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They Did Everything Right, But No One Hired Them (Pt.1)

July 02, 2026

The Career Ladder Was Invented in 1911 — And It's Being Dismantled While You're Still Climbing It41.5% of recent U.S. college graduates are underemployed. In China, 97,000 new PhDs are competing for jobs that don't exist — some applying to be rural clerks or hotel kitchen interns. These are the people who did everything right. So what do we actually owe them?This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation almost nobody is having honestly. Most takes on the death of the career ladder collapse two se...

What The Weeknd's Visual Artist Knows About Taste That You Don't: YZA Voku On Finding Your Vision

June 26, 2026

YZA Voku is a Seville-born, Madrid-based visual artist and director whose clients read like a who's-who of music and culture: The Weeknd, Swedish House Mafia, La Liga, XG, The Sphere in Vegas, and more. His award-winning AI film Lapse won Best Craft at Gen:48; Pantomime was a finalist. But this conversation isn't really about AI.It's about the difference between generating and creating — between outputs that get scrolled past and worlds people want to live inside. I reached out to YZA and ask...

$147 Million for a Painting… Doug Woodham on Why Nobody Bought Basquiat (Until Everyone Did)

June 18, 2026

What if the most iconic outsider in modern art was never really an outsider at all?Doug Woodham holds a PhD in economics from the University of Michigan, spent years as a partner at McKinsey, and served as President of the Americas at Christie's auction house — where he once watched $147 million change hands for a single Francis Bacon painting. But his latest book isn't about the market. It's about a person.Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Making of an Icon is the first major Basquiat biography in o...