Ted Gioia

2 weeks ago | honest-broker.com | Ted Gioia

The rules of marketing never change. That’s what they told me in business school. If you could peer inside the meetings at head office, you would see a never-ending loop of Glengarry Glen Ross. Always be closing. Those are the A-B-Cs of business. But that’s not true anymore. In recent days, a new marketing strategy has emerged. I’ve never seen it before. And I wish it would go away. You probably do too. It’s a new way of advertising. It’s a new way of marketing. It’s a new motivational tool.

2 weeks ago | thefp.com | Ted Gioia

If you want to understand the transformation underway in our culture right now, you have to read Ted Gioia. A jazz critic and music historian, he’s one of the sharpest observers of the warp speed changes underway in our culture, from why “entertainment is dead” to how web platforms became “digital internment camps.” And he writes about all this in his excellent Substack, The Honest Broker.

2 weeks ago | open.substack.com | Ted Gioia

If you want to understand the transformation underway in our culture right now, you have to read Ted Gioia. A jazz critic and music historian, he’s one of the sharpest observers of the warp speed changes underway in our culture, from why “entertainment is dead” to how web platforms became “digital internment camps.” And he writes about all this in his excellent Substack, The Honest Broker.

2 weeks ago | honest-broker.com | Ted Gioia

I’m always sad to hear about the passing of a music legend. But the death today of Sly Stone hits especially hard. Like many of his fans, I kept expecting Stone to make a heroic comeback. He had so much talent, so much creativity. With a little bit of grace and luck, he might have risen back to the top. Because that’s where he belonged. But that wasn’t his destiny. Stone lived to the ripe age of 82—a miracle, given the wear and tear on his body and psyche.

2 weeks ago | honest-broker.com | Ted Gioia

Would you believe me if I told you that the biggest news story of our century is happening right now—but is never mentioned in the press? That sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But that is often the case when a bold new worldview appears. How long did it take before the Renaissance got mentioned in the town square? When did newspapers start covering the Enlightenment? Or the collapse in mercantilism? Or the rise of globalism? Or the birth of Christianity or Islam or some other earthshaking creed?