Let us be more simple and less vain, Rousseau once wrote. But then, he never occupied a C-suite with cameras rolling everywhere.

This time of year, we talk about guest appearances by actors on television — Kaitlyn Dever on The Last of Us , Jamie Lee Curtis going full Donna on The Bear , Melissa McCarthy channeling John Cena opposite Meryl Streep in Only Murders in the Building .

What we talk about less is guest appearances by executives of television, and for good reason. Executives are supposed to stay far from a TV camera. Isn’t that the bargain — they have the power to fire everyone, and in return, we don’t have to see them?

Let us be more simple and less vain, Rousseau once wrote. But then, he never occupied a C-suite with cameras rolling everywhere.

This time of year, we t

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