Ted Gioia
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Ted Gioia is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 29, 2022 and May 15, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “I was finally able to find The Honest Broker by Ted Gioia”; “Ted warns that… Ted Gioia is about 1000x better at enigmatic mysticism”; “Ted Gioia describes modern students as checked-out, phone-addicted zombies”. It most often appears alongside 1 Kings 10-11, 2008 Democratic National Convention, ACX survey.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: September 29, 2022
- Last seen: May 15, 2025
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Like an obscure indie band, the Music section of Substack is hard to get into. Most blogs are either paywalled, just post music and videos without any text, or the diaries of famous musicians - which could be interesting, if they would ever say anything more personally revelatory than “I AM ON TOUR RIGHT NOW, YOU SHOULD COME TO MY CONCERT”. I was finally able to find The Honest Broker by Ted Gioia, at the cost of probably missing out on some really exotic parallel universes too weird for me to relate to. Honest Broker discusses the music industry and history of music.
Inline links: The Honest Broker
This is all very practical, so I was surprised to click on another post and find that Ted Gioia is about 1000x better at enigmatic mysticism than the people in the Faith & Spirituality section trying to interpret Biblical prophecy.
Things have changed. Ted Gioia describes modern students as checked-out, phone-addicted zombies. Troy Jollimore writes, “I once believed my students and I were in this together, engaged in a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated over the past few semesters.” Faculty have seen a stunning level of disconnection […[ it is getting harder and harder and we don’t know what to do.