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# This Week - Nov 14, 2014
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/this-week-2014-11-14/
- Published: 2014-11-14T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T03:10:08.000Z
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: link, coyote tracks, emilie friedlander, fader, gamergate, sean woolsey, the fader, this week, watts martin, #import-blog-backlog-2026-09-13

> When you learn to construct stories, you realize everyone is the hero of their own tale. No one sees themselves as the bad guy.  
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> — [Fighting to make games worse (Watts Martin for Coyote Tracks)](http://tracks.ranea.org/post/101309164723/fighting-to-make-games-worse?ref=drewshannon.net)

> She’s on the sort of reckless quest for self-improvement and personal advancement that can lead as easily to fad dieting and pole dancing as it can excessive partying and plastic surgery, and the effect 'reads' like a pictorial lesson in internet era identity construction. There’s an easy parallel to be made between the art of micromanaging the details of one’s own online image and micromanaging those of one’s own body, and Ulman’s project lifts the magnifying glass on both, with an emphasis on her own laborious construction of a kind of bland, conventional, feminine beauty.  
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> — [Social Anxiety: Why Artist Amalia Ulman’s Fake "Middlebrow" Instagram Is No Different From Yours (Emilie Friedlander for The Fader)](http://www.thefader.com/2014/11/07/social-anxiety-why-amalia-ulmans-middlebrow-instagram-feed-is-no-different-from-yours?ref=drewshannon.net)

> Over time, though, in a competitive market, the quest for the bottom leads to brutality. The brutality of harming your suppliers, the brutality of compromising your morals and your mission. Someone else is always willing to go a penny lower than you are, and to compete, your choices get ever more limited. The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win. Even worse, you might come in second.  
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> — [This is not the cheapest but it is worth it. (Sean Woolsey)](http://www.seanwoolsey.com/blog/2014/10/4/the-tyranny-of-lowest-price-seth-godin?ref=drewshannon.net)