<![CDATA[Stories by Brooks Rocco on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@brooksrocco?source=rss-cf3e3096d0f0------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*gxrCxcznVpe4VdYajF6Ttg.jpeg Stories by Brooks Rocco on Medium https://medium.com/@brooksrocco?source=rss-cf3e3096d0f0------2 Medium Sun, 15 Nov 2026 19:56:09 GMT <![CDATA[It’s not about X, it’s about Why]]>

The AI culture of convenient access to information is drawing us darkly inward. Let’s pause and rewind.

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Systemic abuse by the power elite is no laughing matter, and here's why.

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Otherwise, we’re in for a world of T-Pain

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Other than Yungblud, where was the young blood?

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What Mario Kart World teaches us about justice, inequality, and NYC’s next mayor.

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]]> https://medium.com/@brooksrocco/zohran-mamdani-and-blue-shell-economics-2d41919fa6f9?source=rss-cf3e3096d0f0------2 https://medium.com/p/2d41919fa6f9 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:07:10 GMT 2025-06-30T13:26:09.989Z <![CDATA[When great bands have terrible SEO]]>

Maybe don’t name your band ‘Journey’ if you want to rank on Google?

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]]> https://medium.com/@brooksrocco/when-great-bands-have-terrible-seo-06578a71caca?source=rss-cf3e3096d0f0------2 https://medium.com/p/06578a71caca Sat, 14 Jun 2025 02:52:04 GMT 2025-06-14T03:25:50.348Z <![CDATA[Why everyone you know is picking up the guitar again]]>

From Swifties to software engineers, the guitar is getting people off screens, and into something real

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How Microsoft dominated the early Internet, and plans to do it again

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]]> https://medium.com/@brooksrocco/the-original-browser-war-is-back-13b23943eb3b?source=rss-cf3e3096d0f0------2 https://medium.com/p/13b23943eb3b Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:23:51 GMT 2020-03-04T18:23:51.110Z <![CDATA[Deus Ex Machina and the problem with HBO’s ‘Succession’]]>

‘Succession’ is a great show. Probably the best thing on TV. Your friends probably agree. But something is off.

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]]> https://medium.com/@brooksrocco/deus-ex-machina-and-the-problem-with-hbos-succession-9e5e42d28a1c?source=rss-cf3e3096d0f0------2 https://medium.com/p/9e5e42d28a1c Sun, 22 Sep 2019 14:41:25 GMT 2019-09-22T14:41:25.024Z <![CDATA[Lucy in the Sky, and Dying]]>

“The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life…

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