# ![@patrickberzai Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1992985498202394624.png) @patrickberzai Patrick Berzai

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"A better assessment would be to mention all of the other more important factors hand/eye balance eyesight pitch recognition etc. Bonds batted lead off four seasons and then fifth for the Pirates. He was 3/4 in SF. He also was an early adopter of maple bats (& choked up). A great gesture of leadership would occur when current Hall of Famers who used PEDs -- greenies steroids whatever -- just came out and explained what they did and why. It would move the Hall to a place when it could finally acknowledge the reality of what happened in the A great gesture of leadership would occur when current"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/1998201221560316060)  2025-12-09T01:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@PhilSustainable @barclayscenter @BrooklynNets Yes why are the Islanders gone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2008218405481181638)  2026-01-05T16:45Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Dr_Singularity Agents are going to be taxed someday. We are going through the biggest labor transition since the west moved from slavery to wage labor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2011245725204803792)  2026-01-14T01:15Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Its a better story if the Clintons say no. When they worked together they won elections (90s). When they were askance (2016) Bill was still right. They can beat the government"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2011323433045671939)  2026-01-14T06:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@OleTimeHardball Of the people who say but steroids Just what do you think even if taken steroids actually do for a baseball player Its not like they have no impact but it would be like the thirtieth or fortieth variable in terms of what make you good at baseball far down the list"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2013816153945317861)  2026-01-21T03:29Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"For the people who say but steroids Just what do you think even if taken steroids actually do for a baseball player It isnt like they have no impact but its like the 30th or 40th factor in terms of what makes you good at baseball. It gets too heavily weighted. You hold the deciding vote in the Hall of Fame case of Manny Ramirez. Does he get in https://t.co/0nNSJ3j2QG You hold the deciding vote in the Hall of Fame case of Manny Ramirez. Does he get in https://t.co/0nNSJ3j2QG"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2013817237610864765)  2026-01-21T03:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"I love charts like this. What we say what we do. There is always a gap between stated vs. revealed preference. In leadership reputation and brand/product strategythat gap is where insight lives and campaigns win or are lost"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2014148622552846501)  2026-01-22T01:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@ArtemisConsort On the contrary they are producing grievance instruments that can be financialized in the Davos/ESG set that will decollateralize the value of merit-based work creating new corporate identity markets where profitability used to be the sign of corporate health"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2014244301002404183)  2026-01-22T07:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@memeticsisyphus We see in the world what we hold in our hearts. Goethe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2014776940411208046)  2026-01-23T19:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"In Wang Chungs 80s hit Everybody Have Fun Tonight they sing: The words we use are strong They make reality Yeah"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2014872783759773978)  2026-01-24T01:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Will_Tanner_1 If you think of it in financialized terms Democrats are de-collateralizing white (mostly work class) males. Theyre shorting white dudes. Thats why woke isnt dead. ESG has packaged other labor as AAA+ like its the CDO of the labor market"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2014899765646131421)  2026-01-24T03:15Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@MomAngtrades Dont think of it as racism; its the decollateralization of white men in labor markets. The antiwhite talk is there to markdown labor value not personal hatred. ESG effectively shorts white men bundling other labor into highly rated tranches in a CDOlike labor structure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2014902839458595047)  2026-01-24T03:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@JayVTheGreat Im going to propose Slavs (the original word for slave) had it the worst and most recently. Slavs fended off Atilla and Ghengis Khan. Its flat land; hard to defend. More recently the NAZIs AND the Soviets (for Poland it was at the same time). Whats worse than that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2014989443887997420)  2026-01-24T09:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@timurkuran This wasn't "progress." Think of it as Portfolio Rebalancing with talent as an asset class. The DEI Institution designated 'Merit' as a Toxic Asset and the 'Competence Class' as a liability to be unwound. They didn't want to raise the floor hey wanted to lower the ceiling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2014236519066968265)  2026-01-22T07:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"The more government tries to make something valuable affordable the more it goes up in cost (relative to inflation) usually by becoming both the supply AND demand side as well as empowering the safety class managerials with eyes toward wealth extraction over creation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2016280694000123979)  2026-01-27T22:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@ArtemisConsort Think of DEI as subprime labor. Its the simultaneous shorting of competence (racialized as white male) and elevating compliance and bundling all of those CCCC labor instruments as AAAA. We are already seeing a flattening of GDP and labor market crash"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2016294034864799799)  2026-01-27T23:35Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@PhilippusArabus Von der Leyen is a bungling Bismarck in a pantsuit lurching from one self-created crisis to the next"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2016401432472359410)  2026-01-28T06:42Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@johannesmkx Von der Leyen is a bungling Bismarck in a pantsuit lurching from one self-created crisis to the next"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2016401498515845455)  2026-01-28T06:42Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Radiohead still exists. And might be a new album soon Is it just me or does music not hit as hard anymore Used to be such a snob with my playlists and took immense pride in being ultra tapped in. Think this started changing around [----] ish and now my Spotify minutes continue trending towards all time lows Idk just feel like most Is it just me or does music not hit as hard anymore Used to be such a snob with my playlists and took immense pride in being ultra tapped in. Think this started changing around [----] ish and now my Spotify minutes continue trending towards all time lows Idk just feel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2016442432179868062)  2026-01-28T09:25Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@davetrott "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment it's wrong" Richard Feynman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2016495994775675347)  2026-01-28T12:58Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@cafreiman My fear of Marxism is nearly just the focus/collateralization of pure bureaucracy and empire of centrally planned paperwork & procedures. Its been about de-collateralizing competence in favor of compliance and until you comply. Past example De-Kulakization. Or todays EU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2016819356001587479)  2026-01-29T10:22Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"My fear of Marxism is nearly just the focus/collateralization of pure bureaucracy an empire of centrally planned paperwork & procedures. Its been about de-collateralizing competence in favor of compliance and until you comply Past example De-Kulakization. Or todays EU. The most compelling critique of Marxism is simply that its analysis of capitalism largely fails once the labor theory of value is (correctly) abandoned. Thats not to say that *nothing* remains but its core doesnt. The most compelling critique of Marxism is simply that its analysis of capitalism largely fails once the labor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2016819784546210229)  2026-01-29T10:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"This is a framing I disagree with as well. The formal relationship is between the individual and the state or federal government. The state services deficit is only conceptual because we tax individuals. Mamdani keeps repeating that the city should get back from state in services what it pays in to state in taxes. That is not how state sovereignty and progressive states work. Mamdani keeps repeating that the city should get back from state in services what it pays in to state in taxes. That is not how state sovereignty and progressive states work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2016825505383940425)  2026-01-29T10:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"No other group size in the world disfavors their own in-group at that threshold. An inversion compared to all other groups"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2016827603492180200)  2026-01-29T10:55Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Warblers have their own eggs removed from their nests to favor of the Brown-headed Cowbird a brood parasite. They hijack the empathy wiring and warblers dedicate far more interest and resources to the Cowbirds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2016831382539162069)  2026-01-29T11:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@MartinPerring @cafreiman Ok. Marx wasnt too bright (and he lived as a personal failure). What people fear is a crushing beauracracy not necessarily the animating spirit of a political system. Central planning is that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2017029940605309168)  2026-01-30T00:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@JimSmith1278 @cafreiman Its more bureaucracy. The growth and wealth in the EU vs the US since the Euro has completely collapsed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2017030263340228738)  2026-01-30T00:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Speeding is reckless but you have to respect her as a sprinter for staying on brand. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/olympian-shacarri-richardson-arrested-charge-speeding-100-mph-florida-rcna256603 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/olympian-shacarri-richardson-arrested-charge-speeding-100-mph-florida-rcna256603"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2017097944756080768)  2026-01-30T04:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@berkie1 I lived there from 1998-2002. State Street. Great town"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2017193650380497388)  2026-01-30T11:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"As America shifts from a competence to a compliance economy people will drift away from revering the lifelong craft and talent to make marble appear transparent. How could Corradini weave a gossamer veil out of hard stone How https://t.co/Uqa9RyC6fp How could Corradini weave a gossamer veil out of hard stone How https://t.co/Uqa9RyC6fp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2017594135654633643)  2026-01-31T13:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@pegobry_en There have been many efforts to decollateralize competency in favor of compliance in history. Diversity is just the latest name for it in the west"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2017653866607874175)  2026-01-31T17:39Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@EPoe187 The iron hand crushed the tyrants head And became the tyrant in its stead. William Blake. The Grey Monk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2017755570661630359)  2026-02-01T00:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"One of the strangest things Ive heard (repeatedly) at ad agencies is how often a copywriter will tell me he is a communist. I always wonder: [--]. Why bring that up. We are selling cars makeup tech etc [--]. And if surplus value is a sin maybe this isnt the career for you. I love capitalism. I love being a consumer. I love purses and shoes and little gadgets and Knick knacks. I see a cute keychain or apron or container or something and I dont even care if theyre from china. Nothing matters as long as I have my things. I love my little things. I love capitalism. I love being a consumer. I love"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2017939962692538633)  2026-02-01T12:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@SonnieJohnson Its actually just pathology and projection from a cohort of people who show more negative in-group preference than any other group shows a positive in-group preference. Its fascinating and tragic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2017950899751321916)  2026-02-01T13:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@GeorgeJourneys @timurkuran Yes. In my financialization model this is also a cheaper way to package A rated assets (competence) with lesser rated assets (like distressed competence assets) almost like a credit default swap. This is what ESG/DEI did. It decollateralized competence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2014459935845974030)  2026-01-22T22:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Mediocrities everywhere I absolve you Salieri Amadeus Mediocrities are everywhere and always universal levelers They resist any exposure of themselves to the impact of greatness And they deliberately seek to explain away all greatness by reducing it to an everydayness no different than their own mere pedestrianism Mediocrities are everywhere and always universal levelers They resist any exposure of themselves to the impact of greatness And they deliberately seek to explain away all greatness by reducing it to an everydayness no different than their own mere pedestrianism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2017569711526171047)  2026-01-31T12:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@johnloeber It was earlier but accelerated around ZIRP social media ubiquity and explosion of high-status signaling via oikophobia. White liberals saw their positive in-group preference invert to become negative around 2013; for very left more negative than other groups positive warmth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2017824674080821419)  2026-02-01T04:57Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@MrChuckD Its still Bill"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2017854858762850527)  2026-02-01T06:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@ooh_mow I turned to Spenser: For Hire Moonlighting and Murder She Wrote. So great"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2018180612818153483)  2026-02-02T04:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Streaming shows are mostly algorithmic slop. I turned to Spenser: For Hire Moonlighting and Murder She Wrote. So great. Im burned out on streaming. The shows seem flat two dimensional and just not very interesting. I started two new releases on Netflix then stopped. Im not sure if Ill finish them. Probably not. Recently I started watching the original Star Trek again. On an old school TV Im burned out on streaming. The shows seem flat two dimensional and just not very interesting. I started two new releases on Netflix then stopped. Im not sure if Ill finish them. Probably not. Recently I"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2018180725120671874)  2026-02-02T04:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Amidst the talk of the status-death of being found in the Epstein files for a silent mass of extreme social strivers they are upset feeling a different status-death that theyre not mentioned in them at all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2018229231126479208)  2026-02-02T07:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@EPoe187 Woke is just an attack on competence with a racialized lens. This is noblesse de robe (the compliance class) vs noblesse de epee (competence class) in a World Series of de-collateralization. De-kulakization is another such attack on competence. So was the Cultural Revolution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2018314696605192249)  2026-02-02T13:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@MF_Techs @tomfgoodwin I dont think just one differing opinion should trigger Gell-Mann Amnesia. Im a slow burn on that But I am not the boss of you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2018319317549597138)  2026-02-02T13:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@tomfgoodwin lol. I dont think theyre separate. Agencies still measure like broadcaster push messaging. Congruency of language is the arithmeteocracy Its measuring decisions. Here is some query data rolled up (over [----] diff queries) to understand intent. Tell me what you see"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2018343609389768987)  2026-02-02T15:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@tomfgoodwin For a major US telco we used search data to create our brand message Its your business its your Verizon. When you measure language and relate to customer decisions the intuition becomes certainty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2018343974231285927)  2026-02-02T15:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@obsessivehermit @johnloeber Yes. Working on a book that posits that every liberation movement is a liquidation moment where debt liability (and so bonds) is created. Freedom means accountability for debt repayment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2018357617874395372)  2026-02-02T16:15Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@pitdesi The ability to drive productive revenue via customer acquisition has been abandoned since the ZIRP era and the way to drive revenue via stocks and credit has dominated most companies. And then ZIRP ended and those companies didnt adapt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2018851030369526141)  2026-02-04T00:56Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@FischerKing64 Pizza Hut used to have a midwestern air of some sophistication. It was a nice family night out; a sit down experience with frosted red cups oozing (middle) class"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2018916312005947634)  2026-02-04T05:15Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Pizza Hut used to have a midwestern air of sophistication. It was a nice family night out; a sit down experience with frosted red cups oozing (middle) class. Not a big fan of Pizza Hut. I get the nostalgia - but Pepsi bought Pizza Hut back in the 70s and also bought Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken. It set up a subsidiary called Yum - and then spun it off later. So there is no connection to the original ownership at all - and Not a big fan of Pizza Hut. I get the nostalgia - but Pepsi bought Pizza Hut back in the 70s and also bought Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken. It set up a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2018917149172253115)  2026-02-04T05:18Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@ianbremmer @EurasiaGroup @gzeromedia Ok your last clause touches reality. But it has had flat revenue since [----] and it was losing money long before Bezos. It would have been out of business a decade ago without him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2019099121978859718)  2026-02-04T17:21Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"Years of ZIRP distanced journalists at elite papers like @washingtonpost from the real world. They no longer understand value creation lies in readership revenue not the zero-gravity playground of easy credit/compliance. Bezos lost more than the Posts valuation since [----]. The Post had been bleeding readers for ages. That's why the Grahams were willing to sell it to Bezos for a mere $250M. There's no murder going on. This is the opposite of murder. This is an attempt to resuscitate a great paper made less great by the radicals and their enablers. The Post had been bleeding readers for ages."  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2019299742346613232)  2026-02-05T06:39Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@dr_duchesne Glad you liked my chart (th yellow and red one) and conclusions. Please credit me next time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2019426214847639620)  2026-02-05T15:01Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@JosephONeillx If you understand every liberation as a liquidity moment (the Comstitution was Hamilton restructuring debt and collateralizing the US for Dutch financing) then the bearer bond is really the tool for our liberation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2019431005032182113)  2026-02-05T15:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@FinancialPhys Remittances to India are over $130B a year now. For America to continue to export dollars The Fed/Federal see this as a better strategy for dollar proliferation than full US employment of citizens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2019768497342189703)  2026-02-06T13:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Cute moment. Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes and it has a super-duper tail Reporter: Mr. Mamdani the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. Its also the golden snake. https://t.co/PLgzBNqbLn Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes and it has a super-duper tail Reporter: Mr. Mamdani the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. Its also the golden snake. https://t.co/PLgzBNqbLn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2019855660972929135)  2026-02-06T19:28Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. Voltaire @FinanceDirCFO lol no. Power has always attracted narcissists and cluster B personality types. Everyone is their own worst enemy. We have never had more control over our leaders as now. That power also admits accountability. Not accepting that accountability is a huge problem. @FinanceDirCFO lol no. Power has always attracted narcissists and cluster B personality types. Everyone is their own worst enemy. We have never had more control over our leaders as now. That power also admits accountability. Not accepting that accountability"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2020156974147522585)  2026-02-07T15:25Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@jeffreytucker DEI is the avatar for a more direct struggle between the noblesse de epee (competence class) & the noblesse de robe (compliance class). The effect is DEI created a subprime labor market where compliance competence (ZIRP-era) and that was bundled and sold like a mortgage CDO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2020191873143628278)  2026-02-07T17:44Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"My brother has a pet theory Mamdani is brought in to do blockbusting. About a month and a half in and its hard to argue with him. Being a kid growing up in Giulianis NYC was a glorious time. You could feel the place undergoing a renaissance after being flat on its back for so long. May I live long enough to see those days and that spirit return. Being a kid growing up in Giulianis NYC was a glorious time. You could feel the place undergoing a renaissance after being flat on its back for so long. May I live long enough to see those days and that spirit return"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2020329815887507892)  2026-02-08T02:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Kazanjy Not exactly but they are interrelated. White liberals signal class via oikophobia which can fit into the moral care in the chart you shared. Both seem to be high in openness performance (but not actually high in openness but def not high in conscientious)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2020346107478544460)  2026-02-08T03:57Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@daniel_dsj2110 They might have to after decades of trying it to listen to their people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2020484124285235255)  2026-02-08T13:05Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@gonglei89 It is one of the most accurate leading indicators and has survived replication more than nearly all other studies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2020529108128583811)  2026-02-08T16:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@doc_gero @kbean511 @DavidBe31099196 The real story is how Lincoln looked at Southern property as collateral for westward expansion & US transformation to wage labor. The biggest write down of capital by was the Emancipation Proclamation preventing the South from securing European loans to continue the war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2020552160006840502)  2026-02-08T17:35Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Huge story in Japan. The LDP secured a supermajority likely changing how the Japanese will approach their military normalization (including shared US nukes). Stay tuned. https://www.nbcnews.com/world/japan/japans-sanae-takaichi-wins-landslide-snap-election-exit-polls-project-rcna257887 https://www.nbcnews.com/world/japan/japans-sanae-takaichi-wins-landslide-snap-election-exit-polls-project-rcna257887"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2020560455207649615)  2026-02-08T18:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@notsurprisedfl @NewYorker @washingtonpost I had total revenue ad revenue and subscription counts. All down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2020560714100793634)  2026-02-08T18:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@moyamcallister @notsurprisedfl @NewYorker @washingtonpost Yes Harris was a disaster. Good call. He lost far more subscribers and value (more than he paid for WaPo) even before that because the paper is for activists not a broad US audience. This isnt ZIRP anymore. Billionaires dont just have cash lying around to subsidize failure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2020575867915866397)  2026-02-08T19:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@EdensRelic @CandlestickJas lol what about the five season stretch he threw more picks (80) than TDs (73) but for two of those seasons for some reason he went to the Pro Bowl Or his [--] career passer rating Broncos won Super Bowls because of Terrell Davis not Elway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2020592658994074023)  2026-02-08T20:16Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@BigBrainMkting Having worked for Ogilvy it is sadly nowhere near this anymore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2019231808299364463)  2026-02-05T02:09Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"For years at agencies creatives and media had outright contempt for the people in the flyover states they were forced to advertise to. If you hate your customers you get ads like the ones shown during the Super Bowl. the Super Bowl is off the wives are tired the kids are playing Roblox instead of throwing the football no one was inspired to buy anything and not one laugh or recurring joke from an ad was had the marketers lost the agency ad era ends with a whimper of true mediocrity the Super Bowl is off the wives are tired the kids are playing Roblox instead of throwing the football no one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2020794056834466228)  2026-02-09T09:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@ChristianHeiens Its on both sides. Japans election means that IF China made a play for Taiwan they have about a year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2020939355788087731)  2026-02-09T19:14Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@JMGreerWriter People will forgive you for being wrong but theyll never forgive you for being right. Thomas Sowell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2020957439785648537)  2026-02-09T20:26Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@anfi_monaco The ad industry as constructed today even search marketers are not ready to use language as a proxy for decision making and advertising. Theyve been hiring the wrong people for at least two decades"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2020967170214371422)  2026-02-09T21:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@martechismktg @salesforce We cannot expect AI language models to outperform analog language models. It isnt a problem of compute. https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2020964976283041921s=46 Nelson Goodmans Fact Fiction and Forecast is probably the best book to read if you wonder why LLMs commit category errors and hallucinate at the rate they do. It turns out humans also create these same errors in their use of language models. https://t.co/7i7GxwLusJ https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2020964976283041921s=46 Nelson Goodmans Fact Fiction and Forecast is probably the best book to read if you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2020968908057178273)  2026-02-09T21:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@mr_scientism lol yes. And China doesnt hold all the cards. Theyll be squeezed into a regional power over the next decade as BRICS cant keep it together"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2021017651473162683)  2026-02-10T00:25Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@daniel_dsj2110 Populism is always the smoke to elite civil war fire. We have had The Fronde conditions (elite civil war) in the US (and the west) between the noblesse de epee (the competence/production class) bs the noblesse de robe (the managerial/compliance class)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2021189362642243750)  2026-02-10T11:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Cincinnatus56 This was the worry during the lead up to the Civil War when wage labor (OpEx) replaced slave labor (CapEx) and then Lincoln wiped the value of chattel property (over $3B then). This is a decollateralizarion of compliance labor moving it to another part of the balance sheet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2021241512890093691)  2026-02-10T15:15Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@DrewHolden360 No it wasnt. Im just kidding yes it was. We had sensitivity trainings on this at some workplaces"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2021285678479544779)  2026-02-10T18:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@JadeCole2112 @FamedCelebrity The greatest problem with communication is the illusion that it occurred. George Bernard Shaw"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2021653403752153244)  2026-02-11T18:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@philmscribe I am so smart I toxically denigrate outgroups for social status. Look at me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022328883568406768)  2026-02-13T15:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AdamSinger As labor becomes robotic it will move from OpEx (wage labor) to CapEx (labor as an asset). Governments know their labor rake is ending - a new social contract is needed. Weve not seen this balance sheet shift of labor since slave asset value was written down by Lincoln"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022330793650245857)  2026-02-13T15:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Garnet_2203 Yes lets not examine the only group with negative in-group preference that is even greater than not only conservatives positive in group preference but larger than ANY groups positive in-group preference"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2021988858557342004)  2026-02-12T16:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Great ads put the consumer at the middle of a story that creates a pathway to the brand. They tested two headlines. One word was different. One ran for [--] years. Over a century ago a copywriter named Maxwell Sackheim was trying to sell a mail-order English course. He tested headline after headline and most of them flopped. Then he tried: "Do you make these https://t.co/DT96J0gEUE They tested two headlines. One word was different. One ran for [--] years. Over a century ago a copywriter named Maxwell Sackheim was trying to sell a mail-order English course. He tested headline after headline and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022282372339950056)  2026-02-13T12:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@EPoe187 Why be embarrassed Its an opportunity. The aristocratic point is well taken. I think in our modern milieu his staggering competence (his writings on corpuscular light and Die Urpflanze which inspired Wittgensteins familial relations) probably make him too hot to touch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022291726183064051)  2026-02-13T12:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Weighing in on the post Super Bowl halftime debate - Can Conservatives Create Great Art The short answer is yes. The long answer is here: https://open.substack.com/pub/ohthatpatrick/p/can-conservatives-create-great-artr=66lrv&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay https://open.substack.com/pub/ohthatpatrick/p/can-conservatives-create-great-artr=66lrv&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022315868991189061)  2026-02-13T14:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@gazcon All liberation movements are just a need to take power by eliminating accountability. It is the structure of any victim narrative"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022669652816728461)  2026-02-14T13:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"More and more the whole woke movement seems like its Mortimer and Randolph Duke making the $1 bet in Trading Places switching Valentine (Eddie Murphy) for Winthrop (Akroyd). Lots of interesting reporting recently on how private foundations including the Mellon Foundation have paid to make the funding-starved humanities more woke. Below is a sample of grants covering DEI social justice weaponization of antisemitism indigenous knowing etc: 🧵 https://t.co/lEQjJdzwJb Lots of interesting reporting recently on how private foundations including the Mellon Foundation have paid to make the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022096602748662070)  2026-02-12T23:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"As labor becomes robotic it will move from OpEx (wage labor) to CapEx (labor as an asset). Governments know their labor rake is ending - a new social contract is needed. Weve not seen this balance sheet shift of labor since slave asset value was written down by Lincoln. This seems so insane to me. Truly a form of punitive punishment on people who save and invest aka your most responsible citizens. Unfortunately these are the actions of a state you would want to get out of immediately. California likely dreams of doing this sort of thing https://t.co/vMVwNbe8zn This seems so insane to me."  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022330898562302276)  2026-02-13T15:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@pegobry_en Its pre-Westphalia again. Wallenstein as kingpin with mercenary army. Maybe drug dealers will someday issue their own bearer bonds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022351696714961292)  2026-02-13T16:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The size of global drug dealing operations is staggering. Theyre large enough to compete/dominate nation-states. Its pre-Westphalia again. Wallenstein [---] as drug kingpin with mercenary army. Maybe drug dealers will someday issue their own bearer bonds 🎯JUST IN: US and Colombian forces intercept narco-sub transporting [--] tons of cocaine worth $441000000 arresting [--] traffickers. https://t.co/KFdB6S7eaF 🎯JUST IN: US and Colombian forces intercept narco-sub transporting [--] tons of cocaine worth $441000000 arresting [--] traffickers. https://t.co/KFdB6S7eaF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022352244159754296)  2026-02-13T16:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Low_Key_Low_Key @thomaschattwill I dont dispute your claim. I dispute @thomaschattwill s claim. The incubation or evolution of western thinking was mostly Persians (like Avicenna) or they were Spanish like Averoes. In the Levant (beyond translations) Not really"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022377330421969205)  2026-02-13T18:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Theo_TJ_Jordan I had a hard time modeling the mind of Obama voters. I could never understand how people got behind him (from a policy perspective). And even with ZIRP his economy was still pretty weak. But then I realized It was just morality and politics as aesthetics. It was just vibes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022671914939093078)  2026-02-14T13:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@v_praveen I feel like today they violate most of these rules daily. It was the same at Ogilvy where David Ogilvy would be supremely disappointed by their current go-to-market"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022672650938786064)  2026-02-14T14:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Theo_TJ_Jordan He was just a folk hero. Other world leaders didnt respect him and certainly didnt fear him. Putin and Xi walked all over him. But Euro-elites loved him in part because he was expensive-looking. And that seemed good enough for US urban aspirants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022678634369368489)  2026-02-14T14:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"On the surface this is a Gen Z endorsement & indictment of AI. Its neither. IBM is using AI as the "Kind Lie" to swap expensive brain-talent with low-cost juniors. IBM hasnt built real customer value in years; theyre just refining their margins https://fortune.com/2026/02/13/tech-giant-ibm-tripling-gen-z-entry-level-hiring-according-to-chro-rewriting-jobs-ai-era/ https://fortune.com/2026/02/13/tech-giant-ibm-tripling-gen-z-entry-level-hiring-according-to-chro-rewriting-jobs-ai-era/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022680996123152761)  2026-02-14T14:35Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@feelsdesperate Theyre the noblesse de robe (the compliance class) who are paid to de-collateralize the noblesse de epee (the competence class) spinning off any argument DEI ESG etc as an avatar for anti-competence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022687386896076927)  2026-02-14T15:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@tomfgoodwin More to the point is that AI/LLMs mimics academic-speak a real-world human-made blight. How did we tolerate academic-speak slop for all these years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022692896240210190)  2026-02-14T15:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"More to the point is that AI/LLMs mimics academic-speak a real-world human-made blight. How did we tolerate academic-speak slop for all these years Its wild ( and telling) that platforms tolerate AI slop let alone promote and welcome it Its wild ( and telling) that platforms tolerate AI slop let alone promote and welcome it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022692942419570739)  2026-02-14T15:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


""The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that though the transcendental must involve the strange and unfamiliar not everything strange or unfamiliar is transcendental." -- Mark Rothko https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-saas-slop-service-patrick-berzai-gshueutm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-saas-slop-service-patrick-berzai-gshueutm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022698943050846347)  2026-02-14T15:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@_kruptos Yes but thats not what this is. Its a way to write down the competent high-cost labor IBM always is looking to write down. Check their history. This is more of the same. https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022680996123152761s=46 On the surface this is a Gen Z endorsement & indictment of AI. Its neither. IBM is using AI as the "Kind Lie" to swap expensive brain-talent with low-cost juniors. IBM hasnt built real customer value in years; theyre just refining their margins https://t.co/hXf0j9kvE0 https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022680996123152761s=46 On the surface this is a Gen Z"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022759712953909569)  2026-02-14T19:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Theo_TJ_Jordan A truth thats told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake Auguries of Innocence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022764150871724218)  2026-02-14T20:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@mark_k If I could quibble slightly Id say Cluster B types where histrionic personality types (underwritten by narcissism) dominate social media"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022775057353765204)  2026-02-14T20:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@devahaz You point out the 'irony' of Trump and Vance's wives. You find it 'funny' that heritage-discourse champions married immigrants. And you present this as a clever observation a revealing contradiction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022781085684498937)  2026-02-14T21:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@dixiedean_ @danieljmitchell I am suspicious of economic consensus. I also think reshoring represents a national security initiative. How do you believe we had GDP growth despite tariffs Would like your thoughts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022797527205187876)  2026-02-14T22:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@george__mack Rocky IV and Red Dawn made me reflexively hate communists circa 1985"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022810684430352522)  2026-02-14T23:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@ToriVillar76624 @ConceptualJames I dont know much about them but its a guess. Wealth taxes are being considered in US states. So far $1.4T in value has fled CA out of fear of the tax. It will likely cause capital flight there too. But some change to the social contact needs to change if income tax reduces"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022834408558899710)  2026-02-15T00:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ToriVillar76624 @ConceptualJames Yes. But there are going to be huge disruptions. The other choice is to reduce the size and expectations of government. That has almost never worked unfortunately"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022836601945227563)  2026-02-15T00:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@tomfgoodwin Everything in the US is all a bread and circus distraction from our humongous debt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/patrickberzai/status/2022839653116842155)  2026-02-15T01:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

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