Yesterday you listened. Today you look.

And the first thing you’re checking is me.

The story you’ve been sold about what this medium is for — the 10X engineer, the email content machine, the great automator of drudgery — is not what it is at ground level. At ground level, people are using it as a witness.

That’s an argument. And you know by now what happen…

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Yesterday you listened. Today you look.

And the first thing you’re checking is me.

That’s an argument. And you know by now what happen…

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