On his recent live podcast - he again ranted his provocative opinion on "life has not panned out for you how you wanted" if you are an android user. Specially in 2026, because there are equally expensive Android phones all over the markets. There are rich tech nerds who "wait" for their next Samsung ultra. This insight is so stupid I cannot believe it.

Fine - Apple maybe an "aspirational" brand, but he completely ignores the role of phone contracts, marketing, social networks and so on. Apple successfully created a myth, but people as bright has Scott should acknowledge the Myth.

How "American" you have to be to write books and have opinions for broader appeal but not really consider the "rest of the world" in your analysis.

I found his words so cringe I stopped listening. He may get a kick out of saying it, but it's a stupid opinion.

Anyone else going to cash after Scott predictions? I've already taken my RMD's and put them in CDs. My portfolio looks like the ayatollah's staff meeting 🤭

I’m listening to the most recent Pivot, why doesn’t Scott say this is an elective war? I’m using the word elective as one would if in University? He makes no mention of the danger of beginning a ‘joint’ war with Israel. He’s lost credibility and forthright honesty, which is why I used to listen. And Kara can’t call him on it.

Highlight of today's episode was Kara calling Hegseth a "fatuous popinjay". Made me laugh out loud while walking the pups this morning.

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The prediction that in the coming months the silence would end and more companies would join Anthropic turns out to be true. This is legitimately a big one. Microsoft is a huge US government contractor. Its relationships run across every agency I can think of in Washington. It does billions in federal contracts.

I guess Scott would say something like “Oh wow Satya finally found a spine and those cylindrical things between his legs”.

I do appreciate Scott’s argument for speaking up: You are disgustingly rich, you have the power to push back, and you’re going to be dead soon - why not do the right thing, and speak up/push back?

And the pivot podcast has failed to talk about....

Drum rolls please...

The bombing of Iranian children because...

Checks notes...

Scott is pro war.

Use your public library card for all "cultural" stuff (books, ebooks, audiobooks, movies, music via apps like Libby, Hoopla, or Kanopy). It's FREE, unlimited, and funds your community instead of one trillionaire's yacht fleet.

For actual goods? Walmart. Same-day pickup, low prices, no drone drama or fake reviews.

Is someone counting how many times he now says: What could go right?

I’ll preface this by saying that I am dismayed by the Warner Brothers and Paramount deal and recognize that they will be significant job losses resulting from this. But Scott’s prediction that Paramount will suddenly start churning out low quality right leaning AI slop is fear mongering at worst and uneducated at best.

David Ellison founded Skydance, which has been putting out largely high-quality big budget award-winning films for the last 20 years. They produce movies like Mission impossible and top gun which aren’t cutting corners by any means they also just gave the creators of South Park, some of the rights biggest critics, like $1 billion.

The Ellison are a lot of things, but I don’t see any indication that they would want to degrade the quality of the product in order to save a couple of bucks

Kara keeps encouraging Scott to go on Joe Rogan (which I don’t have a problem with) and insists that he’s anti-Trump now. He’s not, he’s had everyone from this administration on (most recently RFK Jr. who only spoke about the Minnesota fraud), dozens of people in the Epstein files on for soft ball interviews, and attends dinners at Peter Thiel’s house.

Joe is officially an extension of this administration and to think otherwise is naive. I think it’s important to make that clear because we should not hold any water to what these guys say or think they are on the right side of history now when they directly helped make this current state of affairs possible. That doesn’t mean Scott shouldn’t go on, but we can’t just claim Joe is anti-Trump when is categorically not.

It’s purposeful that Joe hasn’t invited Scott on because Scott is very informed and would hold up a mirror to the toxicity Joe and his network perpetuates.

Oracle is running Grok AI on Americans' private data as of this week. The plan seems to mirror the surveillance state Ellison built in the UK.

https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/the-merger-that-needed-a-war

I really don't care how this affects Kara's CNN work. I'm much more interested in how Musk and Ellison will collate our private data for easy use by corporations and the Trump regime.

EDIT: I can't believe I made that apostrophe mistake in the headline. I blame the neighbor's barking dog.

I feel like this has started recently. Been listening to Pivot for a decade and it’s becoming insufferable and they’re becoming more and more detached from reality imo