I kept coming across your articles and enjoyed them immensely. Then I saw your interview with Rick Beato back in 2022 & it clicked that you’re the same person. The Honest Broker is my favorite find of 2024. I wish you more truth seeking, curiosity chasing, passion playing, and success in 2025. Cheers (the good coffee, not olive oil lattes) 😊🎶🎶
I am a somewhat recent paid subscriber. I am retired (but not old!) and I do not pay for many Substack subscriptions. But, Ted, I feel smarter for reading you. Happy to have found you.
I am astonished at your sheer volume of excellent articles, and I’m grateful to you for that humanities list! I’m on Week 8. Not always easy but I’m so happy to be tackling it. It was a different book list that turned me into a paid subscriber, btw—the technology list from August, I think. The Tempest has to wait, though, while I tackle Greek philosophy and Dante.
Congratulations, your success is well deserved. I marvel at your ability to read, listen and analyze culture around us at what seems the speed of light. Thanks also for all your great suggestions, and I hope your upward curve continues in 2025. Peace.
I’m a new subscriber and your content is worth every penny. Thank you for sharing your insights. You help me to make sense of the world and feel more secure, less afraid about navigating the changes coming
Hoping you can tell me that if I become a paid subscriber to the honest broker , will I have access to the 52 weeks of humanities? Or is that a separate cost? I’m not sure how to ask Ted directly as I can’t comment on his post about it and I’m sure he must get too many personal messages to reply to everyone? Anyway, thank you in advance.
So happy to be here, and wanted to share my personal anecdote for how I’m now a ‘super-fan’. I had seen an earlier Ted Gioia / Rick Beato interview which clicked for me, as a music fan and follower of the rapidly shifting industry. Months later while random browsing at my library, find myself flipping through a book on history of Jazz Standards with the page long background on each song - and find myself standing in the aisle for a half hour diving into all of my favorites. Loving that the Desafinado entry covers the Dizzy Musical Safari version I didn’t think anyone else would go deep enough to care about. Jumped to buy that and the History of Jazz on my Kindle and deeply enjoying.
Name recognition finally clicks and realize you’re the guy on YouTube with Beato! Find your recent interview covering the fracturing and distrust of traditional media, AI, Spotify-ication of music solely as background passive listening. Halfway through that interview I open a new tab and subscribe to this Substack. And that leads to a strong shift to Substack (which I’d only dabbled over the last years) as a primary news source, and paying for subscriptions. I’m now selecting individual authors, video creators on Patreon, Medium and Substack as a replacement to the dopamine loop of social media scrolling, and mainstream publications I feel are increasingly watered down and losing journalistic integrity.
So basically this Substack sub is the centerpiece of my 2025 new year resolution and a much needed escape from the malaise over the demise of music and journalism.
I often tell people about you, saying you're "the only grumpy old man" I actually listen to. You're an expert and a nuanced thinker/communicator, but best of all, you're optimistic! Thank you for a wonderful year of fringe-worship :). Looking forward to the next!
I like it when you write about something (or someone) that fascinates you. This year there has been a lot to dread , and these viral articles circulated for that reason. You always provide actual information (& brilliant graphs and charts.) Chapters of your book -- and the gift of chapters from your brother's book -- are particularly cherished.
I love it all, but I really love the mix. Too many substack writers are becoming "one note." Leave it to the jazz pianist/renaissance man to keep us genuinely engaged!
A fascinating overview essay unto itself, embedded with the writings of one of the most original writers on Substack (everywhere else too?). Thanks for keeping the door open for those of us who still don’t know which doors to pay for.
I just left this on Steven Pressfield’s Writing Wednesday blog—a heartfelt compliment for two of my fav modern thinkers—please get together and chat about creativity and culture. You’d inspire so many creators who are still finding their voice. 🙏How do you battle Resistance?
I kept coming across your articles and enjoyed them immensely. Then I saw your interview with Rick Beato back in 2022 & it clicked that you’re the same person. The Honest Broker is my favorite find of 2024. I wish you more truth seeking, curiosity chasing, passion playing, and success in 2025. Cheers (the good coffee, not olive oil lattes) 😊🎶🎶
I am a somewhat recent paid subscriber. I am retired (but not old!) and I do not pay for many Substack subscriptions. But, Ted, I feel smarter for reading you. Happy to have found you.
I am astonished at your sheer volume of excellent articles, and I’m grateful to you for that humanities list! I’m on Week 8. Not always easy but I’m so happy to be tackling it. It was a different book list that turned me into a paid subscriber, btw—the technology list from August, I think. The Tempest has to wait, though, while I tackle Greek philosophy and Dante.
My favorite articles are still that book you’ve been posting chapters from! Two more to go, I think?
Thanks, Ted! I enjoyed all of these articles and appreciate the way you are helping us all think more deeply about issues in our culture .
Congratulations, your success is well deserved. I marvel at your ability to read, listen and analyze culture around us at what seems the speed of light. Thanks also for all your great suggestions, and I hope your upward curve continues in 2025. Peace.
MUSIC TO RAISE THE DEAD is my favorite thing.
I’m a new subscriber and your content is worth every penny. Thank you for sharing your insights. You help me to make sense of the world and feel more secure, less afraid about navigating the changes coming
Hi Daniela, I’m
Hoping you can tell me that if I become a paid subscriber to the honest broker , will I have access to the 52 weeks of humanities? Or is that a separate cost? I’m not sure how to ask Ted directly as I can’t comment on his post about it and I’m sure he must get too many personal messages to reply to everyone? Anyway, thank you in advance.
So happy to be here, and wanted to share my personal anecdote for how I’m now a ‘super-fan’. I had seen an earlier Ted Gioia / Rick Beato interview which clicked for me, as a music fan and follower of the rapidly shifting industry. Months later while random browsing at my library, find myself flipping through a book on history of Jazz Standards with the page long background on each song - and find myself standing in the aisle for a half hour diving into all of my favorites. Loving that the Desafinado entry covers the Dizzy Musical Safari version I didn’t think anyone else would go deep enough to care about. Jumped to buy that and the History of Jazz on my Kindle and deeply enjoying.
Name recognition finally clicks and realize you’re the guy on YouTube with Beato! Find your recent interview covering the fracturing and distrust of traditional media, AI, Spotify-ication of music solely as background passive listening. Halfway through that interview I open a new tab and subscribe to this Substack. And that leads to a strong shift to Substack (which I’d only dabbled over the last years) as a primary news source, and paying for subscriptions. I’m now selecting individual authors, video creators on Patreon, Medium and Substack as a replacement to the dopamine loop of social media scrolling, and mainstream publications I feel are increasingly watered down and losing journalistic integrity.
So basically this Substack sub is the centerpiece of my 2025 new year resolution and a much needed escape from the malaise over the demise of music and journalism.
Thanks for everything, Ted.
Find your articles thoroughly interesting and stimulating, Ted. Please keep up the amazing work! 👍
I often tell people about you, saying you're "the only grumpy old man" I actually listen to. You're an expert and a nuanced thinker/communicator, but best of all, you're optimistic! Thank you for a wonderful year of fringe-worship :). Looking forward to the next!
Thanks for another great year, Mr. Gioia.
I like it when you write about something (or someone) that fascinates you. This year there has been a lot to dread , and these viral articles circulated for that reason. You always provide actual information (& brilliant graphs and charts.) Chapters of your book -- and the gift of chapters from your brother's book -- are particularly cherished.
I love it all, but I really love the mix. Too many substack writers are becoming "one note." Leave it to the jazz pianist/renaissance man to keep us genuinely engaged!
A fascinating overview essay unto itself, embedded with the writings of one of the most original writers on Substack (everywhere else too?). Thanks for keeping the door open for those of us who still don’t know which doors to pay for.
Thanks for publishing this list. As a new subscriber, it gives me a good guide to your previous posts.
I just left this on Steven Pressfield’s Writing Wednesday blog—a heartfelt compliment for two of my fav modern thinkers—please get together and chat about creativity and culture. You’d inspire so many creators who are still finding their voice. 🙏How do you battle Resistance?