George, Dan and Carly talk about different media revenue and business models, the job to be done of local media, how to avoid innovator’s dilemma, and how the pandemic has changed our routines, wants and what we value.
Show Notes
- Where is John McAfee? Lexington, Tennessee, apparently.
- David Schwimmer, most notably Ross from friends, has done all kinds of stuff since
- Check out Tanya Braganti’s work, George in his blouse not pictured on her website, but it sure is on our Instagram
- I Said No Gifts! episode with Joel Kim who caught Rachel reading Ayn Rand
- Have You Noticed They're Always Reading on Friends?
- Apple News+, George’s favorite Apple product of all time, which has replaced his many individual magazine subscriptions
- Profits at The New York Times show media dinosaurs are ruling the internet
- The Teacher’s Pet, a podcast made in conjunction with The Australian (The Night Driver is the latest)
- The Daily podcast, habitually a top 5 on all charts
- Hidden Brain’s Starving the Watchdog episode, which looks at the consequences that come when local newspapers shut down. Carly recommends you listen to it since she wasn’t really able to make the points so clearly expressed in this episode and it’s important stuff
- How Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy Rediscovered Routine in Quarantine
- Want to find a place to live that will be safe from climate change? Fast Company says “Good luck"
- Reply All’s Feral Hogs episode, one of the only reasons to own a gun
- You can watch Straw Dogs, one of Sam Peckinpah’s most controversial films, on Amazon or Criterion
- Lindsey Graham said to use his words against him. Twitter followed through.
- Robinhood, your opportunity to micro invest if you a) are of age and b) have a level of financial literacy
- Copilot, an app for all your budgeting needs (Use code D7X99E to get a month of Copilot free)
- Roam Research, a note-taking tool
- Notion, which Dan and Josef are using to build all kinds of cool E&A databases
- Go ahead with your bad self, onion rings
- The book club has started but there’s always time to join!
Three Things
Carly
- Listening: To CDs by necessity, but loving the Black Keys album Brothers which has aged very, very well
- Loving: Fall, yes she is recommending an entire season, but if you live anywhere with fall foliage, take a walk and soak it up
- Listening pt 2: To the Morally Indefensible podcast, a “companion” to the upcoming FX docuseries A Wilderness of Error, inspired by the book of the same name by Errol Morris
Dan
- Listening: To Ariel Posen, whose work Dan describes the definition of putting compelling art in front of people predisposed to care. Side note: the Bros. Landreth are not related to Sonny Landreth...or are they?
- Sharing: But, not necessarily recommending, Machine Gun Kelly’s newest album, produced by Travis Barker, mainly because it is one of the first music cycles he’s living through. Welcome to old age, Dan!
- Listening pt 2: To Pluralone’s latest song The Night Won’t Scare Me
George
- Listening: To Monk’s Palo Alto album, an album recorded in a high school auditorium in Palo Alto. If he were forced to choose his favorite artists, Monk just may be it
- Listening pt 2: To the reissued Prince album Sign O’ The Times that has 97 bonus tracks (!!!)
- Reading: Liz Phair’s biography Horror Stories and quoting her “What I want is for the whole fabric of society to improve. I'm tired of women having to call out men for their violence against us. Police your own damn selves. You do these awful things to us, and then it's somehow our responsibility to get you to change.”
