TheLongLever

Have you been sued in California for wire tapping, just for using a meta pixel? Thousands of Ecom brands were getting shake down requests for nothing more than a conversion pixel. Every settlement was $10,000-$50,000 bucks, right out of the pocket of small business. I was sued multiple times. As of today, that won’t ever happen again: I thought this was the wrong reading of the law and wanted to do something about it. My internal team worked with the eCommerce alliance. They put time, money, and resources into changing this law. I really didn’t do much. But as a result of their hard work- No one else will be sued for this ever again. The work of the eCommerce alliance, backed by postscript, just saved the entire ecom industry probably 30 million dollars a year. Huge shoutout to Gina from my team for getting this done. Ridge could have just kept paying it. But that’s how these things win. Ecom brands are too fractured, everyone too cheap, everyone being crabs in a bucket. It takes brands and great partners like postscript to work together to make the industry better. I just saved your brand $25,000 bucks. You can thank postscript for that.

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

⚡️Children remember the moments when the family becomes fully alive. That is the core. Vacation is just the common vessel. A child does not encode childhood as a spreadsheet of responsible parenting. They encode atmosphere. They remember the motel pool, the gas station stop, the smell of sunscreen, the weird restaurant, the long drive, the sunset, the parents laughing differently, the feeling that normal life cracked open and something larger appeared. That is why ages 5 to 10 hit so hard. The child is old enough to form durable narrative memory and young enough for the world to remain enchanted. Parents still feel mythic. A beach, cabin, lake, theme park, road trip, or even a cheap rented house can become sacred geography. The real mechanism is interruption of routine plus emotional safety. Ordinary life teaches stability. Trips create myth. The family leaves the repeating loop of school, work, chores, screens, exhaustion, and time pressure. For a few days, the child experiences parents outside their normal roles. Mom and dad are no longer just managers of homework, food, discipline, bedtime, and logistics. They become companions inside an adventure. That imprints. The money matters far less than parents think. Luxury is mostly adult vanity. Children remember intensity, freedom, attention, surprise, and togetherness. A $200 trip can beat a $10,000 trip if the child feels wonder and the parents are emotionally present. Many adults are starved because their childhood had no sacred interruptions. Everything was duty, stress, survival, noise, pressure, or emotional absence. No mythic family scenes. No private homeland in memory. No recurring proof that life could be warm and strange and alive. That matters for the adult psyche. People draw from childhood memories during loneliness, fear, ambition, loss, and love. Those memories become inner architecture. Deepest compression: a good childhood is not built only by protection. It is built by unforgettable shared worlds. Take the kid somewhere. Break the loop. Make the ordinary world disappear for a few days. That becomes part of them forever.