Archive for the 'The Media' Category


Chaos Monkeys Update

I’m finished. I’d like to tell you it’s an easy satisfying read but the truth is despite the book being billed as a Facebook expose, the first half, when Antonio Garcia Martinez is delineating his travails in a startup, is much more interesting than the details of his tenure at the social network thereafter. And […]

Roger Ailes

And sooner or later Everybody’s kingdom must end And I’m so afraid your courtiers Cannot be called best friends “The King Must Die” Elton John Roger harassed Megyn. He’s soon to be gone. Sources: Megyn Kelly Told Murdoch Investigators That Roger Ailes Sexually Harassed Her This is what happens when you think you’re bigger than […]

Bill Simmons/The Ringer

There’s no buzz. How long until HBO cancels Bill Simmons? It’s gonna happen, hell, the new regime scrapped the second season of “Vinyl” after the show had already been picked up. You see the ratings sucked. And TV lives by statistics, they trump friends every time. Sure, it’s great to be in business with Mick […]

Chaos Monkeys

“Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley” Maybe we should all read this together. I’m serious. You’ve got a smartphone, probably a tablet too. The Kindle app is free, you go to Amazon (Amazon won’t let you buy the book through the iPhone or iPad app, it doesn’t want to cough up […]