Jason Krech

Book 25/30:

"Little Bosses Everywhere” by Bridget Read
⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½

Really interesting (if chaotic) dive into how pyramid schemes have burrowed into America, as well as their deep ties to the GOP, from Nixon/Ford to Reagan to Trump.

Fascinating and aggravating in equal measure.

"There are 19,000 private equity funds in the US. There are 14,000 McDonald's in the US. How are there more private equity funds than McDonald's? That's actually crazy, right?" KKR & Co. partner Alisa Wood said Wednesday at Bloomberg's Women, Money and Power event in London. "Capital coming back is really important. The mark-to-market paper gains only take you so far."

BAD COMPANY
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

I think the real reason the Big Ten is looking into private equity is because the people who run athletic departments are fucking terrible at managing budgets

Book 24/30:

"Forward Progress” by Bill Connelly
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½

I was always going to read this and I’m glad I did.

Bill is one of the best in the business and provides a precise walk-through of how we got to this */gestures everywhere in college sports* point and what comes next.

the beating heart of MAGA: an alcoholic sex creep reality TV guy who now runs the military whining and sniveling that people don't respect mass murderers enough

Bitch get a job

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Lot of people with money failing the Bitch Detection Test

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

Wooo boy this shit REALLY suck

Taylor Swift’s in-house legal commando squad right now

Book 23/30:

"Golf Architecture for Normal People” by Geoff Shackelford
⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½

Great writing, good premise.

Just a bit too much “here’s what’s wrong with new courses” big-picture snark for my taste, rather than actual “here’s why they do these things” education.

Book 22/30:

"A City on Mars” by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Just a delightful, funny, incredibly-researched book about whether we’ve ACTUALLY thought through everything that living in space entails.

Some VERY deep diving in parts, but right up my alley.

Book 21/30:

"How to Be Perfect” by Michael Schur
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Anybody who knows me knows that it’s wildly embarrassing that I just got around to reading this one.

Obviously hilarious, obviously wholesome, obviously informative. Easy call.

“trillions of dollars can fix this”

If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that all these guys truly respect and care about women’s sports and female athletes, and totally aren’t just using them as a prop to stir up anger at trans people

Andor is the most grown up shit on television in years

Book 20/30:

"Atmosphere” by Taylor Jenkins Reid
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Yeah, that’s right, I read it.

Not my style at all, but she has talent and confidence in spades.

When you’re a romantic writer and you set your romance around space, you write beautifully about space.

Very approved.

Book 19/30:

"Bad Company” by Megan Greenwell
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Outstanding and informative and gripping throughout.

Read this.

You’ll be furious, because of the naked sins of an entire parasitic industry.

But you’ll also be inspired, because they don’t always get to win everything.

Book 18/30:

"The Tiger Slam” by Kevin Cook
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Held back just a bit by some minor writing mishaps, but a really good dive into probably the best 12 months of golf in the history of the sport.

Fun read on one of the more fascinating (good and bad) competitors of my life.

Book 17/30:

"Who is Government?" edited by Michael Lewis
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½

Eight stories by seven writers, each about people doing great work in public service that you never think or hear about.

I loved this one, in this age of stupid people being angry at unpraised excellence.

Book 16/30:

"The AI Con" by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Outstanding book - dragged down a smidge by the occasional dry/repetitive prose, but a necessary read.

You don’t have to believe all this stupid stuff that these people are saying to make themselves rich.

Donald Trump has never been interested in making a single person’s life better or easier if there isn’t something in it for him. Helping someone just for the sake of it is a deal only a sucker makes. His deranged supporters belong in fucking Siberia far away from the rest of us.

openai is just looking for marks and suckers they can siphon money from. the thing doesn’t work and can’t make money, so they’re determined to make it everyone’s problem by selling ai cigarettes to kids and young adults

“Donald Trump is already rich so he can’t be bought” has to be the single dumbest thing millions of Americans believe, even dumber than many other dumb things Americans believe

Had to put on the mascot costume to welcome my friend @jasonkrech.bsky.social to the @americanredcross.bsky.social team. Always great when you can welcome another JMU Duke into the family. #GoDukes

Book 15/30:

"Moral Ambition" by Rutger Bregman
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

If Bregman writes it, I’m going to read it. Pretty simple.

This is his most demanding and angriest (and thus, honestly, his most generic) book yet, but it’s a vital one and maintains his touch of lovely humanity.

Book 14/30:

"Playing Dirty" by Joel Beall
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Joel may be the best golf reporter on the planet, so it’s no shock that nobody tells the story of PGA vs. LIV better.

But his lyrical waxing on Scottish golf certainly heals the soul amidst all the grossness in pro golf today.