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“Hustle” – Romesh Ranganathan
The Engine Shed, Lincoln Venue link
“Portrait of the Artist as an Office Drone” – Anna Wiener (The New Yorker)
“Private Equity” belongs to a micro-genre that has flourished in the past decade, which might be filed under the category of ambivalent success stories: workplace memoirs in which the author, whether owing to luck or ambition, lands in a demanding, well-compensated, culturally or pragmatically enviable job, and then—gradually finding it soul-deadening, ethically compromising, I.B.S.-inducing, or…
“Irregulars” – A Scammer Darkly
“I do feel for the fans of all the teams that got fucked up gear, because I too suffer from a mutated version of that gene, but it is a load-bearing metaphor for the financialization and commoditization of pro sports by its ghoulish billionaire owners (of which Rubin is one!) that the only team merch…
“Book publishing’s sonic boom” – SHuSH
“Among the new releases on Audible are books read by Edward Herrmann, who you might know from his work in Warren Beatty’s Reds or Oliver Stone’s Nixon or Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator or The Gilmore Girls. Herrmann has been dead for ten years. His family gave tapes of his voice to DeepZen, a London-based AI…
“On Reviewing Books” – Counter Craft
“I mention this because people like to grumble about book reviews being cronyism and favoritism and untrustworthy. That isn’t how they work in my experience. Indeed, book reviews are one of the rare publishing spaces largely free of that. Which is one reason it’s sad that book review sections keep dwindling. Blurbs are often connections,…
“Antitrust enforcers block the JetBlue-Spirit merger” – BIG
“Today, recognizing America is in a monopoly crisis has become conventional wisdom, so much so that this judge, an 82 year-old Ronald Reagan appointee, openly talked about the effects of this concentration problem in a merger opinion blocking a deal between two relatively small airlines. And no one batted an eye. That is a stunning…
“Empty Laughter” – Ed Zitron
“I believe that those most excited about generative AI “letting them write” or “letting them create art” are those who do not understand that what we can create is, much like an artist, limited by the person itself. We are not all capable of doing anything we want, and through experimenting with our own limitations…
“Jamie Dimon’s $4 Trillion Machine” – Gary Sernovitz (Intelligencer)
“One of the strangest things about Dimon’s career is that the man who now leads the world’s largest bank has never really worked for a bank. He helped Weill buy and transform financial-services companies. And then he ran banks. During his years with Weill, there was a clear division of labor: Weill was chutzpah and…
“Why big tech could learn big lessons from the Post Office Horizon scandal” – Alex Sheen, TechScape (Guardian)
“If you still want to track down the point where bad IT became a crisis, then you have to look past the tech altogether. The Post Office declared, as fiat, that Horizon worked. From there, everything that happened after was the logical conclusion. If Horizon works, then the errors must be because of what the…