Episode 30 - Feeling the Burn

Ryan’s audio quality is a little off in this one — last one, we promise!

How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation

This is Water - David Foster Wallace

Eighth Grade Trailer

Why filing taxes isn’t easy

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Anand Giridharadas Twitter - Author of Winners Take All

The music played throughout this episode and others includes Home (feat. Herbi) by Ukiyo, How To Clean Your Room from JBPWAVE: A Jordan Peterson Lofi Hip Hop Mix by Akira The Don, Highwater Mark from HSTWAVE: A Hunter S Thompson Lofi Hip Hop Mix by Akira The Don, Canals by Joakim Karud, Happy Hours by L'Indecis, and Foreign Exchange by Globuldub. All are licensed under Creative Commons 3.0.

Episode 29 - This Episode is About Podcasting

Ryan’s audio quality is a little off in this one — sorry about that!

Nick Quah

Hotpod podcast newsletter

Spotify buys Gimlet and Anchor in podcast push, earmarks $500M for more deals

Relevant take: How Big Should Podcasting Be? - some back of the napkin math on what the actual value of the podcasting industry may be

Marco Arment

Startup - the OG Gimlet Podcast

Relay FM

Spotify is going public via direct listing as $SPOT

Scott Galloway on Walmart’s Jet Acquisition

Overcast.fm

Relevant take: Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play - Stratechery on the acquisition

Apple just explained why it’s going to make original TV shows

Waking Up App

Inadequate Equilibria - the book

Eliezer Yudkowsky - Researcher at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute

AI Racing Toward the Brink - Yudkowsky on the the Waking Up Podcast

The music played throughout this episode and others includes Home (feat. Herbi) by Ukiyo, How To Clean Your Room from JBPWAVE: A Jordan Peterson Lofi Hip Hop Mix by Akira The Don, Highwater Mark from HSTWAVE: A Hunter S Thompson Lofi Hip Hop Mix by Akira The Don, Canals by Joakim Karud, Happy Hours by L'Indecis, and Foreign Exchange by Globuldub. All are licensed under Creative Commons 3.0.

Episode 28 - Honesty is an okay policy

Kitchen Confidential - Bourdain’s first memoir…

Medium Raw - …and the second

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

Hunter S. Thompson of the kitchen

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Charles McDowell's Wide Neck Mugshot - Know your meme

Daddy Long Neck Meets WIDE NECK

“I didn’t think I was famous until someone sent me my mugshot on a sheet of acid”

Amazon Spark - Apparently this has been around for a year? Wat.

Fiona is killing it on Amazon Spark

Merlin Mann on Amazon Spark

Parker couldn’t find the study on rating bias =[

The Long Winters

Cortex #79: 2019 Yearly Themes

Humans Need Not Apply

Max Temkin on the ten year anniversary of Cards Against Humanity

Benedict - oh god, not this again.

Benedict Evans Newsletter

The music played throughout this episode and others includes Home (feat. Herbi) by Ukiyo, How To Clean Your Room from JBPWAVE: A Jordan Peterson Lofi Hip Hop Mix by Akira The Don, Highwater Mark from HSTWAVE: A Hunter S Thompson Lofi Hip Hop Mix by Akira The Don, Canals by Joakim Karud, Happy Hours by L'Indecis, and Foreign Exchange by Globuldub. All are licensed under Creative Commons 3.0.