Overview When the Wall Street Journal runs a feature on Larry Ellison’s wealth, complete with a precise dollar figure and a chart…
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Billionaire Fad-Hopping: A Dossier on the Originality Myth
Overview The popular mythology of the billionaire visionary, the lone genius whose restless mind leaps from industry to industry, dragging…
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Delusional Wishing of Billionaires Sure Is Real News, New York Times!
Apparently one of the things the rich and powerful want now is eternal life. Not better public health, not better…
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Hello? Is this thing on?
Hello? Hello? Is this thing on? CBS is slashing 6% of its staff, shuttering a century‑old radio news service, and…
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When Stupid Leaders Push For War
War is the greatest of misdirections. It is propaganda theatre. When a leader is screwing up, war is the biggest…
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Billionaires buy stupid things because they buy their own hype first.
Billionaires buy a lot of stupid things, but the dumbest thing they buy is their own hype. Narcissism blinds. They…
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When an Oracle doesn’t see the future
The Ellisons have more luck than brains. That is the hallmark of most Western billionaires. Modern culture does not reward…
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The Bari Weiss–CBS Disaster: A Media Industry Post-Mortem
A data-driven analysis for media industry professionals Executive Summary The appointment of Bari Weiss as Editor-in-Chief of CBS News was…
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The Bari Weiss Experiment Was Never About Journalism
Bari Weiss at CBS was sold as a daring editorial pivot, but it was never about journalism. It was about…
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Bari Weiss’s Slide into Oblivion Continues
Pandering to an aging, vocal minority who already have their own safe space was always a stupid idea. Bari Weiss…