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Welty's Words is Changing This Year

Welty's Words is Changing This Year

An update and my favorite content of the week

Ethan Welty
January 07, 2024

Happy New Year!

I’m excited to share that 2024 will bring a new format to Welty’s Words. Each week, one day of the week that will likely be Sunday, I’ll be sharing my favorite pieces of content that I consumed from the week including podcasts, articles, tweets, and more. One of my favorite things to do is consume and share a variety of content, and I’m excited to do so more broadly. My regular thought pieces will come ideally once or twice a month as well. 🙂

If you haven’t yet, please check out my previous piece on Marketing and Video Game development.

Enjoy!

-Welty

Articles

Pop Culture & General Think Pieces

Gift Giving Is About the Buyer, Not the Receiver

Capitalism 🤝 buying things to make us feel better

It Sure Looks Like Phones Are Making Students Dumber

My mom (a teacher) often talks about this and I have to agree. Though I do question the study cited in this article.

How Smartphones Wrecked Bar Drinking

While briefly sitting in a nice hotel bar in Santa Fe, it was shocking to me how many people were on their phones.

The American South Is Booming. Why Is Mississippi Left Behind?

Having just moved out of a rapidly growing area in the South, the places left behind are important to observe.

Business Reading

Why Max Decided to Lose ‘HBO’ in Its Name

The high level strategy makes sense, but I don’t realistically think “HBO” was diluting the brand value of either product. Time will tell.

The Best Teams That Money Could Buy

I don’t watch much college football anymore, but not surprising it’s almost purely a business now.

America’s Startup Boom Is Stretching Beyond Silicon Valley

Mississippi falters, and Atlanta (along with other major metros in the South) continues to prosper.

Podcasts

Business & Investing

Nikesh Arora: The CEO that Revolutionized Palo Alto Networks To ~$100B

Loved hearing how a generalist CEO took the reigns and leveled up PAN’s M&A strategy

E15: Redpoint's Logan Bartlett on Carving Out a Spot in Venture

Enjoy Logan’s perspective on Venture and love his content

Visa

The prolific company you probably don’t know anything about (I didn’t until I needed to for my first job)

Comedy

#53 - Sam Morril

Love Stavvy and Sam, but please note this is pretty vulgar humor. Be warned.

Tweets & Misc

I somehow had a basic tweet go slightly viral. I also loved Costco’s response (and don’t mistake this for me not supporting Unions—I do)

Love it. Costco continues to be the benchmark for operational and customer experience excellence
— Ethan Welty (@ethan_welty1)
8:51 PM • Dec 30, 2023

Awesome interview advice thread for almost anyone at any stage of their career

(1/8) Yesterday I said it was wild how many talented people struggle to sell themselves during interviews
Lots of people asked how to do it
I've interviewed 100's (if not 1,000's) of ppl, and done a bunch interviewing myself, so here are 5 simple elements of selling yourself
— BuccoCapital Guy (@buccocapital)
1:49 PM • Dec 27, 2023

A friend of the newsletter, Cameron Mulvey, shares his outlook on the Creator Economy for 2024

The 6 Trends Shaping the Creator Economy in 2024

Get ahead of the creator economy curve. We break down the biggest emerging opportunities around community growth, revenue streams, efficiency tools, and more.

www.sute.app/blog/2024-predictions-blog

Action Bronson and Paris always entertains (shoutout to my brother for sharing this)

Have additional thoughts or content you’d like to share? Connect with me on Twitter or LinkedIn and let’s chat about it! Make sure to share with your friends too if you enjoyed.