PJ Neal

@pjneal

By day: CEOs and corporate boards. By night: Doctoral student at Northeastern University. Even later at night: Historian and writer. Chef and baker. Muddling photographer. Woodworker who somehow still has all his fingers. Manservant to a cavapoo.

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PJ Neal@pjneal· 16d

Well, at least Tesla stock is doing well. Uh, sorry, I'm being handed a note...

PJ Neal@pjneal· Jun 27

Funny enough, I just saw this yesterday...

I know every generation has their class struggles, but let me tell you about the summer of 1990 when Supersoakers hit the market and only a few kids could afford them and the rest of us were hunted for sport.

PJ Neal@pjneal· Jun 24

Screen grab from My Cousin Vinny with the quote "Oh yeah, you blend"

PJ Neal@pjneal· Jun 17

Lately, it feels like very single day I come across another sentence that shouldn't exist

Photo of FT headline "Lululemon apologises after Japanese drum controversy at Great Wall yoga event"

PJ Neal@pjneal· May 28

From @economist.com:

Correction: We misattributed a quote of the day to Dante (a mistake also made by John F. Kennedy, who would often repeat the quote). The hottest places in hell are actually reserved for journalists who do not check their sources thoroughly.

PJ Neal@pjneal· May 18

A picture from The Simpsons of Nelson pointing and laughing

PJ Neal@pjneal· May 3

"Let's call it a squirrel-proof bird feeder," says the marketing executive who has never met my squirrels.

A squirrel raiding the seed in a bird feeder

PJ Neal@pjneal· May 2

There have been a couple gems recently, for example... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

What did you talk about?
Books. Travel. Space – until she questioned whether the moon landing was real.

Most awkward moment?
My reaction to her questioning the moon landing. I didn’t quite keep a poker face, which put a speed bump in the conversation.

PJ Neal@pjneal· Apr 25

Perhaps the greatest @wsj.com stipple ever?

Photo of a WSJ article. Headline is "A Mayor With No Pants Is the Talk of This Town." Below is a stippled image of a pair of pants with "Missing" written underneath.

PJ Neal@pjneal· Feb 14

Scene from Star Wars. Obi says he's seen video of Anakin killing children. Amidala says "but the Dow is over $50000"

PJ Neal@pjneal· Feb 12

Was just reading the 2025 Black List. I want this movie made immediately.

Summary of a movie script titled The Waffle House Index by Andrew Nunnelly: "The following three things are true: 1. The WAFFLE HOUSE INDEX is a metric used by FEMA to measure the severity of a natural disaster. 2. Janes works at the graveyard shift at her local Waffle House. 3. There's a storm coming."

PJ Neal@pjneal· Feb 10

Similarly, this is what a SQL server looks like:

A cartoon of a squirrel dressed as a waiter

PJ Neal@pjneal· Feb 8

Just a truly fabulous alignment in my feed:

A post about Will Lewis followed by another unrelated post, looking like the Star Wars text scroll, starting with "it was all so stupid"

PJ Neal@pjneal· Jan 9

A screen grab from the Office Space movie with the text "we need to talk about your flair"

PJ Neal@pjneal· Jan 9

This is critical and often overlooked. Here's an analysis we did with Harvard and Imperial faculty looking at decades-long shifts in executive hiring trends showing this clearly playing out across CEO and CxO roles: hbr.org/2022/07/the-...