No, I Don't Want Ads on My Refrigerator - by Ted Gioia
This month the annoyance economy got much, much worse| www.honest-broker.com
This month the annoyance economy got much, much worse| www.honest-broker.com
And other remarks on teaching yourself great books| www.honest-broker.com
Can you really prepare for it or even understand it? These 10 books are my cherished touchstones on the matter.| www.honest-broker.com
Or in writing or visual arts or any other creative field| The Honest Broker
And their latest move is a "jump the shark" moment that will accelerate the decline| The Honest Broker
And a link to our new YouTube channel| The Honest Broker
And let me introduce our interview host Jared Henderson| The Honest Broker
It’s a familiar tale these days....| www.honest-broker.com
Digital platforms are struggling, meanwhile a 136-year-old book retailer is growing again. But why?| www.honest-broker.com
This deal will finally happen—and for the worst possible reasons| www.honest-broker.com
The tech titans couldn't have built their empires without songs—and now they are destroying the cultural ecosystem that made them rich.| www.honest-broker.com
Insiders worry that Hollywood is the next Detroit—but it's actually much worse than that| www.honest-broker.com
And the tech bros won| www.honest-broker.com
My recent essay on this author got an unexpectedly huge response. But where should readers go next?| The Honest Broker
This author, who committed suicide in 2008, is more timely now than ever before—for the worst possible reasons.| The Honest Broker
Can they really get away with this?| www.honest-broker.com
How a thinker who hated trends & fashions became trendy & fashionable| www.honest-broker.com
Do streaming platforms view famous artists as a threat to their brands?| www.honest-broker.com
It's not just the music biz—legacy media outlets everywhere are playing the same dangerous game. Here's how it will play out.| www.honest-broker.com
They call it the "Greatest Generation"—so why is its art disappearing?| The Honest Broker
New research tells a disturbing story about music discovery| www.honest-broker.com
At the end of his life, Walt designed the most ambitious plan in the history of Hollywood. What happened to it?| The Honest Broker
I celebrate the life and legacy of Hermeto Pascoal, who left us yesterday at age 89| The Honest Broker
Are you tired of listening to the same old tracks, but distrust the playlist gods at Spotify?| www.honest-broker.com
And other absurdities from late stage entertainment culture| www.honest-broker.com
Our problem is in the real world—not the ivory tower—and so is the solution| www.honest-broker.com
I didn't ask for this gig—so why did I ever agree to it?| www.honest-broker.com
I continue my tale of fear and loathing in the journalism trade| www.honest-broker.com
60% of Gen Z wish they could return to a time before everybody was ‘plugged in'| www.honest-broker.com
Something has changed in the last few days.| www.honest-broker.com
And other updates on recent articles| www.honest-broker.com
From Baby Shark to Squid Game, the same strategy is producing huge overseas successes. Can others learn from the Korean model?| www.honest-broker.com
What happens when you can't trust photos, videos, text, or the entire web?| www.honest-broker.com
Below is the first installment of my three-part essay on Hunter Thompson.| www.honest-broker.com
It’s nice to have good news to share from the music industry.| www.honest-broker.com
And other responses to my 'dopamine culture' article| www.honest-broker.com
The people who hate us now love us—should we be worried?| www.honest-broker.com
I share my favorite films on artistry from the 21st century| www.honest-broker.com
10 Perspectives on Joan Didion| www.honest-broker.com
This isn't innovation, it's tyranny| www.honest-broker.com
Here's our reading for months 4-5—get ready for a whirlwind tour!| www.honest-broker.com
Or what happens when vulgar technocrats control the arts| www.honest-broker.com
This has been quite a day at The Honest Broker| www.honest-broker.com
I rarely talk about my workaday life before I settled into music and writing. Those days are far too strange and confusing to convey without writing a whole book about them. And I’ll never write that book because a lot of it I’d rather forget.| www.honest-broker.com
We cover lots of ground at The Honest Broker| www.honest-broker.com
Here's the latest news from the zombie wars| www.honest-broker.com
An update on the war against algorithms and technocratic manipulation| www.honest-broker.com
Here's the final chapter of my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead'| www.honest-broker.com
The current state of media is total anarchy| www.honest-broker.com
A year-long investigation by an indie journalist is a call to action| www.honest-broker.com
Audiences seek out darkness and dysfunction, but why?| www.honest-broker.com
What did I get right? What did I get wrong? And what will happen next?| www.honest-broker.com
Recent revelations from an alleged industry insider paint a disturbing picture| www.honest-broker.com
These works offer a holistic, humanistic critique of technology—and healing alternatives to a device-driven life| www.honest-broker.com
How Nigeria literally went to war against one musician—and lost| www.honest-broker.com
Last week, the IOC reinstated Jim Thorpe's 1912 Olympic gold medals—it's time to do the same with Duke Ellington's 1965 Pulitzer Prize.| www.honest-broker.com
I'm asking a favor—but not for me. I want you to do a favor for the music.| www.honest-broker.com
My survey confirms that consumers are getting angry about new tech (and not just AI)| www.honest-broker.com
I share some private details of how I educated myself through books| www.honest-broker.com
Can you really learn this stuff by just reading 250 pages per week for a year? Let's try and find out.| www.honest-broker.com
Here's how you kill an entire genre| www.honest-broker.com
And why did youth mental health problems accelerate after 2010?| www.honest-broker.com
Here's the latest installment of my book 'Music to Raise the Dead'—currently available only on Substack| www.honest-broker.com
My quest for a healthier relationship with technology| www.honest-broker.com
This gets the top spot on my list of never-made films I'd like to see| www.honest-broker.com
I thought piracy was bad, but I've now seen something much worse| www.honest-broker.com
Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)| www.honest-broker.com
In this extract from my book 'Music to Raise the Dead' I look at how texts replaced songs as sources of wisdom and guidance| www.honest-broker.com
Or why tech upgrades are now mostly downgrades| www.honest-broker.com
And I offer seven radical hypotheses. But can you handle the truth?| www.honest-broker.com
And I can already tell you who will win| www.honest-broker.com
In this section from my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead', I probe the hidden musical origins of Hollywood protagonists| www.honest-broker.com
Does anybody use it? Does anybody talk about it? Does anybody care?| www.honest-broker.com
Mark Zuckerberg is betting his company on a new idea—but this is a wager he will almost certainly regret.| www.honest-broker.com
Should newspapers ask writers to shill for celebrities?| www.honest-broker.com
Or why it's 1800 all over again| www.honest-broker.com
Or how flawed thinking can make $10 billion disappear| www.honest-broker.com
A dozen things that drive my writing, research, thinking & actions| www.honest-broker.com
You think I’m crazy, but just wait and see....| www.honest-broker.com
It's not oil or eggs or toilet paper—but something far more important| www.honest-broker.com
