Meta: Thanks for your response! I recognize that you are under no obligation to comment here, which makes me all the more appreciative that you’re continuing the conversation. <3
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I’ve engaged with the Collins’ content for about a minute or two in total, and with them personally for the equivalent of half an email chain and a tenth of a conversation. Interpersonally, I’ve found them quite friendly/reasonable people. Their shared panel at the last Manifest was one of the highest rated of the conference; multiple people came up to me to tell me that they really enjoyed it. On their actual content, I think Austin and/or Rachel have much more knowledge/takes/context — I deferred to them re: “does their content check out.” Those were my reasons for inviting them back.
I’ll add that there is a class of people who have strongly-worded, warped, and especially inflammatory headlines (or tweets, etc), but whose underlying perspectives/object-level views can often be much more reasonable — or at least I strongly respect the methods by which they go about their thoughts. There’s a mental wince to reading one of their headlines, where in my head I go ”...oh, god. Man, I know what you’re trying to say, but couldn’t you… I dunno, say it nicely? in a less inflammatory way, or something?” And I often find that these people are actually quite kind/nice IRL — but you read their Twitter, or something, and you think ”...oh man, these are some pretty wild takes.”
I’m not too sure how to act in these scenarios/how to react to these types of people. Still, the combination of [nice/bright IRL] + [high respect for Rachel & Austin’s perspective on object-level things] = the Collins’ probably fall into the category of “I really dislike the fact that they use clickbaity, inflammatory titles to farm engagement, but they (probably) have high-quality object-level takes and I know that they’re reasonable people IRL.”
I appreciate your bringing to attention their YouTube channel, which I hadn’t seen before. I’m not heartened by the titles, though I haven’t reviewed the content.
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Again — thanks for your comments. I’m going to continue copying the note below in this and following comments, both for you & for posterity.
(To Ben & anyone else who’s reading this: I’d be happy to hop on a call with anyone who’d like to talk more about any of the decisions we’ve made, take notes on/recording of the call, then post the notes/recording publicly here. https://savvycal.com/saulmunn/manifest )
Meta: Thanks for your response! I recognize that you are under no obligation to comment here, which makes me all the more appreciative that you’re continuing the conversation. <3
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I’ve engaged with the Collins’ content for about a minute or two in total, and with them personally for the equivalent of half an email chain and a tenth of a conversation. Interpersonally, I’ve found them quite friendly/reasonable people. Their shared panel at the last Manifest was one of the highest rated of the conference; multiple people came up to me to tell me that they really enjoyed it. On their actual content, I think Austin and/or Rachel have much more knowledge/takes/context — I deferred to them re: “does their content check out.” Those were my reasons for inviting them back.
I’ll add that there is a class of people who have strongly-worded, warped, and especially inflammatory headlines (or tweets, etc), but whose underlying perspectives/object-level views can often be much more reasonable — or at least I strongly respect the methods by which they go about their thoughts. There’s a mental wince to reading one of their headlines, where in my head I go ”...oh, god. Man, I know what you’re trying to say, but couldn’t you… I dunno, say it nicely? in a less inflammatory way, or something?” And I often find that these people are actually quite kind/nice IRL — but you read their Twitter, or something, and you think ”...oh man, these are some pretty wild takes.”
I’m not too sure how to act in these scenarios/how to react to these types of people. Still, the combination of [nice/bright IRL] + [high respect for Rachel & Austin’s perspective on object-level things] = the Collins’ probably fall into the category of “I really dislike the fact that they use clickbaity, inflammatory titles to farm engagement, but they (probably) have high-quality object-level takes and I know that they’re reasonable people IRL.”
I appreciate your bringing to attention their YouTube channel, which I hadn’t seen before. I’m not heartened by the titles, though I haven’t reviewed the content.
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Again — thanks for your comments. I’m going to continue copying the note below in this and following comments, both for you & for posterity.
(To Ben & anyone else who’s reading this: I’d be happy to hop on a call with anyone who’d like to talk more about any of the decisions we’ve made, take notes on/recording of the call, then post the notes/recording publicly here. https://savvycal.com/saulmunn/manifest )