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The Economist: Half of Vinyl Buyers In US Don’t Own a Turntable. What That Teaches Us About Tickets!

Hey!  Thank you for reading.  Since I started publishing more frequent, but shorter notes, you’ve stuck around and continued to read and share the newsletter.  You like the newsletter. Maybe you would like to join us in the ‘Talking Tickets’ Slack Channel.  This morning, I came across a tweet from Richard Shotten, a marketer, who shared a […]
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Tesla’s Net Revenue Drops 44%.

Hey! Forgive me for taking a victory lap this morning, but Tesla’s earnings came in yesterday and I can’t say anything, but I told you so.  I have a long running aversion to discounts because discounts: I can go on.  Let’s look at the results from Tesla’s 3rd quarter earnings call: All of these numbers are […]
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“Funflation” is on the Rise!

Hi!  Join me for an end of the year planning session for 2024.  The Wall Street Journal told me it is getting too expensive to have fun and I wanted to look at some of the numbers involved.  Why? Because a lot of times numbers can be manipulated to tell you what you want to hear.  Let’s […]
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Are We One Thing? Or Many?

Hi!  I was reading an HBR piece this morning about portfolio careers and the idea of creating a drawing with all of the different ways you’ve added value during your career to be pretty interesting.  I took a bit of a sabbatical over the summer after 2022 was a year of all hell breaking loose for me […]
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