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rjwillis44.bsky.social
Journalism, tech, music, sports, the usual. Was temporarily Australian. Missouri-born, Carolina-settled, lots in between. Opinions mine, all mine. https://futureelder.substack.com/
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When someone tells you their business is generating "seven figures," it's totally fair to ask between which figures the decimal point appears.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

I read a lot of complaints on LinkedIn and elsewhere about how silly the job-seeking process is: Filling in three different forms with the same info, general lack of transparency about salary/benefits, etc. I'm interested to read the explanation of WHY it needs to be like that. Who's defending this?

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

The 1980s Missouri teenager in me is screaming, “Schools are closed for THIS?” Winter storm, Carolina-style.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

“The problem is complex,” says only developed country in the world that hasn’t solved it. The US is to health care what I was to my 9th-grade algebra class.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

And not a minute too soon.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

How did this poster get hold of a picture of my desk from 2001?

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

some Sunday night metaphors: futureelder.substack.com/p/adjust-you...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Attn @malleycat.bsky.social

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

One of these artists is not like the others. #SpotifyWrapped #music

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

The folks at @sgfcitizen.bsky.social are doing some really, really good work, work that is worthy of your support. sgfcitizen.org/springfield-... #GivingTuesday

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Good read here from the Post and Courier’s Brian Hicks. Nut graf: “First, and I say this with no small amount of envy, some people simply don’t have enough to do. “ www.postandcourier.com/opinion/comm...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Descartes, Hume, Hobbes, Kant, Thomas Paine, all those guys were basically “influencers,” right?

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Ultimately, this is the way. And it still does not necessarily preclude the idea of offering premium content at a cost. But the danger of keeping vital information paywalled while letting venal misinformation roam free is now incredibly evident. #media #nonprofit

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

If you like poker, I know a cool place online where smart people are talking about nothing but poker. Worth checking out: www.poker.org/ask-the-org/...

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Any chance we could start calling it the Affordable Care Act and stop calling it Obamacare? Just asking.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Been a year since my dad died. Youngest kid came over for dinner tonight, and we got to comparing genetic quirks (she’s left-handed, can’t roll her tongue and hates cilantro). It gave me an opening to talk about family and re-tell some of the good stories. Very therapeutic. #family

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

youtu.be/Wow9jcwsfrg?... This SNL skit from last night name-checks my hometown’s O’Reilly Auto Parts. Between this, Chappell Roan, and that story a couple years ago in WSJ about Bass Pro trucker hats becoming a celeb fashion accessory, the Springfieldification of America is now complete.

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

My takeaway from this story of what appears to have been a great game between a couple of pretty good mid-major hoops teams: The attendance. 2,364?? @lscranton.bsky.social that’s a Weiser Gym crowd. Where is everybody? sgfcitizen.org/springfield-...

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Good tip for veteran journalists too.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments