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If your organization is exploring the future of value, authenticity, or brand storytelling β Iβd love to talk.
Iβm now booking corporate keynotes, private events, and institutional lectures for 2026, with custom programs available for luxury, marketing, financial, and creative industries.
Current talks include:
π Diamonds Arenβt Really Real
π Belief Beats Truth: Why Your Brain Buys the Story, Not the Object
π Carbon Wars: Mined vs. Manufactured
π The Future of Forever: What happens when two billion-dollar industries sell the same object set apart only by belief?
As a jewelry historian, author, and cultural critic, my work explores how value, desire, and belief shape the world we live in β from the myths behind famous diamonds to the modern βpost-factualβ economy where meaning matters more than matter.
Iβm thrilled to share that Iβve officially joined Chartwell Speakers as a featured speaker.
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Iβm back!
The American Revolution, a six-part, twelve-hours series was supposed to air on PBS in November. Truly hope it makes it to streaming on some platform. Ken Burns can tell historical stories like no other. #HistoryMatters
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Itβs fascinating!! Also Ajaβs book Stoned
Thanks!
I made a new one coming out later this year with Spiegel TV in Germany. You would not believe the organized crime bs The Syndicate put us through. They actually threatened the director in person that she would be blacklisted as a journalist if she was working with me.
Agreed.
If you havenβt seen it yet, the New York Times really thinks you should watch my documentary about synthetic diamonds.
Check it out.
Nothing Lasts Forever.
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The man literally rented Venice for his wedding. I donβt mean to be a bitch, but I think itβs time to get the guillotineβs out.
If anyoneβs interested, she said hepatitisA is also gonna spread like wildfire with no food Inspection over the next 6 to 12 months, and she thinks there will be endemic polio in many places by next winter (2026).
My doctor told me probably by the end of the year theyll be difficult to find, exceptionally expensive & not covered by insurance. Within another year or two you wonβt be able to get most in the US.
She said by summer measles would be everywhere. Sheβs been right abt everything so far.
Everybody loves to shoot off at the mouth about what heroic shit they wouldβve done in Nazi Germany.
Well, mein leiblings, whatever youβre doing right now, whatever position youβre taking, thatβs exactly who you wouldβve been in Nazi Germany.
Please make this happen.
Oh youβre too kind!
But Iβd be happy to talk with @briantylercohen.bsky.social anytime.
βThe president makes perfect assessments.β She seriously said that.
No. Shes a grifter.
Sheβs only been a registered Dem for about a year. She just moved to Chicago a 6 months ago to run against an 80-year-old. Sheβs from Texas & was a Rep until she could get more attention and make more more money being a Progressive.
Sheβs also a Hamas apologist & vile antisemite.
Yeah, but the best part of a Salon is drinking absinth and doing tasteful bumps of cocaine in the 19th century.
I donβt know how we accomplish that on social mediaβ¦ But Iβm open to suggestions.
Itβs exactly what they do. I only know that because I worked in the industry. But I guess I just sort of assumed it was slightly more common knowledge. And itβs not just clothes and shoes and handbags.
Wow. Apparently, China is just gonna burn it all down.
I think it was the use of the word peasants. Theyβve snapped.
If nothing else, this will be interesting.
Maybe this was always just a well guarded secret within the luxury industryβ¦ π€
But seriously, Iβve known this since I was in my 20s.
Anybody wanna see my gigantic carry-on suitcase sized HermΓ©s Birkin bag?
Wait, did anyone really not know that Chinese manufacturers actually make most of our super high-end luxury clothes and accessories?
You can get a really nice Chanel bag for $500 instead of $15,000 if you buy it directly from a Chinese supplier.
OK. But Congress doesnβt care; because Congress is also undermining national security.
So like, if there was ever any doubt about whether Comrade Krasnov literally worked for the Kremlinβ¦ I guess the representatives from βletβs not be ridiculousβ can just shut the fuck up now.