Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
A new survey of young Americans aged 13 to 20 years old (also known, in marketing-speak, as “Generation Z”) has found that they are far more open-minded and permissive than their older millennial counterparts when it comes to issues of gender and sexuality. According to a report by trend forecasting agency J. Walter Thompson…
My fellow millennials, we’re already a relic of the past. Gone are our days of defining the zeitgeist. Pack it up. Show’s over. Nothing to see here. Because the upcoming legendary children, as Vice so gingerly puts it, are queer as fuck. A new study by trend forecasting agency J. Walter Thompson Innovation Group found…
Mike Baird, the premier of New South Wales, can’t have been prepared for this. Two months ago he was probably the most popular politician in Australia, presenting a wet Liberal surfer persona that gelled with the state’s better nature. There were travel concessions for asylum seekers. There was an earthy social media presence. Talking to…
36 year-old DESTROYS 29-year-old millennial who “ripped” 25-year-old Yelp employee who got fired after complaining about her salary ♬ Listen to this Story or Read it in German, French, Spanish On Friday, a Yelp/Eat24 employee wrote a blog post to her CEO about her minimum wage compensation, which she said came out to about $8…
Read the Open Letter to the CEO of Yelp thing. Also, the reactions to it. It’s hilarious to me, how this now works. “You should’ve expected to be fired for this.” Yeah. She did. But after months of starving herself and recognizing she will never claw her way out of this hole, she at least…
I’ve wanted to write a series of “personal” posts over the last few months on Sunday nights. I was going to call the series the Sunday Night Stream of Consciousness since that’s what it would’ve been – just a stream of consciousness post about stuff that had happened that week or on a particular issue….
Dear J-School Students, We’ve been hearing for a long time that the market is tough for you guys. Opportunities are few and far between. Salaries are low. Traditional jobs don’t exist like you thought they would. Times are tough. I get it. And I want to help you. But you aren’t making it easy. Over…
When Pizza reached 100,000 followers on Tumblr, she posted a picture of a pizza box, takeout chicken wings, and an orange soda spread out on her bed: “pizza and chicken wings 2 celebrate.” One fan replied, “CONGRATULATIONS GIRL! YOU DESERVE IT!” Another: “MOTHER OF GOD 100K?!?!” An anonymous user was unimpressed: “you only have 100k…
When my digital media students are sitting, waiting for class to start, and staring at their phones, they are not checking Facebook. They’re not checking Instagram or Pinterest or Twitter. No, they’re catching up on the news of the day by checking out their friends’ Stories on Snapchat, chatting in Facebook Messenger or checking in…
©Joe Waldron Save money into my pension? I’d rather blow it on a holiday. This is the typical response of a millennial — marketing shorthand for a 20-something — when you ask them about financial planning. More On this story On this topic IN Personal Finance For the generation that grew up in the Noughties,…