I highly recommend reading Helen Rumbelow's UK Times article, 'I Studied The Latest Epstein Files. As A Woman, This Is What I Felt.' Non-paywalled link here: https://archive.ph/hI1gs
Here are four of my posts on LinkedIn about the Epstein files and who's in them, from a female perspective: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7424869059839574016/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7425176380268662785/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cindygallop_reminder-this-month-makes-it-17-years-that-ugcPost-7424944258350120960-Xorx https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7425186871225270272/ On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM John Sundman via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote: > I suppose it goes without saying, but please do not share this gossip > (below) outside of Silklist. It's tangential to the question of the > humanity of billionaires, but you may find it amusing. > > I reside on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA, a place > where many people have (second or third. . .) vacation homes. In times when > I didn't have income from freelance technical writing, I have worked for my > friend Lou, a general contractor, on construction/home-remodelling jobs. > Over the years I've done a lot of work — a couple of months — on a house > that belongs to Harvard professor Dan Goleman. Most of this work was done > during the colder months when Goleman wasn't there. It was a nice but not a > grand house. Four bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. It needed *a lot* of > maintenance. It had a view of Vineyard Sound and the Elizabeth Islands, > which made it worth millions. > > From wikipedia: > > *The term [emotional intelligence] became widely known with the > publication of Daniel Goleman's 1995 book: Emotional Intelligence – Why it > can matter more than IQ. Goleman followed up with several similar > publications that reinforce use of the term. Late in 1998, > Goleman's Harvard Business Review article entitled "What Makes a > Leader?" caught the attention of senior management at Johnson & Johnson's > Consumer Companies. The article argued that EI comprised the skills and > characteristics that drive leadership performance. Johnson & Johnson funded > a study which concluded that there was a strong relationship between > superior performing leaders and emotional competence, supporting theorists' > suggestions that the EI is a distinguishing factor in leadership > performance.* > > According to Lou, Goleman and his wife purchased the house in partnership > with another Harvard professor & his wife. Alas, Goleman evidently did a > poor job assessing this couple — his EQ failed him? — and he ended up > getting swindled by them and losing a lot of money. Goleman also bought a > fixer-upper house on the New Jersey palisades, and lost a lot of money on > that project. Which is why he was always hustling to make as much $$ as he > could from his status as the Guru of Emotional Intelligence. I met Goleman > only once. Lou introduced me to him saying 'John's a writer, like you.' > Goleman was nice enough but didn't strike me as especially emotionally > astute. He asked if I would give him one of my books, and offered to sell > me one of his, lol. > > I also spent nearly a year working on the trophy house of David Wetherell, > who was, very briefly, a billionaire. In 1999 his company CMGI was the > poster child for 'the new economy' — later better known as 'the dot-com > bubble.' When I was working on his house the CMGI stock price was > ~$300/share. Two years later it was fifty cents and the stock got > delisted from NASDAQ. I wrote an essay for *Salon* about that experience > — *How I destroyed the New Economy > <https://www.salon.com/2002/10/23/wetherell/>*— in which I hypothesized > that the reason the bubble burst was because I had helped to build > Wetherell's mansion on an ancient Wampanoag burial ground. > > In my very brief encounters with Wetherell, he did seem to conform to the > 'billionaire == arrogant jerk' stereotype. My main job on that site was > moving heavy stuff from point A to point B — hard, dirty, grunt work, which > made me virtually invisible. Wetherell barely registered me as a fellow > human. But he did notice the essay, lol. It still rankled him five years > later when he threatened to sue me and *Salon*. "Whenever anybody > searches for me on the internet, that damn story is the first thing that > comes up!" But everything I had written was true & I had witnesses > (including the Wampanoag tribal genealogist & tribal medicine man) who > backed me up & *Salon* stood by the story. Wetherell did not sue. > > jrs > > P.S. The Wetherell stuff is not confidential ;^) > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 5:46 AM Udhay Shankar N via Silklist < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 3:59 PM Manar Hussain via Silklist < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> I had a long chat with an SF friend last year about the challenge of >>> maintaining a meaningful healthy relationship with his best friend who went >>> from modest to billionaire over the last few years. Despite the friendship >>> remaining mutually strong and important to both of them, he's found himself >>> *silently* self editing what he does and says to keep it workable. This is >>> the progressive adaptation, ecosystem change, that fuels the emerging new >>> reality for his billionaire friend that ratchets down awareness of what it >>> is to be "ordinary folk"... lower empathy, lower EQ by default. >>> >> One thing I have observed with the few billionaires I have worked with in >> the past is that, outside of a small subset of their pre-existing >> friends+family network, almost EVERY SINGLE interaction with a human being >> has to do with said human being asking them for money. That is also one >> major factor in warping their worldview. >> >> >> -- >> Silklist mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >> > > > -- > *Sundman figures it out! <https://johnsundman.substack.com/>* — an > ongoing autobiographical meditation. > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist > -- *Cindy Gallop* Consultant + Founder/CEO MakeLoveNotPorn Academy is now live in early-stage beta: https://www.makelovenotporn.academy/ You can make tax-deductible donations/donate from Donor Advised Funds to help us grow and scale MakeLoveNotPorn Academy <https://www.makelovenotporn.academy/>: donate here via non-profit Inspire Access <https://givebutter.com/InspireAccessxMLNP>. 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