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The Unwritten Cannot be Written
The Unwritten Cannot be Written
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. Generative AI cannot write what hasn’t been written. This is a subtle but profound truth the tech industry...
3 days ago
3 MIN READ
The Accessibility of Data
The Accessibility of Data
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. Wall Street is in the first inning of a research revolution driven by three forces: the proliferation of...
4 days ago
4 MIN READ
DeepSeek Flew Under the Radar
DeepSeek Flew Under the Radar
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. The craziest aspect of the DeepSeek AI story is how investors and the media reacted. I don’t mean...
1 week ago
3 MIN READ
Selling Yogurt on Instagram
Selling Yogurt on Instagram
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. Kiki Couchman recently left a four-year stint in private equity at Alpine Investors to launch a new...
2 weeks ago
5 MIN READ
Little League Moneyball
Little League Moneyball
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. My father played Moneyball before Moneyball. Moneyball — for those unfamiliar with baseball — refers to...
2 weeks ago
4 MIN READ
Networking in 2025
Networking in 2025
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. I met some executives from Axel Springer for breakfast a few years ago and as we sat down they handed...
3 weeks ago
4 MIN READ
Ed Gavagan Remembers
Ed Gavagan Remembers
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. Three Latin Kings gang members tried to stab Ed Gavagan to death as part of an initiation rite in 1995....
3 weeks ago
3 MIN READ
Whitney Tilson is Running
Whitney Tilson is Running
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. The odds are long, but the math makes sense. That’s how Wall Street analyst Whitney Tilson explained...
4 weeks ago
4 MIN READ
Burroughs Eight Column Portable Adding Machine
Burroughs Eight Column Portable Adding Machine
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. The Burroughs Eight Column Portable Adding Machine was passed down to me from my father who inherited it...
4 weeks ago
4 MIN READ
Bloomberg's Coaching Lines
Bloomberg's Coaching Lines
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. DM me to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. In professional sports there is a concept of “coaching lines.” The idea is that you should judge a coach by how well...
1 month ago
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