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Epstein Files - Update on What's Now Out There

Jeffrey Epstein Everything has mutated into an obsession . For those eager to keep up-to-date on what has now been released, including today, The Wall Street Journal has done a profound service. Here are the two key links.  This one from the WSJ guides you categorically and comprehensively to what's currently out there.   In case much of what has been out there is old hat to you, the WSJ provides a link to what is new today. Since there was only a partial release of what we hadn't previously had access to, more will come. But already the document dump has probably deposited reputational coal in the stockings of some high-profile players. Photos can be especially damaging. As an intuitive coach/tarot reader I warn clients not only about what company they keep but also where they keep it. Thrown off your game, maybe the first time since you started working? You made all the right moves and then the world moved in another direction. Intuitive Coaching. Special expertise with tran...
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Status Setback: You're Not Among Marquee Names in Epstein Files (like Noam Chomsky)

 The late Jeffrey Epstein was a collector of people. That represented a separate category in what he was up to. They didn't have to represent a means to increase Epstein's wealth. Instead, they were given access if they had unique expertise and reach. Then they could be placed as one of those marquee names in his files. Genius in linguistics and well-connected in politics Noam Chomsky  was selected for the collection. The relationship essentially was intellectual.   The reality of Chomsky's name popping up in the recent release of the Epstein files - yes, there  was a major dump today - enhances his reputation. Not hurt it as it had, for example, source of wealth for Epstein: Apollo co-founder Leon Black. That reputational blow had been so severe that his long-term law firm Paul, Weiss made it public in a 2022 BusinessInsider interview that it no longer represented Black. Unlike Black, it could have added to your brand equity if the world discovered in today's p...
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BoomerVille: Nice Start to Weekend Before Christmas

  Dow Jones Industrial Average Index Index: DJI Compare 48,163.04 USD ▲  +211.19 (+0.44%) today
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OBSESSION! Some of Those Associated with Jeffrey Epstein Will Never Fully Regain Their Reputations

  Larry Summers Les Wexner Leon Black  Now the odds are that they and a number of others closely associated with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein will never fully escape reputational tainting. What has happened is this: The interest in Epstein has crossed the line from entertainment to total obsession. Otherwise, The New York Times, focused on attracting and keeping eyeballs, wouldn't have dared publish today a very long-form very detailed chronicle of Epstein's rise to enormous wealth, power and influence.  Here is that amazing NYT analysis. In it appear the names of the above three. And, going forward it's predictable every article about them and their obituary will note that Epstein linkage. Meanwhile any progress they had made in clawing their way back to positive brand equity probably will now go poof.  For a bit, Black, for example, was enjoying jaw-jawing with media such as Puck, giving snippets of what Epstein was like. They were eating it up. But it's li...
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BoomerVille: Things Stay Okay

  Dow Jones Industrial Average Index Index: DJI Compare 48,599.54 USD ▲  +141.49 (+0.29%) today December 15, 9:45 AM EST  ·  Market Open
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"All in the Family" 2025: Knowledge Workers as the New Archie Bunkers

Rob Reiner's tragic death has returned some of us to reflecting on that breakthrough 1971 - 1979 sitcom "All in the Family."  Brilliantly it captured the struggle of an uneducated blue-collar guy Archie Bunker who couldn't get a handle on a rapidly changing world. The counterpoint to his plight had been his educated son-in-law Meathead, portrayed by Reiner. Of course, there was plenty of conflict between the two generations. The pathos was that Bunker was a decent man.  That same emotional dynamic has taken off as we encounter knowledge workers in the same sort of pickle that made Bunker a closed system. Although they are losing their jobs now and too many of those jobs probably won't come back they either cannot or refuse to understand that the world is changing. And they have to change with it. Usually that shift entails ditching the mindset that the investment in higher education will be rewarded and the need to start over training for a skill that's marke...
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Extreme Success & The Right Mentors - Lackluster Performance Might Be Due to Wrong Mentors

 J P Morgan recently poached Berkshire Hathway's Todd Combs for a major role. A factor that drove that decision, Yahoo Finance notes, is that Cobbs had as a mentor Warren Buffett. Mentors have been central in extreme professional success.  Classic is the rapid rise of Brad S. Karp at law firm Paul, Wiess. At age 48 he was voted in by the partners as chair in 2008. Despite the turmoil in the sector, Karp has held on to the job. Among his mentors had been Simon H. Rifkind, Arthur Liman and Ted Sorensen.  And iconic actor Marlon Brando wasn't self-made. Who helped shape that talent were Stela Adler and Elia Kazan.  But, falling under the influence of the wrong mentors can limit a career. I know. Probably I could have gone further in my first career path - academia - had I aligned myself with a leader with more juice. Not only did I receive unhelpful guidance on the choice of research subjects. In addition, that figure was losing power, which likely threw shade on my o...
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