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bennesvig
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About bennesvig
Find me on Twitter: @BenNesvig
Email: hi@bennesvig.com
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Comment #42390423
I've wanted to learn Music Theory for about a decade (only learned guitar tabs as a teen and to read sheet music as an adult). Love what you made and just got the premium course.
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Comment #36204539
Would require the headset being plugged in.
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Comment #30217055
Some guests who got theirs removed complained on twitter, so this seems unlikely.
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Comment #28529369
Norm's musings on death from his 2011 special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrFU5wyd_C0
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Comment #24065763
The part about the algorithm might be referring to when you first join TikTok. THEN it shows you the most popular videos at the moment, adjusting quickly to a more personalized fee…
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Comment #23631343
Ben & Jerry's spent less than $5k on Facebook and Instagram ads last month. They'll get more publicity value from joining the boycott vs. paying to run ads for a month or two.
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Comment #22198809
Rdio used to be my favorite app for music discovery before it got acquired/shut down.
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Comment #19818867
I was a heavy Tumblr user until I discovered Reddit around then, which made it easier to find the same type of content with more consistency.
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Comment #19578844
Big fan of https://pinboard.in
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Comment #19438932
> If schools aim to boost students’ future income by teaching job skills, why do they entrust students’ education to people so detached from the real world? Because the aim of scho…
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Comment #19120994
Not sure why your comment is getting downvoted. It's absolutely true. It was obviously said as a joke.
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Comment #18235522
Yep, the videos that autoplay on kids content can be super creepy, borderline fetish/brainwashing content. The channel H3H3 summarized a few of the videos (Spiderman and Elsa come …
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Comment #18234786
Really hoping one of these wave pools makes its way to the midwest.
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Comment #18094894
You likely mean ads for TikTok which Musically merged into after being acquired.
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Comment #18039542
As someone who has made a lot of humorous memes professionally for brands, I agree that these aren't memes but are cute, funny pictures.
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Comment #17555078
I don't understand the hate for Elon (though the response to Unsworth was disproportionate). His offer to help seemed to stem mainly from a curiosity in solving the problem and hav…
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Comment #17201790
One difference is that YouTube vloggers are kinda the new celebrity. A lot of kids would rather be vloggers than Hollywood celebrities.
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Comment #17156116
You have to know things about weather and reading maps that you'll never use when flying a drone, bu it only takes a weekend of studying to pass the drone pilot test.
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Comment #17156080
Flying a drone is much easier than most people think (at least drones from DJI or even the GoPro Karma). To not become a commodity, you have to provide something on top of just fly…
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Comment #16988707
Probably because comments usually make it obvious if someone is using an automated bot to grow their Instagram account, which he definitely is.
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Comment #16564106
I've read dozens of books on storytelling and Invisible Ink is one of my favorites.
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Comment #16462708
As a marketer, videographer, and someone with a sweet tooth, I agree that it's a bad ad.
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Comment #16462705
As a marketer, videographer, and someone with a sweet tooth, it's not a great ad. Get to the point. Show the actual product. Tease me with things I can expect to receive. Maybe sho…
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Comment #16406780
That seems very excessive, though regulation so far has been positive. Not that this is you, but fear of "voyeurism" is often said by people who aren't familiar with drones. I've o…