Dead Cat with Taylor Lorenz

Eric Newcomer1h 2min

Eric Newcomer

00:05

Welcome

Eric Newcomer

00:13

Hey, everybody, it's Eric newcomer here with Tom do Tom and we've got guests we've been trying to get on the show for a while. Taylor Lorenz is here she has a new one of her stories where she smartly put has a word that maybe like 1% of the population knows and then blasted out to the readers of the mainstream media. Now, her latest is nem cell famous for propagating Chu ghee before and I'll let her

Eric Newcomer

00:48

tell us the backstory on the story in a second. I also have to say, Taylor is like I've experienced I've seen other people say this on Twitter, but is genuinely amazing. It seemed new, cool things take off the ground. I feel like as soon as I announced my substack, she was in my DMs like excited about it, like, give me audience which I can see sort of having experienced it firsthand how important it is to create or when somebody like especially sort of a kingmaker, you know, creator reporter says, Oh, this is interesting. I'm gonna follow this from the beginning. So before we get into nimsoft, all that, like, what is your strategy? And don't talk about me? Because I was too complimentary of myself, but how do you how do you sort of like, eyeball things on the come up? Or what's your sort of? Are you just like, talking to everybody? Or like, what's your strategy for watching this?

Taylor Lorenz

01:38

Yeah, I just kind of like consume as much as possible. And I just kind of spend all day absorbing content, finding new people, I love to go down rabbit holes, and kind of finding, you know, interesting new people to talk to, and in all different types of sort of tech industries and content creators. I'm a big supporter of independent media and believer in independent media. So I, you know, I, anytime I see, like a new content creator, enter the news space, that's really exciting for me. You know, I think if I had started later, in my career, I probably would have gotten that route myself. And maybe we'll do it one day, but it's so hard, I don't know, I'm gonna it's kind of nice to have, you know, health care.

Eric Newcomer

02:18

I will everybody in substack World Wonders, like, on some level, you're the natural, you know, independent.

Taylor Lorenz

02:24

I know, he was trying to get me to do that. I might, on top of that, sometimes what I really, I mean, my whole like, shtick is just trying to get the mainstream audience to care. And to kind of understand the world, the way that I feel like I see it online every day. And so I kind of, you know, I like writing for more, you know, Boomer,

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