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I’m feeling prickly this week. Two things in particular have raised my hackles. First off, Boris Johnson selling his Number 10 memoirs for an advance of half a million pounds.
There are lots of reasons for us all to be frustrated about this but nothing frustrates me more than bad economics. I want to shake the publishing industry for this. Yes, you might make it back in sales but the man is desperate, DESPERATE, to be seen. He’d have sold those memoirs for dinner at The Ivy and a roll of expensive wallpaper. If every publishing house had banded together and agreed to only pay the average advance (which I think is around £15k), I’m sure he would have taken it. But there’s something about the confidence he leaches, that sends everyone a little bit mad. A feeling of “we must have this important man on our list” is what drove that cheque, and frankly I’m bored of it.
And then Jay Shetty appeared on The Diary of a CEO podcast talking about relationships and I was pushed over the edge.
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