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  1. Jun 2024
  2. Feb 2023
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  4. Dec 2021
    1. “It’s nice to have some kind of platform where people listen to you. If I was to say this in a shop corner, no one would listen to me,” he says. Laws doesn’t like using social media because it’s inherently argumentative—“you can just watch people imploding on the internet a lot.” Instead, he uses Amazon to get his voice heard. “You’re never going to change someone’s opinion on the internet,” he says of politics and sport and news. “But if someone is actively looking for an opinion when choosing something, then that’s an opinion that people might listen to.”

      Quite interesting: Amazon is not the first platform you think of when considering to “make your voice heard”.

  5. Jul 2021
  6. Apr 2021
    1. When people develop an emotional raw spot as a child, they often have outsized internal reactions when that raw spot is rubbed in their adult life.

      Freud