saw a professional writer say online that he can’t remember the last time he read an entire book, felt compelled to bleach my brain with the best book ever written. (you have to read books in order to write well!!!!!!)

What a thrill to get such a generous (double) shoutout from @tommytomlinson.bsky.social, who taught me so much about great narrative writing. If you’ve never read his profile of Rev. William Barber II, fix that. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

A lot of people have seized on how much work it took to find my four BAD COMPANY protagonists, so it was fun to talk to @niemanstoryboard.org about it. imo narrative work absolutely requires putting in the effort/time to find the right characters. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/19/m...

My Friday @niemanstoryboard.org newsletter: @greenwell.bsky.social on finding your book's main characters + @mdbell79.bsky.social on dialogue, @skyepillsbury.com talks to @kalilaholt.bsky.social about "Heavyweight"'s return. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/19/f... #booksky #longreads #podcasts

This @niemanstoryboard.org interview/annotation was one of the most fun I've done. The Q&A is mostly nuts and bolts about how I actually wrote a book, while the annotation is for the craft nerds. 🤩 I think there's a lot in here for aspiring narrative nonfiction writers!

Jessica’s book is genuinely brilliant, and everyone should read it. I think about it all the time. I also admire her transparency about the brutality of the publishing industry in this thread; we should all talk more about it! The relationship between book quality and sales is often nonexistent.

Extremely excited that BAD COMPANY made the shortlist for SABEW’s book prize!

If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.

lady WHAT are you on about. surely this will go over great with the students at the women’s college she runs…

LISTEN to this - and buy @greenwell.bsky.social 's extraordinary book.

I got to go on the best podcast Death Sex and Money! Anna Sale asks the most insightful questions.

Finished @greenwell.bsky.social 's Bad Company last night and I just really appreciated how the book is framed around four lives and how Greenwell genuinely invested in those lives beyond the story about private equity she wanted to tell

A good explanation of the crazy-making fact that most of the American economy doesn't actually involve making or selling anything any more. Strong recommendation for "Bad Company". I just read "Barbarians at the Gate" a few months ago, and this is a worthy companion. Thanks @greenwell.bsky.social

I like this platform more than most (low bar) but goddamn the sports scene is WOEFUL. Stewie goes down in OT and I have to look at X to see any freakout???

Shay's 2025 faves (so far)! 🙌 MONK & ROBOT, by Becky Chambers RUNNING CLOSE TO THE WIND, by @alexandrarowland.bsky.social THE INCANDESCENT, by @emilytesh.net BAD COMPANY, by @greenwell.bsky.social IT RHYMES WITH TAKEI, by @georgetakei.bsky.social Steven Scott, Harmony Becker, and Justin Eisinger

I really need to stop reading @greenwell.bsky.social 's book Bad Company about PE firms at bedtime bc I keep getting too mad to sleep. I was laid off from a company Apollo is squeezing to death, Cengage Group, and it's infuriating to hear how common that experience is. Good book tho

On a flight next to a AI ed tech founder who’s copying and pasting ChatGPT answers to questions like “what does your company do?” and “what keeps you up at night?” and just asked it to write an email to a potential investor “in a red-pill tone,” so if I die of a stroke on this flight you know why!

If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.

Tess Crowley’s Deseret News photos of the scene at Utah Valley College after the Charlie Kirk shooting are INCREDIBLE. www.deseret.com/utah/2025/09...

Private capital’s reach is everywhere—from housing to retail to healthcare. TOMORROW: ESP’s @nataliefoster.bsky.social will moderate a conversation with @techequity.us Founder + CEO Catherine Bracy and journalist @greenwell.bsky.social on what this means for our economy. 🔗 ow.ly/LK0w50WKnq1

Just picked this up at my local library after waiting my turn for months in the hold line. Can't wait to read it @greenwell.bsky.social

Bay Area folks! I’m so excited about this event on Tuesday with the great @nataliefoster.bsky.social @catherinebracy.com @economicsecurityproject.org @techequity.us. Please come hang if you’re free; it’s gonna be great. techequity.us/event/the-ri...

having worked with her AND covered her antics at the college newspaper, can confirm.

Ashanty is my student, and this is her first-ever professional assignment! She’s a ridiculously smart thinker and writer — read her on AI in school instead of all the adults pontificating. 🤗

Excited to join @catherinebracy.com and @greenwell.bsky.social at Manny's in SF on Sept 9 for an important conversation on how venture capital and private equity are shaping our economy. I’ll be moderating - hope you’ll join us! 👉 ow.ly/LK0w50WKnq1

On September 9 at 6:30 pm PT in SF, authors @greenwell.bsky.social and @catherinebracy.com are speaking live in SF about their respective books on private capital and how private equity and venture capital already affect the lives of everyday people. techequity.us/event/the-ri...

Bad Company by @greenwell.bsky.social is stellar. I feel like it’s mandatory reading for…no, I can’t think of a qualifier. Just read it. You’ll be pissed, but righteously so, and maybe you’ll take action. And if I learned anything by reading it, that’s what we all need as we go vs. private equity

This was the best thing I read all week. Easy to get caught up in the latest outrage, but the big story of 21st century is found here: "The market, and increasingly the culture, is dominated by the affluent." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

Kiddo 2 is learning about how the world works (and why dad has been unhappy with his job since kiddo 1 was born) @greenwell.bsky.social

Highly recommend "Bad Company" by @greenwell.bsky.social. I just started and am learning a lot. It's actually a good read written my someone who isn't an academic so her goal is having people understand things rather than impressing people.

Now listening to Bad Company by @greenwell.bsky.social

this book is 200-some pages of yelling "how the fuck is any of this legal"

it can't be emphasized enough: read @greenwell.bsky.social's BAD COMPANY

Taylor says buy BAD COMPANY (ty The Fake Rothko) bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

I wonder if any university admins have thought even a little bit about what it looks like to unleash LLM chatbots—as a university-purchased, -promoted, and -legitimized “educational” enterprise technology— on a student population in the grips of a well-documented college mental health crisis

Long before she joined the Fed, Lisa Cook stood out in a field dominated by white men. She talked about how her experience with racism informed her approach to economics. Now, she is Trump’s latest target in his effort to exert more control over the central bank. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b...

Sat next to a first date at a restaurant bar in D.C. the other night and overheard one person “casually” drop their Bluesky follower count into conversation. I just want you to know if you do this on a date you deserve never to get laid again.

BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi. This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org. We ditched X for BlueSky early this year. And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof. I don't know what we'll do next. Keep up with us using our newsletter at mfp.ms/subscribe.

oh my god it is so insane to publish a blog by “The White House” titled “President Trump is Right.” gonna create a page on my personal website listing all my best takes, signed “The Management.”

At a time when millions are being spent on new online journals of ideas, I keep thinking about a point made in @greenwell.bsky.social's "Bad Company", about how relatively cheap good local nonprofit journalism can be, with her prime example being the Athens County (OH) Independent's budget of $139K.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Been listening to Bad Company by @greenwell.bsky.social and it is amazing! You cannot understand America today without understanding the nature of private equity and her book on how it too often goes wrong is excellent. Gift link to review: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...

NEW FREE HELL! @greenwell.bsky.social on her new book, "Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream" (@harpercollins.bsky.social) Megan experienced the impact of private equity at Deadspin. If you like, please consider becoming a paying member. www.patreon.com/posts/new-ep...

Who among us *hasn’t* done a little corruption from time to time? He’s a mere mortal, guys, be reasonable.

I finished @greenwell.bsky.social’s amazing book on private equity, Bad Company (on audiobook! from my public library!), and came away with both a reinforced hatred of private equity and a renewed faith in human-centric solutions and solidarity to get us through.

greatest city in the world baybee

Chat, is it a good thing that the Big Beautiful Bill has gotten private equity interested in buying up student loan debt?? www.wsj.com/articles/pri...

There is a LOT of filming going on and reporting out where feds and ICE are in DC. I know everyone means to be helpful when sharing that information, so I encourage everyone to get up to speed on the SALUTE method, which allows us to share info that is precise and doesn’t sow more fear.