It takes a special kind of quality to make into a Best of Web post with numerous staff in the BestofWeb committee pouring over thousands of nominations…ok, the second part is BS. Glad you enjoyed it, me too!

The bars example was funny!

I am starting to think the direct mailers were drive by victims and they may have a shot, if shut down, to be saved/revived.

I guess I won’t be making any travel plans to Qatar for the 2022 World Cup. This was a must win for Greece today…we totally dominated the first half, had a goal disallowed, hit the post twice and in the 2nd half two bad uncharacteristic defensive mistakes and boom, 2-0. What a tough loss…so sad.

With two donations covering my Mailchimp monthly fee and two cards sold and four blog posts this month…so I guess we are even, see you Thursday, I am going to hit the bed early today to prep my body for a 2 hour run tomorrow, so help me God.

It’s interesting to read that commentary from someone in the know. I don’t have a dog in the fight but have been skeptical that direct mailers addressed would be included in the same bucket as this Amex employee that was clearly going out of bounds to approve cards.

It reminds me working in bars in my youth when someone would come in and apply having been fired from the last place for, according to them, “no reason.” That industry in each city is pretty tight knit so it was never hard to get the real story that inevitably the person was very much fired for a reason or reasons.

https://milesearnandburn.com/index.php/2021/10/12/amex-shutdowns-new-details-and-what-id-do/

@ DML: ” skepticism is so important” Absolutely! Yeah, shocked that John was not interfered with…if WSJ only fixed their Editiorial columns lol.

@ Carl: Yeah, wild story…so eloquently written!

The piece on Carreyrou illustrates why skepticism is so important. And now lucky we
are that the WSJ owner did not shut him down.