Si Carpenter
@sicarpenter.com
“My whole life is thunder”
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📍 Durham, NC
👨🏼💻🏳️🌈🐈🩵
📍 Durham, NC
Reposted by Si Carpenter
Reposted by Si Carpenter
as foretold by the prophesy
![Managing requires certain kinds of soft skills, ones I am not confident you possess. They weren’t necessary in your cushy Wall Street Journal op-ed job, or your cushier New York Times op-ed job. They were barely required at the publication you invented, The Free Press. So now you’re the head honcho at CBS News. [highlighted text] Let’s say you decide to skip levels to directly edit a 60 Minutes story. It doesn’t even have to be a controversial story to make all hell break loose — because you have neither the credibility nor the relationships required to take this kind of work on. And what’s more, you’ve got a news division composed exclusively of ambitious piranhas below you — not your handpicked cronies, like Tyler “I wish to see Hollywood virgins” Cowen. These people have decades in television, and you have a newsletter and a history of throwing your colleagues under the bus. [end of highlight]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j3tpb4iabrq3ukfaui6eymwf/bafkreiblgfxjkl4p7yos56wttujnqclubnwegqcdc7g74pdovoe24kzonu@jpeg)
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
as foretold by the prophesy