The Architects of the Rubble

How the Never Trump Brain Trust Built What They're Now Selling You Protection From

This Fucking Guy: Elon Musk

Billionaire Victims Club, Vol. 1. As I drafted this, I was watching SPCX lose $400B in market value. Only about $1.5T more to go to be "right priced" Glorious!

June 27, 2026 - Week in Review

A wrap up of the posts of the week of June 20th, 2026

The Syllabus: A Viewing Guide to Everything We've Been Talking About

You can't go to the grindhouse anymore. But you can watch everything it showed. Here's where to start.

The Billionaire Victims Club, Season Two

A group chat, a tax, and the men who'd like you to know they're the real victims here

Odds 'n Ends

A quick update and status. Also, appreciation of my audience.

The Closed Loop

Series: The Closed Loop, Part 2 — Series Capstone - Bringing it all together

Music: Paul Gilbert - Acoustic

Paul Gilbert is one of my icons. I discovered him in the late 1990s, his work with Mr Big was eye opening, and that got me to look into his band Racer X, and from there, I was hooked. I have as much of his recorded music as I can

The Broken Mirror and the Empty Toolkit

Series: The Closed Loop, Part 1

Bill Ackman Runs Everything Like a Hostile Takeover, Including His Principles

Bill Ackman spent a year positioning himself as the conscience of American academia. Then his wife's dissertation came up. Turns out his standards have a bid-ask spread.

Last Feature, Lights Up: The Death of the Grindhouse and the Afterlife That Nobody Planned

One last post, to document the end of this era, and why it is still relevant. And why I have so much of this physical media in my collection.

June 20, 2026 - Week in review

The roll up of the week of 6/13/2026's posts