I think it’s hilarious that a whole industry exists to turn ideas that would fit onto half a page into whole-ass books that guys at airports can buy to improve themselves, and then a whole additional industry exists that „distills“ those books back to their half-page core message for the self-improver who doesn’t have the time. It seems to me like there is a real opportunity to cut out the middle man there.
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I have been absolutely loving this podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id1651876897

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri dissect airport bestsellers from the early 2000s as a window into what was wrong with mainstream U.S. culture / what that culture missed.

They are funny & charming & they are undoing a little bit of the indoctrination I grew up with in a welcome way!

#Podcasts #AgainstNeoliberalism #IfBooksCouldKill #AirportBooks #Culture