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Society, Sports

Female athletes choose new sponsors and France launches the Culture Pass

why elite female athletes are turning away from formerly major sponsors in favor of alternative options and The launch of the Culture Pass in France which gives all 18-year-olds €300 to spend on a selection of cultural offerings.

Post-Pandemic, The Internet

Memories of the pandemic and “wang hong” (internet famous)

How our memories of the pandemic will differ and what narrative arcs the stories we tell of our lives usually take and The term “wang hong” (Chinese for internet famous) as written about in Chaoyang Trap.

Brands, Product

177: The MAEKAN Shop launches

In a different format to the usual Making It Up episodes and The process that lead to this point and talk about the products that are available.

Sports, The Internet

‘It’s O.K. not to be O.K.’ and the inner ring of the internet

Naomi Osaka’s essay in TIME magazine that elaborates on her relationship to the press and the subject of the mental health of athletes and An article about “the inner ring” of the internet and how that affects the creative work you do.

Brands, Retail

The Woke Shop

Josh Parker and Darrell Camara talk raising money for worthy causes through consumer products.

Sports

NCAA athletes can start making money and Lachlan Morton’s alternative Tour de France

The new NCAA ruling that allows student athletes to make money in whatever way they like: co-founding businesses, as YouTubers, as country singers, etc and Australian cyclist Lachlan Morton’s attempt to ride the full Tour de France route on his own with no support and to beat the peloton to Paris.

Apparel, Fashion, Gaming

Video game writing and apparel sizing issues

New Kotaku editor-in-chief Patricia Hernandez’s letter to readers on the subject of the future of video games and video game writing and Erratic sizing within the fashion industry and the sustainability as well as psychological issues that creates.

Brands, Industry

Flaws with venture capital and curation as brand strategy

why the funding model of venture capital is flawed and doesn’t build the things society needs and The rise of curation as a strategy brands and individuals are adopting, plus what makes for good curation.

Uncategorized

Cohort-based courses and the Barbell Strategy

Cohort-based courses as compared to massively open online courses and the Barbell Strategy method of balancing security and risk as a structure for creative careers.

Industry, Technology

The internet is flat and the cooperation economy

How the nature of the internet collapses time, space, and context, resulting in a volatile environment that breeds bad faith discussions with no room for nuance or complexity and The cooperation economy as the next phase of the creator economy/the passion economy.