Archive for 2020/08


Today’s America

The only person with universal mindshare is Donald Trump. However, as he tweets incessantly and lets Covid-19 run rampant some have tuned him out. But just as he’s sliding, he makes news with his statements re the Postal Service. If you’re not making news, you’re not top of mind, you might as well not exist. […]

Today’s Music Business

Stars are smaller than ever before. You might be number one on Spotify, you might generate a lot of ink in traditional media, but tons of people still might not know your name and those who do often only know your single, your album is for hard core fans. There is no unity. You are […]

Maria Konnikova-This Week’s Podcast

Maria Konnikova is the author of the new bestseller “The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win.” A Ph.D. psychologist/staff writer at “The New Yorker,” Konnikova decides to tackle poker, a game she doesn’t even know how to play, because it’s a metaphor for life and she wants to investigate […]

Kamala Harris

I don’t get it. She excoriates Biden in the debates and suddenly he picks her as his running mate? This is why people hate the Democrats. They’re squishy, without a backbone, so busy doing what’s expedient, triangulating, that you can’t believe in them so they lose. It’s about passion more than dogma. One thing about […]