e.g. If somebody's kidnapping you & trying to hustle you into a car and they say "Don't scream," why are they saying that? It's bc they need silence to get away with the crime.
So you should yell.
AWW ❤️ It was the start of a beautiful friendship.
If you see someone cool having a horrible time on the internet, reach out. It's a time when someone's whole world is crumbling, and the real goal isn't just harassment. It's isolation; cutting people off.
And out of those kinds of letters I met a young woman named @SarahTaber_bww who had a lot to say about ag tech and asked me if I thought she should.
— Melinda Byerley (@MJB_SF) January 7, 2021
Fortunately for all of us she ignored my advice. Her friendship and wisdom would not be in my life without this experience. \U0001f496\U0001f4aa\U0001f3fb pic.twitter.com/bYfNXJRiMw
e.g. If somebody's kidnapping you & trying to hustle you into a car and they say "Don't scream," why are they saying that? It's bc they need silence to get away with the crime.
So you should yell.
If you have a moment, read through the thread & screenshots of all the threatening emails.
Notice anything odd? They're not so much threats, as they are orders. Do this! Don't do that!
was to issue orders to STOP.
And orders to "make it right" by groveling on platforms where even more angry white nationalists would discover her.
And there's a reason that a lot of those conservative voices ain't even from rural areas. Look at the hostile emails. Lots from Silicon Valley.
Urban & rural elites want the same thing: drive wages to desperation levels, no worker or environmental protections, & huge tax loopholes for people who make their living by owning stuff instead of working.
aka the GOP platform lol
Conservative urban elites see that! They want what their rural peers have!
But they can't say that out loud. So the play is, hold up rural areas as a moral example to be emulated.
They're the same extractive capitalism as the concrete jungles. Again, the only difference is the local elites in rural areas have more control thnx to deliberately hollowed-out economies.
"Real America" hustlers need to control the rural image. Curation is key lol
Like Melinda did.
At that time, I had just finished a long year of doing basic health & safety checks on farms. We had some genuinely cool clients. But I also knew exactly what she was talking about.
The "Real America" hustlers are gonna be issuing a lot of demands about how we should & should not behave.
And you know what? Those demands are a perfect recipe for disrupting their game.
It's because they need legal impunity to continue their hustle.
Take it away, and it falls apart.
That's what they're worried about.
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Over 3 years I had put out 1,200+ hours of content - posting every week without
August 2016.
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Little did I know that something I started almost 4 years back would give my life an entirely new direction.
At the end of 2019, my biggest platform was LinkedIn with ~700K followers.
In Jan 2020, I decided to build a team that would help me with the content.
I ran a month long recruitment drive to hire a team of interns.
It comprised 4 detailed rounds - starting with my loved 20 questions, then an assignment, then a WhatsApp video round and finally F2F.
Through 1,200+ applications, I finally selected 6 profiles, starting March.
I am a firm believer in @peterthiel's one task, one person philosophy
So the team was structured such that everyone was responsible for ONLY one task
1. Content ideas
2. Videography
3. Video editing
4. LinkedIn (+TikTok) distribution
5. FB+IG distribution
6. YouTube distribution
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