CEO, Think Splendid: The global leader in wedding business strategy for luxury brands, hotels, and wedding tourism. Est. 2005 • Former NGO exec • Dreamer, Doer
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Surrounding yourself with passionate people means having to work harder on your relationships. Less assuming, deeper listening. Worth it.
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With both Elizabeth Holmes and Ebola back in the news, re-upping this old thread on how she tried to pitch USAID during the 2014 Ebola outbreak:
Reading this part of the NYT story brought back a memory.
In the midst of battling Ebola during the fall of 2014, USAID got a call from some obscure (to us) tech company seeking to pitch its product for use in the outbreak.
That company? Theranos. 1/
nytimes.com/2018/05/21/books…
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I keep seeing people asking "what's the point of preserving history if the future is uncertain" and, I'm sorry, that's like the MAIN reason to preserve history???? The future has literally always been uncertain???? It's the future??? Ain't nobody been there before????
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The best part about RAYE’s sophomore is that it feels alive, sentient, active. It makes you feel something, have an emotional response to it. That is the art I respect the most, it’s the art I crave more of in a climate of phoning it in.
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This is 100% right and I really wish more people understood this about the the role of the federal govt.
An explanation of why DOGE is even stupider than you think.
There are 2.4 million federal employees, but perhaps 20 million actors in the private sector and lower levels of government who administer federal programs.
Federal employees basically provide oversight for the work done by contractors, etc.
Get rid of the employees, and all you have is contractors, etc with no oversight payed to do things on behalf of the government.
Spending is not going down. You're getting a government that is just as large and intrusive but less competent and unable to do its basic functions.
Social media stupidity obviously didn't stay on social media. It rotted Elon Musk's brain, and he's showing what happens when you remake the government along the lines of the views of people he's getting information from on twitter.
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sorry but i will never understand people being against free meals for kids in school. I do not give a shit if some families who can afford lunch get free lunch....feed the fucking kids.
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Saying "Everything sucks" and "we are doomed" is, in fact, not helping. If you think the democracy we have is not good enough for your participation, you're gonna be dazzled by what we get next.
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Say what you like about TikTok, but my family owns the Notting Hill Bookshop (yes, the one from the film) and the surge in young people buying books in the last year because of booktok has been wonderful to see. It's making reading cool again & I will always love the app for that
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“How will you feel if Bill Clinton gets implicated by Jeffrey Epstein?”
I dunno - feeling pretty fucking good with my “any pedophile is bad” policy
I met Joan Rivers at a party where I knew no one. She then took me around and introduced me to everybody.
A kindness I will never forget.
This is what true hospitality looks like.
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It’s important to note that the average is $30k because it includes the couples who only spent $80 on a marriage license at the courthouse.
A $30k wedding also has an average of 42 vendors working on it. The $ doesn’t split evenly but, if it did, they’d get less than $715 each.
The best piece on the ultra luxury wedding industry I’ve read in forever (and not just because I was interviewed for it).
Favorite line: “I’m probably the most expensive help there is, but I’m still the help.”
Weddings have always been luxury goods. And like all luxury goods, they’ve been coveted, emulated, and knocked off by the masses.
Xochitl Gonzalez on the lies, panic, and ponies that come with luxury-wedding planning: theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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yes we do, it was bad. the failure of our society to provide decent housing and medical care does not somehow give a random guy license to choke someone to death on a subway car
