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--- There's a classic scene in The Godfather where Michael Corleone says: "It's not personal. It's just business." Bullshit. When billions of dollars are on the line and three corporate empires are...
--- Let me tell you a story that sounds like a B-movie script, but it's real. A guy working behind the scenes for the biggest content creator on the planet — MrBeast, for anyone living under a rock —...
--- There's a classic scene in The Lion King — when Simba returns to the destroyed kingdom and realizes that ignoring reality for years comes with a price tag. Panera Bread just lived that scene in...
--- There's a specific type of person in Hollywood you need to know about. He didn't come from nothing. He didn't sleep in his car or eat ramen for years waiting for his shot. He's Larry Ellison's...
Let me walk you through how the playbook works. A tech company announces a measure that, on paper, looks like the bare minimum of civilized responsibility. In Discord's case: age verification to...
--- There's a classic scene in Breaking Bad where Walter White, surrounded by ash and rubble, is still trying to convince everyone he's got the situation under control. I think about that scene every...
There's a classic scene in The Dark Knight where the Joker walks into a room full of gangsters and says: "Why so serious?" That's pretty much how I feel every time a politician steps up to a podium —...
--- There's a classic scene in disaster movies: two characters falling together try to grab onto each other, convinced that'll somehow stop the fall. Spoiler: it doesn't. That's pretty much what it...
--- There's a scene in Breaking Bad where Walter White, already completely lost, keeps cooking meth long after he has more money than he could ever spend. Why? Because the original plan had failed...
--- There's an old rule in the business world that no MBA program teaches you properly: Companies don't cut prices out of kindness. Companies cut prices because they're losing. Remember that. It...