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Joshua Harris is apparently discontinuing publication of I Kissed Dating Goodbye & its followups (including Boy Meets Girl which I would argue is maybe worse). Great. Eventually maybe I won't have to keep buying every copy I find in a thrift store so no one else does.
Let's take a look at his "explanation" (I won't call it an "apology" since that implies genuine repentance and a good faith effort to do something to fix the actual problem at hand but okay)ā¦ Link here or in the pictures below https://t.co/1unwQueOIA
Some highlights:
"Two years ago I began a process of re-evaluating the book."
Welcome to the party, Josh. We figured you weren't coming.
He says he regrets implying that premarital kissing (a phrase I cannot believe I still have to utter) was a sin, but then recommends instead books such as Boundaries in Dating by Dr. Henry Cloud and True Love Dates by Debra Fileta, both of which teach abstinence until marriage.
Here's my statement on I Kissed Dating Goodbye: https://t.co/iLH286wJI1
— Joshua Harris (@HarrisJosh) October 22, 2018
Joshua Harris is apparently discontinuing publication of I Kissed Dating Goodbye & its followups (including Boy Meets Girl which I would argue is maybe worse). Great. Eventually maybe I won't have to keep buying every copy I find in a thrift store so no one else does.
Let's take a look at his "explanation" (I won't call it an "apology" since that implies genuine repentance and a good faith effort to do something to fix the actual problem at hand but okay)ā¦ Link here or in the pictures below https://t.co/1unwQueOIA
Some highlights:
"Two years ago I began a process of re-evaluating the book."
Welcome to the party, Josh. We figured you weren't coming.
He says he regrets implying that premarital kissing (a phrase I cannot believe I still have to utter) was a sin, but then recommends instead books such as Boundaries in Dating by Dr. Henry Cloud and True Love Dates by Debra Fileta, both of which teach abstinence until marriage.
A story of a tweet that received 17 million impressions šš¾
As 2017 was drawing to a close JotForm founder Aytekin Tank found himself in a reflective mood. He has grown @JotForm to a team of 130 people, it has more than 3.2 million users, and its revenue climbs every month.
But something didnāt quite sit right with him. JotForm wasn't getting as much attention as its competitors. Its competitors were featured in publications like TechCrunch.
JotForm wasn't.
So he set out to change that using an age-old formula ā storytelling.
To build @JotFormās brand, he wrote stories about JotFormās journey. The stories were getting 100,000 to 300,000+ views on Mediumā¦ but he didnāt stop
He repurposed his most successful stories on Medium, stories that resonated with his audience, into Twitter threads. And used Twitter ads to test how far he could spread his stories and build JotFormās
He only intended to spend $5,000 on the ads but one thread took off, getting over 20 percent engagement rate. So he kept promoting it. He spent $24,098 and got 17 million impressions, 35,000+ clicks to the original stories, and thousands of people learning about JotForm.
As 2017 was drawing to a close JotForm founder Aytekin Tank found himself in a reflective mood. He has grown @JotForm to a team of 130 people, it has more than 3.2 million users, and its revenue climbs every month.
But something didnāt quite sit right with him. JotForm wasn't getting as much attention as its competitors. Its competitors were featured in publications like TechCrunch.
JotForm wasn't.
So he set out to change that using an age-old formula ā storytelling.
To build @JotFormās brand, he wrote stories about JotFormās journey. The stories were getting 100,000 to 300,000+ views on Mediumā¦ but he didnāt stop
He repurposed his most successful stories on Medium, stories that resonated with his audience, into Twitter threads. And used Twitter ads to test how far he could spread his stories and build JotFormās
1/ Don\u2019t listen to those productivity gurus.
— Aytekin (@aytekintank) July 16, 2018
\u23f0\xa0Waking up at 6am won\u2019t make you successful.
A thread \U0001f447
He only intended to spend $5,000 on the ads but one thread took off, getting over 20 percent engagement rate. So he kept promoting it. He spent $24,098 and got 17 million impressions, 35,000+ clicks to the original stories, and thousands of people learning about JotForm.
Interesting thread but unfortunately I disagree. We've had those inflection points: Charlottesville, Helsinki, Comey firing. He's always been very unpopular. Little changed.
Public opinion matters less when leverage -- like fair + free elections -- disappears. Protect leverage.
I have said since 2016 that Trump is most likely to lose power through legal means -- indictments for his crimes -- not by change in public opinion. He will not concede even if he loses and he will rewrite laws to protect himself. That's why he always was an extraordinary danger.
That's why it was crucial for Mueller and Comey before him to act early, because Trump consolidates power like a typical kleptocrat. But they didn't.
Best move now is to help Dems take Congress so that investigations can be carried out -- and investigators be protected by law.
Even in this best-case scenario of Dems winning and investigations continuing, there might be no justice, because Trump has now packed courts and purged agencies.
But knowledge is power. The public has the right to know what Trump & co have done. So keep pushing anyway.
Public opinion matters less when leverage -- like fair + free elections -- disappears. Protect leverage.
There will be something so stupid and lame and weak that people realize who Trump really is. Sure, he'll keep his 20% or whatever base, but he'll lose others.
— Adam Davidson (@adamdavidson) October 21, 2018
But I know I might be wrong. The challenge with predicting the future is that it hasn't happened yet.
9/end
I have said since 2016 that Trump is most likely to lose power through legal means -- indictments for his crimes -- not by change in public opinion. He will not concede even if he loses and he will rewrite laws to protect himself. That's why he always was an extraordinary danger.
That's why it was crucial for Mueller and Comey before him to act early, because Trump consolidates power like a typical kleptocrat. But they didn't.
Best move now is to help Dems take Congress so that investigations can be carried out -- and investigators be protected by law.
Even in this best-case scenario of Dems winning and investigations continuing, there might be no justice, because Trump has now packed courts and purged agencies.
But knowledge is power. The public has the right to know what Trump & co have done. So keep pushing anyway.
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It's funny how your brain draws connections between things. @JonnElledge tweeted thus: https://t.co/4d14S0uPwD as my head was still pondering Ryan's question on Dr Who: "Rosa Parks? Wasn't she the first woman to drive a bus?"
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I was born in the same year that Dr Who was set this week. I, like @DAaronovitch (see https://t.co/nvMTzda99i ) grew up in a household with more than its fair share of Paul Robeson, Ian Campbell Folk Group, and Pete Seeger gramophone records; and a wireless set.
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We got our first (single channel) black and white TV set in time for the first episode of Dr Who. My formative years were spend hearing radio reports of and seeing grainy pictures of US cops beating crowds of black people over their heads and setting dogs on them;
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and (later) British troops blowing huge craters in Irish back roads and the locals arriving hours (or even minutes) later with their tractors and diggers to fill them in again and make the roads passable once more for local people and IRA weapons deliveries.
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Thus, partly because of my age, partly because of my upbringing, I'm always taken aback when (often younger) people around me (on here or IRL) aren't familiar with stuff like the Montgomery Bus Boycott (& its context) or the cratering of border roads in Ireland (& its context)
It's funny how your brain draws connections between things. @JonnElledge tweeted thus: https://t.co/4d14S0uPwD as my head was still pondering Ryan's question on Dr Who: "Rosa Parks? Wasn't she the first woman to drive a bus?"
this is fascinating https://t.co/U0rttHp5Gz
— Jonn still hates Halloween (@JonnElledge) October 22, 2018
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I was born in the same year that Dr Who was set this week. I, like @DAaronovitch (see https://t.co/nvMTzda99i ) grew up in a household with more than its fair share of Paul Robeson, Ian Campbell Folk Group, and Pete Seeger gramophone records; and a wireless set.
3/
We got our first (single channel) black and white TV set in time for the first episode of Dr Who. My formative years were spend hearing radio reports of and seeing grainy pictures of US cops beating crowds of black people over their heads and setting dogs on them;
4/
and (later) British troops blowing huge craters in Irish back roads and the locals arriving hours (or even minutes) later with their tractors and diggers to fill them in again and make the roads passable once more for local people and IRA weapons deliveries.
5/
Thus, partly because of my age, partly because of my upbringing, I'm always taken aback when (often younger) people around me (on here or IRL) aren't familiar with stuff like the Montgomery Bus Boycott (& its context) or the cratering of border roads in Ireland (& its context)
The assumption that public consumption is not expansionary is amateurish. A simple counterexample: wages in public education sector, i.e. INVESTMENT IN HUMAN CAPITAL, are classified as public āconsumptionā.
This simple accounting fact, routinely ignored in the debate, contributes to the explanation of these apparently ācounterintuitiveā results:
Another point is that, regardless of what most pre-Keynesian economists believe, demand and supply are NOT two distinct and separate worlds. Demand feeds back into supply, with some consequences:
Italy\u2019s first priority must be growth and employment - not fiscal consolidation per se. A fiscal stimulus might be helpful, IF spending is focused on those objectives, and not on public consumption. #in /1
— Marcel Fratzscher (@MFratzscher) October 19, 2018
https://t.co/zLDWBlF96U via @financialtimes
This simple accounting fact, routinely ignored in the debate, contributes to the explanation of these apparently ācounterintuitiveā results:
Another point is that, regardless of what most pre-Keynesian economists believe, demand and supply are NOT two distinct and separate worlds. Demand feeds back into supply, with some consequences:
October 22, 362 CE: Burning of the Temple of Apollo at Daphne. Julian had only just removed the bones of St. Babylas in an effort to get Apollo to again give oracles (relics could clog sites). J. suspected Christians & wrote his Misopogon ("Beard-Hater") against the Antiochenes.
Saint Babylas was the Patriarch of Antioch martyred w/his companions during the Decian persecution of the mid-3rdC. The best illustration I know of is in the Menologion of Basil II with martyrs Urban, Prilidian, and Epolonius, and their mother Christodula. https://t.co/kIqWFRlb5U
The use of Christian relics and burials to contest a "pagan" (i.e. traditional Greco-Roman, non-Christian) space through ideas of pollution is an important part of understanding Late Antiquity. Please see Christine Shepardson's book on this topic & Babylas https://t.co/jJYh9nz6YR
Hi, guys. A note (and thanks to @paregorios helping me with this) that I accidentally tweeted the Temple to Apollo at Delphi. For the site of Daphne in modern Turkey, please see the @PleiadesProject entry for "Daphne": https://t.co/W0hEAgKL0D #HGIS #LateAntiquity
Saint Babylas was the Patriarch of Antioch martyred w/his companions during the Decian persecution of the mid-3rdC. The best illustration I know of is in the Menologion of Basil II with martyrs Urban, Prilidian, and Epolonius, and their mother Christodula. https://t.co/kIqWFRlb5U
The use of Christian relics and burials to contest a "pagan" (i.e. traditional Greco-Roman, non-Christian) space through ideas of pollution is an important part of understanding Late Antiquity. Please see Christine Shepardson's book on this topic & Babylas https://t.co/jJYh9nz6YR
Hi, guys. A note (and thanks to @paregorios helping me with this) that I accidentally tweeted the Temple to Apollo at Delphi. For the site of Daphne in modern Turkey, please see the @PleiadesProject entry for "Daphne": https://t.co/W0hEAgKL0D #HGIS #LateAntiquity
