Perry Pak

Commoner.

[Perry Pak @ppak]

I don't think about my age too much, but man, my birth year is DEEP in dropdown menus now.

[Perry Pak @ppak]

😂

[Djed Spence @DjedSpence]

👀🔓

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT (who left us 19yrs ago today) was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.

[Perry Pak @ppak]

When your new windshield wipers finally get delivered, but the forecast looks like this #wawx #seattle

[Perry Pak @ppak]

@DIRECTV For anyone still trying to figure this out, I upgraded from the Entertainment Package to Choice and then 687 showed up in the guide. Doesn't explain why my friend sees it when he's on the Entertainment Package though. Care to explain? @DIRECTV @DIRECTVhelp #Mariners

[Perry Pak @ppak]

@DIRECTV Hey guys, I know the Mariners will be on Stream on channel 687, but I don't see it in my guide. Is it a specific package or add-on that I need?

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

The Fuckening of white-collar workers has arrived. https://t.co/6829id3TX6

[Ryan Cohen @ryancohen]

The Hollow Men

American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.

By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants.

These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition.

In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken.

Today, we have severed that link.

We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses.

If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived.

This looting starts in the boardroom.

We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year.

Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor.

And for what?

Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love.

They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders.

And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk?

We get the Delegation Economy.

When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know.

This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering.

They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake.

While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us.

If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag.

The time for polite governance is over.

If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.

[Nike @Nike]

Sweet sweet victory.

[Seattle Seahawks @Seahawks]

Ifykyk

[Seattle Seahawks @Seahawks]

The West is ours.

Presented by @BECU

[Perry Pak @ppak]

@MLB @Topps 🔥

[Perry Pak @ppak]

Starters can go past the 4th inning in the playoffs? 🤯 Dan Wilson taking notes? #GOMS

[Luke @luke_westfall_]

@A_Jude Yea Dan is not the answer. He’s a nice dude but dawg this team was definitely winning despite his decisions not because of them

[Joe Fann @Joe_Fann]

The cope is gonna be really brutal for a while, but damn I’d feel so much better if Woo gave up the homer to Springer.

Go down with your best.

[Dick Fain @dickfain]

Kirby pulled too early
Woo pulled too early

Everything falls into place if Dan is just patient.

[Perry Pak @ppak]

I think Toronto was the better team, but we were in position to win. It's not Bazardo's fault he was put in there. He should not have been part of the plan tonight. Should have been Kirby, Woo, Castillo, Munoz. Brash or Speier if you need mid-inning strikeouts. Sign Naylor. #GOMS

[Mina Kimes @minakimes]

Welp. That one’s gonna hurt for a while.

Love love love this team, though. Bring back Naylor and let’s run this shit back.

[Colin O'Keefe @colinokeefe]

If you would’ve told me in June the Mariners would lose Game Seven of the ALCS because the manager went to Bazardo in an enormous spot in the 7th instead of Muñoz I would’ve said “Damn that’s brutal but I’m surprised it wasn’t Vargas”

[Perry Pak @ppak]

Castillo should have been the one warming. I would never have handed the ball to Bazardo in that situation. Come on guys, fight back #GOMS #GoMariners

[Perry Pak @ppak]

@HayesHolly2 @Phojita1 No hate here. And there are many others more deserving in your comments, but I gotta throw my name in for the last pair. Just a long time Mariner fan that would be so excited and appreciative to go! Thanks for doing what you do.