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“The Journalist and the Murderer,” by Janet Malcolm
newyorker.com
Krause's isn't a canny operator who roots out waste: he's a guy who tears out all the wiring and then grudgingly restores the minimum needed to keep the machine running (no wonder Musk loves him, this is the Twitter playbook)
Cory Doctorow • Pluralistic: “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets” (07 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
editor-in-chief of a newspaper,
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
When people who don’t love the product get control of a company or even get key positions in a company, trouble often follows. You
Dan Kennedy • No B.S. Ruthless Management of People and Profits: No Holds Barred, Kick Butt, Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Really Getting Rich
The prolific blogger and speaker has a reputation for putting his finger on whatever is broken in the marketing industry. And once he does, he presses it. Hard.
Jay Acunzo • Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work
fixation on the executive
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
While most of the coverage of Musk's wrecking crew has focused on the broccoli-haired Gen Z brownshirts who are wilding through the server rooms at giant, critical government agencies, Tkacik homes in on their boss, Tom Krause, whom she memorably dubs "the Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets" (I told you... See more