As a rule, my presentations are highly interactive and thoroughly fun (also funny, if you’re a Seinfeld fan).

After all, people learn best when they’re being entertained.

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The finale of the TV show The Big C made me cry.😭

Some members of his team grew exasperated as Mr. Trump spoke seemingly more about his new ballroom than the border, golf courses than grocery prices, interior decorations than inflation.

nytimes.com/2026/11/04/us/…

“Even here, in one of the most affluent parts of the country, anger over economic inequality was at a boil.”

nytimes.com/2026/10/14/mag…

Donald Trump just made Susie Wiles Bob Woodward’s best source.

🚨An encyclopedia entry is not supposed to reflect the political preferences of its editors.

It’s supposed to fairly represent serious scholarship on the subject at hand.

quillette.com/2026/10/30/how…

Behind the scenes, the world’s richest person spent a record amount over two years to bend the country’s politics to his will.

He couldn’t.

nytimes.com/2026/11/06/us/…

Some thoughts on the iPhone Duo... (I love it.) spyglass.org/iphone-duo-rev…

It’s almost hard to believe. futurism.com/artificial-int…

Texas Republicans had long assumed that the only threats to their power were from the right, even as the state became a landing pad for transplants and immigrants, its cosmopolitan urban centers ballooning to include 5 of the nation’s 15 largest cities.

nytimes.com/2026/11/05/us/…

“Meta Zero is already here.”

That’s how one audience engagement described the fact that Meta-owned platforms send almost no traffic to media outlets these days.

digiday.com/media/they-hol…

Succession (S01E01)

The way he walks straight into that office and the theme kicks in… you instantly know you're entering a completely different world. What an introduction to a series.

Four Israeli passengers raced unarmed into harm’s way, overpowering the first officer, giving the captain first aid, and making it possible for a second backup pilot to take over and land the plane safely in Saudi Arabia.✈️

nytimes.com/2026/10/02/wor…

Piers’ finest hour. Not interrupting him was the best thing about this video; he basically watched him sink. Glorious ♥️

A clip that will be used in broadcast/interview training classes in the future.

Salon says its publishing model is ‘no longer sustainable.’ theverge.com/news/1028281/s…

An industry peer DMed. She asked if I had time for a quick chat. I said I was free for the next hour.

She didn’t respond.

A week later, she apologized and asked if I was free tomorrow or the next day. I asked her to email me to schedule a time.

I’ll never hear from her again.

Larry Ellison is one of the richest people on the planet, but he might also be one of the most indebted.

wsj.com/business/larry…

A prospective client says:

“I’d love to chat with you about LinkedIn.”

Don’t immediately start dispensing free advice.

Ask: “Do you have a specific project in mind?”

Sometimes “Can we chat?” really means “Can you work for free?”

jonathanrick.com/2021/08/when-s…

“Grok is a knucklehead. It doesn’t know what’s important and what’s not. It is simply mashing together details from many web articles.”

niemanlab.org/2026/11/elon-m…

"Paying thousands of dollars more for fuel every month, Mr. Escalante, 47, could no longer afford the high-interest loans buoying his business, and he reluctantly accepted the last-ditch plan he had long dreaded: Filing for bankruptcy."

nytimes.com/2026/11/03/bus…

Can the tax code possibly get any more complex?

wsj.com/personal-finan…