This past Monday afternoon, Sinclair Broadcast Group President & CEO Chris Ripley sent an all-hands email telling the employees that “our Board of Directors has begun a process to explore strategic opportunities for the Broadcast division and to evaluate a possible separation of our Ventures division.” The email went on to explain how “this review is about unlocking new opportunities through innovation and scale” and about how the company has expressed in the past “the standalone va...| tvnd.micro.blog
We recently came across a Substack post that introduced us to an interesting concept. It’s called “compression culture,” and the TL;DR is that we, as a society, have come to value brevity more than depth. That in our always-connected, information-on-demand, perpetually switched-on world, we have replaced knowledge and understanding with information overload. We have tuned our attention span to be minimally focused at all times. To attempt our best Rod Serling impression as he might open...| tvnd.micro.blog