What I'm listening to right now: Amanda Blank. Here's a song to play when you're not at work. Amanda is a white-girl rapper, darling of the hipsters, and hot-girl candy for the intelligentsia. Right up my alley, right? My favorite line so far is “My rhymes are painful and fresh/My p*ssy's tastin' the best.” Today, Ryan Healy and I were in D.C. for a marathon strategy meeting with a board member. The second half of the meeting was about marketing strategy. The first half of the meeting was about finding a strategy for ending how Ryan and I are at each others' throats over subjects that having nothing to do with the company. When the board member left the room for a minute, we had this conversation: Me: It's so awkward to be left in here with just you. Ryan: It's not awkward. The meeting is going well. Me: Right. It could be more awkward. Like when it was us not talking in the airport

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