Pivot

It started with the book. You're very close with Mike Isaac.

We didn't start with a desire to tell this kind of story. It was like, we read Mike's book and then that book seemed to us to ask a lot of questions we wanted to ask about the cost of disruption and the rewards of disruption.

And then these characters were like Shakespearean characters in real life.

So yes, Travis won and the company won and I agree with you about basically a lot of what you said but let's just examine the safe rides fee, the thing we started with.

If I look at the geofencing they did over Apple that notion is so outrageous to me that if it's as micro-ported again I don't have any special knowledge but what micro-ported in the book is that Travis made a promise to Eddie Q and Tim Cook and that promise was this tracking software will not be in the app anymore.

His new documentary, George Carlin's American Dream, traces the life and career of that legendary comic.

Judd's New Book, Sicker in the Head features interviews with some of the most exciting names in comedy.

Well, I mean this is a lot of what the book Sicker in the Head is about because I tried to interview the new people.

He has written about his experience of being a black man in America, including a best-selling autobiographical satire How to Be Black.

There's a concept in the book Scarcity, which is which is a book about Economics, I think cindy mullinathan might be one of the authors

The myth of Jack Welch was maybe best summarized by Fortune magazine, which at the end of his career crowned him manager of the century

Overriding all of that was this alpha male, I would argue toxic, fear based, top down hierarchical leadership, which of course is still familiar to so many of us today who have worked at any company because it became the norm.

He was merciless. He was the downsizer in chief and he set the precedent for the rest of corporate America to do the same sort of thing.

All of this absolutely relentless earnings management, which has delivered meet or beat quarters for something like 80 quarters in a row. Like that's not possible. It's not possible. It's impossible.

It was so seductive. Those were his terms, right? It was impossible not to just keep going one more quarter, one more meat or beet. And you do whatever you could to make those numbers work.

I don't try to sugarcoat things or glamorize things or sanitize things.

The idea behind Any Given Sunday is that the worst team in the league can walk out on the field and beat the best team. The best team can lose to the worst team. And it's not those wins or losses that define you. What defines you is, do you pick yourself up off the turf and go to the next Sunday?

And politics is similar because as I go through in my book, Any Given Tuesday, there are a lot of losses and there are a lot of wins. And if you let the wins go to your head, that's not a good thing. If you let the losses beat you down, that's not a good thing.

But ultimately it involves an element of belief to be able to go election to election. And stamina. And stamina. And stamina.

one thing I tried to do in my book as well is I don't try to sugarcoat things or glamorize things or sanitize things

it's very honest, I think it's probably gonna ruffle a few feathers out there but you know it's from my perspective and uh you know what what I experienced and you know I think when you're a public figure if I guess I was for many years people write about you and you really don't have a chance to kind of try to to reflect or express what it was like being in that position so it felt really good and liberating to kind of say hey this this is what happened this is my experience and you know hopefully it'll be illuminating to people and um interesting I think a lot of women who have people have ideas of that they're not like what people think you're like it's very interesting um I'm people will be very this will be a really interesting book

it's very honest I think it's probably gonna ruffle a few feathers out there

I talk a lot about me too you do and matt and what that was like really how I processed that whole thing

I talk a lot about losing my husband to colon cancer news 42 and our kid daughters were six and two and I was 41 and my sister a few years later so um I would say it's incredibly candid and raw um and I I thought it was I thought it was very you went you did the Kathryn Graham thing I mean the ball things and that was another by I think it'll be surprising to people and people will like it quite a bit

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The more pressing question is why has the media chosen to scrutinize my celebration of the human forum in a fashion photo shoot?

Are we no longer able to appreciate the beauty of the human body?

I've read everything, watched every show. I followed all this stuff, whether it's Patrick Rattenkeef or Barry Meyer writing those amazing books and obviously Dope Sick and all the other things and all the various Sundry Sackler things.

It's essentially essentially we have we have literally declared war it's I Andrew Yang's book with a war on normal people

Jamie Bartlett is an author and bestselling book, The Dark Net, and the writer and presenter of the number one podcast, The Missing Crypto Queen.

I'm about to publish my book called Future Proof,

Apple's never been bigger, never been more powerful, never been more profitable. They've created a company out of the software and services business. It's been nothing short of a miracle what they've done there.

The results are largely rooted in the past. It's taking the iPhone and saying, well, what can we bolt onto this and create more sales opportunities out of?

If you talk to people who work at the company, they feel this more than people maybe externally feel it. And if you talk to some of the people who have worked on designing some of these products that have been so influential in all of our lives, if you ask them, okay, well, what's Steve Jobs' legacy? They'll say it was making amazing products that really changed the world. And if you ask them, well, what's been the legacy of the past decade? They'll say making a ton of money.

The biggest surprise for me writing this book was just getting such a deep appreciation for how After Steve Jobs died, the creative heart of the company wound up having the people who were on the outside, the operators kind of come into the middle. And just how confusing that was for everybody.

All signs and all reporting indicate that glasses are first and car is second. And that's largely because of the challenges with each one and the technology that they have to bring along.

The term was coined back in 2004 by the political scientist Samuel Huntington and he used it to refer to people who go to the World Economic Forum at Davos, but it quickly became this kind of catch-all for billionaires who write the rules for the rest of us whose finances are so complicated that they stretch across jurisdictions which limits their sense of identity by nation.

He's not content to just own everything and have his name on buildings. He wants us to actually laud him for saving us all.

CEOs are the heroes of the pandemic. Without us we wouldn't have vaccines, we wouldn't have loans, we wouldn't have rescue programs, we wouldn't have anything. Government didn't do the job. We saved you.

So the landscape right now is very weird Americans have been on a shopping spree ever since about May of 2020 and global supply chains just we're not designed to accommodate this much demand especially in the US

You know, on top of that you have the great resignation which you mentioned and, you know, part of that is hitting jobs that are specifically kind of not great jobs in general like trucking

So we're all just kind of like on this grand journey together where we find out that if chip packaging in Malaysia shuts down for a month you can't buy a, you know, Ford F-150 or whatever two months later in the US

Well, recession is always a quick and dirty solution to these kinds of problems We don't like that That's a bad solution

Yeah, I mean Amazon You know they The same way that Apple has this tremendous lead over everybody in terms of chip design which you know is happening as we record this as they announce a new faster than ever MacBook Pro and everything Amazon has a lead over everybody in terms of like warehouse design the software that runs warehouses the robots that populate those warehouses