jwz quotes a research paper on superfund CEOs. CEOs born on future superfund sites are less risk tolerant and more likely to lead firms to bad results.

Our results suggest firms may systematically mistake luck for skill in promotion decisions

This practice is so rampant, it feels like it’s hardly worth mentioning. I’m glad they’re doing the science on it.

As a community member, I unabashedly love bald jokes. 🧅

MYTH: Baldness is caused by too much testosterone. FACT: Baldness is caused by too little hair.

One of the local Salon’s sandwich board game is on point. 💅

I finally got my watch band replaced. A cat chewed it up while I was asleep more than a year ago, and it’s been slowly falling apart until it broke all of a sudden. ⌚️

I heard about Scratch Acid by way of The Cobain 50 on KEXP, and then David Yow’s next band, The Jesus Lizard. It’s a basic starting point, but I really like Liar. Get some transcendent gutter noise. 🎵

I’m late to the party, but got turned on to Oneida, specifically Each One Teach One, again from The Best Show. Also learned that my roommate took drum lessons from Kid Millions, so when it rains it pours. 🎵

I feel like every web browser is “good enough”. There’s nothing I’m excited to use, and I keep switching defaults after one annoys me enough. 💽

I really like Neil Francis’s new album Return to Zero. I’m not playing it as much as I had his first, but it’s still early days. 🎵

To the applause of sixteen people that already own the album, the 2021 Deluxe edition of Black Sabbath’s Technical Ecstasy is available on archive.org. 🎵

The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com

In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.

A heard about Palestinian hip-hop group DAM maybe last year, I think on NPR of all places. I really like BEN HAANA WA MAANA, and I finally picked up the album a few weeks ago. Politically outspoken, although I had to look up lyric translations. Really tasty beats. 🎵

I picked up Viva Ngozi, by Ngozi Family, on a recommendation from The Best Show last month. Really cool ’70s Zambian garage rock. 🎵

My roommate turned me on to Mdou Moctar, and I picked up Funeral for Justice a bit ago. I haven’t listened to it as much as I thought I would, but it’s still really good. Hard Nigerian blues rock with great players? What’s not to like. 🎵

An older man told me I had a “magnificent beard” in line at the pharmacy yesterday. He told me he used to have “things like that” when he was younger, but couldn’t grow it anymore. I thanked him, and told him his stylish, close-cropped beard looked great. He told me to enjoy my beard while I can, because age comes for all of us. I guess I’ll…braid it?

God help me, I added my Threads account to my social list. Don’t go there, though.

I made some tweaks to my blog’s navigation styles so they’re less cramped on mobile. I’ve modified a pre-existing theme, even though my day job is writing custom themes. There’s lots I’d like to tweak, and one day I’ll carve out the time. 💽

I got turned on to ’70s Italian pop singer Jenny Sorrenti from Aquarium Drunkard, specifically her Suspiro. Smooth, summer psyche folk. 🎵

I bought melodic Brooklyn punk band SAVAK’s Human Error / Human Delight a few weeks ago, and have been really digging it. Enough to pre-order their upcoming album SQUAWK!. Who can’t get behind that? 🎵

I bought Betty Davis’s first album on Bandcamp. I already owned it on vinyl, but I need that deep funk digitally, too, you know? 🎵

I’ve been listening to internet radio via the slick Triode app.

My station staples:

• KEXP
• WFMU
• WFUV
• NTS

Let me know of any fun streams I’m missing! 🎵

Some photos of Cat’s Cradle from #XLFest2025, taken by Maddy Pryor.

The full video of our set is also up. 🎭

I’m starting a cosmetics/fortune telling company, called Nostradermis. For $20, I’ll tell your skin’s future.

A little stupid SNL joy on a Friday. Greetings and salutations, Kanish.

I’m listening to A Glimpse Of Light, by Enno Velthuys today. Lonely, haunted electronic explorations into empty space, that somehow connect to a deeply human place amidst, or perhaps because of, the alienation. 🎵

I’m a certified Twig Designer. Please, one at a time!