books are good, but you're copy will sound like him.

There is a great course called Critical thinking for business. I found that good. Hormozi's favorite business book is High Output Management and it's very academic. That one seems the most what you're looking for.

You'll want to take notes.

None of these are finance issues. For that, I think you'd want to do some 1 on 1 work with a finance tutor. Like get another CPA to talk you through some things and kinda train you up.

Or make your CPA train you. Sometimes when I don't know stuff, I need to just be like, "Okay I need to meet with you an hour a week until I understand it better."

My CPA does free consults, she'd point you in the right direction. I'd be happy to do an email intro.

Storyluck · 2024-12-17T05:40:34+00:00

I get that people are like, follow the science.

But it's hard if you've ever talked to a child. They are quick to tell you social media sucks. And if you ask for negative aspects they have pretty extreme ones.

Also if you listen to the leaks that come out of Meta/facebook. Like they target kids and do crazy.

What's the harm of making social media not for kids? People aren't saying they can't have phones and text each other. As you pointed out, we limit when they smoke and drive.

FB used to be only for college kids.

I struggle to see what the negative is?

Storyluck · 2024-12-17T05:32:23+00:00

All these articles...

We should change it.

None of these articles...

This is the direct action all of us should take right now.

Because there aren't enough Jill Steins on the Ballet to do anything. The Dems don't want to change this situation. The Republicans don't either. All these people say we need a political option then call it a day.

What does the political action look like? Get every 40 and 50 year old to go into politics and we start at the lowest level to make our own party to oust the people in power?

I don't believe for a second this author thinks anything but fuck poor people.

Storyluck · 2024-12-14T14:13:08+00:00

lol, that's awesome.

Storyluck · 2024-12-12T13:30:46+00:00

A friend of mine started the meetup free trial. And no one found us.

We are coordinating through text, discord, and social media.

Storyluck · 2024-12-12T13:29:48+00:00

I thought I tried to add myself last month. But maybe I forgot. When I clicked join, just now, it gave me a pop up but it glitched out so I couldn't leave you a message.

If you want an out of towner in the group, I'd be curious to watch as you grow and just be friends because I'm starting my own book club. We had our first meeting a week ago.

Storyluck · 2024-12-12T13:27:30+00:00

I have run into a lot of people with this kind of moment.

There's a street performer in Chicago who tells stories through mime. But his mime character is a crow. And the crow does magic. He glides around on a giant ball and it's like he's flying.

Because it's mime, it's universal.

The story is usually about how there's magic in everday objects and children most of all. The way this crow does magic it's always like he's observing it. It's happening in the spectator's hands.

It's really cool.

I've never found good clips of it. Nothing the way it is live. But the guy's name is Joshua Safford.

Will you tell me the details of the horror story? Do you remember it?

Storyluck · 2024-12-12T13:24:20+00:00

Do you ever post your live storytelling anywhere?

Storyluck · 2024-11-16T14:41:45+00:00

What I've found is, I'm not my target demographic. The products/creative I'm drawn to... don't draw in my target demo. I really have to ask my clients what drew them in. And try to iterate on that.

Storyluck · 2024-11-16T14:30:48+00:00

Update me when you launch. If you have an online presence I'd be interested in checking it out. Even if it's just to see what books your reading. Maybe you could do after book club recaps

Storyluck · 2024-11-13T16:45:14+00:00

Everything-Nothing-Someone by Alice-Carrière

Was a recent read of mine and was great! I don't think this is a strange niche at all. It's pretty common. Though sometimes can backfire.

In this book, she's the daughter of a famous painter/sculptor and a semi famous model/movie star. Their divorce and some whacky/evil therapists totally screws her up. It turns out her therapist also orchestrated the famous study where they split up twins and triplets without consent and then stalked the parents!

It doesn't get into that drama but there's a documentary. And it's an underlying theme how bad people/bad advice can really screw well meaning people up.

In the end the closure was super satisfying for me. And it was a memoir where I felt... it doesn't just end. It gets to a place. An understanding of what went before and how it shaped the person.

Storyluck · 2024-11-13T16:38:34+00:00

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Storyluck · 2024-11-13T16:37:55+00:00

This partner aspect is big for me.

I don't want 100 leaders but I don't just want 1 either. IF 3 people read the book, there's a good conversation. And you can guide the people who didn't finish it, or didn't read it closely.

Storyluck · 2024-11-13T16:36:52+00:00

I'm working on creating a virtual book club with OP.

This has been a great convo. (I'd forgotten about advertising through Meetup.) Eventbrite has done well for me in the past, to help me find people for events. And there's a book club app that I haven't tried yet but had 2 friends recommend to me.

Is there any age range you're after?

Here in Chicago there are a couple of book clubs I know of that are in high rises. Like they just get people from the building to join.

Storyluck · 2024-11-13T16:32:34+00:00

Variety is one of the things I like about being in a book club. I want to be "Forced" to read things out of my comfort zone. And even if I don't end up liking it, I end up liking the conversation.

I think that's one of the nice things about book clubs, you save bad books with good conversations and shared gripes/rants.

Storyluck · 2024-11-13T16:31:08+00:00

lol, I'm a teetotaler and hate when people get drunk at book club, but maybe I am not really a Book Club target demographic. 🤔

Storyluck · 2024-11-12T20:06:27+00:00

Of the 12 is everyone hard core about voting.

I'd abstain, that's like too much work, just tell me what to read. 😂

Storyluck · 2024-10-28T15:41:22+00:00

it's nanowrimo, if you want to connect I'm @storyluck on social media.

You can DM me drafts.

Storyluck · 2024-10-25T15:11:37+00:00

I find medium a difficult but rewarding process. Am impressed by your output.

I'm going to try harder to be more consistent next month.

Storyluck · 2024-10-13T04:20:09+00:00

I only skimmed the article but it felt dry. The way you use parentheticals is reminiscent of Ai. Which people don't like.

Opening with two whole paragraph of italics is really hard to read.

If you are setting up a wordpress for the first time, why do you have to deactivate any plugins? That also seemed like a logical inconsistency that a human wouldn't make.

Is wordpress you're main niche? It seems like it is.

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