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Danny Groner

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Director of Growth PR, Forecast Labs, an investment group. We help you grow your consumer-facing business more affordably. I write about careers, community, and care in my newsletter. You can subscribe to it here: http://dannygroner.substack.com.

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · Jun 25

An essay I worked hard on was published today. I hope you read it. memoirland.substack.com/p/buckeye-an...

Buckeye and Me

Danny Groner has feelings…about the death of his therapist’s dog.

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 19h

Book clubs with women are vastly superior in both execution and in sustainability in comparison to book clubs with any men at all besides for yourself.

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 19h

Loved this message I received today.

Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 20h

"The truth is, the craft beer boom got ahead of itself — bloated on branding, locked in an arms race of hops, and distracted by its own cleverness. Breweries expanded too fast and chased trends too hard, trying to be everything but beer."

David J. Lynch @davidjlynch.bsky.social · 20h

How to Save Beer www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

Opinion | How to Save Beer

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 20h

This is a great article because the “common item from 2007” is a never opened iPhone 1 in sealed packaging — something people definitely have lying around a junk drawer nypost.com/2025/10/11/l...

Check your junk drawer — this common item from 2007 could soon be worth $50,000: expert

Old gadget, new money.

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 20h

The First Cut Is The Deepest

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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 21h

"Jess Spengler, who has specialised in texts linked to the Holocaust, says fixing AI-generated translations often takes more time and energy than doing the work from scratch."
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‘They wanted me to make myself obsolete’: translators find themselves at the sharp end of AI

One linguist on the challenges of working in an industry most at risk from automation

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 20h

At some point, I'd love to understand why Google broke its Search business. Because my leading contender for a reason is that despite all repeated assurances that they were in control of those pesky SEO consultants, the SEO consultants were ever two steps ahead. The only explanation that adds up.

Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 22h

Why is the Bananas guy keynoting this conference?

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 22h

The Trump admin is fully powered by the attention economy. A universe of dumbasess talking to other dumbasess, built on the assumption our tastes have grown so rotten and atrophied that we can't even remember a world where we weren't inundated by worthless slop.
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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 22h

A candidate disappeared months ago after an ocean swim. Can he still win?
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A candidate disappeared months ago after an ocean swim. Can he still win?

A local candidate in the suburbs of New York City will remain on the November ballot, despite vanishing months ago after a night swim in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 23h

"People on social media brandish gold-flecked pans and nuggets while showing off their equipment, ranging from old-fashioned picks to gold-separating sluice boxes. Others trade tips and pore over maps, determined to figure out which areas could still hide metallic riches."

I’m Out of the Office. I’m Digging for Gold.

Record prices have amateur prospectors buying picks and ‘pay dirt’ buckets and dreaming of stumbling on the motherlode

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 23h

"Conditions have improved since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when Ballad lost nearly half of its bedside nurses. Still, it had to pay $70 million in the last fiscal year to bring in traveling nurses—who are costlier than those on staff—even after hiking pay and benefits."

To Find Workers, Hospitals Are Training Teenagers

Health systems from Tennessee to Texas are partnering with local districts to create employee pipelines.

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 23h

"Every evening, we gather in the living room and decide, together, on a show to watch. We eat toast or ice cream or potato chips, and occasionally I make pancakes. Sometimes I roll out my yoga mat and do a little stretching, although mostly I just lie on it with the dog."

Opinion | Why I Had to Kill Family Dinner

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 23h

I gotta say, while it may be a matter of the old finding willing buyers at fair market prices, Taylor Swift does not leave so much as a penny on the table, just complete monetization.

Taylor Swift Sets Modern Day Sales Record With 34 'The Life Of A Showgirl' Variants

Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl is doing numbers. Upon its arrival last Friday, the pop star’s 12th proper studio album quickly broke the one-day vinyl sales record, and broke the record previou...

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 23h

Great interview.
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20VC: Atlassian CEO on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble | Do Margins Matter & Does Defensibility Exist in an AI World | Is Per Seat Pricing Dead & The Future of Vibe Coding with M...

Podcast Episode · The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 10/13/2025 · 1h 3m

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 1d

AI Startups Have a New (Old) Secret Weapon: Forward Deployed Engineers
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AI Startups Have a New (Old) Secret Weapon: Forward Deployed Engineers

What’s old is new again in Silicon Valley. Startups fighting for an edge in the AI race have resurrected a strategy that emerged before the dot-com era and was later embraced by analytics company Pala...

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 1d

"Chipmaking operations can similarly be a boon for the communities around them, Tucker added, bringing high-paying engineering jobs and training pipelines. But they are generally not as labor intensive as the assembly lines of the 20th century were, he said." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Two industries were supposed to drive America’s future. One is booming, the other slumping.

The outcome of these trends has huge implications for workers, wealth and the future of America’s economy.

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 1d

What It Will Take for Consumers to Let AI Shop For Them
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What It Will Take for Consumers to Let AI Shop For Them

A new class of AI-powered shopping platforms are launching agents that can shop on consumers’ behalf. But they’ll have to compete with big tech players in the race to get the average consumer to use t...

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 1d

"Waiting until the last minute to hire workers could mean a mad scramble to find talent, but companies say that due to the slowing economy, they don’t anticipate having a hard time finding the needed pool." apnews.com/article/holi...

Uncertainty over the economy and tariffs forces many retailers to be cautious on holiday hiring

Rising tariff costs and other economic factors are forcing retailers to pull back or even delay their plans to hire seasonal workers.

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 1d

"Another furloughed worker answered the phone last week asking to call back later—she was in the middle of driving for Lyft. An Energy Department employee who left through the deferred-resignation offer has been picking up shifts at the front desk of a gym in exchange for discounted membership fees"

Furloughed Federal Workers Turn to Side Hustles to Survive Shutdown

Gig jobs for Lyft and others are helping employees across the government stay afloat until their paychecks resume.

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 1d

This coming weekend in my newsletter I'll write about two memoirs. You can subscribe here: dannygroner.substack.com.

Next. Up. | Danny Groner | Substack

This is Next. Up., a newsletter that covers consistently one or more of these critical topics: Careers, Community, and Care. We hope you'll join the discussion. Click to read "Next. Up.", by Danny Gro...

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 1d

It's cool that this series features all four kinds of mustache a white guy can have. From left to right: gravel cyclist, cop, Field Marshal Haig, Bruno Kirby

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Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw a car ad that tried to sell being stuck in traffic as quality family time. I’ve never felt more sure that we’re near the collapse of car culture.

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 1d

"Since the pandemic, buyers on auto-dealer lots have encountered surging sticker prices and smaller incentives from automakers to lessen the blow. To afford an automobile, more consumers, especially lower-income families, have resorted to buying used cars and taking out longer loans."

Americans Are Falling Behind on Their Car Payments

Delinquency rates on subprime auto loans are at records.

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 1d

This is really excellent feednack for them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MskE...

8 Slices of Bread for $12?! | Shark Tank US | Shark Tank Global

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