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Jun 27, 2024 |
evenbetter.news | Shawn Cooke
Aside from one line in a post about 101 things I enjoyed last year on my personal site, I never really said publicly that I was laid off in October. It was abrupt, clinical, and routine, as these things go. It was a Monday morning. The head of HR wrote “Hi Sean” in a Slack message asking if I planned to join a surprise mandatory meeting that had started 10 minutes ago, while I was busy getting ready for the day.
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Mar 25, 2024 |
evenbetter.news | Shawn Cooke
You’re reading the first-ever installment of Even Better Asks, a recurring series where the head honchos at Even Better come up with an open-ended question for our extended web of pals to answer in blurb form. We didn’t invent this concept, of course — old AV Club’s AVQ&A survey series being the main inspiration here, along with the occasional vintage Deadspin or Jezebel staff roundup posts in this style.
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Feb 20, 2024 |
evenbetter.news | Shawn Cooke
Born one week apart in mid-February, Elliott and Shawn separately bought tickets to the same U2 Sphere show in Las Vegas as an early 30th birthday treat and met for the first time while walking to the big orb. Both are currently bigger U2 fans than >97% of people under the age of 40. Shawn: So where does your U2 fandom stand right now in the year of 2024, and tell me a little about your history with the band? Elliott: U2 is the most important band (to me) of my lifetime.
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Dec 21, 2023 |
shawncooke.substack.com | Shawn Cooke
Here we go again, another year in the books. As is becoming an annual tradition around these parts, I gathered 101 things I enjoyed the most — and in many cases, flat-out loved —throughout 2023. This was probably the least I’d been plugged into new releases of anything in several years, which was liberating in its own way to not hear/watch/read something buzzy and potentially not-up-my-alley just to have an opinion on it.
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Sep 27, 2023 |
msn.com | Shawn Cooke
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