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📫inside this edition:
he’s a therapist but he’s not YOUR therapist and i guess that’s why he thinks it’s okay that you know about his butthole
new open roles, both contract and full-time, to include some short-term projects
some great opportunities to log off and touch grass (or craft)
basically, whatever all the AI companies really want badly, i think i want the opposite
*a quick promise to you: our newsletter will always only ever be written by humans and never by robots. we wish we could say that this is out of love & respect for writing & the environment, and while those are both true, it’s mostly that we really tried a couple years ago for months on end to get the robots to write in this very weird (but always hilarious, obvi) tone and it just…has not delivered. easier AND funnier to keep it highly manual and we are very okay with that. thank you for your understanding.
😏well, actually…
while normally how a mansplainer gets his water, “well, actually” will explore the different angles of an argument or conversation & favor celebrating nuance & complexity over the short-term satisfaction of “hot take culture”.
🤔 should licensed professionals maybe sign confidentiality agreements…with themselves?
I wrote this week’s Well, Actually and, well, actually, it was a bit longer than I like it to be to exist inside an email. The point of Well, Actually is to be able to dig into the nuance of a specific topic vs flattening it to the point of simplicity. It’s also to dig deeper into downstream implications and future impacts from a particular topic or event, and to understand how our engagement with that topic or event helps or harms us now and in the future.
And this week, there was a lot to say.
So in this issue, my Well, Actually is also gonna be a Bonus Rant bc you get a lil extra there, too. And reader, it’s got everything: We’ve got therapists who are influencers telling you about their buttholes! We’ve got guys beating their faces with hammers to look hot! We’ve got ethical gray areas and people making $50K a month and the question of how responsible licensed professionals are for the content they put out online!
Should licensed therapists or medical professionals be able to describe personal sexual fantasies online for everyone to see? Go ahead and read this week’s Well, Actually: Director’s Cut: Extended Version: Deleted Scenes and tell me what you think.
🤔poll/short answer
Would you hire or work with a licensed professional who was also a well-known paid content creator or influencer in their field?
- Yes, that would give them more credibility IMO
- Maybe, but it would depend on how I connected with them
- I would for some professions, but not for others
- Probably not, I would be highly skeptical
- Absolutely not, I would have serious concerns
- Unsure, because I'm not on the internet enough to know who they would be
🧘your moment of zen
👔open roles
full-time, part-time, contract, hybrid, remote, on-site: here are some of the opportunities we heard about this week.
The Wealthy Practitioner
Type: FTE
Location: Hybrid (Remote for the right fit)
Skill Level: Senior
Comp: $25 hourly
Sage Haus
Type: PT
Location: Remote
Skill Level: Junior
Comp: $30-35 hourly
Museum of Science, Boston
Type: FTE
Location: On-Site
Skill Level: Senior
Comp: $125 - 155K
USA Triathlon
Type: FTE
Location: Hybrid
Skill Level: Mid-Level
Comp: $70-80K
ProcessDriven
Type: Contract
Location: Remote
Skill Level: Mid-Senior
Comp: $1500/client
Generation Citizen
Type: Freelance Project
Location: Remote
Skill Level: Junior - Mid
Comp: $6K project fee
🤳in the group chat
what you had to say about our last poll
“i hate when i find myself playing on my ipad while watching a movie, or even just watching an endless stream of tv for twice the time it would have taken me to watch a movie. i scroll through short form videos so fast, but i do still read a lot of books. of course that's in half hour snippets during my commute...”
📂tabs i have open
absolutely clutch gardening hack from this 96-year-old woman makes me wonder what i’ve been doing with my own life
that’s it, close up shop, the internet is over and it was a terrible idea
okay fine, we can have the internet back, only if Caity Weaver is allowed to run it & we get these excellent stories on free restaurant bread1
if all of big tech is trying to stop this guy from getting elected, maybe we should pay attention ($ after free article trial)
what could the AI apocalypse look like? maybe less like a robot takeover and more like total government neglect
*adds “oldest restaurant in the world” to upcoming spain trip agenda
guys, i’m sorry, but with headlines like these, the internet is canceled again
it’s called “santaCON” for god’s sake what were we expecting
one of the greatest food cities in the world with one of the most beautiful ballfields in the world so obv you can get bulgogi cheesesteak spring rolls at the bottom of an inning
gonna knit these adorable socks but for me and who
in my increasing efforts to log off more often, gonna need to add these to my calendar
1caity weaver is arguably the reason i started writing on the internet & was a massive source of inspiration for my writing style & voice. this article on “endless appetizers” at tgi friday’s is 12 years old & still one of my favorite things ever produced on the internet; god bless the wayback machine for retaining it.
🎬action item(s)
each week, we’ll end our newsletter with action item(s), or “what TF are you supposed to do about all this now?” we hope they help. 🤞🏻
don’t feed the content creators. and by this, i mean: if you have beef with something they said, take a screenshot and share it on your own page - don’t give them money through your attention
somebody please go to the best free restaurant bread place and tell me how it is
vote in the poll and share your thoughts!
try one of those “offline” activities we keep hearing so much about that i included here
as always, check out the web version of this post and start the conversation (i don’t actually get paid for that, just like, in full transparency)