10. “Private equity and consultants that are paid to tell you to just lay off workers.” —RiverParty442 “Funily enough, private equity and private credit are in trouble now, and they are cheesing their numbers so hard that it’s borderline fraud. Turns out you can only do the buy extract profits load with debts sell cycle on companies so much before they go under…

During the last 22 years, the number of people who’ve said to me, “But you HAD to know he was gay, right?” exceeds a hundred by a good bit.  And yes, there are some stereotypically ironic elements of the depth of my not-knowing, which I usually do my best to lean into when telling this tale, often as a way of inviting people to laugh with…