Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 03rd/04th February 2024
Inside Anduril’s Comms Strategy 10 Rules for Mission-Driven Founders by Lulu Cheng Meservey
“‘A high profile defense writer not only refused to speak with Palmer but refused to speak with Trae for working with Palmer, then stopped speaking with me for suggesting it at all. Google, citing a violation of their terms around promoting harm, literally canceled the company — cutting off Anduril’s access to Google business solutions, analytics, and even YouTube (for anyone who wondered why the Ghost 4 launch video was on Vimeo). The list goes on …”
Everyone Bill Ackman Is Fighting by Kevin T Dugan
“Since the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, Ackman has embraced a series of causes that has put him in a much bigger spotlight. Ackman, who is Jewish — and who made the Jewish and Asian college experience the subject of his undergraduate thesis — is married to Neri Oxman, a technologist, former MIT professor, and former first lieutenant in the Israeli Air Force. Following the Hamas attacks, he went on the offensive against what he perceived as tolerance of antisemitism and genocidal rhetoric at a number of top American universities, including Harvard. Those battles have earned headlines for weeks ...”
Bill Ackman Is a Brilliant Fictional Character by Kurt Andersen
“‘His monologues struck me in this way just now, I’m sure, because I’m in the middle of writing a novel set in the near future, all of it in first person, with one character an activist trillionaire. Maybe also because I’ve published a novel in the voice of Donald Trump, and once co-wrote an off-Broadway theater piece in which actors performed unintentionally funny transcripts of scenes from real life. And because years ago I had a relevant relationship with one of the main characters in Ackman’”
Why Did No One Say Anything by Konstantin Kisin
“This is despite the fact that the Tavistock Clinic, which administered these puberty blockers, was shut down after the Cass Review raised serious concerns about giving these drugs to children. And despite the fact that most people in both Britain and America do not support puberty blockers, gender reassignment surgery, the inclusion of trans women in women’s sports and so on …”