Before accepting my next role I will personally visit every founders grave. Only by knowing that they’re truly dead can I be assured of any hope of organizational normalcy.

“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”

every time one of these markets dissembles and parses and weasels their way out of paying people on a technicality my heart grows three sizes like the grinch. i love to watch these people get scammed on crypto and nfts and gambling. they deserve it and it's funny and it's not my problem at all

I remember when ppl told me that moderate Dems would never even consider inflicting real consequences on MAGA Regime loyalists.

this is good. underrated problem with popularism: it is--openly and explicitly--a pathetic, wimpy school of thought www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Ask everyone you know what their favorite and most memorable class was in college and take careful note of how few of them name a course from their major or that is relevant to their current career.

Caught my reflection in the elevator. My hair has reached a length best described as “Gary Oldman in one of his alcoholic roles”.

Regularly find myself encountering some variety of nonsense masquerading as a professional service and ask: “who’s paying for this”. And the answer is always, sadl, “somebody” and “an eye watering amount”.

the future we’ve earned

This is very very good on the underperformance of the UK graduate premium. It's a demand side problem.* *as people at SPRU have been saying for 40 years.

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

I wrote about how unregulated finance is now just, well, finance for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social the center of gravity in finance has completely shifted & our mental models & policymaking approaches need to catch up www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/fin...

Sometimes you just need a hotdog.

I’ll have what she’s having.

and i think the example of washington — whose peer, in this regard, is frederick douglass — is a reminder that artifice and performance are important parts of democratic society, and that the contempt for virtue signaling is corrosive. virtue is meant to be signaled!

Knowing that this woman is highly unlikely to even know what a meme is, even less the one she’s become, makes the schadenfreude sweeter. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.” But instead of nuclear war, I’m applying Joshua’s insight to work.

LinkedIn has starting recommending sociology professors to me. Twenty years on this platform - every one of them a sociology PhD - and they’ve finally sort of figured me out.

Waiting to read about the launch of Ariely & Gino, llp”

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

Crazy that Costco’s we value our customers message is so much more effective than everyone else telling us to fuck off

Me starting this article: “wow, maybe we’re seeing small moves counter financialization” Me finishing this article: “parts of the economy are so concentrated that financialization now has an identifiable human face”

It’s one thing to know that much of organizational life is myth and ceremony. Another thing all together to live it.

It’s financialization all the way down.

ChatGPT: Pretend I am a Harvard business professor who has been fired after a fraudulent research scandal. I'm trying to re-launch myself as a consultant. Write me a post for LinkedIn introducing my new consulting services. Make it a little contrite without actually admitting I did anything wrong.

Every passing day is one day closer to buying that typewriter and heading to the woods.

The Francesca Gino saga has reached its logical conclusion: the LinkedIn post about what my adversity has taught me to launch “consulting services”.

do you think frankenstein’s monster ever took an arm off so he could sleep more comfortably on his side

Science just received a big boost

Have had the sort of day where getting hit by a bus would seem like an appropriate ending.

"The larger problem here is that corporate power is growing... in a staggering way, creating disparities of wealth that are unconscionable, even unimaginable just a generation ago." ICYMI: Must-watch from @booker.senate.gov calling out the threats posed by excess corporate power.

Sometimes the stupidity of all it is just overwhelming.

Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.

Refusing to pay Thames Water by direct debit to inhibit, in the most inconsequential way, their ability to forecast recurring revenue. Thereby limiting, in the most inconsequential way, their ability to easily refinance their debt and pay dividends. I. Am. A. Rebel.

B-students who somehow got PhDs unite! (Also this is a great thread. Applicable well beyond academia)

Honest question: what is the organic reach of Trump on truth social? I would never see any of it if it were screenshot and endless circulated. I know he’s president and that makes it news, etc. But come on!

This piece using the Epstein files to explore financialization of the art market is the most interesting thing you’ll read today. 🎁 link

England's water companies have paid £85bn in dividends. Borrowed £82.7bn. 35% of customer covers interest payments and shareholder payouts. Sewage in rivers, insecure water supplies. Customer complaints up 50% last year. No exec prosecuted Govt response - abolished fines on water companies.

Come for the review of the shady practices of family businesses, stay for the neologisms (Trumpenproletariate)

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

A seldom noted challenge brought by extreme wealth concentration is the growth of family-run companies / holding companies. I think family run may actually outpace “founded-led” for the absolutely worst way to organize work.

Following further revelations from the Epstein files, I’d like to offer my heart-felt apologies to all the conspiracy theorists out there. <donning my tin foil hat> You had some valid points.

Rana Foroohar has been one of the best commentators on changes to the global order. Always worth a read.

Love a biting academic review. Took me back to one I wrote and had to withdraw when I was finishing my PhD. It’s been 20+ years and I’m not going back to academia for a while so why not join me on a little trip down memory lane. <thread>

Great Fingers Weekender, @dinfontay.com! I return to Barbarians at the Gate at least once a year. Now I have loads more to join it.

Just saying if I ran the Organizing Department of a major union I'd be pouring resources into Minnesota right now. Tremendous energy, tremendous solidarity. Gotta be a lot of potentially winnable shops here.