YouTube is an SEO snake pit, a place where Gresham's Law of content prevails with an abundance of intelligent, informative, and entertaining work buried by a limitless supply of derivative and often largely plagiarized rip-offs alternating with AI-generated crap. The algorithm is great at recommending videos I'm tempted to click on; it's terrible at recommending something I actually want to watch. To add insult to injury, a bad click is usually followed by more recommendations for the same channel.
This makes me reluctant to try a new YouTuber without checking them out on Google or seeing if they were followed by the right people on Twitter. People like this.
So when I recommend Patrick Boyle, you know I've checked him out first.
Boyle is a Visiting Professor of Finance at King’s Business School, London. He is also a wickedly funny deadpan commentator on hype, fraud, and general stupidity in finance, business and public policy.
The title of the post comes from Boyle's take-down of MBS's personal Xanadu (which we've also been commenting on for a while)
Neom - The Line - The Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia's Linear City.
The video that first caught my attention was the following piece on Silicon Valley innovations, which included this addition to my tech bro messianic delusions file.
And this gem.
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