A contributing factor to [all this] is that people who just want to do the work and live their lives are uncomfortable (or simply, reasonably bored) with things like power, sales, negotiation, and self-promotion, while the monsters and grifters are very interested and adept indeed.

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Apple is a $5 trillion company that refuses to pay humans to write

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Where possible, Hoopla is always the better option. (They're a service of Midwest Tape, who are very much not owned by private equity -- it's a family company -- and whose business is working with libraries on multimedia offerings.)

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The episodes on Fats Domino, in that after so many episodes about absolutely terrible people, you get someone who was a pretty decent person. Episode 150, when I started listening this morning, and realised that it was going to be much more of a commitment than usual...

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Isn't it wild that the only CEOs we hear about are the messy bitches who love drama and say wild baseless shit, and/or have a disproportionate amount of power? There are so many people leading businesses in a boring, possibly competent manner and we never hear about them. This is a problem.

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