I feel the same for Elvis and still regret the short lives of people who give and gave me so much pleasure during my life of dead end jobs, (I stopped counting the number of companies I worked for which went bankrupt during the 1970’s and 1980’s). In the end it all came right, normal marriage, two children, six grandchildren, a house with no mortgage, the opportunity to help my grown up children buy their own homes.

Megan Greenwell is the former editor-in-chief of Deadspin, the former editor of Wired.com, a former editor at New York Magazine, a former editor at ESPN the Magazine, a former staff writer at The Washington Post, and a graduate of Columbia University. If her Twitter bio is to be believed, she currently teaches sports journalism at Syracuse, and serves as the co-director of a journalism seminar at Princeton. Pretty impressive for someone under 40!

There are a lot of cringey red-pill, pick up artist social media pages out there that talk about the importance of a man having “masculine frame”. These pages talk about things like the power of persuasion, the importance of your body language, and how to “trigger her imagination.”  Let me start by saying, we won’t be discussing any of that today. I think that the concept of masculine frame is vitally important for a man to understand, however there is so much garbage information floating around on this topic that I wanted to offer a clear and grounded perspective on it that isn’t based in manipulation or strange woo-woo esoteric beliefs.

The following is adapted from my book, Michael Jackson, Inc.: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of a Billion-Dollar Empire, on the occasion of Halloween. In the summer of 1982, Michael Jackson summoned Quincy Jones to the Westlake Recording Studio in Los Angeles to record the album that would become Thriller. But it was known by a different name at first: Starlight. Veteran songwriter Rod Temperton initially gave that name to the title track (with a chorus of “STAR-light!

Kaoboy Musings By Michael Kao KAOBOY MUSINGS and its associated podcast KAOS THEORY focus on the intersection of Financial Markets, Macroeconomics and Geopolitics. I've spent 30+ years as a trader/hedge fund manager and now manage money for my family office across many asset classes. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjba%2BwZqlpJmfl7y6