Are you being a good neighbor during eternal Caturday?
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New post: 🔏 Private entry [Is] beesbuzz.biz/10956 This entry has a restricted audience.
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Hey look, I blogged!
Music Monday Roundup: gregorlove.com/2021/11/music-…
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My week of bad football performances seems to be continuing. Hopefully the Rams figure it out!
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Easily explainable. Facebook is unaccountable malware.
WTF. I deleted my Facebook account on Oct 3rd, 2021 after watching Facebook whistleblower on 60 Minutes. ***But Facebook just deceptively brought it back from the dead.**...
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"We see the future of Twitter as an ecosystem of developer-built apps and services, all serving the public conversation🙌🏼"
Somebody make a poster out of this so I can put it on my wall. This what Twitter should have been ALL ALONG. 🙌 indeed!!
Today’s API v2 launch is the first step for us in making this vision a reality - We see the future of Twitter as an ecosystem of developer-built apps and services, all ...
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“Nextdoor’s slogan is ‘When neighbors start talking, good things happen.’ The truth is that good things happen when people do them together, instead of labeling our neighbors ‘suspicious guys.’ The paranoid style strangles the natural human desire to get out there and help.”
'The Paranoid Style in American Posting'
@jamesstout with sharp observations on the watchers of Nextdoor, new at @popula
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“People erroneously assume it takes outside forces to become successful. Some guru must give you the keys to the kingdom. Some head honcho must bless you with accolades. Some gatekeeper must place you in the spotlight. Some BFF must cheer you up when you’re down.
No, no, no!”
My latest essay:
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Hey @peepethApp, so you are putting my e-mail address on the blockchain if I sign up? That seems like a bad idea, and unnecessary if auth'd via metamask? What am I missing? peepeth.com/signup?p=a
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Hey @TwitterBlue, I'm not sure this qualifies as "ad free". Happy for USA Today to promote themselves, but not in a freakin' popup! 🤨
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Glad to see those who spread lies and misinformation being held liable
We need to go after these threats to our democracy lnkd.in/edF-mTxP
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My latest essay:
"Signs of online success were slim to none. I wasn’t sure if anyone really cared if I were suddenly Thanos-snapped out of existence. Yet the valuable lesson I learned during that dreadful time was how to become intrinsically motivated…"
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Connecticut is so flush with cash. They rainy day fund overflowing.
Then why does the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education want to thrash their employees wit a grueling and archaic contract,
They want 12 furlough days in addition to returni…lnkd.in/eYtziYf7
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Choose your language! You could enjoy #JSConfMX content in English and Spanish. All conferences will be translated from Spanish to English and English to Spanish.
Save yo...
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"html": "<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/mariposta/image/upload/w_1200,c_limit,q_65/three-sisters_kynosn.jpg\" /><h2>There was a time not long ago when my life was in a major upheaval. Signs of online success were slim to none. I wasn\u2019t sure if anyone out there would really care if I were suddenly Thanos-snapped out of existence. Yet the valuable lesson I came to learn during that dreadful time was how to become intrinsically motivated, the significance of value creation, and the trick of cultivating T-shaped skills.</h2>\n\n<p>There is an infinite variety of paths to success. There is a myriad of definitions of even what success is. Here is my definition: <em>I enjoy utilizing the skills with which I am imbued, and there is every reason to believe I can continue to pursue my craft long into the future</em>.</p>\n\n<p>How can you orient your lifestyle so that you\u2019re empowered to pursue that which you most enjoy doing? Well, leaving aside your various hobbies (of course there\u2019s nothing wrong with having a hobby!), you won\u2019t be able to keep doing what you enjoy doing unless you\u2019re making money at it. Alas, monetizing skills is often relegated to the realm of \u201cfind a job and get yourself hired\u201d\u2014but as we all know, being employed and excelling in your craft are sometimes worlds apart. The top performers in their field seem to \u201ccreate\u201d their ideal job out of thin air, but that\u2019s certainly not the case once you scratch the surface.</p>\n\n<p>In my experience\u2014and through much trial and error over the years\u2014the path to monetizing your vocation seems to require three vital landmarks in order to achieve lasting success. They are:</p>\n\n<ol><li>Intrinsic Motivation</li>\n <li>Value Creation</li>\n <li>T-Shaped Skills</li>\n</ol><p>Let\u2019s step through these one by one.</p>\n\n<h3>1. Intrinsic Motivation</h3>\n\n<p>There was a time not long ago when my life was in a major upheaval. My marriage was disintegrating. Signs of online success were slim to none. I wasn\u2019t making the amount of money I felt I genuinely deserved relative to the length of time I\u2019d spent in the industry. I wasn\u2019t sure if anyone out there would really care if I were suddenly Thanos-snapped out of existence. There were dark days when I felt like a huge failure.</p>\n\n<p>Yet the valuable lesson I came to learn during that dreadful time was how to become <strong>intrinsically motivated</strong>. <a href=\"https://www.leaf.tv/5147186/the-difference-between-intrinsic-motivation-extrinsic-motivation/\">According to Novella Thompson</a>,</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>\u201cIntrinsic means internal or inside of yourself. When you are intrinsically motivated, you enjoy an activity, course or skill development solely for the satisfaction of learning and having fun, and you are determined to strive inwardly in order to be competent. There is not external inducement when intrinsic motivation is the key to behavior or outcome.\u201d</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>The reason why learning how to become intrinsically motivated is so important to success is this: people erroneously assume it takes outside forces to become successful. Some guru must give you the keys to the kingdom. Some head honcho must bless you with accolades. Some gatekeeper must place you in the spotlight. Some BFF must cheer you up when you\u2019re down in the dumps.</p>\n\n<p><strong>No, no, a thousand times no!</strong> Everything you need to become successful\u2026<em>you already possess within yourself</em>. I know that sounds like a ridiculous clich\u00e9, but I wholeheartedly believe it\u2019s entirely true.</p>\n\n<p><strong>You can\u2019t rely on anyone praising you.</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>You can\u2019t rely on anyone giving you a high five.</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>You can\u2019t rely on anyone recognizing your talent.</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>You can\u2019t rely on anyone rolling out the red carpet for you to waltz right in.</strong></p>\n\n<p>All you can rely on is <em>yourself</em>. As I\u2019ve said before, <strong>you HAVE to create\u2014because you CAN\u2019T NOT create.</strong> This is where gratitude enters is and proves so important in the healthy life of a creative professional. The more you cultivate an \u201cattitude of gratitude\u201d about what you\u2019re able to accomplish\u2014no matter how small or trivial\u2014the more you\u2019ll focus on your abundance, rather than your lack. And out of a place of abundance, greatness arises. Out of a sense of abundance, you gain the necessary perspective to achieve your life\u2019s work.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Further Resources:</strong></p>\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/articles/getting-past-the-pain-of-starting-over\">Getting Past the Pain of Starting Over</a></li>\n <li><a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/videos/20190826/what-if-you-dont-know-what-to-say-yes-to\">What If You Don\u2019t Know What To Say Yes To? (video)</a></li>\n <li><a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/podcast/15/\">It\u2019s Essential That You Listen to This (podcast)</a></li>\n <li><a href=\"https://www.getrevue.co/profile/creatorclass/issues/why-do-we-create-because-548851\">Why Do We Create? (newsletter)</a></li>\n <li><a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/podcast/68/\">Why I Started Creator Class (podcast)</a></li>\n</ul><h3>2. Value Creation</h3>\n\n<p>Once you\u2019re sufficiently motivated within yourself to create\u2026what is it that you\u2019re creating? It\u2019s easy to assume you\u2019ll be creating the actual thing you\u2019re working on\u2014a play, a business plan, a marketing message, a piece of art, a website, a codebase, whatever.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Nope. That\u2019s a side-effect.</strong> The primary thing you\u2019re creating is <strong>value</strong>. One of the definitions of value is: \u201cworth in usefulness or importance to the possessor; utility or merit.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>What you\u2019re creating has to have some kind of utility or merit for somebody else. <em>They</em> have to feel it\u2019s useful or important or inspiring in some way. What you\u2019re creating has to be <strong>worthy</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>Once you have birthed something tangible that others consider worthy, you have two choices: give it away or sell it. There are legitimate pros and cons to each. Content creation strategies often hinge on the right balance between the two. Get folks hooked on your free stuff so you can charge them for the really good stuff.</p>\n\n<p>However you are directly benefiting people through some combination of free and paid output, you are <strong>creating value</strong>. And that\u2019s the name of the game. As I\u2019ve become more and more \u201csuccessful\u201d and feel less and less like a \u201cfailure\u201d (bear in mind these are entirely subjective terms), my tolerance for working on things which aren\u2019t obviously creating a large amount of value lowers precipitously. Because when I work on things without creating value: <em>that\u2019s called a hobby</em>. Again\u2014nothing wrong with having hobbies! But maybe if I want a fun hobby, I\u2019ll\u2026oh I dunno\u2026go boating\u2026rather than, say, stress out yet again about posting another video on YouTube which will only get a mere handful of likes. (Where\u2019s the value in that?)</p>\n\n<p>Or in hippie terms, you gotta go where the love is man. <strong>Find the love.</strong></p>\n\n<h3>3. T-Shaped Skills</h3>\n\n<p>You\u2019re likely familiar with this concept. It\u2019s all about the relationship between <em>depth</em> of knowledge and <em>breadth</em> of knowledge.</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>\u201cThe vertical bar on the letter T represents the depth of related skills and expertise in a single field, whereas the horizontal bar is the ability to collaborate across disciplines with experts in other areas and to apply knowledge in areas of expertise other than one\u2019s own.\u201d \u2013<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills\">Wikipedia</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>You could be a software engineer with a broad amount of knowledge about the field in general, but have a deep well of knowledge in a particular technology or technique. You could be an artist with a broad amount of knowledge about a wide variety of media and traditions, but specialize in one distinct form of art.</p>\n\n<p>I\u2019ll be honest, this is an area I\u2019ve really struggled in over the years. You see, I\u2019m what they call a <a href=\"https://www.ted.com/talks/emilie_wapnick_why_some_of_us_don_t_have_one_true_calling\">multipotentialite</a>. I don\u2019t <em>like</em> having to specialize! As soon as you try to pin me down into a rigid role or label me as \u201cthe guy who\u2019s good at X\u201d, I immediately recoil from such notions.</p>\n\n<p>Unfortunately, society doesn\u2019t typically reward those who are\u2014pardon the pretentious turn of phrase\u2014\u201crenaissance\u201d people. You\u2019re generally better off picking one thing and sticking to it. If you\u2019re into photography, <em>you\u2019re a photographer</em>. If you\u2019re into financial research and statistics, <em>you\u2019re an economist</em>. Nobody knows what to do with \u201can economist who loves photography and is a wood-worker who competes in dragon boat racing while also contributing to the translation efforts of pre-Christian Irish poetry.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>But I\u2019ve finally figured it out. And the answer is: <strong>I cheat</strong>. I\u2019m still a multipotentialite, but I\u2019ve learned to put a bit more muscle behind a narrow scope of endeavor <em>at any given time</em>. Try to get really good at this <em>one</em> thing, or try to become \u201cknown\u201d for that <em>one</em> thing, right now. Note that I\u2019m not saying I limit myself solely to that. And I\u2019m not saying it has to be set in stone forever. <strong>It\u2019s just for a season. And you\u2019ll know when it\u2019s time to shift gears. You begin to develop an instinct for it</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>So I encourage you to embrace the \u201ct-shaped skills\u201d paradigm. It\u2019s OK to have a multiplicity of interests, and it\u2019s only natural to hesitate letting any particular pursuit suffer much at the hands of all the others. BUT you do need to focus extra hard on a particular vocation, a particular technique, a particular marketable skill\u2014and yes, become known as the \u201cdomain expert\u201d in that unique area of specialty. That is the base formula for a lasting career.</p>\n\n<h3>It All Blends Together</h3>\n\n<p><strong>Intrinsic motivation</strong>, <strong>value creation</strong>, and <strong>t-shaped skills</strong> aren\u2019t just three separate concepts. They all feed off each other to become a collective \u201cforce multiplier\u201d in your life. As you practice becoming intrinsically motivated, you begin to shift your focus away from \u201chow come nobody loves my art?!\u201d to \u201chow am I creating value for people through my art?\u201d Then in the effort to provide greater value for people, you identify those areas where you\u2019ll need to specialize and increase your depth of knowledge. And the more you get really, really skilled in those areas, you\u2019ll revel in the satisfaction of providing value to people as you share your expertise and your creativity\u2026which in turns makes it easier to stay motivated. <strong>It\u2019s a virtuous circle.</strong></p>\n\n<p>Don\u2019t be surprised if it takes time for this process to kick into high gear. After all, it\u2019s taken me years\u2014decades even\u2014to feel like I\u2019m not simply spinning my wheels and waiting for something to happen. Give your efforts some breathing room and get ready to experiment. <em>A lot</em>. Patience may be a virtue, but <strong>showing up every day ready to be the best creative version of yourself is a potent force for change</strong>. And as long as you are able to recognize and acknowledge the three landmarks along the road to success, <strong>you\u2019ll know if you\u2019re on the right track</strong>.</p>\n\n<p><br /></p>\n\n<p><em>Photo credit: <a href=\"https://unsplash.com/photos/kxMI09hoUT8\">Chong Wei on Unsplash</a></em></p>\n\n\n\n <br /><p>\n \n <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/creativity\">#creativity</a>\n \n <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/lifehacks\">#lifehacks</a>\n \n </p>",
"text": "There was a time not long ago when my life was in a major upheaval. Signs of online success were slim to none. I wasn\u2019t sure if anyone out there would really care if I were suddenly Thanos-snapped out of existence. Yet the valuable lesson I came to learn during that dreadful time was how to become intrinsically motivated, the significance of value creation, and the trick of cultivating T-shaped skills.\n\nThere is an infinite variety of paths to success. There is a myriad of definitions of even what success is. Here is my definition: I enjoy utilizing the skills with which I am imbued, and there is every reason to believe I can continue to pursue my craft long into the future.\n\nHow can you orient your lifestyle so that you\u2019re empowered to pursue that which you most enjoy doing? Well, leaving aside your various hobbies (of course there\u2019s nothing wrong with having a hobby!), you won\u2019t be able to keep doing what you enjoy doing unless you\u2019re making money at it. Alas, monetizing skills is often relegated to the realm of \u201cfind a job and get yourself hired\u201d\u2014but as we all know, being employed and excelling in your craft are sometimes worlds apart. The top performers in their field seem to \u201ccreate\u201d their ideal job out of thin air, but that\u2019s certainly not the case once you scratch the surface.\n\nIn my experience\u2014and through much trial and error over the years\u2014the path to monetizing your vocation seems to require three vital landmarks in order to achieve lasting success. They are:\n\nIntrinsic Motivation\n Value Creation\n T-Shaped Skills\nLet\u2019s step through these one by one.\n\n1. Intrinsic Motivation\n\nThere was a time not long ago when my life was in a major upheaval. My marriage was disintegrating. Signs of online success were slim to none. I wasn\u2019t making the amount of money I felt I genuinely deserved relative to the length of time I\u2019d spent in the industry. I wasn\u2019t sure if anyone out there would really care if I were suddenly Thanos-snapped out of existence. There were dark days when I felt like a huge failure.\n\nYet the valuable lesson I came to learn during that dreadful time was how to become intrinsically motivated. According to Novella Thompson,\n\n\n \u201cIntrinsic means internal or inside of yourself. When you are intrinsically motivated, you enjoy an activity, course or skill development solely for the satisfaction of learning and having fun, and you are determined to strive inwardly in order to be competent. There is not external inducement when intrinsic motivation is the key to behavior or outcome.\u201d\n\n\nThe reason why learning how to become intrinsically motivated is so important to success is this: people erroneously assume it takes outside forces to become successful. Some guru must give you the keys to the kingdom. Some head honcho must bless you with accolades. Some gatekeeper must place you in the spotlight. Some BFF must cheer you up when you\u2019re down in the dumps.\n\nNo, no, a thousand times no! Everything you need to become successful\u2026you already possess within yourself. I know that sounds like a ridiculous clich\u00e9, but I wholeheartedly believe it\u2019s entirely true.\n\nYou can\u2019t rely on anyone praising you.\n\nYou can\u2019t rely on anyone giving you a high five.\n\nYou can\u2019t rely on anyone recognizing your talent.\n\nYou can\u2019t rely on anyone rolling out the red carpet for you to waltz right in.\n\nAll you can rely on is yourself. As I\u2019ve said before, you HAVE to create\u2014because you CAN\u2019T NOT create. This is where gratitude enters is and proves so important in the healthy life of a creative professional. The more you cultivate an \u201cattitude of gratitude\u201d about what you\u2019re able to accomplish\u2014no matter how small or trivial\u2014the more you\u2019ll focus on your abundance, rather than your lack. And out of a place of abundance, greatness arises. Out of a sense of abundance, you gain the necessary perspective to achieve your life\u2019s work.\n\nFurther Resources:\n\nGetting Past the Pain of Starting Over\n What If You Don\u2019t Know What To Say Yes To? (video)\n It\u2019s Essential That You Listen to This (podcast)\n Why Do We Create? (newsletter)\n Why I Started Creator Class (podcast)\n2. Value Creation\n\nOnce you\u2019re sufficiently motivated within yourself to create\u2026what is it that you\u2019re creating? It\u2019s easy to assume you\u2019ll be creating the actual thing you\u2019re working on\u2014a play, a business plan, a marketing message, a piece of art, a website, a codebase, whatever.\n\nNope. That\u2019s a side-effect. The primary thing you\u2019re creating is value. One of the definitions of value is: \u201cworth in usefulness or importance to the possessor; utility or merit.\u201d\n\nWhat you\u2019re creating has to have some kind of utility or merit for somebody else. They have to feel it\u2019s useful or important or inspiring in some way. What you\u2019re creating has to be worthy.\n\nOnce you have birthed something tangible that others consider worthy, you have two choices: give it away or sell it. There are legitimate pros and cons to each. Content creation strategies often hinge on the right balance between the two. Get folks hooked on your free stuff so you can charge them for the really good stuff.\n\nHowever you are directly benefiting people through some combination of free and paid output, you are creating value. And that\u2019s the name of the game. As I\u2019ve become more and more \u201csuccessful\u201d and feel less and less like a \u201cfailure\u201d (bear in mind these are entirely subjective terms), my tolerance for working on things which aren\u2019t obviously creating a large amount of value lowers precipitously. Because when I work on things without creating value: that\u2019s called a hobby. Again\u2014nothing wrong with having hobbies! But maybe if I want a fun hobby, I\u2019ll\u2026oh I dunno\u2026go boating\u2026rather than, say, stress out yet again about posting another video on YouTube which will only get a mere handful of likes. (Where\u2019s the value in that?)\n\nOr in hippie terms, you gotta go where the love is man. Find the love.\n\n3. T-Shaped Skills\n\nYou\u2019re likely familiar with this concept. It\u2019s all about the relationship between depth of knowledge and breadth of knowledge.\n\n\n \u201cThe vertical bar on the letter T represents the depth of related skills and expertise in a single field, whereas the horizontal bar is the ability to collaborate across disciplines with experts in other areas and to apply knowledge in areas of expertise other than one\u2019s own.\u201d \u2013Wikipedia\n\n\nYou could be a software engineer with a broad amount of knowledge about the field in general, but have a deep well of knowledge in a particular technology or technique. You could be an artist with a broad amount of knowledge about a wide variety of media and traditions, but specialize in one distinct form of art.\n\nI\u2019ll be honest, this is an area I\u2019ve really struggled in over the years. You see, I\u2019m what they call a multipotentialite. I don\u2019t like having to specialize! As soon as you try to pin me down into a rigid role or label me as \u201cthe guy who\u2019s good at X\u201d, I immediately recoil from such notions.\n\nUnfortunately, society doesn\u2019t typically reward those who are\u2014pardon the pretentious turn of phrase\u2014\u201crenaissance\u201d people. You\u2019re generally better off picking one thing and sticking to it. If you\u2019re into photography, you\u2019re a photographer. If you\u2019re into financial research and statistics, you\u2019re an economist. Nobody knows what to do with \u201can economist who loves photography and is a wood-worker who competes in dragon boat racing while also contributing to the translation efforts of pre-Christian Irish poetry.\u201d\n\nBut I\u2019ve finally figured it out. And the answer is: I cheat. I\u2019m still a multipotentialite, but I\u2019ve learned to put a bit more muscle behind a narrow scope of endeavor at any given time. Try to get really good at this one thing, or try to become \u201cknown\u201d for that one thing, right now. Note that I\u2019m not saying I limit myself solely to that. And I\u2019m not saying it has to be set in stone forever. It\u2019s just for a season. And you\u2019ll know when it\u2019s time to shift gears. You begin to develop an instinct for it.\n\nSo I encourage you to embrace the \u201ct-shaped skills\u201d paradigm. It\u2019s OK to have a multiplicity of interests, and it\u2019s only natural to hesitate letting any particular pursuit suffer much at the hands of all the others. BUT you do need to focus extra hard on a particular vocation, a particular technique, a particular marketable skill\u2014and yes, become known as the \u201cdomain expert\u201d in that unique area of specialty. That is the base formula for a lasting career.\n\nIt All Blends Together\n\nIntrinsic motivation, value creation, and t-shaped skills aren\u2019t just three separate concepts. They all feed off each other to become a collective \u201cforce multiplier\u201d in your life. As you practice becoming intrinsically motivated, you begin to shift your focus away from \u201chow come nobody loves my art?!\u201d to \u201chow am I creating value for people through my art?\u201d Then in the effort to provide greater value for people, you identify those areas where you\u2019ll need to specialize and increase your depth of knowledge. And the more you get really, really skilled in those areas, you\u2019ll revel in the satisfaction of providing value to people as you share your expertise and your creativity\u2026which in turns makes it easier to stay motivated. It\u2019s a virtuous circle.\n\nDon\u2019t be surprised if it takes time for this process to kick into high gear. After all, it\u2019s taken me years\u2014decades even\u2014to feel like I\u2019m not simply spinning my wheels and waiting for something to happen. Give your efforts some breathing room and get ready to experiment. A lot. Patience may be a virtue, but showing up every day ready to be the best creative version of yourself is a potent force for change. And as long as you are able to recognize and acknowledge the three landmarks along the road to success, you\u2019ll know if you\u2019re on the right track.\n\n\n\n\nPhoto credit: Chong Wei on Unsplash\n\n\n\n \n\n \n #creativity\n \n #lifehacks"
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Have you spilled from your container during eternal Caturday?
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Breaking down this whole "britney spears conservatorship" thing live in 20 minutes on youtube and why it matters, even if you've never heard a single song of hers (which would be impressive) youtube.com/watch?v=bR0aPo…
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