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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Issue · Oct 1, 2026

    EON Resources: Make the Acreage Prove Itself (opens the original)

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    Oil companies can own enormous potential and still run out of money proving it.EON Resources, Inc. (NYSE American: EONR), under the leadership of CEO Dante Caravaggio, chose a sharper route: let a partner pay for the first test of a deeper formation while EON keeps a meaningful stake in the result.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Htlk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s

  2. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    Expertise Without Scars Is Just Performance (opens the original)

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    If everyone claiming expertise were actually qualified, leadership would be easy and outcomes would be predictable.Scroll your feed or walk a conference floor and you’ll see a parade of certainty. Confident posts. Polished books. Clean frameworks.People who have never sat in the CEO chair explaining exactly how a CEO should behave.People who never carried payroll pressure prescribing courage to executives who do it every Friday.

  3. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    Dolphin Entertainment - The Real Asset Is the Audience (opens the original)

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    Dolphin Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: DLPN), under the leadership of CEO, William O’Dowd IV, has assembled an unusual position: respected agencies that can make cultural properties visible, plus an ambition to own a piece of what they help build. The hard question is whether it can turn that reach into cash returns before financing complexity consumes the advantage.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A8EM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:st

  4. Issue · Sep 28, 2026

    The Internet Made Advertising Look Like Journalism (opens the original)

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    When publishing became free, believing became expensive.Nowadays, anyone can promote a product, publish an opinion, or dress an advertisement as independent reporting. The cost of putting a claim in front of you has fallen. The cost of acting on a bad claim can still wreck a company.I spent years in the newspaper business when newspapers were king. Reporters could get a story wrong, and politicians often hated their conclusions, but there were editors, reputations, and a visible line between rep

  5. Issue · Sep 26, 2026

    Hope Isn’t Soft. It’s a Weapon for People Who Intend to Win. (opens the original)

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    What if the one emotion most people treat as soft is actually the sharpest tool you own?Hope lifts more weight in a person’s life than discipline, talent, or even money. It’s the quiet force that drags us out of bed and tucks us in at night. When you carry hope, you move through the world with a sense that something extraordinary could land on your desk before lunch and change everything.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tr_

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