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For The Record- 03. February. 2024

For The Record- 03. February. 2024

Sing another song and make me happy

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Welcome to another edition of For The Record, a good old-fashioned link drop and benefit for paid supporters of On Repeat.

As a reminder, On Repeat is 100% reader-funded. And as always, there are 7-day trials for anyone looking to test the waters.


This week, we’ve got news on Taylor Swift, TikTok, and Talking Heads

All that and a LOT more, including Joe Rogan’s new deal, Cat Janice, and Devo.

Let’s get to it!


Roughly 18000 of my coworkers took advantage of an early out program during COVID and left the company. In their wake, there is still a lot of internal transferring happening to balance out staffing levels. One of my coworkers was offered an interdepartmental transfer but declined because “[your area] has too much seniority.”

This was a nice way of saying we’re old, but she also asked how I/we managed to do it and how we stayed for so long. With a shrug, I simply replied that we keep showing up. Days become weeks, which become months, and pretty soon, that becomes decades.

I first learned that phrase from my stepdad. He wasn’t big on pithy advice or productivity hacks. He modeled the behavior he wanted us to adopt. A journeyman carpenter, he left at the (to my teenage mind) impossibly early hour of 6 AM to head for wherever the job site happened to be. Rain, wind, heat- it didn’t matter. The work had to be done, so he kept showing up.

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