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SPOS #826 – Roger Martin On A New Way To Think

Welcome to episode #826 of Six Pixels of Separation.

Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #826 – Host: Mitch Joel. Don’t take my word for it, but Roger Martin is one of the world’s top business thinkers in the world. I do think this is true. In 2017, Roger was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, an annual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. Roger is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, LEGO and Ford. He is is a Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto where he served as Dean from 1998-2013. In 2013, he was named global Dean of the Year by the leading business school website, Poets & Quants. His newest book is, A New Way to Think – Your Guide to Superior Managerial Effectiveness. His previous twelve books include, When More is Not Better, Creating Great Choices (with Jennifer Riel), Getting Beyond Better (with Sally Osberg), and Playing To Win (with A.G. Lafley). He has written thirty Harvard Business Review articles and writing every week on Medium as well. If you love big thinking about business, this episode is for. Enjoy the conversation…

Running time: 57:24.Hello from beautiful Montreal.Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts.Please visit and leave comments on the blog – Six Pixels of Separation.Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.or you can connect on LinkedIn.…or on Twitter.Here is my conversation with Roger Martin.A New Way to Think – Your Guide to Superior Managerial Effectiveness.When More is Not Better.Creating Great Choices.Getting Beyond Better.Playing To Win.Roger on Medium.Follow Roger on LinkedIn.Follow Roger on Twitter.

This week’s music: David Usher ‘St. Lawrence River’.

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Six Links Worthy of Your Attention #619

Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

My friends: Alistair Croll (Solve for Interesting, Tilt the Windmill, Interesting Bits, HBS, chair of Strata, Startupfest, FWD50, and Scaletechconf; author of Lean Analytics and some other books), Hugh McGuire (Rebus Foundation, PressBooks, LibriVox) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person “must see.”

Check out these six links that we’re recommending to one another: 

What is Distributed Denial of Secrets? – Backdrifting. “While the ground war in Ukraine is being fought with physical violence, there’s another happening online. From misinformation and propaganda, to disabling infrastructure, such attacks are harder to trace and know no borders. When the history of this conflict is written—and please let it be soon—one thing will be clear: Sanctions and borders are the stuff of governments, but hacking and public opinion are a different thing entirely, without a seat on the security council or clear lines of deterrence. In recent weeks, @micahflee listed the astonishing number of leaks hackers have published from Russia under the banner of Distributed Denial Of Secrets; here’s a bit of detail about the organization.” (Alistair for Hugh). Your Feelings Are No Excuse – Margaret Atwood – The Atlantic . “Margaret Atwood won the Hitchens Prize this year, the sixth year the eponymous award was given to someone who walked, somehow, in Christopher Hitchens‘ irascible footsteps. Atwood is an unusual choice—the two were often on different sides of arguments—but she finds a common thread: We must discern truth from belief. She remarks in this piece that while climate change might be our most urgent, species-level concern, we need something else as a first step. Because if we can’t decide how to agree based on facts, rather than feelings, we won’t fix anything at all.” (Alistair for Mitch). The Argument for a Permanent Olympic City – Popular Science . “The latest installment of the Olympics in Covid restricted Beijing sure seemed strange. Maybe every Olympics seems strange too, this quadrennial sporting/construction pork event that puts cities in debt, and turns the lives of citizens upside down. If we were to focus on the sport, perhaps we could organize something saner, for instance a permanent Olympic City.” (Hugh for Alistair). The Impatience of Job – Slate . “Pick your doomsday poison: climate apocalypse, russo-ukraine nuclear threat, death-struggle betweem wokism and quasi-fascism. Oh, I forgot about pandemics. In retrospect, the first 20 years of my adulthood, ~1995-2015, sure seemed uneventful. These days it can feel positively Jobian, like we are all being tested cruelly by a capricious God. it might be a good time to return to the Book of Job – now with a new translation – and see if we can figure out what all this suffering is supposed to be about. Which is, maybe, nothing.” (Hugh for Mitch). Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity – Lex Fridman Podcast #281 – YouTube . “Some people know Grimes (or c) as a fascinating independent musician, others know her simply as an artist, others know her as the mother of Elon Musk’s kids (and, with all the media gossip, I – candidly – have no idea what their relationship status is). Ultimately, Grimes is a brilliant mind and a polymath. So, get past the cult of personality and check out this brain-bending conversation that she just had with Lex Fridman (and, if you’re not subscribed to Lex’s podcast, you really should be)… it will open your mind, get you thinking differently about technology, psychology, sociology, and there’s this deep sense of both hope and opportunity that is beautiful and perfect for these times. Don’t wait or save this conversation for later… dive on in…” (Mitch for Alistair). Comic Book Legend Neal Adams Has Died At 80 – Book Riot . “Maybe I am just getting older, and this is what happens (people die more often) or maybe it’s this Covid brain fog that has me super emotional (and a little down) at all of the talent that we seem to suddenly be losing. I’ve been buying a lot of concert tickets and thinking more about the experiences that I want to have (over the stuff) in my life. Neal Adams played a huge role in inspiring me. As a comic book nerd when I was a kid… to the present day (still collecting… and loving the medium). Neil would be on the Mt. Rushmore of comic books. Please don’t dismiss this as all spandex and capes with absurd stories… the complexity of constantly and consistently delivering a comic book is unimaginable, and yet legends like Neal Adams do this work – day in and day out. Here’s a brief overview of just how penetrating his creativity has been to our cultural zeitgeist. May his memory be a blessing… RIP Neal Adams…” (Mitch for Hugh).

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Pete Trewavas From Marillion On This Month’s Groove – The No Treble Podcast

Pete Trewavas is this month’s conversation on Groove – The No Treble Podcast.

You can listen the new episode right here: Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #89 – Pete Trewavas.

Who is Pete Trewavas ?

This year, Pete Trewavas celebrates his 40th anniversary as the bass player for famed prog-rock Gods, Marillion. And, while there will be plenty of opportunities for him to celebrate with the famed British rock band that formed in 1979 (but he joined in 1982, replacing Diz Minnitt), he is currently on the road with progressive rock supergroup, Transatlantic (which features, Neal Morse -ex–Spock’s Beard, Roine Stolt – Kaipa, The Flower Kings, and Mike Portnoy – ex–Dream Theater). And, that’s not all. In 2004, Pete co-founded another group called Kino, with John Mitchell (Arena), John Beck (It Bites) and Chris Maitland (ex-Porcupine Tree). If that weren’t enough, in 2011 Pete Trewavas joined up with his longtime friend Eric Blackwood to form the duo Edison’s Children. The new project was designed to be a creative outlet for Pete Trewavas (who has traditionally recorded in a band focused solely on bass and acoustic guitar), in which he could also play lead guitar, lead vocals, drum programming and keyboards as well as have full creative control over the writing and producing. The timing of Pete joining Marillion could not have been timed better. Marillion’s third album, Misplaced Childhood, in 1985 featured the massive hit Kayleigh. The band has always been focused on their fanbase, which has made them pioneers in crowd-funding and running weekend long convention-like gatherings (Marillion Weeekend), cruises and the recent release of their new studio album, An Hour Before It’s Dark. Enjoy the conversation…

What is Groove – The No Treble Podcast?

This is an ambitious effort. This will be a fascinating conversation. Our goal at Groove is to build the largest oral history of bass players. Why Groove? Most of the content about the bass revolves around gear, playing techniques, and more technical chatter. For us, bassists are creative artists with stories to tell. They are a force to be reckon with. These are the stories and conversation that we will capture. To create this oral history of why these artists chose the bass, what their creative lives are like, and where inspiration can be found.

Listen in:  Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #89 – Pete Trewavas.

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Joe Pulizzi Breaks Down Web3 And The Creator Economy – This Week’s Six Pixels of Separation Podcast

Episode #825 of Six Pixels of Separation is now live and ready for you to listen to.

Web3, the creator economy, Discord servers, social tokenization, decentralized technology, Twitch streams… and so much more. When it comes to this new world of content marketing, social media and personal brands slamming into newer platforms and creators, you will meet some of the sketchiest people. Lots of talk with little protein. Joe Pulizzi is the real deal, and since his first Content Marketing World back in 2010, I count him as both a good friend and one of the kindest, smartest minds in the business. Joe has founded five companies including his latest, Creator Economy Expo (the inaugural event takes places next week in Phoenix from May 2nd – 4th, 2022). Joe also recently launched, the content entrepreneurship news site, The Tilt, and the Content Marketing Institute. In 2014, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award by The Content Council. His podcast series, This Old Marketing with Robert Rose, has millions of downloads. His charitable foundation, The Orange Effect, delivers speech therapy and technology services to children in over 35 states. Joe is also a bestselling writer. He is the author of Content Inc. (which was recently completely updated and expanded into a second edition), Killing Marketing, Epic Content Marketing and more. His novel, The Will To Die, was awarded “Best Suspense Book” of 2020 by the National Indie Excellence Awards. What does the creator economy and content entrepreneurship mean for you as the world of Web3 grows? Let’s break down this new world of influencers, content marketing and more. Enjoy the conversation…

You can grab the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation here (or feel free to subscribe via Apple Podcast or whatever platform you may choose): Six Pixels of Separation #825.

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SPOS #825 – Joe Pulizzi Breaks Down Web3 And The Creator Economy

Welcome to episode #825 of Six Pixels of Separation.

Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #825 – Host: Mitch Joel. Web3, the creator economy, Discord servers, social tokenization, decentralized technology, Twitch streams… and so much more. When it comes to this new world of content marketing, social media and personal brands slamming into newer platforms and creators, you will meet some of the sketchiest people. Lots of talk with little protein. Joe Pulizzi is the real deal, and since his first Content Marketing World back in 2010, I count him as both a good friend and one of the kindest, smartest minds in the business. Joe has founded five companies including his latest, Creator Economy Expo (the inaugural event takes places next week in Phoenix from May 2nd – 4th, 2022). Joe also recently launched, the content entrepreneurship news site, The Tilt, and the Content Marketing Institute. In 2014, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award by The Content Council. His podcast series, This Old Marketing with Robert Rose, has millions of downloads. His charitable foundation, The Orange Effect, delivers speech therapy and technology services to children in over 35 states. Joe is also a bestselling writer. He is the author of Content Inc. (which was recently completely updated and expanded into a second edition), Killing Marketing, Epic Content Marketing and more. His novel, The Will To Die, was awarded “Best Suspense Book” of 2020 by the National Indie Excellence Awards. What does the creator economy and content entrepreneurship mean for you as the world of Web3 grows? Let’s break down this new world of influencers, content marketing and more. Enjoy the conversation…

Running time: 59:22.Hello from beautiful Montreal.Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts.Please visit and leave comments on the blog – Six Pixels of Separation.Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.or you can connect on LinkedIn.…or on Twitter.Here is my conversation with Joe Pulizzi.Creator Economy Expo.The Tilt.The Will To Die.This Old Marketing.Content Inc..Killing Marketing.Epic Content Marketing.Content Marketing Institute.The Orange Effect.Follow Joe on LinkedIn.Follow Joe on Facebook.Follow Joe on Twitter.

This week’s music: David Usher ‘St. Lawrence River’.

Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #825 – Host: Mitch Joel.

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Six Links Worthy of Your Attention #618

Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

My friends: Alistair Croll (Solve for Interesting, Tilt the Windmill, Interesting Bits, HBS, chair of Strata, Startupfest, FWD50, and Scaletechconf; author of Lean Analytics and some other books), Hugh McGuire (Rebus Foundation, PressBooks, LibriVox) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person “must see.”

Check out these six links that we’re recommending to one another: 

Run Your Own Social – Darius Kazemi. “With Elon buying Twitter, lots of folks are wondering if they can start their own social network. The truth is, platforms like Discord are already fast-rising as smaller communities, and most of the teeth-grinding nonsense we’re seeing on Twitter is longtime users wondering, ‘if this goes away, who will listen to me?’ Internet artist, Darius Kazemi, has a great roundup of what it takes.” (Alistair for Hugh). Welcome To Airspace – The Verge . “Tech is gentrifiying the world – one review at a time. This 2016 post is a little too close to home for me. ‘White or bright accent walls, raw wood, Nespresso machines, Eames chairs, patterned rugs on bare floors, open shelving, the neutered Scandinavianism of HGTV.” I feel seen.” (Alistair for Mitch). Why These Whales Are ‘Standing’ In the Ocean – National Geographic . “Sperm whales sleep vertically in pods of five to thirty or so of adults, suspended for 15 minutes up to a couple of hours at a time. Looks relaxing.” (Hugh for Alistair).  The Band – Jam #2 – The Last Waltz – YouTube . “Every once in a while, I land on some collection of rock n’ roll legends performing together on stage – usually at an awards show – and mostly these are interesting but scripted affairs, and not all that interesting. Here’s something different though: a true, free flowing jam session with an unwieldy number of Rock Gods: Ringo Starr (Drums/The Beatles), Levon Helm (Drums/The Band), Ronnie Wood (Guitar/The Rolling Stones), Neil Young (Guitar), Eric Clapton (Guitar, but it’s not plugged in!!), Dr. John (Piano), Garth Hudson (Organ/The Band), Paul Butterfield (harp) as well as Stephen Stills (Guitar/Crosby, Stlls & Nash) and Carl Radle (Bass/Derek and the Dominoes). Pretty fun to watch, if you like any of those musicians.” (Hugh for Mitch). Money is about to enter a new era of competition – Technology Review . “When I think about the current (and ever-growing) buzz surrounding cryptocurrency, I’m often dismayed at how many people are simply focusing on their own wallets and financial diversity (and, yes, this is only applicable for a very small swath of the privileged population). If you really want to think bigger, this article is for you. Bigger means thinking about digital technology and how it will, fundamentally, change our relationship with money and currency. This is something to think about in relation to entire countries, economies and the greater world. This long read breaks it down, and it’s an article everyone should read, whether you have your own cold storage wallet or think that Dogecoin is scam…” (Mitch for Alistair). Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document – Motherboard – Vice . “It’s almost like there’s so much craziness in the news, that it’s hard for us mere humans to stop, look at certain articles, read, ponder and ponder some more. This is one of those articles that seems to be ignored because of things like war, waves of infection and the climate crisis (not to mention Elon and other cult of personality chaos stories). In a leaked document, a Facebook engineer said this: ‘We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data.’ Scary? Yes. Imagine not knowing how your business actually works. Now, imagine that business is Facebook… you know, something at real scale (and using all of our data to support it). Will anybody do anything about this? I’m not feeling confident that much will change.” (Mitch for Hugh). 

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Let’s Be Honest: We Have No Idea Why Elon Musk Is Buying Twitter

A thought: Twitter has been languishing.

Their growth has been relatively dormant with few innovations and new features over the years. Their ad business has not scaled at pace with the advertising industry. Its ability to grow and retain users has been problematic. Its stock price has severely underperformed both their social media competitors, and the general tech industry at large. It has been challenged with content moderation (and more) for years… and that hasn’t been improved or resolved.

Twitter has been puttering along just fine.

That doesn’t make it bad or not relevant (I happen to love Twitter), it just means that it’s economic worth is not matched to its brand power or perceived impact on the zeitgeist. My personal feelings about Elon Musk are not relevant here. Maybe Twitter simply needs something/anything new because – from a business/leadership perspective – it’s not really growing/changing all that much (and, maybe, this is why the board has approved Elon’s offer?).

But I don’t know… and I wish more people would say the same thing.

Why is Elon making a bid for Twitter? I don’t know… and from what I’m reading/listening/watching, I haven’t seen a salient reason from any of the digital media experts, journalists and thought leaders. And, that’s very curious to me.

I’m going to be truthful…

Unlike many of the other pundits who are blabbing away, I’m not sure I fully understand any of this. I’m not sure why, considering how busy Elon is with Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, OpenAI and The Boring Company, that he even has time or energy for fixing what’s broken with Twitter and social media. If this is just about another billionaire trying to control a media property, fine (we’ve seen that story before… and so it goes.. history keeps repeating itself). That could be it. Still, I have no idea. I don’t think the Elon money or a changing of the guards will do that much to get more people to use Twitter more frequently (or encourage bigger media companies to spend more). But… I could be wrong… I wish I could be more insightful (because, that’s what companies pay me for), but I feel like the general media (and that includes me) are really missing something.

That “something” is the actual play that’s happening here… and there’s nothing wrong with saying “I don’t know.”

Shalene Gupta On The Power Of Trust – This Week’s Six Pixels of Separation Podcast

Episode #824 of Six Pixels of Separation is now live and ready for you to listen to.

Do you trust the brands that you buy from? Has your definition of trust in business shifted through this pandemic? Shalene Gupta is a research associate at Harvard Business School and the co-author of The Power of Trust – How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It with Harvard Business School professor, Sandra Sucher. The Power of Trust was nominated for a Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea award. In 2022, Shalene was identified as a thinker to watch out for and made the Thinkers50 Radar list. In the past she was a reporter for Fortune where she wrote about the intersection of diversity and tech. Before working as a reporter, she was a financial specialist for the U.S. Department of Treasury, taught English in Malaysia on a Fulbright scholarship and wrote a book documenting the history of the Malaysian Fulbright program. She has a BA in writing seminars and psychology from Johns Hopkins and an MS from Columbia Journalism School. She’s also a graduate of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program. Shalene has taught writing classes in the Boston area, spoken at conferences about trust and diversity, and is now thinking deeply about how we can learn to better trust one another and the companies that we work with. Enjoy the conversation…<

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SPOS #824 – Shalene Gupta On The Power Of Trust

Welcome to episode #824 of Six Pixels of Separation.

Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #824 – Host: Mitch Joel. Do you trust the brands that you buy from? Has your definition of trust in business shifted through this pandemic? Shalene Gupta is a research associate at Harvard Business School and the co-author of The Power of Trust – How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It with Harvard Business School professor, Sandra Sucher. The Power of Trust was nominated for a Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea award. In 2022, Shalene was identified as a thinker to watch out for and made the Thinkers50 Radar list. In the past she was a reporter for Fortune where she wrote about the intersection of diversity and tech. Before working as a reporter, she was a financial specialist for the U.S. Department of Treasury, taught English in Malaysia on a Fulbright scholarship and wrote a book documenting the history of the Malaysian Fulbright program. She has a BA in writing seminars and psychology from Johns Hopkins and an MS from Columbia Journalism School. She’s also a graduate of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program. Shalene has taught writing classes in the Boston area, spoken at conferences about trust and diversity, and is now thinking deeply about how we can learn to better trust one another and the companies that we work with. Enjoy the conversation…

Running time: 50:41.Hello from beautiful Montreal.Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts.Please visit and leave comments on the blog – Six Pixels of Separation.Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.or you can connect on LinkedIn.…or on Twitter.Here is my conversation with Shalene Gupta.The Power of Trust – How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It.Sandra Sucher.Follow Shalene on LinkedIn.Follow Shalene on Twitter.

This week’s music: David Usher ‘St. Lawrence River’.

Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #824 – Host: Mitch Joel.

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Six Links Worthy of Your Attention #617

Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

My friends: Alistair Croll (Solve for Interesting, Tilt the Windmill, Interesting Bits, HBS, chair of Strata, Startupfest, FWD50, and Scaletechconf; author of Lean Analytics and some other books), Hugh McGuire (Rebus Foundation, PressBooks, LibriVox) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person “must see.”

Check out these six links that we’re recommending to one another: 

Fertility rate: ‘Jaw-dropping’ global crash in children being born  BBC News. “Even in the early days of the pandemic, we were noticing that birthrates were way down. Covid hasn’t helped. I hadn’t really been thinking about this much, but it’s started leaking into my consciousness. If we were together, I’d monopolize the lunch conversation speculating on why this is the case.” (Alistair for Hugh). Fast – Patrick Collison . “Patrick Collison maintains a list of big human projects that were built quickly. Most of them happened before 1970, so he links to a number of reasons why we seem to have slowed down at delivering big, heady achievements. It’s an interesting, and somewhat depressing, list. Francis Fukuyama has called the current model of government in the US a ‘vetocracy’ because of how special interest groups have slowed down ambitions.” (Alistair for Mitch). Off the East Coast, a Massive Network of Wind Turbines Is Coming—Along With New Risks for Migrating Birds – Audubon . “On birds and wind turbines.” (Hugh for Alistair).  The Weight – Featuring Ringo Starr and Robbie Robertson – Playing For Change – YouTube . “Music is nice. Here’s The Band‘s Robbie Robertson leading a collection of musicians from around the globe singing the campfire classic, ‘The Weight’.”  (Hugh for Mitch). The Coachella Backlash – The Lefsetz Letter . “In order to get the full effect of this article, I strongly recommend that you watch the TikTok video in this link (Mandy Lee is wise). This is a really compelling and different argument for what culture can look like. What if it’s not about the content that everyone is there to consume at an event, but rather all about the individuals who are present and how they share out their own content? Such a strange and weird world we have with influencers, who aren’t acting as people conveying information to an audience, but rather building a personal brand that becomes the connection point to this audience. I’m sure there are much smarter people than me, namely psychologists and sociologists, who would have their own perspectives on this. Still, this is incredibly fascinating. What if we no longer go anywhere for the content/art/music, but rather simply as an engine for us to create our own content and brand for the world? Events are now wallpaper?” (Mitch for Alistair). Musicians want us to pay closer attention at gigs. Let’s do them the courtesy – The Guardian . “The other week, I had tickets to a concert that I was very much looking forward to. I wound up selling my tickets, because the artist was demanding that people lock their mobile devices in one of their security bags that then get coat-checked for the duration of the show. It was not a tenable thing for me to do, because I have both young children at home and a new babysitter in place. It’s not just that. I am an adult. If the artist is asking us not to use our phones, so that we can all be there – in the moment – I am able to comply. I don’t need to be forced or have my phone taken away from me. Some people can’t comply/control themselves… and I get that. With that, I am often annoyed by how loud people can be during a concert. I’m not saying we need it to sound like a library or religious service, and it’s understandable when friends get together – they have a few drinks and want to enjoy a show together… they talk, sing loudly or are simply enjoying both the music and the friendship. So, it’s a fine line. I have not chosen sides on this issue. I think it’s fair for artists to ask the audience to play closer attention, but I’m not certain they can demand it. That being said, forcing compliance (in this kind of environment) is something that frustrates me. I don’t think artists treating their fans like children is a healthy relationship. What do you think?” (Mitch for Hugh).

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@oldloserinbrooklyn My quick analysis on the shift of Coachella culture/fashion #coachella #analysis #fashion #revolve #coachella2022 ♬ You – Petit Biscuit

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