Welcome to No Lip Service

Let's get this show on the road.

Hello everyone! To those that don’t know me, my name is Samuel Lipson. I’m a human resources professional, leftist political volunteer, Supreme Court buff, anime and manga fan, and PC gamer who has way too much free time, something I’ve been putting recently into a master’s degree in analytics at Georgia Tech. If you’re coming from Electoralism Twitter or Substack, you might have heard me as the voice behind Ettingermentum News, which you should go subscribe to if you haven’t already. Many people on there have told me they’d be interested in me starting a Substack newsletter of my own, but I never really had the desire to increase my social media footprint, and I still can’t say that I do, but I also had what I think was a very good newsletter name that was going perfectly unused, so here we are.

Now, that hardly would be enough for a newsletter, especially without a schedule, so let me bring in the real star of the show - my father, Andrew Lipson. Andrew is a recently-retired management professional with over 30 years of experience in the hospitality industry. Back when I was growing up in Fayetteville, my dad was an adjunct lecturer at the University of Arkansas, where his capstone course on hospitality management was well-liked (if you don’t believe me, check out his Rate My Professor page). I have since spent the past 4 years and change begging him to come back to teaching and mentorship in some way, and this newsletter will be our little project together to that end. But enough from me - I’ll let him take over talking about himself here.

Thanks Sam, I’m hardly a star, but I guess paying Sam for that endorsement was worth it. The idea for this newsletter was born from what I titled the “Sunday Night Tip”. What started out as an email to the team at the University of Arkansas intended to kick start the work week; morphed into an email that grew to over 200 recipients. We look forward to sharing some commonsense thoughts, ideas, and people management skills. Most importantly, we want to spark you to think about things a little bit differently and have open dialogue with your teams. Those of you who know me know that I love quotes, I’ll close with this. “When managers stop listening, people stop speaking up.”

Sam again - before we get started, a quick housekeeping item regarding paid subscriptions: As of right now, there are no plans to paywall the Substack chat. We plan on releasing the first several articles for free, and we may or may not paywall some of them in the future, so please keep that in mind when opting between a paid and free subscription, at least for right now. I’m happy to consider writing articles based on what the community wants, so feel free to drop a comment or a direct message to me.

I think that’s everything. See you Sunday!

-Andrew and Sam

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