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🎛️🎙️ 🔗 Scripting News
\n\n\nI need an easy way to do a mini-podcast. An idea that should be said verbally, but it’s short and self-contained, about the length of an untitled blog post, like the one you’re reading now.
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💬 Dave Winer
\nI had the same idea back in 2019 @dave - I even created a 🔗🎙️snicklecast to describe what a 🔗🎙️snicklecast - and why it is.
\nNever cracked the ‘simple’ part though.
\nI THINK there is something like this in MicroBlog on a higher tier than I sit at.
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\n\n\nThe real competitive advantage is no longer distribution or reach, it’s the curation authority that makes audiences come directly to you because your point of view is irreplaceable.
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💬 Roger Lynch
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From the Vox Media podcast network, this is Channels with Peter Kafka. I’m also Chief Correspondent at Business Insider. Today we’re talking about running the last remaining magazine empire with Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch.
\nExcept I just looked at the transcript, and Lynch only used the word “magazine” once. These days he thinks of Condé—which for decades was the world’s most prestigious magazine publisher and probably still is—as a portfolio brand that shows up all kinds of places: on the web, on TikTok, at movie theaters, and at the mega-glamorous Met Ball.
\nSo we skipped the question I normally ask magazine people: “What the hell is a magazine in 2026?” Instead we moved on to other topics: What’s it like to be the subject of one of the most popular movies in the world? What’s it like to run a media business when Google stops sending you traffic? And who’s going to replace Anna Wintour and David Remnick—perhaps the two most influential editors in the world?
\nSpoiler: Lynch doesn’t tell me where the succession list is. But you’re going to like this interview anyway.
\nFrom the Vox Media podcast network, this is channels with Peter Kafka. That is me. I’m also Chief Correspondent at Business Insider. And today, we are talking about running the last remaining magazine empire, with Condé Nassio Roger Lynch. Except I just looked at the transcript of this chat, and Lynch only used the word magazine once. These days, he thinks of Condé, which for decades was the world’s most prestigious magazine publisher. Probably still is. As a portfolio brand that shows up all kinds of places on the web, obviously, on TikTok, and at movie theaters, and at the mega-glamorous Met Ball. So in this conversation, we skipped the question. I normally ask magazine people, which is something like, hey, what the hell is a magazine in 2026? Anyways, when we move on to other topics like, what’s it like to be the subject of one of the most popular movies in the world? What’s it like to run a media business with Google Stop sending you traffic? And who’s going to replace Anna Windtour and David Remnick, perhaps the two most influential editors in the world, and where is that short list? Spoiler. Lynch does not tell me where the list is. But you’re going to like this interview anyway. Here’s me, talking to Condé Nassio Roger Lynch.
\nPeter Kafka: Roger Lynch, welcome to channels.
\nRoger Lynch: Thank you, Peter. Good to see you.
\nPeter Kafka: You are talking to me from LA, very show-bizzy of you. Speaking of show-biz, you guys just finished the Met Gala.
\nRoger Lynch: I think it’s an enormously successful project for you. It is, yes. It’s show-biz, it is commerce, it’s philanthropy, it’s a ton of celebrity, some controversy. It also seems like the most obvious expression of Condé Nassed as a company today. Is that a fair summation? I think it’s right, and I think it also showcases what we do best, which is create cultural moments. Events has been a strategy for us as it is for many media companies. But for us, our events are really around creating cultural moments that really break through the zeitgeist and search algorithms or whatever is happening in the headwinds of the media industry. Nothing holds back big cultural moments like the Met Gala.
\nPeter Kafka: How do you measure success for a big cultural moment? At some point, you’re a business, so you’re trying to make money from it.
\nRoger Lynch: You’re also raising money for the Met, but it’s a big dollars-and-sense event for you as well. Is that the most important thing? Is the reception it gets online? Most important, how do you measure it? Look, that event in particular, it’s different for each event. For that event in particular, it starts with a Met. That is a fund-raiser, and this year was immensely successful for the Costume Institute and the Met, and also the inauguration of the Cundymask galleries that we did the ribbon cutting for the morning of the Met Gala. From an audience standpoint, every year, it surpasses our goals. And we finish the Met and we go, how can we ever do anything like that? And then it grows another 50 or 60 percent the following year. So last year, I don’t know, we had over 2 billion total video views of the content we produced around the Met.
\nPeter Kafka: This year, it was 3.1 billion, another 50-something percent increase year-over-year. Does that tell you you’re getting better at making the content, or is this audience getting bigger for this stuff? You know, I think that in the earlier years for me, when I joined, I think we had a lot of room to improve in the content that we created around the event itself.
\nRoger Lynch: The event itself was spectacular, but how Cundymask covered it and created content around it, there was opportunity for improvement on that. And I think the team has done a fantastic job really increasing the quality and the creativity of the output around it. I think then what compounds on that is that the intrigue around this event just seems to grow every year. And yes, you mentioned this year, so there’s some controversy. That’s fine. That’s actually good.
\nPeter Kafka: Let’s spell out the controversy.
\nRoger Lynch: It’s Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sciences were sponsors and curators of the event. This event’s always been tied to extreme well. He’ve always had benefactors working with you on this project. Were you surprised at the blowback controversy you got from the Bezos' involvement? Well, to be clear, their involvement was in support of them at the Museum and the Custom Institute and the money that they gave to the Museum. So, look, I think there’s a lot of reasons you can criticize extreme wealth and people will criticize with it, but to actually criticize them for donating money to a cultural institution, to me, was a bit off base. Were you surprised because this is going to be a regular feature going forward as long as you’re working on this. You’re going to have people like the Bezos who want to be involved and they’re going to pony up a lot of money. Will that give you any pause? Like, oh, do I want to deal with this? Are you okay saying, yeah, these things come with with attendant controversy and that’s okay. That’s okay. Well put, let’s zoom out a little bit and just talk about Kandai as a business. You came in in 2019. It’s a privately held magazine publisher. In 2019, the future for privately held magazine companies didn’t look great. What’s the best way to sum up what you have done during your tenure there? Well, I had the distinct advantage of not knowing anything about the business and not having grown up in the publishing industry. So, it enabled me to come in and question everything. The first thing I questioned was how we were structured. We were structured, you know, first as two separate companies. There was an international business with its own CEO in a US business and they really acted like competitors in every way possible, including the editors competing with each other. There was so much internal competition. We had no time to focus on external. Even every country around the world where we operate were a very global company operated completely independently from each other. And you know what, that I think was probably a good strategy for many, many decades. It made Kandai NASA into a very large successful global publisher. A whole series of fiefdoms and then people were proud of the fiefdom nature. They were. They were very, very protective. But, you know, what I came in and looked at is like, okay, I can understand why in a print magazine business, why that was a successful strategy. But the world has changed. The opportunity for us going forward is really about connecting with audiences in new and different ways, using technology certainly. And also audiences have changed. Maybe is in part because of technology, but if you just look at how cosmopolitan people have become in terms of their content consumption, when, you know, some of the most popular shows you may watch come out of Sweden or Korea, Israel, wherever. And when I, when I first joined, I started looking at the data about where our visitors were coming from, each of our websites. And there was something that really struck me, which is, you know, wherever you went around the world, and you looked at the data of our websites, about 40% of the traffic was coming from outside of that country. So, you know, my first listening tour three or four weeks into joining Kadynast, you know, I’m meeting with editors around the world. And I heard, you know, sort of a similar story, which is, you know, oh, audiences in Italy only care about Italian culture and content, they don’t care about what happens or are same as France. And I’d always ask, well, then explain this, you know, why it is 40% of the traffic to the sites here come from outside of the country. And the reverse is true, which is we have a huge audience from France or Italy going to our sites elsewhere around the country. It’s because they are interested in it. We’re just not organized in a way to present the content to them the way they want to consume it. And by the way, some of your employees still tell me that this culture, the former culture is important. And by globalizing things and sort of consolidating brands globally and having shared resources for some of these companies that you’re missing out on what makes a particular title unique. And how they do speak to their core audience and whatever, whether it’s geographic or demographic. And that mushing this stuff together has been a detriment even though you’re going to say it’s successful. Well, the first thing I would say is I’ll never be someone who just admits that everything we’ve done is perfect and is right. I think you can always learn. And what I told our teams, when we made all the editorial changes now four or five years ago, the first thing I told them was assume we got it wrong. Go figure out where we got it wrong and let’s make adjustments. But don’t assume we got everything right and wait till we learn a lesson a year from now. Figure it out now. Figure out what we got wrong, what adjustments we need to make. And there’ll always be that kid. We’ll always be making adjustments to try to figure it out. And some of those adjustments, you know, it’s different brand by brand. If you take a brand like wired, you know, technology is more global. The interests, the factors that influence our lives through technology is more global in nature. Something like Vogue, there’s an element of global fashion, but then local markets, whether it’s Japan, China, India, very strong local culture and local fashion. So there’s not a one size fits all for any of our brands. You have to you have to adjust your assumptions based on that brand and the local markets. So I do feel like we have largely got it right. And you know, the results have been, you know, we’ve taken our largest brand Vogue. It has grown every year that I’ve been at the company and its profitability continues to grow. It’s reach grows. And it’s more successful and it’s ever been under my tenure. So overall, the business is profitable, which wasn’t always the case. Increasing profitability, revenue is basically where it was in 2021. If you were a public company, people would be very upset with you, but you’re not a public company, you’re owned by the new house family is sort of flat revenue and increasing profitability. Is that what they want out of this company? Well, I think if you look at what we have revenue streams that have declined structurally and revenue that has grown and they coming in to the company I came into, print advertising, print subscription, new stand revenues, that was just going to decline. We knew that and that was by far the majority of the revenue when I joined. So the real trick wasn’t to change the trajectory of that because that wasn’t going to change. It was to develop new revenue streams at a fast rate so that you can offset the decline that was going to happen in the legacy business. And we’ve done that. And so if you look at our big growth areas, certainly digital subscriptions, they grew 29% last year. I think there are not many companies that wouldn’t be thrilled to have 29% growth in digital subscription revenue or events. We started the conversation today about events. Our event strategy has really paid off. In every year, these big 10 pull events grow more than we expect. So if you look at last year, our big 10 pull events last year grew about 50% revenue year on year. Huge. And these are not small revenue activities for us.
\nPeter Kafka: This year, our events so far are up 60% over last year, which was up 50% over the year before.
\nRoger Lynch: So those strategies around leaning into digital subscriptions or commerce business for our events business has really paid dividends for us. But I guess what I’m asking is, are your owners okay? If you come back to them and say at the end of this year, say, listen, our revenue didn’t increase much or were still there where we were in 2021. I’ve had some declining businesses. I’ve replaced them with growing businesses. And you, the new house family, you get to enjoy X percent more profits. Is that a win for them? Well, let’s be clear. Our revenue is growing. Our revenue grew last year and our revenue already this year is growing again. So we do have a growing revenue. Okay. So it’s it’s it do you think you are going to if we look at the chart, right? And you’re you’re still sort of where you are in 2020 went down from 2021 and now back up to 2021 rates. I guess what I’m saying is is the expectation that you’re going to surpass where you were at 2021 at some point or is this sort of the level you’re going to be at? Oh, no, we’re definitely surpassing. Yeah. Our business is going to continue to grow. You think it is reasonable to to grow revenue and profitability because the you know, the trajectory that we had to overcome was again, the majority of the revenue of the company when I join being print advertising and print subscription new stands as the declining business. It’s a small minority of our revenue today because all of these other revenue areas have been growing and they grow every year. And so now they’ve surpassed the decline in the traditional business and they’re only going to continue to grow. So our revenue will continue to grow because these new streams like digital subscriptions and commerce and events and all of that are growing, you know, at double digit rates. And if we go back to 2019, does this look like the company you imagined you were taking over and we’re going to transform is this where you thought you’d end up? You know, I knew that we had some big challenges and frankly, that’s what attracted me to this. I, you know, like really big challenges. I like transformation. I like connecting the dots and strategies and then going executing against it. The thing I knew is that there was going to be a big messy transformation just in terms of the structure of the company and that those changes were going to be cultural as much as they were organizational and that we were going to need to do a lot of innovation around creating new businesses and revenue streams. But what gave me hope that we had that opportunity was the strength of our brands. And so the number one thing for me when I was considering whether to take this job was to try to understand where our brands becoming more connected with audiences or less. And so I asked for a lot of data on that.
\nPeter Kafka: I wanted to see it principally around digital platforms.
\nRoger Lynch: And what I really quickly realized is they’re definitely becoming more connected with audiences. We’re growing audiences. And therefore, okay, what we have is really a business model problem that is very solvable. It is because the traditional line, as you know, for every company going through analog to digital is you’re trading your analog dollars for digital diamonds pennies whatever it is. And so it’s a business problem that has really bedeviled just about every media company. That’s true. But Peter, when I joined, it’s been widely reported that the company was losing money and not a small amount of money. And today we’re profitable. Yeah. And when I joined, we were majority print revenue. And today we’re majority digital. Right. What I’m saying is when you said this is a suburb of business problem, now you can point back and say, yeah, we solved it. But in 2019, you had that same level of confidence that we’re going to figure this out where most people have not. Yes. Yeah. I did. I knew it would be tough, but I knew we’d figure it out. Yeah. I mean, most, I mean, your peers don’t really exist anymore. It was just used to be cotton asked and timing and timing doesn’t exist. It’s been chopped up and renamed a bunch of places. A lot of the most, I think of all the digital brands that we’re going to challenge the cotton day and ask the world that just wrote about basically the end of BuzzFeed yesterday. VICE has gone bankrupt. Vox Media, who makes this podcast, is splitting itself up as we talk. So I guess what I’m saying is you did a good job if you can sit here and say, yeah, it has we’ve grown revenue and we’ve grown profitability while other folks have been falling down. Not really a question, I guess that’s a compliment. I’ll just say thank you. You’re welcome. We’ll be right back with CondéNAS Roger Lynch, but first to word from a sponsor. I’m Mitch First, two-time end-to-resil champion, championship MVP, and forward for the USM’s national team. Before I went pro, I graduated from Harvard with a degree in psychology, which comes in handy more than you think. Any athlete pursuing greatness knows there’s a certain mentality you have to have. What people don’t know is what that costs. In my podcast, Confessions of an Elite athlete, I sit down with the best athletes in the world and explore the psychology, mindset, and unseen battles on the path to greatness. So take a seat and learn from the Confessions of an Elite athlete on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I’m Matt Bouchel, comedian, writer, and floating head you may or may not have seen on your FYP and I’m starting a brand new podcast. Wait, don’t swipe away, it’s called that sounds like a lot. I’m going to start by breaking down whatever insanity is happening in the world and then I’ll sit down with a comedian or actor or writer or honestly anyone who responds to my DMs. This is not the place to get the news, but it is a place to feel a little bit better about it. You can watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. That sounds like a lot part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. And we’re back. You mentioned cultural stuff inside the company. I was going back and listening to our 2021 conversation in the pandemic, sort of post-George Floyd reckoning. And this was a period where a lot of companies and particularly media companies have found their staff very upset with management and you guys had had to let go of a teen vogue editor that you’d hire because the staff didn’t want to work with her because of her bad tweets. When you look back at that time, that sort of pandemic, 2020-22 era, do you feel like at any point you sort of over corrected to accommodate staff? It seems now that the cultural pendulum has swung a lot and a lot of the stuff that people were complaining about in 2020-20-21, art things they would at least voice publicly now. I’m wondering if you look back at that era and go, maybe I overdid it. Well, it really hit us in 2020. And it started right around the time when George Floyd was murdered. And I knew when I joined that we had a lot of cultural issues to deal with. And you know, one of the first things that I did, again, because we had all these separate businesses around the world, there was no one company, there was no one, even executive team.
\nPeter Kafka: I wanted to try to find some things that I could get this newly, what was about to be combined company focused on, some global initiatives.
\nRoger Lynch: And it can’t be like, we’re going to be profitable, we’re going to, like, that’s not inspiring. But what I found talking to our employees was they were really interested in a couple areas. One, what are we doing on diversity? And two, what about sustainability? So I thought, great, these are really two really important issues for us to work on. And what we can do is even in advance of changing all the org structures or the, you know, how we do our editorial, I can create teams from around the world of employees who are really vested in this to help advise the company and help drive forward progress in these areas. So that work resulted in a diversity report and goals that we set in 2020. And so we were, by the time this hit us, we were already had a lot of work underway. And but it was, it was work that we needed because I think the company, you know, was, was not showing up well in these areas. And so, do I think we over corrected no? I don’t think we over corrected. I think we had a lot of room for improvement. And I think we seized the moment. And, and so today, when you’ve seen so many companies abandoning these efforts, you know, we just last month published our diversity report again. And we showed the progress that we make. And as I stood up in front of our company last month that our company meeting, I said, look, this is a core value of the company. And it’s discouraging to see all these other companies, you know, dropping these initiatives, but that only says one thing that it never was a core value. It was a convenience for us. It’s a core value. And it is a source of competitive advantage for us now. You know, I’ll talk to people who run media companies who said they were interested in diversity and now literally can’t say that out loud because the FCC might come after them or they might get some other kind of blowback in the Trump 2.0 era. And they’ll say, this is as important to me as it ever was. I just need to phrase it differently. I just can’t come out and say literally can’t say diversity. I can’t say any part of diversity, equity and inclusion.
\nPeter Kafka: Do you have sympathy for the folks who are running media companies who who think they’re doing the right thing, but can’t say that out loud? Look, I think there’s a couple categories of companies that have backed away from the commitments they made.
\nRoger Lynch: One is companies that are under threat from our own federal government and the FCC. I certainly have sympathy for the threats that they face. I wish more of them were willing to stand up because I do believe that the fears that they have are overblown in terms of what the government can really do. There are other companies that just abandoned them because the winds changed. I have no sympathy for them. None whatsoever.
\nPeter Kafka: Do you feel like you can make that assessment from the outside go out? These people never believe that they were just saying it and these people do mean it? Well, I think that companies that aren’t under the type of political pressure that you mentioned earlier who abandoned these, it just says one thing.
\nRoger Lynch: It was never really a core value. It was a response to a moment. And the thing, one of the things I’m most proud of with our company is that we’ve retained it as a core value and we report on our progress every year. Every year we make progress and we have publicly stated goals and we track ourselves to those goals. And I think our employees really appreciate it. And as I said, with fewer and fewer companies doing that, it puts us in a position of, I think, great competitive advantage. Yeah, I wanted to ask you at this. You brought up this idea that you guys have not been buffeted by the Trump, the second Trump administration, like other media companies. And you said, look, we don’t have a Warner Brothers deal to get through the FCC. We don’t have this issue. We don’t have that issue. Certainly, there’s an audience people that I work with who like hearing that. But I’m wondering why, why you make a point of bringing it up in public? Who you’ve talked about it in a couple different settings? What is the point of you saying that out loud? Who is the audience for that? The audience is our own employees and our future employees. You know, we have a talent brand that is very important to us. And I think if you’re a journalist today, I always tell our employees, our journalists, that right now, there’s fewer and fewer places where you can practice your best work without, you know, being either impacted directly by the government or by the ownership group or whatever. This is one of them. That is a source of competitive advantage. In the seven years I’ve been at the company, not once, as our owners of our owners or our board come to me and said, Hey, don’t publish this. Don’t publish that. And therefore, not once have I done that to our editors, because we have the best editors in the world. And the way to keep the best editors in the world is to stay out of their way and support them. And I really believe that that is the key to our success. And I’m fortunate that we’re owned by a family that believes in that too. And so I talk about it publicly because I want people to know, especially journalists who are maybe at places where they don’t feel that they have that freedom that should there be an opportunity to work at Connie Nass, they’d be welcomed here and they would not be interfered with. Thank you for that. That that that I really was curious about that. And it leads me to this question. And we talked about this a couple of times before, but now it’s a bigger deal than ever. A half a time, half of my show is spent interviewing people like you who run media companies, and the other half is spent talking to, we’ll just call them creatives. Increasingly, there are people who’ve left big media companies and created their own business. At the time, it was the last few times we talked about this, it was mostly theoretical. And now it’s, it’s a real thing and it’s happening a lot of places. And I’m wondering how you think about two different versions of this one.
\nPeter Kafka: How do you how do you work with someone like an Emily Sunberg who’s been on this show who has her own center of gravity? But she’s very adjacent to a lot of what you guys are doing and very interested in that world.
\nRoger Lynch: What do you do for either Emily or someone like her to say, Hey, you’re off on your own and you’re successful. But we think you can work with us. What is what is that pitch like? And the second part of that question is if you have an Emily Sunberg at Vogue before she becomes Emily Sunberg, how do you keep her there or how do you keep her advantage fair? Yeah. Look, I think that these new outlets for creatives or journalists are very good. I mean, this is an industry that’s been under pressure. There are a few fewer jobs in it than there were five years ago. That trend you’ve seen year after year. And so new outlets and new ways for for journalists or creatives to be able to develop businesses that can sustain them is only good. For us, it does make us think differently about how we how we operate and how we work with with journalists and creatives. We have to be more creative. We have to say, okay, there may be somebody who’s got a sub stack who is, you know, in an adjacent field that we can work with in some areas and they’ll have their sub stack. And it’s not necessarily competitive of what we do, but it’s not, you know, it’s not part of our business. And that’s okay. And so I think you’ll probably see us do more of that rather than less of that. What what does work with them look like? Is that you can freelance for us? I mean, could be or they can be writing a column for us as an example. And what is the upside for I’ll just keep saying Emily Sunberg. Well, she’s a generic stand-in here at this point for them who who are produced their own content get paid well for it and are profiled in the New York Times. What is what is Kondayn asked giving them by saying, you can now publish in our outlet too? Well, look, I think for them, for most of them, they may have a sub stack. Let’s take someone like Lockling Cartwright, you know, at Vanity Fair, you know, he has a breaker, which is his own. And he’s been on the show, yeah. A publication, yeah. And it’s great. And he does that. But it’s a limited audience that he’ll reach on his own. It’s also working with us at Kondayn asks or at Vanity Fair gives him access to a much broader reach audience than he would be able to develop just on his own. So to me, it’s a pretty good model to have where you can have somebody as talented as he is and connected as he is, building his own business, but all at the same time collaborating with us in a way that works for both parties. And what about the retention area idea that, you know, let’s say you’ve got a Lockling Cartwright on Vanity Fair and he goes, oh, wait, I could be making three acts what I make if I go off and do my own sub stack and podcast, et cetera.
\nPeter Kafka: How do you convince them to stick around? Or do you say, go off and do your own thing, but we’re going to make some arrangement with you.
\nRoger Lynch: Look, we haven’t had a lot of that happen, but, you know, I think that, you know, then the unfortunate case with sub stack is there aren’t that many that really can make a good living doing it. And I think those that do find that also it is hard work. It is you are constantly having to produce, you are constantly having to think about how you grow your business. And for some people that’s exhilarating and can be very successful and some it’s exhausting. And so I think there’s a limit is to how many people will be able to do that in a way that really supports, you know, their lifestyle. Yeah, there’s many more than I thought there were going to be five, six years ago, but it’s still a limited universe. I think it is. But again, it doesn’t mean there’s not an opportunity for them to do that and to work with us in certain ways. We’ll be right back, but first to work from a sponsor. And we’re back. Talk me through how you’re thinking about platforms these days. In the old days, we would say, what do you think about Facebook? What do you think about Apple News? I’m still curious about that. But I want to hear you talk about Google and the AI companies. It looks like you are what you tell me because it kind of seems like you’re washing your hands at Google, but I’m not sure if that’s the case and you’re definitely doing deals with the AI companies. And it seems like in all these cases, the platforms have something to offer you. And there’s a lot of risk of being dependent on the platforms. You know, the first thing is start with our audiences. And I’ve always been a believer in you have to observe what your audience or your customers are doing and try to craft your business model around that. And audiences are on these platforms. And so it’s very important for our brands to be where our audiences expect them to be. I think TikTok was a great example of that. When TikTok launched in the US, we saw a growth of Vogue on TikTok, but not by us. Yes, people were producing content under the Vogue name, putting it on TikTok. That was a really strong indication that audiences expected Vogue to be on there. And so we jumped in a big way. There was no revenue. There was no revenue model that we had for this. But it was important I felt for us to be there because our audiences expected us to be there. And we’d figure out, you know, that’s been the history of the internet. It starts with engagement and then monetization figures itself out later. And that’s what’s happened with us in TikTok. Because now we have ways to sell ads around our content and it’s become a good business for us. So it starts with where do our audiences expect our brands to be? Let’s make sure we’re there. Now your specific questions around AI. Well, wait, before we get to AI, though, right? Because it’s one thing to say, I want to be on TikTok or in the old days, it’s important for me to be on Facebook or pick your place and it makes that makes sense. There’s a difference between that and saying, I’m going to do a commercial deal where, you know, either I’m going to make stuff for the platform and they’re going to reward me with traffic or we don’t have a commercial deal, but also they’re using all my content and not sending me any traffic. I’m wondering how you think through all that because you do have to be there, but you can also end up just sort of building a business for someone else and getting very little in the way back. Always a risk. So as I mentioned, it starts with the audience. In terms of these platforms, I don’t believe that any of these platforms owe us an obligation to send us traffic or customers or audience. I also don’t believe that they have the right to use our content to come and compete directly with us. So, you know, if Google wants to change its search algorithms and stop sending traffic to publishers, as we’ve all seen, the amount of traffic that comes to publishers from search is declined precipitously, that’s fine. They can have their business reasons around it. It doesn’t give them the right to use our content to then come and compete with us for those audiences. That’s the rub there. And so for AI, the risk is these AI companies use the content that our journalists create and use it to compete with our core business model. Now, if they want to negotiate with us and enter into license agreements like OpenAI is done or Amazon or Microsoft or Proplexity, fine. Then we can come to terms on how that will work. Those that don’t do that or worse, frankly, in the case of Google, they tie their scraping of AI content to their search scraping. So, Google has been found to be dominant in search. They don’t let you opt out of scraping your content for AI unless you scrape opt out for search, which is very difficult for a publisher to do. I think that’s anti-competitive. I think it’s wrong that they do that. But look, these companies are also our partners. So we can have disagreements in some area of our business and strong alignment in other areas. Again, with Google, we’re one of the largest publishers on YouTube. We have a very, very good, strong relationship with YouTube, and it’s really core to our business and really important for them, too.
\nPeter Kafka: You’ve said Google Search is basically going to go to zero or something close to that for you, or basically stop showing up as referral traffic sooner than later because of the AI summaries they’re doing.
\nRoger Lynch: Google Discover is this hugely important product for publishers that I think most regular people don’t know about. That is often as big a deal or bigger than Google Search. Are you still working to get your stuff showing up on Google Discover? We do get traffic from Google Discover, but it is very different traffic than Search. Search is intent driven traffic. Google Discover traffic doesn’t convert for subscription, doesn’t convert for commerce. You may be able to sell a few ads around it, but it is far less important.
\nPeter Kafka: Spell out why it’s less important.
\nRoger Lynch: Because if somebody goes to Google and types vogue shopping recommendations, there is real clear intent with what they’re looking for. If they’re going to Google to search for something and they see an article promoted that it catches their eye and they click on it, it’s much less committed. It’s great. We love to get traffic from Google Discover, but that person is much less likely to become a vogue subscriber or your per subscriber or even transact in commerce than someone who shows much more intent through search. So it is not a replacement. Even though we’ve seen Discover traffic grow as Search traffic is decline, that’s a bad trade-off.
\nPeter Kafka: When we get off this call, I’m going to slack some people I work for.
\nRoger Lynch: I’m going to say here’s what Roger Lynch, the CEO of Candace, says about Google Discover traffic. I’ll let you know. I bet you Jim Bangkok agrees 100% with me. Jim’s one of the people I work for. At least as of today, we’re recording this on Tuesday. Right.
\nPeter Kafka: Did you take a look at the Vox Media podcast network, which is recording this podcast? It’s an asset that is probably going to trade hands very soon.
\nRoger Lynch: Yeah, I’m not going to comment on that, Peter. Fair enough. I’ll take that as a maybe.
\nPeter Kafka: With the AI deals, given that you’ve now gone multiple rounds with different platforms, and you’ve seen all the promise and peril and pitfall, what is most important to get out of the AI companies? Is it straight cash? Like you’re going to use our stuff, pay us, or it sounds like the referrals aren’t really a thing that most people are not clicking through those footnotes and AI results.
\nRoger Lynch: What is the best case scenario for you in these AI deals? First and foremost, it is to have a license arrangement, which reflects the fact that this is copyrighted content. You’re using our stuff, pay us. Yeah. Not just pay us, but agree to terms on how you’re going to use it. Just like when I was in the music industry, or we did film intelligence, these license deals, you could think about two main components. There’s the money, but there’s also the use, the grant of rights. How can you use it? Most importantly, how can you not use it? So as an example, we would never do a deal with an AI company that says, take all of our New Yorker content and just show it verbatim to your customers. That wouldn’t be in our interest. We would put conditions around it. So the terms of the license deals are just as important as the money that’s generated from them. We don’t think that they will refer traffic anywhere near the rate at which search did. But there’s an interesting dynamic that we see. You mentioned that I said search is going to go away. We chased it for a number of years and each year we do our budget and we’d say search is going to decline just because we don’t know why, but we know there will be some algorithm change, it will cause it to decline. And each of the last three years or so, we underestimated the decline. And so last year, we said, we’re going to take a different approach. I told all of our teams, you need to plan your businesses around there being no search. And if you don’t have a plan for that, you may not have a business. And we took that approach and I think it was very effective because it caused people to really think about how do we generate audiences that have strong intent and strong engagement. Now, as search to decline, we saw our direct audiences grow. I think it was in part the work that we were doing, but I think it was also in part because people, if you think about the example I gave you, I said, vogue shopping recommendations or something like that, you type that in a search algorithm. If what you get in return is an AI summary or a bunch of Google links to, you know, Walmart or whatever they are, whoever the deal is, that’s not a satisfactory help. You might just type in to searchbarvogue.com and then find it that way. So we’ve been seeing direct traffic grow dramatically where it’s, you know, it’s the majority source of our traffic now. And I think it is, you know, our teams would like to say, oh, it’s because we’ve done such a great job. You know, and I think that is largely true, but I think it is also because people are finding less relevant search results than they used to. And so where they used to use Google in some ways is a navigation tool. They’re finding that navigation. It’s very effective the AI summaries for answering really simple questions, but less so for things that involve taste. And this is one of the big things that I’ve seen in the discussions that we’ve had with AI companies three or four years ago when we started negotiating with them. It was a bit surreal because we literally, one company in particular told us, okay, we need to know how many words you have. It’s like, okay, do the words matter or just any words? Can you tell us how many words you have? Because we pay by the word. I’m like, okay, this is going to be a long discussion. But we got through it and you go see these deals. And then as these services answer engines started to become used more and more, these companies started to realize that our content was being used in their answers much more significantly. So they started coming back to us like, oh, okay, we see your content really matters in certain areas. And now there’s a whole debate about whether AI has taste or could ever replicate taste. Perfect, right? Because that is our core business. Creativity, taste. And I think that, you know, I think that creates much more opportunities for us now and how we can work with AI companies.
\nPeter Kafka: What about the worry that even though you’re getting paid today, even though you have restrictions and limits around how you can use your work, that inevitably what you’re doing is building up these platforms, making them more and more useful.
\nRoger Lynch: And certainly one of the products they might come out with one day is not their own version of Vogue, but just things that deliver enough information to people. It’s tailored the way they want that they really don’t have any need to go somewhere else most of the time. And you’re essentially building a thing that will put you out of business, which is a recurring issue with all the platforms, but it seems more likely than ever with AI. I think it is more likely that ever with AI for brands that don’t have the authority that our top brands have. I don’t worry about AI putting Vogue or the New Yorker out of business. It just will never replicate what those brands and what the editorial teams can do with those. If you have, and you mentioned some of the companies that have gone by the wayside, look, I think they were the darlings of these platforms when they were sending them all the traffic and they did a really effective job of arbitrage and taking intent-driven searches or video, whatever, and turning it into commerce transactions or ads or things like that. But they were entirely reliant on that traffic continuing. And when that traffic went away, what they didn’t have was brands that had the level of authority that, frankly, our brands have. This is what every publisher tells me is how they’re going to survive this, our brands are meaningful. People have relationships with our brand. We’re going to create even more direct relationships with our brand. People will come to us because our thing is special. Let’s stipulate that you said I think seven of your brands make 85% of your revenue. So seven of your brands, I’ll fit that category. How many other publishers do you think are going to make it through this era? How many publishers do you think realistically have brands that resonate with enough people that they can stay afloat on their own without being disaggregated by AI? Well, first of all, I wouldn’t, I would want to give the impression that it’s only very big brands that can be successful because we have some very small brands like pitchfork. You know, it’s a, it’s less than one. You fold it in the GQ. But it has a high, we put it under GQ, but it is, it has its separate editorial team and operates under its own brand and has been very successful. It actually has one of the largest direct audiences and now has a subscription product, which is doing very, very well. Like that’s a brand that will do well in this era because it has authority. It is more niche in its content area. It’s never going to be as big as Vogue, but it has a point of view and it has a loyal dedicated audience. So it’s not just big brand, small brand. It really is, does your brand have authority? Does it have connection with audience that is really deeper than search or discover traffic? Another way of putting my question, what percent of publishers, existing publishers, do you think survive this era? Well, I mean, we’ve already seen a lot of that damage done today. So, you know, of the publishers that are left, you know, it’s a higher percentage that will survive than it was five years ago, but certainly they’re not going to all survive. I think that writing is on the wall, or at least not in the form that they are today.
\nPeter Kafka: Speaking of the future, one day, Anna Windtour and David Remnick will no longer work for you.
\nRoger Lynch: They’re not young people. They’re very good at what they do and your company seems I don’t depend on them. Lean on their authority in a really meaningful way at the New Yorker and then broadly for Anna Windtour. What is the plan when they leave? How are you thinking about who’s going to take the field of issues? Well, you know, first of all, for people that are in this field, those are the pinnacle jobs they really are. And you’re talking about two of the most successful editors ever. So, it will be very, very difficult to find people who could ever replace them. But guess what? I’m sure the same was said about Grace Marabello when she ran Vogue for several decades before Anna Kim and Orteena Brown or William Shaw or any of the great editors that have been attached to these brands over many, many, many decades. Have either of them said this is who I want to replace me just don’t tell anyone yet? No, no. I mean, we, you know, it’s very funny because one of the things I also implemented when I joined was succession planning. It was very clear that this had never been done before it got an ass that it caused people to be very uncomfortable to start talking about who could ever possibly replace them. But we, you know, we always look to have a broad selection of potential people who could fulfill a role, but you never know whether they’re going to be available or what the situation is. So, you know, and we also work to bring in talent specifically with the idea of succession. So, it’s something that we run a really disciplined process every single year. We report it to my board. We spend time going through. We have our editors. Wait, so what does that look like? So, you run through a process of if David Remnick got hit by a bus today, here’s who would replace him? Look, the standard process for every company I’ve run is you have a emergency successor identified. You have a list of people who could be ready, you know, now or in the next year or two. You have a list that could be three to five years and a list that could be five plus years. So, these lists exist. The files exist. They’re on your desk, as Pamela, he would say. They are locked away. And you revise them periodically. We revise them every year. We go through a formal process where we evaluate it every year. And some names are added. And some names drop off. And do Anna and David participate in this process? They do. Okay. All right. Let’s find the list people. Conden Asmol. Conden Asmol. Send them over to that one.
\nPeter Kafka: Last question for you.
\nRoger Lynch: The biggest movie in America, I think, or biggest movie in the world, I think, is Devil Wars Prada 2. It’s about Conden Asmol. They don’t call it Conden Asmol. They don’t call it Vogue. It’s about your company. It’s owned by Disney.
\nPeter Kafka: Do you participate financially? I know you guys did a lot of marketing for it.
\nRoger Lynch: You had Anna and Merrill on the cover of Vogue.
\nPeter Kafka: Do you participate financially in that movie’s success? No, that movie is their movie.
\nRoger Lynch: It’s not our movie. And we have no direct participation in it. But we certainly have a lot of fun with it. And I think Anna and Merrill, going over on the cover of Vogue, and as you may have seen Chloe, our editor of American Vogue, had to work hard to convince Hannah to do that, because that is not who she is, was fabulous. And that cover of Vogue with the two of them was iconic. But what I would say is that movie has generated a lot of interest. Not just about Vogue, but about Conden Asmol. So it’s been good for our business. It’s certainly been good for our business.
\nPeter Kafka: I know for a while, every publisher, and we talked about this, said, hey, we make all this amazing.
\nRoger Lynch: We make great stories, et cetera, that these things are often turned into movies and television shows. We really got to lean into that and figure out ways to get these things made either by ourselves or with partners. And for a while, during the streaming boom, the extremers were buying literally anything you guys could make. That does not happen anymore. How have you rethought the sort of the business of getting into Hollywood and television and streaming? Well, you know, that business has shrunk as an industry. The number of new shows and films being produced as shrunk in the time it takes to get something approved as shrunk. But for us, you know, we had seven shows and movies premiere last year. We sold 11 new ones. So our team, it’s a very small team, but our team does, I think, a really good job punching about their weight with that. But you know, it starts with, you know, all of that starts with the IP of our journalism and our content.
\nPeter Kafka: What’s more important for you to figure that out or figure out like TikTok in short video that more people are consuming more often? Well, short-form video is a much bigger part of our business than film and television.
\nRoger Lynch: So that, you know, in terms of revenue, certainly, short-form video is very important for us.
\nPeter Kafka: Roger Lynch, you’ve been there since 2019. How much longer do you have? When does your succession plan kick in? You know, it’s, I always tell people, I’ve started a number of companies.
\nRoger Lynch: Like most of the companies I run are companies I’ve started. And even companies I’ve started, I’ve gotten bored after maybe four or five years. And I know when I get that feeling like, okay, I’m starting to get bored. Time for me to do something. I never get bored in this job. I honestly, it’s, first of all, always really challenging problems to solve. And also the most interesting intellectual people to deal with. So I have no plans on leaving. I really enjoy it. And I’m definitely not bored. There’s a bonus you get to talk to people like me.
\nPeter Kafka: Roger Lynch, thank you for your time.
\nRoger Lynch: Thanks Peter. Thanks again to Roger Lynch. Thanks again to Charlotte Silver. It produces an edits the show. Thanks to our advertisers who bring it to you for free. Thanks to you guys for listening. More media bosses coming your way soon. See you then..
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\n", "date_published": "2026-04-06T10:50:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/06/if-you-follow-me-you.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/06/you-are-not-crazy-by.html", "content_html": "🔗 You Are Not Crazy - by Rushkoff is an interesting piece.
\nIf you more aural than oral - 🔗🎙️this is the podcast version.
\nInteresting is not the same as great.
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\n\n\n\ndevelopers will need to focus even more on polish and making an app feel like a finished product
\n
Hopefully that will not only be about Design and Interface, but also navigation and simplicity and all else that drives me nuts with too many apps. (Most if I am honest - some I stick with.)
\nIn December 🔗🎙️Lenny talked with Elena Verna - head of growth at Lovable - and on the way through commented that ‘Minimum Viable Product’ is now table stakes - we need to be building Minimum Loveable Products.
\nOk - self serving naming - but it is the same kind of thinking.
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\nWonderful conversation that I know you will enjoy.
\n🔗🎙️ Ramsey Avery - The Lord Of The Rings - The Rings Of Power
\nDiscovered on my test blog from a year ago. (Clearly a space I don’t use a lot!)
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A short extract from The Mike Hosking Breakfast show - down in New Zealand featuring Vantaset’s Craig Steele talking about Organisational Productivity - with a specific focus on Performance.
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-07-02T13:27:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/02/a-podcast-i-think-iframe.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/08/listening-to-this-kara-and.html", "content_html": "💬 Listening to 🔗🎙️this - Kara and Jesse Armstrong talking about Mountainhead - and this pops up in my Readwise.
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"content_html": "🔗🎙️Kafka talking to Jay Graber - an interesting listen - BUT my takeaway as a casual listener was that sites like ‘PinkSky’ are the long awaited ‘seperate instances’ to Bluesky. But no.
\nThere is still not a Bluesky instance that is not on Bluesky.
\nDisingenuous - or did I mishear?
\n", "date_published": "2025-06-06T23:25:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/06/kafka-talking-to-jay-graber.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/31/about-those-pe-companies.html", "title": "About Those PE Companies", "content_html": "If you are a regular reader of this blog - you will know that I am no financial expert. I haven’t even played one on TV - BUT - fascinated by it since the people in finance are (too?) often the one that dictate the funds available to do what I think businesses need to do - focussing too much (IMHO - on cost not value) .. but lets move on.
\nToday’s topic - PE. Which is NOT the same as VC. Not at all.
\n🔗🎙️ This podcast is from Decoder
\n\n\nToday, I’m talking with journalist Megan Greenwell about her new book Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream. It comes out June 10th. It’s fantastic and maddening in equal measure. I highly recommend it.
\n
💬 Nilay Patel - (Decoder)
\nIt is - not unnaturally - US centric - and there, for sure, the problem has been growing since KKR and Nabisco back in the 80s. (Made famous by Bryan Burrough’s Barbarians at the Gate book at the time.
\nMoreover, there are plenty of people far more qualified than I to fill you in on PE. But I can’t resist setting a little scene …
\nThough the podcast went into the history and problems of PE in the US, it did not explore one of the more insidious aspects of US PE companies - the ‘roll up’.
\nExample, if you have a pet, you know who your local vet is … BUT - you may not know that between\n30 and 50 percent of those ‘local’ veterinary clinics are now owned by a PE company (sorry - hard to get the percentage more specific - but that is also why this can happen). This? Yes - that ownership was just 10%, 10 years ago.
\nIn 2020, NONE of the top 30 CPAs had taken any PE money. In 2025, 50% of the top 30 companies in the U.S.A. are either wholly owned or partially owned by PE.
\nToday, somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 of ALL PE investments is into the US ‘consumer services’. Consumer Services is primarily what we call ‘Hospo/Supermarkets’ in New Zealand.
\nWhich brings me to my point. Our language - MY language has been for years; ‘Buy local.’ ‘Buy from the ‘little guy’.’ ‘Support your local community.’ I believe that this idea is very important in New Zealand - but if this takes off in New Zealand - how will we know who is REALLY local?
\nCase in point …
\nTransport … I have pushed against Uber since they started - and since arriving in New Zealand - pushed harder - pointing out that for every dollar spent on an Uber takes 25%(ish) not just out of the pockets of the taxi business - but out of the country - because Uber is essentially a Californian Tech company. Fast forward to today and .. scooters.
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When I got to Auckland Uber (via Beam) and Lime were the two scooter companies that I was aware of. Beam got thrown out for being ‘🔗 naughty’ and then there was one - ruling the waves until the end of last year when contracts were renewed and ‘Flamingo’ appeared. Look at their site and they describe themselves as being funded by ‘Private Equity’ - but drill in, there is no significant company in there that I can see - just a cabal of local (Kiwi) business people who seem to like Jacksen Love’s idea and invested. TBC - this is GREAT - I am not saying all PE is bad. And giving Lime a run for their money - I am in.
\nSo what about New Zealand - are we going to follow the US - or be different?
\nI always hope and want for different, but I remain dubious.
\nIn NZ, the majority of PE are locally owned companies (maybe up to 20 of them) and less than a handful of International companies. (3?)
\nIt wouldn’t be fair to measure the number against the US, which operates at a radically different scale to New Zealand - so how about a ‘per capita’ measure.
\nTurns out that
\nIn New Zealand - PE is roughly 4 times the size of the VC industry - pretty much the same ratio as in the US.
\nI have no idea of the real power and influence of PE in New Zealand. Certainly the VC world is tiny compared to the US and not really made up of significant players - and valuations are a lot lower than what can be achieved in the US - which is part of the reason we tend to lose out great ideas and companies to the US. (Xero. RocketLabs. Soul Machines. Auror and … and .. and - still it is going on - most recently a tiny little company with big ideas - Grw.ai exported themselves to San Francisco.
\nSo - we do need to grow up - and value properly competitively. Otherwise - who are we kidding. BUT, if we do do that- how do we avoid the ‘greed trap. How do we avoid VCs and worse BIG PEs taking over our local businesses?
Optimal Workshop - cool company down in Wellington, took a 🔗 PE investment of $10,000,000 (Kiwi) in 2022 from Pioneer Capital - Pioneer are a local PE company - all good.
\nHere’s the thing. OW are in a very busy and focussed space (depending on how you cut the cloth) and Thoma Bravo - one of the larger US based PE companies ($US184 Billion in assets under management) - just before and just after the OW investment dropped well over 200 times that on a couple of their ‘competitors’ (its complicated) and merged them.
\n\n\nCustomer experience is mission critical to organizations, and the combined company will be well-positioned to further market expansion, accelerate innovation, and provide even greater insights to its customers.
\n
💬 A.J. Rohde, Senior Partner at Thoma Bravo
\n🔗 Pioneer meanwhile owns a majority stake in OW ….
\n\n\n(a share I can't reconcile based on publicly available information - because even a 50% stake would mean a valuation of 20Kiwi - post money - which would point to a revenue of 5Kiwi at a 4x multiple - but any public numbers (none of them from OW) had revenue at 5 to 7 million US - close to double.\n\n\n
BUT - whatever the story - it is not a large number if Thoma wanted to buy them - particularly when you look at their customer base and their ability to grow globally from Wellington. Imagine the possibilities if they were on Market Street, San Francisco?
\nPioneer could easily collect a 5 times multiple to their investment from just 3 years ago if Thoma Bravo made them an offer, New Zealand would lose another great company, but the investors? They would be just fine. See how that goes? (Assuming that the New Zealand Commerce Commission approved it - they have stopped such sales before.)
\nAll hypothetical of course, though in the USA it would be a slam dunk decision (apologies for the Basketball reference). But this is the conundrum.
\nOr is it? What do you think?
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-31T16:37:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/31/about-those-pe-companies.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Quotes","? Podcasts","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/04/preet-talking-to-ian-bremmer.html", "content_html": "Preet talking to Ian Bremmer .. sensible talk.
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-05-04T14:51:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/04/preet-talking-to-ian-bremmer.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/04/christopher-lydon-tump-a-real.html", "content_html": "Christopher Lydon … Tяump a real life Great Gatsby 100 years later❓
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-05-04T14:48:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/04/christopher-lydon-tump-a-real.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/02/only-one-third-in-and.html", "content_html": "Only one third in - and we will get to the Silverlake/WPEngine fracas .. but for now a 🎙️🔗link to Lenny’s podcast and a wise thought.
\nSide note - no expert on how this is all going to shake out in the courts - but from what I read - I remain on Matt’s side.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/08fe4bbef8.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-03-03T07:33:09+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/02/only-one-third-in-and.html",
"tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/24/what-a-wonderful-line-delivered.html",
"content_html": "🎛️🎙️
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
🎙️ What a wonderful line delivered by Nilay Patel - but the whole podcast is worth a listen.
\n\nThere are an increasing number of posts featuring this thinking …
\n🔗🎙️Trump’s Mafia World Order - Alastair Campbell
\n🖇️ I think Rushkoff said it best.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-02-03T06:52:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/02/there-are-an-increasing-number.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts","? HUB"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/31/i-go-in-and-out.html", "content_html": "
I go in and out with 🔗🎙️Hardfork with Casey Newton and Kevin Roose. Topics aside the ‘out’ is often because they both have a habit of moving the tone of their voice up a couple of octaves which truly pierce’s my ear drums.
\nAnd just now I realized how much they also remind me of YouTuber 🔗📼 Ryan George — who can be very funny - and equally piercing.
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-02-01T11:00:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/31/i-go-in-and-out.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Videos","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/28/i-think-this-episode-might.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2025-01-29T05:16:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/28/i-think-this-episode-might.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/05/on-a-purge-roll-good.html", "content_html": "
🔗🎙️… on a purge roll. Good podcasts.
\nTime Is Way Weirder Than You Think - Ezra Klein
\nWe are all going to die, but not from AI - Emad Mostaque
\nBeing human in the age of AI - Sean Illing
\nThe case for not killing yourself - Sean Illing
\nRob Long - Delusional and Arrogant
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-01-06T12:16:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/05/on-a-purge-roll-good.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/29/a-geopolitical-checkup-open-source.html", "content_html": "🔗🎙️A Geopolitical Check-Up - Open Source with Christopher Lydon
\nShort and Excellent.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-30T04:23:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/29/a-geopolitical-checkup-open-source.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/26/rushkoff-corleone-style-diplomacy-minutes.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️ Rushkoff - Corleone Style Diplomacy - 20 minutes, well worth a listen - a ‘theory of everything’.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-27T09:29:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/26/rushkoff-corleone-style-diplomacy-minutes.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/26/behind-the-founder-marc-benioff.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️Behind the founder: Marc Benioff on Lenny’s Podcast
\nI don’t listen to all Lenny’s stuff - but he’s a solid podcaster if you are in the tech startup / scaleup world. AND he is getting some really high profile guests. Benioff the latest (and maybe the highest profile to date?)
\n\n\nYour customers are your best salespeople.
\n
Sidenote - at times I snipe from the gallery re Salesforce but have to hand it to Marc - he stands apart from so many of the tech bros (maybe because he isn’t?), is trying to do better and is an awesome ‘Guerilla Marketeer’ … 🔗 he learnt from the best.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-27T09:18:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/26/behind-the-founder-marc-benioff.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/18/how-the-supermarket.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️ How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War - from Freakanomics - its an update old one.
\n.. who knew?
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-19T06:24:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/18/how-the-supermarket.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/13/just-discovered-why.html", "content_html": "Just discovered 1440
\nWhy 1440?
\n\n\nThe printing press was invented around the year 1440, spreading knowledge to the masses and changing the course of history. More facts: In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. We’re here to make each one count.
\n
🔗🎙️Peter Kafka talking to one of the 1440 founders
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-14T12:25:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/13/just-discovered-why.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/13/over-the-past.html", "content_html": "Over the past couple of years I have increasingly disconnected from Galloway. Always used to like his insights and takes - but over time he seems to have become very blustery and grand standing. Sean Illing however? I put him up there with Sam Harris. So this one proved a conundrum. Sean won as he and Scott talked about the struggles men are facing today.
\n🔗🎙️ Sean Illing and Scott Galloway
\n.. well worth it. No bluster. Considered. Thoughtful. AND IMHO Spot on.
\nJust shows how a show host really can shape how their guests come off. It’s definitely a skill.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-14T12:15:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/13/over-the-past.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/12/so-talented-and.html", "content_html": "🎵🎙️So talented and humble. One of my favorites - and interviewed by Terry Gross to boot.
\n[🔗 Beethoven meets Jazz meets The Blues](overcast.fm/+AAYs_mNG…
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-13T06:49:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/12/so-talented-and.html", "tags": ["? Music","? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/04/i-just-listened.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️I just listened to this podcast twice - Sean Illing talking to Simon Critchley
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-05T06:28:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/04/i-just-listened.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/30/you-must-answer.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️You Must Answer The Questions About Feet
\nI might have posted this link before, but I keep sending it to people. It ties back to 🖇️🎙️my own podcast about Agents - nearly two years ago now. Still an issue - and will be for a long time yet.
\nThis week Rob is a bit more serious than usual - but he’s on an important topic - the ‘truth in history’ versus ‘but it doesn’t make for good drama’ schtick. Something else we agree on - - even though he doesn’t know that!
\nHe ends with how all of this is ‘kind of ok’ in Entertainment - but maybe not so much in reality. You know what I’m talkin' about!
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-10-19T13:10:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/19/this-week-rob.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/18/tanehisi-coates-on.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️ Ta-Nehisi Coates on complexity, clarity, and truth - talking with Sean Illing.
\n// @Denny - right up your street.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-18T15:49:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/18/tanehisi-coates-on.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/18/signals-meredith-whittaker.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️ Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on Surveillance Capitalism with Kara Swisher
\nGreat listen
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-18T15:48:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/18/signals-meredith-whittaker.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/09/from-sean-illings.html", "content_html": "From 🔗🎙️ Sean Illing’s Podcast Overview
\nAbsolutely FASCINATING
\nHow is the origin of our universe like an improvised saxophone solo? This week, Sean Illing talks to Stephon Alexander, a theoretical physicist and world-class jazz musician.\nAlexander is the author of The Jazz of Physics and his most recent book, Fear of a Black Universe_. This episode features music by Stephon Alexander throughout, from his latest 2024 album Spontaneous Fruit _and his 2017 EP True to Self.
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-09T18:06:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/09/from-sean-illings.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/29/youngsters-probably-dont.html", "content_html": "Youngsters probably don’t remember Autonomy. I do.
\nNo time to write too much about it, so look it up and then don’t believe everything you read. Like this …
\n\n\nFederal prosecutors on Monday painted one-time British tech star Mike Lynch as the ruthless mastermind of an $11 billion deal that defrauded Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard.
\n
Prompted to post this now because I just listened to 🔗🎙️ Mike Lynch (Founder and CEO of Autonomy) and ‘Danny In The Valley’ talking. Mike was found innocent by the DoJ after TWELVE years and tens of millions defending himself against America’s ‘finest’.
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-29T14:43:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/29/youngsters-probably-dont.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/08/heather-cox-richardson.html", "content_html": "🔗 Heather Cox Richardson from last Friday.
\n\n🔗🎙️Heather talking to Kara … long, but oh so worth it.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/47ca254866824881a19919118de45e00.png\")
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\n",
"date_published": "2024-07-08T07:17:28+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/08/heather-cox-richardson.html",
"tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/06/while-the-dems.html",
"content_html": "While the Dems - ably supported by the media - wring their collective hands over the suitability of Biden as a President 🔗🎙️ Olberman (15 minutes) wonders why absolutely nobody .. anywhere … is asking the same question about the other guy?
\nI mean - nobody.
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-06T16:35:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/06/while-the-dems.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/05/a-lot-of.html", "content_html": "A lot of chatter in many places about the elections in the UK and the USA. A recurring refrain … “If the Brits can do it .. so can we.”
\nJust to remind my American friends that on pretty much anything that Britain does .. the US will likely do the opposite and always different .. even if they are the only ones on the world to do it … and absolutely having no regard for the consequences.
\nMy recommendation? Keep focussed on what American voters need to do. You made your decision to break from the UK centuries ago, so who cares what we are doing?
\nYour choice later this year is one of two things.
\nYou the voter are in charge.
\nStill in doubt? I commend you to take a listen to Kara Swisher’s 🔗 🎙️ July 4th Special: Why Heather Cox Richardson Still Has Hope for American Democracy
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-05T12:49:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/05/a-lot-of.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/25/doctype-htmlteam-human.html", "content_html": "\n
You can listen to the whole thing 🔗 🎙️here, but if this 40 seconds doesn’t make you sit up - don’t bother.
\n\nOur very own @jthingelstad on the 🔗 🎙️ Omni Podcast
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-04T13:52:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/04/our-very-own.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/23/vinyl-sneak-peek.html", "content_html": "\nConan’s short promo had me laughing out loud 😂 as I wandered down to the ferry this morning.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-23T10:50:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/23/vinyl-sneak-peek.html", "tags": [":'D Humour","? Podcasts","? HUB"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/05/i-know-dave.html", "content_html": "🎈126/366 I know @dave is a fan of Andrew Hickey - me too. No time to listen to them all, but when you do - superb. Absolutely superb.
\n🔗🎙️ Sad to see this in my stream .. disgusted even. Got to say, I thought he was a better person than I could ever have been)
\nMeanwhile - let’s see what happens - and if it doesn’t, we really need to rally round and make sure it does.
\n![\"straight](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/ca962a7041.jpg\")
🖇️ Me a couple of days ago ending with ‘wondering what ‘Rob’ will say.
\nNow we know.
\nHe just delivered a great story - as always and funny. He didn’t say it the way I did (mainly because he has more talent) … but I think we agree. Take a listen.
\n🔗 🎙️ Paramount: Buy, Sell, Fight
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-02T16:13:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/02/me-a-couple.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts","? HUB"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/22/podcasts-work-on.html", "content_html": "Podcasts work on RSS don’t they.
\nBehold
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-04-22T23:57:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/22/podcasts-work-on.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/21/the-american-dream.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️ The American Dream Is A Pyramid Scheme … Sean Illing doing his thing.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-21T13:01:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/21/the-american-dream.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/20/josh-browder-talking.html", "content_html": "Josh Browder talking ..
\nKey message - Everybody needs their own AI Agent.
\nFresh out is a short podcast with him talking to 🎙️ ‘Danny In The Valley’
\nI have this feeling that he might be at the vanguard of such an offering - and he is on our side.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-20T14:35:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/20/josh-browder-talking.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/14/an-interview-with.html", "title": "An Interview With An AI", "content_html": "There are so many of these things popping up (AIs that is), you need an AI to track the AIs.
\nPi is one that caught my eye a while back, and I have had some noodles and doodles with it - when time allows. Clearly 🔗 David had a bit more time than me - because he sat down and interviewed them (?) .. or is it still an ‘it’?
\nYes, as David explains at the beginning of the podcast, sometimes the flow is a bit stilted - and through my ears sounded robotic (though I think that is being fixed next week!)
\nThe point is - which is the same point that David concludes with - yes - it is not there - but holy hell in a hand basket … the ‘interview was waaaaaay better than many I start, a darn sight more interesting and really - if you were to drop this in the middle of a bunch of reptiles … talking heads … politicians talking - who do you think is gong to hold the attention best - and I choose that particular category because they are used to being interviewed, to pitching, to telling stories. Some have even been trained ….
Even with the passionless voice - I found more passion and definitely more reasoning from Pi than a lot of people that puncture my days and nights.
\nWorried yet?
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-04-14T21:59:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/14/an-interview-with.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/14/yesterday-timothy-rybak.html", "content_html": "🎈104/366
\nYesterday 🔗🎙️ Timothy Rybak and Kara Swisher
\nToday 🔗🎙️ Christopher Lyon with Lyndsey Stonebridge talking about Hannah Arendt
\nOne common observation. by Timothy and Lyndsey (I paraphrase)
\nTrump is an overweight, obnoxious nothing - it is the apparatus around him that is the problem.
\n
Have I mentioned before that I like 🔗 🎙️ Rob Long’s Martini Shot, short entertaining, great story telling about the entertainment business - and ties back into broader business - this one feature Karl Lagerfeld. My take? We all have a ‘little Karl’ in us.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-11T17:02:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/11/have-i-mentioned.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/02/can-you-patent.html", "content_html": "\nGood question.
\nTL;DR - yes … yes you can.
\nBUT, apparently it means nothing, because you still need to be big and with deep pockets to protect that patent - because otherwise them large corporations - hell they invented the 💩
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-02T13:55:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/02/can-you-patent.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/30/listening-to-ingrid.html", "content_html": "Listening to Ingrid Robeyns talking to Sean Illing about ‘limitar(ian)ism’ - nice counterpoint to the ‘me centric’ alternative.
\nFinished Listening. The Episode was called The case for banning millionaires - a very good case was made.
\nListen to it yourself on 🔗 🎙️ VoxMedia
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-30T11:40:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/30/listening-to-ingrid.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/29/is-honesty-the.html", "title": "🎈029/366 | 🎙️ Is Honesty The Best Policy❓", "content_html": "![\"You](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/11a81b67cb.jpg\")
Don’t worry - this isn’t what you think it is.
\nIf you are married or single, a writer or manager, paid for what you do or just for the love, delivered or received feedback, good or bad this is worth every minute of the 11 minutes and 44 seconds it will take you to listen to it.
\n\nI think this is my absolutely favorite podcast.
\nW H A T - I S - N O T - T O - L O V E ❓
\n
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I was listening to 🎙️this podcast and of course duly reminded of Kim Cameron’s 7 Laws of Identity, so replaying here for posterity. You can 🔗 read a quick summary here.
\n\n\nLaw 1: User control and consent
\n
\nTechnical identity systems must only reveal information identifying a user with the user’s consent
\nLaw 2: Minimum disclosure for a constrained use
\nThe solution which discloses the least amount of identifying information and best limits its use is the most stable long-term solution
\nLaw 3: Justifiable Parties
\nDigital identity systems must be designed so the disclosure of identifying information is limited to parties having a necessary and justifiable place in a given identity relationship
\nLaw 4: Directed Identity
\nA universal identity system must support both “omni-directional” identifiers for use by public entities and “unidirectional” identifiers for use by private entities, thus facilitating discovery while preventing unnecessary release of correlation handles
\nLaw 5: Pluralism of Operators and Technologies
\nA universal identity system must channel and enable the inter-working of multiple identity technologies run by multiple identity providers
\nLaw 6: Human Integration
\nThe universal identity metasystem must define the human user to be a component of the distributed system integrated through unambiguous human-machine communication mechanisms offering protection against identity attacks
\nLaw 7: Consistent Experience Across Contexts
\nThe unifying identity metasystem must guarantee its users a simple, consistent experience while enabling separation of contexts through multiple operators and technologies
Down here in sunny New Zealand, I have been helping a local man with his identity solution. More on that in due course - because - guess what - its pretty much ‘tops’ .. and expression I learned last night which is the antonym of ‘pants’ … but I digress.
\nIt turns out his system hits all seven laws - and that’s just how it worked out, to because he designed to them. This gives me even more confidence that we are on to something. It would be kinda like building a robot and then realizing it is ‘Asimov compliant’.
\n
There’s a LOT of stuff going on in New Zealand at the moment as the new Govt takes control and is starting to / trying to (not sure which) roll back everything the previous Govt was doing. C’est la vie.
\nIn parralel, the topic of efficiency seems to be on everyone’s lips - different learned people in different positions essentially reporting ‘findings’ .. new budgets in cities … and the eternal question of whether we are getting what we pay for.
\nJust one small example from Wayne Brown in Auckland … a speed bump in a road to slow traffic down costs multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars. I’ll let that sink in.
\nI am far from qualified to comment much on this (other than that seems a lot to me), but Bernard Hickey definitely is - and if you want to read his excellent Substack around not just speed bumps - but all things political and fiscal in this fine country - look no further than 🔗 here.
\nMeanwhile - Aotearoa - don’t feel so bad - this 🔗 🎙️ podcast from Freakonomics relects on the US construction industry. Turns out it is the only industry that has not become more efficient over the past seventy years - because that is how it is designed!
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-12T14:18:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/12/theres-a-lot.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/21/airline-take-off.html", "content_html": "Airline take off announcement … delighted that they are ‘on top of the situation’ …
\n\n\nPassengers wearing protective masks on this flight are advised that in the event of an emergency, they should remove them before putting on an oxygen mask.
\n
Said by one of the attendants .. not the pilot … who probably sounds like a pilot … 🔗🎙️did you know they all sound the same?
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-22T10:24:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/21/airline-take-off.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/19/good-job-with.html", "content_html": "Good job with the @gruber episode @martinfeld …. noting that it is (I think) 🎙️🔗 the longest one you have published (?) … fitting for the guest 🤪 … seriously though, nice job and good to hear Mr G wax lyrical on his story. Lovely listen.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-20T11:54:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/19/good-job-with.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/07/plan-for-acre.html", "content_html": "🔗 Plan for 55,000-acre Silicon Valley utopia unveiled.
\nIt would appear that the designers have explored how new neighborhoods were promoted in the ‘50s and didn’t even bother to update the images.
\n🎙️ If you prefer to listen - Kevin and Casey with their usual over the top breathless commentary.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-08T06:00:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/07/plan-for-acre.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/30/the-new-podcast.html", "content_html": "🎙️ The new podcast ‘Strike Force 5’ is named after their personal chat group.
\nI wonder if there is an ‘origins story’ around that name that ties the ‘5 old white guys’ to the comic books of the same name where the heroes are a ‘team of mutated dinosaur heroes’.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-31T18:59:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/30/the-new-podcast.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/30/coming-to-a.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️ Coming to a channel near you
\nNot Just The Majors …
\n![\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/cleanshot-2023-08-29-at-15.53.462x.png\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/cleanshot-2023-08-29-at-15.53.462x.png\")
But Also The Minors …
\n![\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/cleanshot-2023-08-29-at-15.54.152x.png\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/cleanshot-2023-08-29-at-15.54.152x.png\")
🔗 🎙️ More Musk Manure … interview with Ronan Farrow after his New Yorker piece.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-27T14:12:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/26/more-musk-manure.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/18/about-that-film.html", "content_html": "🎛️🎙️ About ’That’ Film
\nI wrote about it back in mid July. 🖇️ Smelt fishy then. Still smells fishy.
\nKafka’s podcast goes ‘off piste’ - but well worth it as it explores what exactly was/is going on with the movie - that’s in part one. In part two - the ‘other side’.
\n\nThe Full Podcast:
\n🎙️ Explained: Sound Of Freedom
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-19T07:14:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/18/about-that-film.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts","? Snicklecasts","? Organisations"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/17/olbermans-opening-salvo.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️ Olberman’s opening salvo is absolutely spot on
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-18T12:22:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/17/olbermans-opening-salvo.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/10/a-music-podcast.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️ 🎵 A Music Podcast Unlike Any Other - The New Yorker
\nThe New Yorker writing about one of the best music podcasts ever by Andrew Hickey.
\nI’ve posted about the podcast before - it is absolutely incredible. A tour de force - but apparently that wasn’t enough for Hickey because …
\n\n\nThe only background necessary to grasp a bit of Hickey is his bibliography: he has completed a guide to the first fifty years of “Doctor Who”; a book about “The Strange World of Gurney Slade” (a surreal comedy series that ran for six episodes on ITV in 1960); histories of the Monkees, the Kinks, and Los Angeles pop music of the nineteen-sixties; an “unauthorised guide” to a comic-book series called “Seven Soldiers of Victory”; and a three-volume catalogue of every track the Beach Boys have recorded.
\n
PostScript - I discovered the podcast via @dave who was waxing lyrical about it a while back.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-11T13:14:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/10/a-music-podcast.html", "tags": ["? Music","? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/30/the-future-of.html", "content_html": "🎛️🎙️ The Future Of Income
\nOver the years I have used different words, different ‘lenses’, different ‘glasses’, ‘filters’ - but it all comes down to this.
\n![\"What](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/for-business-leaders-.-2.png\")
And too quickly I am told that ‘UBI’ is not the solution, to which I point out that I never said it was. Delighted to hear David Wood making exactly the same point. He goes on …
\n\n\nwhat is happening is not business as usual.
\n
I agree.
\n\nThe Full Podcast:
\n🎙️ David Wood Talking On David Brown’s Podcast
\nMore to come on the ongoing site changes, but my podcast can now be found on my 🎙️Philpin domain - and if I can get Substack to fix their bug, it will soon there, which is part of the reason why my newsletter is no longer called a newsletter - but rather 🔗 a ‘Substack’.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-30T05:56:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/29/more-to-come.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/20/the-porn-bellwether.html", "content_html": "🎙️ The Porn Bellwether - Martini Shot
\nA lot of information we know - but its how the story is told that keeps me engaged. This time Rob predicts the future of the entertainment industry - and who he expects to be the winners. (No spoiler Alert, cos I’m not gonna tell you.)
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-21T10:49:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/20/the-porn-bellwether.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/15/three-wonderful-short.html", "content_html": "🎙️Three wonderful short podcasts from Rob Long’s Martini Shot.
\nThe Miserable Multitasking Multiverse.
\n\nWild Kingdom: Which Hollywood Animal are You?
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-16T09:00:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/15/three-wonderful-short.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/15/nantucket-sleighride-by.html", "content_html": "![\"Nantucket](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/96c4cec487.jpg\")
\n🎵 Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain is a massively important album to yours truly - part of my formative years if you will.
\nTIL what a 🔗 Nantucket Sleighride actually is …. thanks to the 🎙️Freakonomics podcast
\n🤯
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-16T07:36:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/15/nantucket-sleighride-by.html", "tags": ["? Music","? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/15/what-tom-hanks.html", "content_html": "🎙️ What Tom Hanks Thinks of America
\nNot a BIG fan of Hanks’ acting (but I definitely don’t not like him), this conversation with Ezra Klein significantly opened my mind to him - and the opening 5 to 10 minutes is all about typewriters and typing!
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-16T05:26:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/15/what-tom-hanks.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/11/listened-to-a.html", "content_html": "🎵 Listened to a 🎙️podcast featuring Simon Armitage. I did not know he had a band. … LYR. During the podcast there was discussion about why the band is not called ‘Land Yacht Regatta’ - and if not that - why not L.Y.R. ?
\nHe wasn’t really sure - Label decisions he said … but I think I know.
\nL.Y.R. - not my cup of tea at all - that I jumped over to listen to is definitely a very different band to LYR - a band that is very much my cup of tea.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-12T05:27:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/11/listened-to-a.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/04/a-few-thoughts.html", "content_html": "🎙️ A Few Thoughts About RFK Jr.
\nSam Harris doing his thing and a spot on 15 minute analysis of why RFK won’t be on his show anytime soon.
\nI wish Petersen, Rogan, Marr et al gave as much thought to the guests on their shows. Of course, there is a consistency to the places he has appeared.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-05T07:50:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/04/a-few-thoughts.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/23/how-will-you.html", "content_html": "🎛️🎙️ How will YOU be remembered?
\nI have been struggling with a newsletter recently. Unlike the podcast - it isn’t about suicide, but rather - how people are remembered after death. (If you know the movie Coco - it relates. If you think about tombstones - it relates.) The 30 second clip gets to the nub.
\n\nThe Full Podcast:
\n🎙️ The Case For Not Killing Yourself
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-24T04:48:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/23/how-will-you.html", "tags": ["? PeopleFirst","? Podcasts","? Snicklecasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/22/three-podcasts-by.html", "content_html": "Three 🎙️Podcasts By Peter Kafka
\nAI is the future! AI is a fraud; Recode Media with Peter Kafka
\nInside the AI Gold Rush — Recode Media with Peter Kafka
\nHow worried or excited should we be about AI? Recode Media with Peter Kafka
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-23T02:46:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/22/three-podcasts-by.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/12/rob-long-talks.html", "content_html": "🎙️ Rob Long talks about The AI Panic.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-13T04:32:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/12/rob-long-talks.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/12/uc-berkeleys-hany.html", "content_html": "🎛️🎙️ UC Berkeley’s Hany Farid: “With AI, we’re making the same mistakes that we did with social media”
\nA good listen … if these 30 seconds don’t inspire you to listen to the rest … well … then don’t.
\n\n\n![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/ba30ebd91b.png\")
\n\n\nThe Full Podcast: 🎙️ Danny In The Valley
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-13T03:38:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/12/uc-berkeleys-hany.html", "tags": ["? PeopleFirst","? Podcasts","? Snicklecasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/06/anybody-trying-out.html", "content_html": "Anybody trying out the 🎙️Goodpods app?
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-07T05:02:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/06/anybody-trying-out.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/04/lazy-as-a.html", "content_html": "\nRob Long in his usual fast (10 minutes) and effective way nails it. This time it’s about the problems of The Entertainment Industry.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-05T07:21:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/04/lazy-as-a.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/03/josh-toplosky-in.html", "content_html": "🎙️Josh Toplosky in conversation with Mark Gurman
\nHave to say a couple of things in here made me sit up and think … “oh maybe I will watch WWDC”.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-04T12:15:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/03/josh-toplosky-in.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/02/ezra-klein-talking.html", "content_html": "🎙️Ezra Klein talking to Fareed Zakaria
\n… so good.
\n… and that is just the start.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-03T08:31:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/02/ezra-klein-talking.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/23/linking-your-thinkings.html", "content_html": "🎙️Linking Your Thinking’s Nick Milo Talking to Readwise’s Dan Doyon
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-24T09:02:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/23/linking-your-thinkings.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/23/i-just-found.html", "content_html": "I just found out about 🔗 Connie Converse
\n\n🎙️ Mike Pesca talking to Howard Fishman who wrote 📚 To Anyone Who Ever Asks
\nTalk about a hole in history.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-24T08:59:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/23/i-just-found.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Books","? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/12/i-have-never.html", "content_html": "🎙️I have never had an ‘Asst3’ - and never received an email from one either
\nHow about you?
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-13T13:29:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/12/i-have-never.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/10/kafka-talking-with.html", "content_html": "🎛️🎙️ Kafka Talking With Professor Emily M. Bender
\n.. amongst others, but the clip is Bender talking.
\nIt’s been a good series. Not down in the weeds - but neither a ‘duh’ podcast - of which there seem to be many.
\n\nThe Full Podcast:
\n🎙️ How Worried - Or Excited - Should We Be About AI
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-11T11:06:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/10/kafka-talking-with.html", "tags": ["? PeopleFirst","? Podcasts","? Snicklecasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/03/vanish-and-reappear.html", "content_html": "\nRob Long is such a good story teller. Here he connects an outbreak of an ‘epidemic of vomit hurling’ in a kid’s school, making three bean salad at scale, the writers strike and the challenges for the broader entertainment industry - in just ten minutes.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-04T07:55:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/03/vanish-and-reappear.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/02/calling-it-now.html", "content_html": "🎛️🎙️ Bitcoin is Still The Future of Payments
\n🔗 Calling It Now: Elon Musk’s Micropayments Gambit Will Flop Big Time
\nThough Musk and Twitter aren’t specifically called out, it is clear that Lightspark’s David Marcus agrees - mainly because Micropayments can’t work while we continue to organize our payments as we do.
\nYou should really listen to the whole thing, but this snippet particularly pertains to the MicroPayment comment above.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-05-03T05:24:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/02/calling-it-now.html", "tags": ["? PeopleFirst","? Podcasts","? Snicklecasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/29/whats-good-for.html", "content_html": "🎛️🎙️ Whats good for the Goose is good for the Gander
\n13 seconds that neatly encapsulates the People First challenge. Maybe AI will finally push open the flood gates
\n \nThe Full Podcast:
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-04-30T15:51:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/29/whats-good-for.html", "tags": ["? PeopleFirst","? Podcasts","? Snicklecasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/27/kafka-and-lessin.html", "content_html": "🎛️🎙️ Kafka and Lessin
\nExperimenting with clipping out of Overcast. (Side note - Jessica Lessin is the founder and Editor In Chief of ‘The Information’.)
\n\nThe Full Podcast:
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-04-28T11:37:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/27/kafka-and-lessin.html", "tags": ["? PeopleFirst","? Podcasts","? Snicklecasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/27/micropayments-have-their.html", "content_html": "🎛️🎙️ Micropayments. Have their time finally come?
\nI don’t know - and I sure can’t tell from this podcast - but David Marcus sounds confident.
\nA 15 second snippet, courtesy of Overcast …
\n\nThe Full Podcast:
\n🎙️ Bitcoin is still the future of payments, says Lightspark CEO David Marcus
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-28T06:48:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/27/micropayments-have-their.html", "tags": ["? PeopleFirst","? Podcasts","? Snicklecasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/26/turns-out-i.html", "title": "🎙️ Turns Out I Don't Need Snipd Afterall ...", "content_html": "I have had three actions in ‘Things’ now for weeks. They were there to remind me to post a snippet from three podcasts that I wanted to share. The actual snipping and posting is not that hard - so why did I need to set a reminder?
\nBECAUSE
\nI use Overcast to listen to Podcasts and I had no intention of moving my listening experience over to Snipd. Earlier in the year I had been playing with Snipd. and even posted a couple … 🔗 here and 🔗 here, but the friction on the adhoc process in the workflow - not so easy.
\nSnipd is a good app for extracting a slice and posting. BUT I listen to Podcasts in Overcast, so when I wanted to snip something, I had to;
\n… and only then could I start the process.
\nClumsy - at best - and lots of friction - so I just made a note in Things - which you now know I never got round to!
\nI might be blind, ignorant or stupid - but tonight I discovered that Overcast offers very similar (identical?) functionality. Is that new? Am I really that slow?
\nAnyway, just tried out the Overcast mechanism - and very nice, sitting right there in front of me.
\n\nSnipd account deleted.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-27T18:06:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/26/turns-out-i.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/26/the-japanese-toilet.html", "content_html": "🎙️The Japanese Toilet Paradigm is this week’s podcast from Rob Long. He’s always good, this week talking a little about renaming HBOMax to Max. He clearly didn’t think it a good idea.
\nHe then moved on to offer advice to NBC should they be thinking about doing something similar.
\nI paraphrase …
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-04-27T07:49:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/26/the-japanese-toilet.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/09/not-yet-finished.html", "content_html": "It didn’t work for HBOMax - it definitely won’t work for Peacock.
\n
🎙️Not yet finished the whole episode - but just stopping by to share this podcast link
\nNilay Patel talking Eugen Rochko.
\nInteresting stuff. Maybe I listen to the wrong streams, but I have not heard Eugen talk before. He does seem to be someone who keeps his head down and focussed.
\nGives me lots of confidence in Mastodon - not that I needed it.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-10T09:49:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/09/not-yet-finished.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/06/i-listened-to.html", "content_html": "I listened to a very funny Podcast from Rob Long a few days ago. The main thrust being - well - listen for yourself. I was talking to someone about it - and wanted to send a link - so did a search and found what I thought was the link - but it was only 4 minutes long. Rob does short, but that seemed very short.
\nTurns out I had found the story originally published in 🎙️2007 - the show I was looking for was the one published in 🎙️2023. This new version starts with the same story and then moves on to how to fix the problems in the entertainment business - which actually - as ever with Martini Shot - you can extrapolate to other industries.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-07T11:38:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/06/i-listened-to.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/03/if-i-do.html", "content_html": "If I do it - it will be 3 hours and 20 minutes of my life that I won’t get back - but then …. it is 🎵 The Velvet Underground - and the information the guy delivers is always interesting and not the usual average ‘fodder facts’.
\n![\"Podcast](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/ebe778f004.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-04-04T14:50:26+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/03/if-i-do.html",
"tags": ["? Music","? Podcasts"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/01/just-finished-listening.html",
"content_html": "Just finished listening to another @martinfeld ‘RSS’ podcast - this one with @jsnell@zeppelin.flights nicely done - and prompts a question for Martin.
\nI seem to recall that the idea of the podcast was originally centered on research. I have only listened to a few - but there is a flow of advice across the ones I have heard that all support each other.
\nQ1: Any surprises from the people you have talked to - as in thoughts that are unique, or made you sit up and utter ‘whaaaaa’?
\nQ2: Are you going to publish your conclusions anywhere, anytime that we can read and/or listen to?
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-02T08:49:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/01/just-finished-listening.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/22/lockhead-talking-about.html", "content_html": "🎙️Lockhead talking about the Monster Category Battle of Microsoft vs Google - except it isn’t.
\nGoogle’s category is ‘search’. Microsoft’s is ‘answers’. Very different.
\nIs he right?
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-23T11:08:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/22/lockhead-talking-about.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/21/the-excerpt-is.html", "content_html": "🎛️🎙️ Embrace The Future
\nThe excerpt is not the main thrust of the podcast, but neatly summarizes the problem of rejecting, rather than embracing, what is clearly something that is part of the future.
\n\n\n![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/4a4f5e6146.png\")
\n\n\nThe Full Podcast: 🎙️ Why The Future Belongs To Intellectual Capitalists
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-22T08:54:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/21/the-excerpt-is.html", "tags": ["? PeopleFirst","? Podcasts","? Snicklecasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/18/new-zealand-unrecognized.html", "title": "New Zealand | Unrecognized Leadership", "content_html": "If the UK and/or the USA could find more leaders that demonstrate the qualities of Jacinda Arden, wouldn’t both surely be better off for it?
\nSadly, she’s had her run, the voters are not going her way hence her resignation. ‘Hitch’ is being allowed to reset the agenda and so far at least, seems to be turning the ‘anti-Labour’ tide. Make no mistake though, yes, she took some wrong turns but the problems being laid at her feet won’t go away with new leaders. It’s a global problem … and despite New Zealand managing to punch well above their international weight over the last few years … these global issues are exactly that … global.
\n🔗 Colbert pays tribute to Jacinda
\n🎙️ What was behind Jacinda-mania and why did it end so suddenly?
\nOther parts of the New Zealand ‘MicroBlog Storm’
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-19T14:17:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/18/new-zealand-unrecognized.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Videos","? Podcasts","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/17/palo-alto-a.html", "content_html": "🔗 Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism and the World is a new book by Malcolm Harris.
\nHe talks about it on this podcast 🎙️The Dark History Of Silicon Valley with Sean Illing.
\nOh my!
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-18T15:09:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/17/palo-alto-a.html", "tags": ["? Books","? WWW","? Podcasts","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/16/english-progressive-redux-andrew-hickeys.html", "content_html": "🎛️🎙️ English Progressive Redux
\n🔗 Andrew Hickey’s ‘500 Songs’ includes a good and interesting summary of why the UK and US musicians who ‘arrived’ in the 60s sounded so different, emerging, he argues, from significant social differences and country histories.
\nWhat do you think?
\n\n \n \n \n \n![](\n\"[john.philpin.com/uploads/2...](https://john.philpin.com/uploads/2023/c54ef72c7f.png)\")
\n \n \n\n🎵 More thoughts on what I call English Progressive
\nThe Full Podcast: 🎙️ 500 Songs - ‘See Emily Play’ by The Pink Floyd
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-16T10:03:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/16/english-progressive-redux-andrew-hickeys.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Podcasts","? Snicklecasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/10/that-content-word-again-you.html", "content_html": "🎛️🎙️ That ‘Content’ word again.
\nYou might have read my 🔗 many posts about ‘content’ .. and my singular objection to that word. Turns out I am not the only one. Will Arnett waxes lyrical about that exact issue on Smartless.
\n\n \n \n \n \n![](\n\"[john.philpin.com/uploads/2...](https://john.philpin.com/uploads/2023/302d1dc795.png)\")
\n \n \n\nThe Full Podcast: 🎙️ Smartless : Dana Carvey
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-10T15:56:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/10/that-content-word-again-you.html", "tags": ["? PeopleFirst","? Podcasts","? Snicklecasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/09/an-unknown-podcaster.html", "title": "An 'Unknown' Podcaster - He Sounds Boring - He Is Fascinating", "content_html": "🎵 Despite my initial resistance to the 500 song podcast narrated by 🔗 Andrew Hickey .. I am now moving into my third … first ‘The Monkees’, then ‘Love’, now ‘The Move’. The depth of information flying through the speakers is really quite incredible - thoroughly researched, packed with information - some of which I know - a lot I don’t.
\nA particular speciality of his is identifying groups that todays’ mega stars played with in the very early days. Examples like when Albert Lee played with Hendrix and Jim Morrison wishing he and The Doors were as good as Love.\nOr how Graeme Edge and John Bonham both played in the same band - sorry, cant recall who replaced who … and and and … fascinating - and NOT information that is on ‘the wiki’.
\nSo - I did some prodding around to work out who Hickey is - assuming he must have been a music journalist at some point - but no. At least not that I could find. He seems to be a relatively ‘unknown’ creator who writes books and does podcasts.
\nInteresting that in the search, I came across this review of his podcast : Pismotality: A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs that has one comment - from Andrew Hickey. He spends a little time talking about his accent and deadpan delivery … something I referenced in my first post on him, and it turns out there is a reason.
\nAnyway - suffice to say - if you love rock and related music genre and want to learn more - particularly about the genesis of the ‘names’ - highly recommend.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-02-10T15:35:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/09/an-unknown-podcaster.html", "tags": ["? Music","? WWW","? Podcasts","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/04/over-on-scriptingcom.html", "content_html": "🎵 Over on Scripting.com @dave mentioned that back in the day he was a fan of The Monkees. Unashamedly - so was I. He linked to this show. It’s long. The narrator (that’s what he sounds like) - has a boring voice - but still an interesting listen.
\nNever heard of the 🎙️podcast - so had a look at other episodes. Just as long - and I suspect that the voice will be just as boring - BUT - some really interesting deep dives into some good songs and bands. I will be listening to this one - the band ‘Love’.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-05T08:42:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/04/over-on-scriptingcom.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/25/martini-shot-digital.html", "content_html": "🎙️Martini Shot: Digital Absolution
\nIt’s hard for Rob Long to go wrong in 10 minutes. He doesn’t.
\nTheme? Reorganizing life - like we all do!
\nThis
\n\n\n“One of my Things actions is to add a new project to OmniFocus”
\n
clearly reveals problems that I and many others have!
\n", "date_published": "2023-01-25T12:21:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/25/martini-shot-digital.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/04/a-three-parter.html", "content_html": "🎙️A Three parter from Freakonomics … drilling down into Adam Smith.
\n\n\n\nIt was listening over the holidays as I travelled - so I had the time.
\n", "date_published": "2023-01-04T12:36:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/04/a-three-parter.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/04/ezra-time-is.html", "content_html": "🎙️Ezra - Time is way weirder than you think - well worth a listen if you are into time.
\n", "date_published": "2023-01-04T12:33:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/04/ezra-time-is.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/26/my-christmas-carol.html", "content_html": "🎙️ My Christmas Carol - by Rob Long
\nI like his podcast. I like his newsletter.
\nMerry Christmas.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2022/48d332e63f.png\")
I was delighted to be joined on the People First podcast by Ramsey Avery who is the Production Designer for the Amazon series - Lord of the Rings - Rings of Power.
\nWonderful conversation that I know you will enjoy.
\n\n![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/661d486c3b.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2022-10-17T21:48:30+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/10/17/the-lore-of.html",
"tags": ["? PeopleFirst","? Podcasts","? LongForm","People First"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/10/15/interesting-how-amsterdam.html",
"content_html": "Interesting how 🎬 Amsterdam and 🎙️ Ultra seem to be connected by the same true story.
\n", "date_published": "2022-10-15T08:50:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/10/15/interesting-how-amsterdam.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts","? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/09/23/nice-to-listen.html", "content_html": "🎙️🎵🎶 Nice to listen in to your conversation @martinfeld and @lmika - thankyou.
\nA different kind of musical note … check out the work of Vivian Stanshall and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Viv provided ‘MC’ services for all those lines you referenced, including;
\n\n\n“Spanish Guitar and introducing acoustic guitar”
\n
The Bonzo’s track Death Cab For Cutie also gave that band their name.
\nLove me some solid (English) Progressive.
\n", "date_published": "2022-09-23T12:48:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/09/23/nice-to-listen.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/24/why-non-of.html", "title": "Why Non Of My Books Are Available On Audible", "content_html": "Why none of my books are available on Audible is a 'spoken essay' from Cory which will eventually be the only entry he has in the Audible library.
\nTake a listen to find out why.
\nThe link takes you to a page on his Craphound site, or go directly to 🎙️the podcast
\n![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/4a94ce0398.jpg\")
\nThinking Allowed
\n\n\n\n\nThis is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program. It’s a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me.\n\n~🎵🎶 Who knew that Rick Astley’s formative years had him as a Prog Rock / Drummer type. First concert ever? Supertramp or Camel - he can’t quite remember!
\n🔗 Listen to the 🎙️Podcast Here
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-07T13:02:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/07/who-knew-that.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/02/08/if-at-the.html", "content_html": "\n\n“If, at the end of your show you say “Available where you get podcasts,” then my friend, you have a podcast. If you have to say “Only available on Spotify” (or some other exclusive service), good for you, but it’s not a podcast.”
\n
💬 Dave Winer
\n… and I very much agree with him.
\nLanguage is important … and I am done with Corporates hijacking language so to appear better than they are.
\n🖇️ 🔎 More ‘Language' posts here.
\n", "date_published": "2022-02-08T14:56:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/02/08/if-at-the.html", "tags": ["? Quotes","? Podcasts","? HUB","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/02/09/why-do-you.html", "title": "Why Do You Work?", "content_html": "\n![\"\"](\"https://peoplefirst.vision/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/https-bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com-public-images-a50a37e2-b023-4473-9b6f-6f70a5a8bb16_1456x971-1024x683.jpeg\")
I promise, Manton, Daniel and I did not coordinate this - I think sometimes synchronicity just happens.
\n\n\nIn last weeks newsletter I asked the question
\n\n\n\"Why Do You Work?\"
\n\n\nA reply post will be available this Saturday.
\n\n\nThere have been some great answers, but that is not the reason for this post.
\n\n\nManton Reece - the brain behind Micro Blog 1 and Daniel Jalkut - the brain behind Red Sweater 2 have a weekly podcast called Core Intuition. This week I learned that they have been running their podcast for twelve years. A remarkable feat even of itself. Both of them are independent developers and this week the conversation turned to employment. A really nice discussion between two professionals that wrestle with following their dreams and passions, while balancing the need to put bread on the table.
\n\n\nHave a listen - you won't regret it and very pertinent to the discussion 'Why Do You Work'.
\n\n\n1] If you want to see MicroBlog working in the real world, my web site - John.Philpin.Com is powered by MicroBlog.
\n\n\n2] If you want to see Red Sweater working in the real world, that’s a little harder - but Daniel has a superb product called Mars Edit that I am using to write and post this article. Seriously. If you are a Mac user that writes a blog - you should be using Mars Edit.
\n\n", "date_published": "2021-02-10T13:12:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/02/09/why-do-you.html", "tags": ["? PeopleFirst","? Podcasts","? LongForm","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/11/21/philosophy-week.html", "title": "Philosophy Week", "content_html": "\n![\"podcaster\"](\"https://peoplefirst.vision/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/jeremy-enns-1vrWiQvtxW8-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\")
Part 2 of my conversation with Cristina DiGiacomo, M.S. goes live at 5 am Pacific Standard Time on Monday 23rd. You are going to love it. Hell, we loved it so much that when we finished - we just kept going - you'll see what I mean.
\n\n\nPart One - if you want to catch up first.
\n\n\n\n\n\nAnd it's not as if there is a theme going here BUT - later on in the week, part 1 of my conversation with Tim Walters Ph.D., goes live.
\n\n\nIt must be philosophy in the workplace week!
\n\n", "date_published": "2020-11-22T14:01:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/11/21/philosophy-week.html", "tags": ["? PeopleFirst","? Podcasts","? LongForm","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/04/143813.html", "content_html": "Episode 2 of PeopleCast is LIVE. (Well, kind of.)
\nWould very much welcome feedback on this first episode. Any and all comments welcome. It’s not too late to change things before I really start rolling these out and my skin is very thick!
\nMany thanks in anticipation.
\n\n", "date_published": "2020-06-04T14:38:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/04/143813.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/04/episode-of-peoplecast.html", "content_html": "Episode 1 of PeopleCast is LIVE. (Well, kind of.)
\nWould very much welcome feedback on this first episode. Any and all comments welcome. It’s not too late to change things before I really start rolling these out and my skin is very thick!
\nMany thanks in anticipation.
\n\n", "date_published": "2020-06-04T14:36:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/04/episode-of-peoplecast.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/05/20/i-dont-really.html", "content_html": "I don’t really write fiction. At least fiction that sees the light of day ….
\n🔗 The Letter is an exception. Published yesterday on BizCatalyst.
\nI decided to 🖇️ narrate it in the latest episode of BUNKER-19.
\n", "date_published": "2020-05-20T18:23:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/05/20/i-dont-really.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts","? HUB"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/05/20/bunker-continues-but.html", "content_html": "BUNKER-19 - Episode 4
\nThe series continues - but Episode 4 had to go up to YouTube - too big to hangout in Micro.Blog
\n\n", "date_published": "2020-05-20T16:23:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/05/20/bunker-continues-but.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts","? HUB"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/05/20/bunker-episode-the.html", "content_html": "The Letter (YouTube)
\n", "date_published": "2020-05-20T16:15:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/05/20/bunker-episode-the.html", "tags": ["? Videos","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/04/20/bunker.html", "content_html": "BUNKER-19 - Episode 3
\n\n\n
\n
… if you can call them episodes.
\n", "date_published": "2020-04-20T19:24:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/04/20/bunker.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/04/09/bunker-an-experiment.html", "content_html": "BUNKER-19 - An Experiment For Our Times
\n\n", "date_published": "2020-04-09T17:50:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/04/09/bunker-an-experiment.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/04/08/travels-without-charlie.html", "content_html": "🎙️ Travels Without Charlie - Episode 1 - Kevin
\nIt’s a series of stories that are part of People First. The growing set is here, while the story about Kevin is here.
\nI hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I have enjoyed meeting the people that tell me their stories.
\n\n", "date_published": "2020-04-08T17:43:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/04/08/travels-without-charlie.html", "tags": ["? PeopleFirst","? Podcasts","People First","Travels Without Charley"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/04/08/bunker-an-experiment.html", "content_html": "BUNKER-19 - An Experiment For Our Times
\nIF they continue … they will get better!
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2020-04-08T17:20:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/04/08/bunker-an-experiment.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/03/27/its-a-bit.html", "content_html": "
It’s a bit of a test - but if it works - is one channel delivery method for my new Bunker-19 Vidcast.
\n![\"Test](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/6256031cec.png\" "\\"Bunker-19\\"")
Just a test really. So far so good.
\n\n", "date_published": "2019-09-13T05:58:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/09/12/i-never-knew.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/07/01/people-not-assets.html", "title": " 🚧 People - Not Assets, Talent, Staff ... People", "content_html": "\nI just read this and decided to drop in a few People First tenets to remind us all .... the problem Kevin raises is not easily fixed - it is a systemic view of how people are seen by
![\"\"](\"https://i1.wp.com/people-first.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Human-Beings.jpeg?ssl=1\"/)
![\"\"](\"https://i0.wp.com/people-first.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Assets-or-Liabilities.jpeg?ssl=1\"/)
![\"\"](\"https://i1.wp.com/people-first.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Present-Of-Work.jpeg?ssl=1\"/)
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Bunker19
\n", "date_published": "2019-07-02T05:03:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/07/01/people-not-assets.html", "tags": ["? PeopleFirst","? Podcasts","? LongForm","People First","? WIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/05/08/work-as-identity.html", "content_html": "🎙️Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle.
\n\n\n\n”So I asked the authors to join me for a conversation about what happens when work becomes an identity, capitalism becomes a religion, and productivity becomes the way we measure human value.”
\n
Ezra Klein
\n", "date_published": "2019-05-09T08:58:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/05/08/work-as-identity.html", "tags": ["? PeopleFirst","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/04/26/winer-started-im.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n”I’m thinking sort of the opposite of broadcast.. NarrowCast, SlimCast, TrimCast, SmallCast, MiniCast, NoCast, UnCast, PayCast, BuyCast, MyCast, DudCast… just a few ideas
\n
thegrump
\nThankfully he didn’t include microcast or snickelcast in his list.
\n", "date_published": "2019-04-27T03:40:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/04/26/winer-started-im.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/03/28/just-been-listning.html", "content_html": "Just been listening to the latest micro monday podcast with @klandwehr … nicely done. At one point @macgenie was talking about the ‘differalities’ of blogging and podcasting - we seem to be on the same page where I introduced ‘snickelcasts’ and wrote:
\n\n\n“With a blog, you open up your text editor of choice and write, you edit, you write more, you file it in a drafts folder, you come back to it and eventually one day you hit ‘publish’ and without a word suddenly your thoughts are out there in public domain for anybody to read. To some that is a scary proposition, but as I said earlier - if nobody reads it, what do you lose?
\n
and
\n\n\nBut a podcast is different. Unless you understand sound files, can edit sound files, can mix and merge different sound files, you are essentially recording your self in a single take. And that is hard. Just try reading prewritten words into a microphone and see what you feel about the result. It isn’t easy. Now imagine talking like that, right off the top of your head … without hesitation, deviation or repetition . as the old BBC radio show, ‘Just a Minute’ would have. That’s difficult.
\n
There is a LOT more … including just what exactly is a Snickelcast.
\n
One of an occasional series of posts commenting on ‘Differalities’ (the ‘commonalities’) that divide the UK and the US.
\nSee them all here, along with other ‘Johnisms’ here.
\n", "date_published": "2019-03-29T09:14:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/03/28/just-been-listning.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/03/14/and-there-we.html", "content_html": "And there we have it …
\nMy thoughts on the how and why of Snickelcasts.
\n", "date_published": "2019-03-15T06:39:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/03/14/and-there-we.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/20/part-three-of.html", "content_html": "Part Three of Episode ZERO : Episode 0.3 in fact.
\nThere will be one more ‘0.x post’ before I launch People First .
\nIn this episode I commit to no more quizzes, highlight an ‘EJIT’, share more great sounds and start to get into the flow. It’s not easy.
\n\n", "date_published": "2019-02-21T12:16:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/20/part-three-of.html", "tags": ["? PeopleFirst","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/12/12/welcome-to-episode.html", "content_html": "Part Two of Episode ZERO : Episode 0.2 in fact.
\n… where I explore a little more about how to make a podcast out of a fairy liquid bottle, some duct tape and a pair of scissors.
\nI also refer back to part one - and wonder if anyone can answer the quiz.
\n\n", "date_published": "2018-12-13T08:29:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/12/12/welcome-to-episode.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/11/30/microcasts-added-every.html", "content_html": "Microcasts
\nAdded every valid feed for Microcasts on MicroCast Club to Feedly (since it was going to be a real pain-in-the-ass to add them to Castro).
\nI shared the Feedly folder here
\nIf you want the OPML file you can download it here
\nWho am I missing?
\n![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/1bdace6d7f.jpg\")
\nAbout MicroCasts …. did I imagine that there is a hidden page somewhere in Micro Blog - where all your podcasts appear - not talking about the RSS feed - I mean an actual page?
\n", "date_published": "2018-12-01T07:18:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/11/30/about-microcasts-did.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts"] } ] }