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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Tweeter

Fresh Fusion Episode 71

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Jared returns with a brilliant solution to the woes of maintaining a deep podcast content pipeline: read tweets! 😅

So contained herein is the riveting, rousing, and really rad reading of Jared’s Top 7 Tweets of July. Or something like that. From Bosch to LG 4K, remote work to news feed readers, there’s a little something for everyone. Enjoy!

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A weekly show where we discuss the business, the art, the ethics of content creation on the open web. Hosted by Jared White.

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