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Live GreatlyPeloton Instructor Hannah Corbin | Finding Self-Love and an Empowering Mindset Amid Her Health JourneyOn this Live Greatly podcast episode, Kristel Bauer sits down with Peleton Instructor and TED awareness advocate Hannah Corbin to talk about her journey navigating an autoimmune thyroid condition called Hashimoto's disease. Hannah shares how she has shifted her mindset to a place of self-love and empowerment since her diagnosis. Hannah also talks about her wellness practices, a look into Thyroid Eye Disease and more. Key Takeaways From This Episode Hannah's journey navigating an autoimmune thyroid condition, Hashimoto's disease How Hannah has shifted her mindset to a more empowering place since her diagnosis Hannah's wellness practices A...2024-08-1323 min
Sveriges Bästa Mäklare#131 Ted Bauer – "Modernt klassiskt!"100 avsnitt senare så gästar Ted Bauer podden på nytt, den här gången under ny flagg då han numer köpt upp och är VD för Oscars Mäkleri på Östermalm i Stockholm. Vad innebär modernt klassiskt? Vad är visionen och målbilden med Oscars Mäkleri? Hur utvecklar man ett klassiskt varumärke utan att tappa sitt legacy? Kostymköpet som gick fel! Allt detta och mycket mer får du svar på i podden! Vi har såklart med oss Hemnet som kommer med spaningar. Stort tack till Hemnet som gör podden möjlig!2024-07-0833 min
Fixed Ops RoundtableHow to Boost Service Department Performance with Mikey BHow do you transform service advisors into confident, customer-centric professionals? What can a simple walk-around reveal that might save lives? In this special episode, I, Ted Ings, have the pleasure of hosting Mike "Mikey B" Bauer, Corporate Trainer at BG Products, Inc. Mikey B brings a wealth of knowledge and experience, transforming the landscape of fixed operations through innovative training methods and tools. From the importance of the service walk-around to the impact of proper training, this episode is packed with insights that can revolutionize your service department.👉 Register for the upcoming Fixe...2024-05-2731 min
Gator BytesTed Bauer Scholar Spotlight - Montserrat Serrano & Bryan AlvaradoJoin us as we sit down with Ted Bauer Scholarship recipients Montserrat Serrano & Bryan Alvarado. Learn more about their academic journey, securing scholarships, how they achieve success in the classroom and overcome challenges in life. The scholarship’s namesake, Ted Bauer, was a forward-thinking business leader, who adhered to the belief that “People are the Product.” This scholarship reflects his foundation's mission to invest in business students, who have the potential to help the Houston business community grow.2024-04-1622 min
Woke PointsWho Decides Truth in Media — and Do We Even Need It? with Professor A.J. BauerUniversity of Alabama Communications Professor and author AJ Bauer joins Ted and Marni for this week's deep dive into the history of truth and fairness in media. By the end, we wonder, "is truth even the right goal?"Follow AJ on Twitter, and buy his books: the acclaimed News on the Right: Studying Conservative News Cultures, and his forthcoming Making the Liberal Media.Resources from this episode:Institute for Public KnowledgeNews on the Right: Studying Conservative News CulturesThank you to Inny PDX for the music!Woke Points u...2023-05-091h 09
She Who WinsA Father's Story of Life, Love and Loss with Ted Yang As an about-to-be- first time father, Ted Yang thought he had it all. He was married to the love of his life. He had an impressive educational...2020-12-0234 min
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27. A Father’s Story of Life, Love and Loss with Ted Yang
As an about-to-be- first time father, Ted Yang thought he had it all. He was married to the love of his life. He had an impressive educational background having finished his Masters of Engineering at MIT at age 21. He had been an executive at the world’s most successful hedge funds and had been featured on every major media outlet such as Wall Street Journal and NPR. He...2020-12-0200 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 79: Coming back in January 2021 with a renewed focusI let my podcasting slip in November because a bunch of stuff kinda came together at once: I was doing more paid work (good), I turned 40 (jury's still out), I got remarried (good), I bought a house (good/jury's still out), etc. I needed to pay more attention to what I was doing here, and I didn't, in part because my audience wasn't huge or anything. So, I'm gonna be back in January 2021 with a renewed focus on discussions about adulthood and transitions, friendships and relationships, etc... as opposed to going into work or other topics. I might hit...2020-12-0100 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 78: 18 or so minutes on the experience of getting married a second timeThis is an audio version (well, similar to) of this post. Just out here trying to grow as a human being where I can, ya know? Here's a video of the ceremony, too.2020-10-2900 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 77: "You are not a genius" + The emotional toll of white-collar workGot remarried about two weeks ago, then went out of town for a few days, so I've been sitting on this interview with Jim Monroe for a minute, and it's time now to release it into the broader world. He's the author of a book called "Don't Be A Dick Manager," and if you know anything about my seven years of blogging, that's a theme I hit on a lot. This conversation is about management, life, business models, California, the propensity of world-building executives to think of themselves as geniuses, and more. We get into some emotional labor near...2020-10-2900 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 76: Getting married. For a second time. In a pandemic. This weekend.Here we go ... and how does that feel?
If you want to understand the "A" to "B" narrative of divorce to new marriage, read this.
My ceremony is at 11am USA Central Time on Saturday, 10/17. I don't expect a lot of people to be around or remember it, because it's a second wedding, COVID, etc. If you want to shoot me a text or something, it's 860-967-7667.2020-10-1300 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 75: I'm a guy, and often feel lonely and depressed. That should be OK to say, right?Let's do some backstory to start, with some reading materials to boot. Start with me at this present moment. I'm sitting in a coffee shop typing. Well, on what appears to be December 10, 2013, I was also sitting in a coffee shop -- that one was in Minneapolis -- writing about the decline of male friendships. That was almost six years ago and I doubt much has changed.
As for reading materials: Here's a little ditty on "male loneliness killing millions," here's one calling the whole deal "an epidemic," and maybe the No. 1 thing in this canon, a...2020-10-0800 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 74: Product is important, sure, but try to give a shit about peopleBased loosely on this.2020-10-0700 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 73: Trump and the rise of the douchebagsBased on this and this.2020-10-0600 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 72: Divorce sucks, but divorcing the friends is probably worseSomewhat adapted from here and the experiences of people I know.2020-10-0500 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 71: Why are so many managers so f*cking awful at respecting their employees?Why is appreciating employees for what they're worth as contributors to the brand so hard for bosses? Oh, right, it's not natural and no one seems to get trained on it. More on how to respect and appreciate employees can be found here.2020-10-0500 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 70: Rump Got Rona'ed and the dangers of Boomer loyaltyWhat now for "the leaders of the free world?" Some references can be found in this post.2020-10-0200 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 69: How many times a week should couples be having sex?With some science and even some data. Based largely on this original post from September 2015. Hope you ... find some information and solace within it.
If you want to go bigger on sample size here and use actual people instead of sex therapists, here’s a Reddit thread (with 278 comments) where people talk about their amount-of-sex-per-week relative to their age, time married, and kids. Some of the better comments are subsequently summarized on Huffington Post.2020-09-2410 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 68: RBG and the ridiculous dichotomy of a woman's role in societyI'm not a big or relevant voice in the RBG implications and legacy discussion, but I did want to weigh in on some of her "branding" and the ridiculous flaws and assumptions we have around a woman's role in society.2020-09-1907 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 67: The divergence of life, 28-to-35 or soTrying out a new thing here on some episodes where I walk through one of the 2,400 blog posts I've done and try to present some degree of relevance (hopefully) to y'all in 10 minutes or so, with some data or understanding about topics/issues/life/work. I'm starting by going through the post that kind of inspired this podcast, about how much your life changes between 28 and 35. Enjoy, happy weekend, and I'll be back with some of these posts and some guest posts (i.e. me talking to someone) in the next couple of weeks.2020-09-1813 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 66: Is conventional college valuable anymore?Grant Aldrich, who comes from a startup background, is currently the CEO and Founder of OnlineDegree.com. Obviously affordable higher education has been a big topic politically and socially for years now, often in the context of debt that people enter the job market with. We talk a lot about that here, about different biz models for education, about finding purpose, and about the changing nature of the college student. There’s a couple of kernels of life advice near the end as well. Let’s roll.2020-09-0331 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 65: The promise and the peril of turning 40 (+horrible conference call stories)I turn 40 on November 7. My friend Diana, who has guested on this podcast before, turned 40 this past Tuesday -- August 25. I talked to her on Monday about the promise and the peril of the big four-oh. Plus, if you either listen through or scroll to the end, we have a bunch of horrible conference call stories. Let’s roll.2020-08-2655 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 64: The COVID return to school, old white guys on Facebook, Libertarians, and life decisions of your late 20sThis is an interview with my friend Nathan, who I think I once called a “KPI Kevin” on LinkedIn and that cemented our relationship. We talk a lot about politics, about outsourcing, about Libertarians and old white men on Facebook, and because he works with a teachers union on the marketing side, we talk about the COVID return to school stuff as well. It’s a longer interview of maybe 70 minutes or so, but we get into the weeds on a few things, including how I myself ended up in Texas. So, give it a whirl if you get some t...2020-08-201h 14
The Blunder YearsEpisode 63: Friends after you move, The Platinum Rule, Midwest vs. Everybody, sports, Amazon, and moreThis interview is with Joe Matar, a Marketing VP at Brazen, which is a top virtual events platform, including career fairs. We initially met back in February of 2018, because I was helping work a RecruitingDaily event at Brazen’s HQ in Virginia. We bonded over some funny leadership stuff and sports. Joe is a big Wisconsin guy, i.e. Bucks, Brewers, Packers. I have an odd fascination with the Bucks, so that got us going, and then we saw each other at a couple of trade shows along the way pre-COVID. This is a discussion about sports, leadership, working at...2020-08-1240 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 62: "Homeschooling before it was cool," weightlifting, kids in a pandemic, and keeping up with the JonesesThis is an interview with my man Fritz in St. Louis, who runs ArchDevOps. He was actually the guest on Episode 27 back in the day. On that episode (27), we talked about battling cancer, raising daughters, and more. This one is more about parenting through COVID, homeschooling, the power of weightlifting, Earth as a “death planet,” and finding and retaining work during a pandemic. Hope you enjoy.2020-08-0535 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 61: The experience of new fatherhood, during COVID no lessThis is a short interview with my man Stuart Higgins of Higgins Talent Sourcing. We talk shop a tiny bit (recruiting), but most of this is about the uncertainty of the modern moment. He's based in England, but his wife is from Poland, and he did this interview in Poland. They're kinda floating and taking care of her mom these days, and oh by the way, they just had their first kid during COVID-19. He couldn't be back up to the hospital for two weeks after the birth. What's the experience of new fatherhood like in such a weird...2020-07-2923 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 60: The future of recruiting, Miller Lite binges, dance moms, low ponies, and moreThis is a conversation with my LinkedIn friend (I surprisingly have a few of those), Daava, who is a recruiter in Portland Metro. We taped this maybe two weeks ago, so before all the political stuff happening in Portland right now, hence that’s not covered. However, this is still pretty interesting, and we talk about dance moms (she is one), competitive motherhood, the future of recruiting, communication styles, and what type of candidate/employee might excel because of COVID paradigm shifts. There’s also a story about low ponytails and excessive Miller Lite consumption in here. Hope you enjo...2020-07-2139 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 59: Definitions of diversity | Moving to Colorado | "The Note Police"This is an interview with Colorado-based organizational consultant Jeff Kinsey, who has a company called The Logos Group about 20 minutes from Boulder, CO. We talk a lot about the influx of people into Colorado, “The Note Police” at work, finding a true strategic path, and the question of what “diversity” even is -- i.e. is it racial, gender-based, or cognitive-driven. Hope you enjoy it, and we’ll be back next week.2020-07-1532 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 58: Honesty as the "clarion call" of adulthoodMy guest on this episode is Peter, who recently wrote a book called Honest to Greatness, which is coming out in mid-August. He actually has a 21-question “honesty quiz” on his website, which I linked in my show notes for this episode. He scaled an agency and he focuses on a coaching/consulting approach driven by honesty, which might seem like an oxymoron to some people. I’ve thought a lot about honesty at work, and in personal context, over the last few years as well. The big example in this space is probably Ray Dalio and “radical transparency,” and Peter...2020-07-0828 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 57: The Etsy of Career CoachingThis episode, my guest is Francie, who founded an online career coaching program called Terawatt. (They even have a pretty good blog.) We start this interview talking about life transitions -- her and her husband and kid spent eight years in California and moved back to the east coast last summer -- and then we get into coaching, leadership, management, and how to guide yourself through a career and find help from others. If you’re into leadership contexts, it’s a good, quick-ish (27 or so minutes) discussion. Let’s get going.2020-06-2427 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 56: Does every generation think the next one is going to ruin everything?This is a conversation with my friend James, who is based “across the pond” in England. We start out talking about Brexit, and then we move into some of the problems with communication and language and persuasion and listening in a mobile-digital-first age, before getting into some generations stuff too. I think we even work Emma Watson in there. As a final quick note, I’ve got a few more episodes taped to publish, but it’s drying up a little bit, so if you think you might be interested in coming on for 25-30 minutes to talk about life, lo...2020-06-1547 min
TED TALKS 2 muchTED TALKS (Way 2 Much) 2 Billy Ray Bauer... about his youth and the fame and fortune of being a ComedianThis show is respectfully dedicated to Mr. Corey Hall, 43 years old, a pillar of the Detroit Stand Up Comedy Community, who we loss just a couple days ago, way too young and way too soon. He will be missed by many.Sit back and enjoy Part 2 of Billy Ray Bauer who shares insights into his Detroit childhood, what he as learned about fame and fortune from Tim Allen and Louie Anderson. He is one funny guy with the wisdom of a Comic who has been doing this for a long, long time.Also check out: https...2020-06-1049 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 55: From #BillsMafia to friendships and housing pricesThe guest on this episode is my friend Matt. He’s from the east coast but relocated to Denver and he’s part of the Just Be Social squad on the Twitter device, which includes a few of my previous guests on this podcast as well. Matt is a good dude, and we overlap in the sports fandom, meme fandom, and recruiter Internet ecosystem worlds. Thing is, he’s actually in recruiting and I just talk about it periodically. In this episode, we start on #BillsMafia and whether Buffalo people can have nice things (could this be the year with B...2020-06-0846 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 54: Instagram, Fatherhood, Creativity, and Five-Year PlansEarlier this week, I actually got in a semi-heated Twitter exchange about the role of Instagram in everything that’s going on racially. I was going toe-to-toe with Angelica Mata, who was actually the guest on Episode 21 of this podcast. Anyway, I’m not a big fan of IG broadly, and I think the reason is that when I was on it, I was following the wrong people and brands and I was seeing a bunch of low-context virtue signaling. I’m not on it right now and I can only imagine that’s happening around race issues.
Anyway...2020-06-0539 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 53: "Many people are outsiders through no fault of their own"This interview is with my friend Darren, who is Jewish and from a small town in Texas that has, well, as you might imagine, not a good deal of Jewish people aside from his family. So we talk about being an outsider, understanding why others are outsiders, embracing different perspectives, online filter bubbles, and a little bit about HR and the ridiculousness of surveys (that part is towards the end). We actually taped this back on May 6th or 7th, well before the George Floyd protests, but I think a lot of the discussion resonates right now. Hope you...2020-06-0150 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 52: The late 1990s, Marriott-driven Polish party scene + Silicon Valley accountabilityI think I first discovered the writings of Greg Satell, perhaps better known as Digital Tonto, sometime around 2015 when I was first trying to be a solo hustler. He’s an interesting dude. He was born and raised in Philly, lived all over Eastern Europe and the former Soviet block in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and ended up back about two miles from the house he grew up in. This conversation is predominantly about new ideas, technology, growth, and the accountability of Silicon Valley, but we also take a look at the Marriott-based party scene of Poland in...2020-05-2838 min
TED TALKS 2 muchTED TALKS 2 Billy Ray Bauer... about the Role of Comedy, Styles of Comedy & his Great Parents.I spent the afternoon in the presents of one of the Great Longtime & Local Stand Up Comedians. Billy Ray Bauer has not only had a successful career as a "road comic" but is well spoken and has a lot of insight, when it comes to Comedy and the challenges that come with it.After 3 hours of golf and another 3 hours on the mics, I think you will enjoy the world of Comedy from this bright and funny man's point of view.Support the showTHE FUNNY 15 Master Class in Stand-Up Comedy30% o...2020-05-2643 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 51: How do you define yourself? | Why aren't people paying attention? | The value of being a lazy bumSometimes in the weird freelance bubble that I’ve called home since 2015 or so, you randomly encounter people on the Internet who click “like” on some of your stuff, and then here and there you do a few work projects with them and can call them friends or acquaintances from afar. That’s the story with D’Nelle here, the guest on this episode. I dragged my feet a little on posting this because of other BS in my life, but it’s actually a really good conversation on defining yourself, the value of laziness, and how we’re all angry that...2020-05-2640 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 50: A loving shout-out to all the micro-creators who put good stuff into the universe every hourNot everyone scales rapidly, "hyper-grows," or gets acquired by Spotify or another platform. And I think it's OK that we acknowledge the FULL spectrum of content creators, not just the bigger names. Ya know? So to hit 50 episodes on this growing-but-not-really-popular podcast, I wanted to give them a dime of encouragement.
Why can’t we just celebrate the idea of creation and new initiatives, even if they don’t scale rapidly or make billions of dollars?
This is just a short post to make this point: sometimes it’s OK to create a small thing...2020-05-2105 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 49: Dealing with recruiters during the pandemic, in roughly 21.5 minutesThere’s a huge ecosystem of recruiting and HR content out there in the world these days, which I’ve contributed to in part for sure. In fact, just on this podcast since I launched it, I’ve had Tim Sackett (Episode 35) and William Tincup (Episode 18), who are both semi-big names in that world. Well, to spare you some additional bullshit about dealing with recruiters and how to get jobs, especially in a layoff-heavy pandemic period, here I talked to Robert, who was one of my original antagonists on LinkedIn, where everyone seems to broadly not like me that much...2020-05-1823 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 48: Sober friends vs. drunk friendsThis is an interview with my friend Jack. We met at ESPN in 2005; I started there that year, and I think he had been there about four years at that point. As such, we've been friends for 15 years now, and a chunk of it is definitely rooted in sports. This interview even begins with sports discussion -- Coach K, whether he's dirty, recruiting in basketball, and the 1992 Kentucky vs. Duke game. (The Laettner shot.) But Jack and I have also both struggled with drinking over the years, so eventually we get into that. What is a sober journey? What...2020-05-1456 min
The Blunder YearsEpisode 47: That first wedding you attend post-divorce | Reaction vs. response | Expectations | COVID as a near-death experienceThis guest is named Diana. If you scroll back in your podcast player from this episode all the way to Number 29 of this show, it’s the same guest. We originally met in June 2003 doing Teach for America, both of us training in Houston. OK, so Episode 29 -- not this one -- is largely about an assessment she sent me and I completed and what that says about me and her as professionals. So that’s a little bit more of a “work” episode, and this is a little bit more of a “personal” episode, because we’ve both been divorced...2020-05-111h 06
The Blunder YearsEpisode 46: "Is this your baseline level of being a dick?"I met this guest, Todd, on LinkedIn -- I think that is an under-discussed channel of mid-30s and above male friendship, oddly -- within the last six months to a year, I think. We interacted on a few posts about different work things and then taped this episode, which starts with a look at the early days of TiVo. Todd was actually in the room the first time live TV was paused. Then we get into parenting and the idea of 13 year-olds having a moral obligation to be dicks to their parents, and then we get into some...2020-05-0850 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 45: "Did God fill that form out for you?" | Conspiracies | Drinking | RelationshipsThis is an interview with my friend Gabe. I think we first started connecting sometime in 2018, on LinkedIn first. You know it’s some real serious shit because eventually we became Facebook friends too. This is a pretty far-reaching discussion on religion, relationships, being a manager at work, conspiracy theories, drinking, partying, growing up, and more. I hope you find some value in it. Let’s roll. We’re actually going to start by me telling Gabe about a conversation I had with my pastor, who actually also ended up on this podcast at Episode 37 I think, if you want t...2020-05-061h 00The Blunder YearsEpisode 44: God, data, sports, advertising, and friends belittling and ranting at each otherAt this point, I am not even sure the first time I met this guest, Mr. Eamonn. We were friends at ESPN, so I figure we met sometime around fall 2005. It’s incredible to think that we’ve known each other 15 years at this point, and/or the fact that I’m almost 40 and he’s over it. Since we met in Central CT, we’ve probably lived in a combined 10 places, and he’s been in Hawaii and now back in Ireland. Life is weird. This is basically a discussion between friends and sometimes biz-type partners who belittle each other a...2020-05-031h 04The Blunder YearsEpisode 43: Fixing education, middle school hoops, Houston vs. NYC, and male friendship in your 30sI started doing Teach for America in mid-June 2003. It was still about two weeks before LeBron would even be drafted into the NBA. The previous summer, the Knicks had made the second round of the NBA playoffs -- and I don’t think they have been back to that round since. As of mid-June 2003, I think the only time I had been to Texas was a layover in DFW Airport. So I moved down there with a bunch of preconceived notions and no idea what I was in for in terms of teaching in the inner-city, and one of th...2020-04-291h 02The Blunder YearsEpisode 42: The ability to be with one's self in a quiet roomI initially heard this guest, James Hollis, on The Art of Manliness podcast. That episode was on finding meaning in the second half of life. Hollis is a Jungian therapist, i.e. Carl Jung. We don’t get into a tremendous amount of Jungian stuff here, but we talk about meaning throughout life, masculinity, and the ability to be with one's self in a quiet room. Having been divorced and trying to cope with that reality, I can tell you that’s a very real measure of a man. This episode is only about 20 minutes, so give it a whir...2020-04-2721 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 41: Moving out of a house you've lived in since 1987I would guesstimate that the largest percentage of my first 40 episodes were people between the ages of 25 and 45. This episode is with Terry, who is a little bit north of that arc -- to the point that our first discussion here is actually about retirement. She’s retiring from a W-2 later this month, actually. And her and her husband are selling a house they’ve been in since 1987, so we talk about that as well. (My mom and dad actually moved out of the apartment I grew up in around early 2016, and they had been there since 1974.)
Sh...2020-04-2425 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 40: What two skills should your kids leave the house with?I’ll keep this intro short, but I’ll make it a tad personal. Last summer (2019), I had just been piped out of this agency gig that I thought would have ended up better. Instead, I was there eight months, it largely seemed like most people disliked me, and I had a very unceremonious exit. Because of that and largely being fed up with the broader work ecosystem and how people get gigs and jobs, I was kind of a mess for part of summer ‘19, day-drinking and the like. Nothing I’m really proud of. Well, I have a couple o...2020-04-2150 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 39: Why are we so bad at retaining info as adults? And how do we get better?I don’t know about you, but I’ve very infrequently been to a successful training as an adult professional. Most are entirely subpar: stale cookies in the back of the room, chart paper on the walls, maybe some trust falls. But, while people do get new context and information professionally from interactions with co-workers and general life, the fact is that we put a semi-religious importance on training to hand people new skills. If the world of work is truly shifted by COVID, training will seemingly be a bigger deal in late 2020 and into 2021. But we haven’t broadl...2020-04-2038 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 38: In which I briefly interview my girlfriend about LentI quit drinking for Lent 2020 and my girlfriend, Katie, quit sweets/desserts. So, as Lent 2020 ended, we sat down for about 18 minutes to discuss both experiences. If you are wondering who "Samson" is and cannot figure it out from context clues, that would be our dog. 2020-04-1618 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 37: A conversation with my pastor on faith, work, growth, Easter 2020, and moreIf you read some of the stuff I write or post, you may not think of me as a religious person. In some ways, I am not. I believe I was baptized Methodist, but as a kid I really only went to church on big events, or for weddings/funerals. It was not an active part of my life. I converted to Catholicism before marrying my ex. My mom was Catholic and my aunt is very Catholic so I had some context for it. That relationship did not long-term work out, and even after that conversion, I wouldn’t sa...2020-04-1546 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 36: "Nobody's f*cking equal!"In summer 2013, I worked on a 12-week-or-so project with a big health care company. While I was there, one of my buds was this woman named Nikita. She’s since lived in a bunch of different places (me too), but we stayed connected digitally and taped this episode about 1.5-2 weeks ago. It’s primarily about raising kids, the flaws in diversity and inclusion arguments, and trying to determine what is and is not important as you move through your 20s, 30s, and 40s. Let’s get to it.2020-04-1354 minThe Blunder YearsBonus Episode: Is everyone self-promoting and being tone deaf now, or is that perception?Feels like everyone is out there trying to hustle their widgets these days as opposed to like, I dunno, think about people dying and losing jobs? We don't want to constantly talk about the pandemic, no. We want to have some degree of normal conversation and figure out where everything stands. But at this moment, any marketing or sales email type deal -- or any post online, really -- can land as self-promotional and tone-deaf. But is that the reality, or is that just because our perception of that stuff is heightened in this moment? Plus: the role of...2020-04-1033 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 35: Tone-deaf emails, Larry Nassar, and negative predictionsTim Sackett is one of those “HR Famous” dudes where you’ve mostly probably heard him in audio or video form discussing hiring and retention and those types of topics. Me and him have actually been friends / acquaintances for about 3-4 years now. I think we’ve met in person maybe twice, which underscores the weird digital world we all reside in -- and even moreso now with coronavirus. Speaking of actually, this interview begins with Tim’s estimates on corona timeline, although we taped this probably third week of March, so additional data has come to light since. We also ta...2020-04-0846 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 34: Japan vs. USA, motherhood, "need cuddles," and gender equalityI’m on a Twitter thread that we call Just Be Social, which is now about 35 people who talk throughout the day on different issues, usually current events, but sometimes it gets deep and heated on gender/sex, ecnomic models, etc. We’ve become pretty good “online friends,” I guess you would call it. It’s definitely helpful in this current moment of social distancing.
I have had other people from this thread on this podcast -- Mollie I think was Episode 2 and Brenda I think was Episode 14 -- and I plan to try and have more. This is an...2020-04-0645 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 33: Partisanship, Texas girls, religion, loss, relationships, and catching upThis is a conversation with my friend Ben from high school. Back then his nickname was “Big Red.” His nickname might still be that; I don’t know. We’ve been out of high school 20+ years at this point. Gimme a break, OK? He went off to Duke. I went off to Georgetown. We actually talk a little bit about that in the beginning -- we clearly came from an “elite” academic institution, but we still have mutual friends from back when who share the dumbest stuff possible on Facebook. We also went to HS with Randi Zuckerberg, Mark’s sister, so t...2020-04-021h 08The Blunder YearsBonus Episode: "Constructive Discharge"With all the layoffs stuff going on globally right now -- there's a chance that 5M people in the USA have filed for unemployment in about the last 14-17 days -- I had a quick conversation with my friend Cathrine about the idea of "constructive discharge," which feels like something you'd read on Goop, but no ... it's a real thing around how companies treat employees, especially in times necessitating cost-cutting. 2020-04-0228 minThe Blunder YearsBonus Episode: Laid off by someone you've never met or talked to beforeThis is a layoffs discussion with Schelley, who is a Florida-based technical writer. She actually got laid off from two different jobs one year apart, on May 16. One of the layoffs was within 48 hours of her divorce becoming final too. And in one of the layoffs, she was contacted by a person she’d never met to be laid off! She’s got some stories, and we get through them in about 12-13 minutes. It’s an interesting look at humanity. Let’s hit it.2020-04-0112 minThe Blunder YearsBonus Episode: How to know when layoffs (#piping) are coming for yaBrenda is a good friend of mine from online. She was actually a guest on Episode 14 of this show. We have shot the breeze on layoffs in the past, so I decided to have her back on for an interview for a side project I am doing about people being laid off. Since that project is not yet live, I'm currently posting some of this stuff on my own feeds. Since these are pretty personal topics (terminations, losing income), I doubt people will actively share 'em, but eh.
Brenda is a mid-career professional who has been through...2020-04-0124 minThe Blunder YearsBonus Episode: The #Piping commences -- COVID-19 and layoffs, first-handThis is my friend Adam based down in Austin, where he’s been for six years. He’s had a bunch of different gigs in the recruiting world, the employer branding world, and even touched hospitality, sports writing, and some other cool stuff. I’m taping this intro on March 31, a Tuesday; this previous Thursday, which I guess was the 26th, he got laid off from his current gig because of COVID-19. We had a quick discussion on the context of that layoff, how it could have gone better, and his rules for effective, empathetic layoffs. Here’s not so break...2020-03-3122 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 32: "It wasn't all positive. But you know you need to keep going. What's the next thing?"If you’ve followed some of the stuff I write and post, I gave up drinking for Lent, which is probably about 33-34 days as I tape this introduction. My guest today is Kathryn, based out of Colorado, who also got sober and got more into strong women (strongwoman) events as part of her post-drinking development. She had a crappy 2016, relative to my generally crappy 2017, so we talk about some of that, sobriety, work challenges, pushing through hardship, and more. Let’s get into it.2020-03-3035 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 31: Forgiveness as the essence of adulthoodThis episode was actually a nice dose of self-awareness for me. The guest is Alabama-based educator and leadership developer Joel Hawbaker, who talks about courageous humility and has a website called Real Life Leading. I am not exactly sure how I first came across Joel, but we were supposed to do a taping or two in fall 2019. I missed two of them -- I think one was for a work project, which I suppose is good, and the second was because of day drinking and missing the time, which is inherently bad. We finally did get to connect and...2020-03-2635 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 30: "How's the crazy?" and workplace mental healthThis is an interview with my digital friend Maggie, who helps with communications and strategy and beyond in the association space. The conversation covers a lot of different ground, but we especially talk about mental health in the workplace and the idea of “neuro-diversity,” and whether we can ever get it to scale that executives will care more about these topics. There’s an unfortunate story about how a co-worker at one job reacted to her. Let’s get right to it.2020-03-2350 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 29: 2003, we rode school buses together. Now we're analyzing each other.In the summer of 2003, my friend Diana and I were both new corps members in Teach for America. We were both training in Houston, TX. I was actually going to stay there for my teaching commitment, and she went to New Mexico -- but we taught at the same school, shout-out to Lantrip Elementary, for that summer. Now, that was 17 years ago, and a lot of stuff has happened since. This podcast will probably be in two parts, although the second part has not been taped yet. This part is a look at some of the assessment work that...2020-03-1934 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 28: A first-hand account of cancel cultureMike Tunison, who you might know better as Christmas Ape or XMas Ape online, is one of the founders of the Kissing Suzy Kolber sports blog and a former reporter and writer for The Washington Post. In October 2017, he appeared on the “Shitty Media Men” list, and since then there’s been a degree of “cancellation” to his career. We actually started by talking kind of generically about standing up for your values and the like, and then later in the interview we got into more specifics -- so I killed the generic value stuff and focused on the experience...2020-03-1728 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 27: Cancer, taking on risk, faith, raising daughters, and ... getting paidRight before Christmas 2019, when I was kinda struggling big-time with income and employment context, I had this interview to be an apartment complex manager about 2-3 miles from my house. Interview was standard generic BS, with no real questions of relevance or to prove competency at a job, and it lasted maybe 20 minutes. As I was exiting, the couch outside was all beautiful young women. I instantly thought to myself, “Well, I’ll never get this job.” It was maybe noon. I decided, probably unwisely, to go to this bar near my apartment and have a sandwich and a couple...2020-03-1337 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 26: Socialism (Oh God!), the education system, and "no one knows what they're doing"Probably sometime in early to mid 2018, I started engaging more online with this dude Jordan Barta. I think it was initially around HR Technology, because he works in a sales function in that space, but eventually we started talking about a bunch of other stuff on Twitter, including flaws of work, education, politics, virtue-signaling, and more. I wanted to have him on this podcast. We literally tried to do this episode five times on different Wednesdays and Fridays and something got messed up every time; I think 80 percent of those were my fault. Well, we finally did it and...2020-03-1047 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 25: Self-reflection on struggling with drinking and Lent 2020This is a self-hosted episode that I promise / hope will not be incredibly self-indulgent. It's about my decision to give up drinking for Lent 2020 and some of my past and future issues around all that. Hopefully you enjoy it. 2020-03-0304 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 24: Anxiety ain't no gender issue (until it is)I guess when social media first started getting to scale, I thought it might be a cool place to discuss issues like anxiety, depression, and bigger debate-type topics. Obviously that didn’t really happen, and social media is predominantly a vehicle for family photos, vacation photos, some news (and some fake news) and virtue-signaling. I’m not consistently good at withdrawing myself from that world, no, but overall it’s probably a more harm than good situation long-term.
My guest today is Drew, who himself is the anchor of the podcast The Anxious Truth and he has a new...2020-02-2733 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 23: Sex robots, housing prices, people at Staples, and guys after 35This is a conversation with one of my best friends, a dude in Texas named Clay. We met back in December 2014, right before Christmas. My ex-wife and I had lived in Texas since that July, didn’t know that many people, and on one random Friday night, we took an Uber to this bar. The bar had a nice ambience but it was mostly sour beers, which I don’t like. I am not very athletic as a person, but I was playing club soccer at the time to try and make adult friends, and randomly -- we didn’t plan...2020-02-2430 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 22: Personal self? Work self? It's the same self.Probably sometime in the middle of 2017, I noticed that some random dude on the Internet named Vadim was liking and resharing some of my stuff. Within a few months, I realized he lived in NYC -- where I’m from! -- but worked for a company in Fort Worth, where I lived. We met at a hotel and had a free breakfast and shot the shit about life. About a year later, we ended up being co-workers at that place. I lasted maybe eight months there, none too spectacularly. He was there probably 2.5 years. Now we’re both gone, but...2020-02-1438 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 21: Working at Apple and ... the threat of nuclear war?I met Angelica Mata for the first time in January 2017 in Austin as part of a “Just Be Social” meetup that Joel Renner organized. She was cool, still is cool, and we’ve done a couple of different podcast thingers together over the years, including chatting on Twitter about various dumb crap repeatedly. So I had her on mine. She’s currently studying about World War II, but she used to work for Apple and in other creative roles, so she has dare I say “woke” takes on academia, management, the possibility of a Third World War, and more. We even get...2020-02-1055 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 20: What are the pivotal moments in one's life?I’m currently taping this introduction in a house with two dogs where it’s raining outside, so I cannot let said dogs out to play … in case that comes across as weird in any way, I apologize in advance. One of the dogs actually just stole a toy from the other dog, to boot.
This episode is with Ray Ziganto, a manufacturing unicorn out of the Chicago area. He actually lives in Aurora, which is where the movie “Wayne’s World” was set. We talk about a bunch of different stuff over 45 or so minutes, including pivotal mome...2020-02-0547 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 19: Your friend circle post-kidsSince 2010, I’ve moved a ton of times in-city, but two bigger times: New York City to Minneapolis in 2012, and Minneapolis to Texas in 2014. I’ve actually struggled with parts of Texas, as any good Northeasterner would, and I got divorced in the span of being here, but I’ve stayed in part for any number of reasons, with one of them admittedly being that I got tired of bigger moves and reinventing friend circles when you’re north of 30. It’s not easy, and I don’t think anyone would tell you it is.
My guest on this epis...2020-01-2732 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 18: On The Pill, Barcelona soccer, workplace tech, Instagram, and moreI moved to Fort Worth in July of 2014; I started writing more and more about work stuff and HR stuff and recruiting stuff around the same time. After I had been here maybe a year, I realized that this dude William Tincup, who had recently followed me on Twitter, lived in the general area and I reached out to him. I think we met once, nothing really happened for a while, and then in 2017-2018, I started doing stuff with his company, called RecruitingDaily. I don’t do day-to-day shit with them as much anymore, but I’m still conn...2020-01-221h 08The Blunder YearsEpisode 17: On listening vs. fixing in relationshipsIn probably late 2016 or so, here was the general situation in my life: I had been freelancing for about a year at that point. I was actually doing pretty well and making good money, which was a surprise. My marriage was kind of going to shit in different pockets, which was less great. Somewhere in there, probably around that whole Presidential election we’re still dealing with, I connected with a local dude named John Hill. At the time, he had a business called Iron Egg that was mostly about website builds and revisions. We connected on, if I re...2019-12-1633 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 16: Gender (?) reveals, FOMO, Women at work, and moreI had done a couple of work projects with this guest, Jenny Hill, before we taped the episode. I did not know her super well but this was a cool conversation around gender reveals (or should I call them anatomy reveals?), when women get more of a voice in the workplace, FOMO, and the like. I would actually say this is one of the episodes I taped where I felt “woke” -- and I know that word has negative connotations and repercussions -- and wanted to do more with this podcast in 2020. So thanks Jenny, and let’s get into i2019-12-0935 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 15: How to mess up your 30s (and hopefully take it back)I spent too much of my 30s not focused on my career and drinking during the day. Here's a narrative arc and, hopefully, a renewed focus. 2019-12-0209 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 14: Your 20s are a hot mess. Your 40s? Much better.I’m part of an elite squad known as the Special Victims -- no, wait, actually it’s just a Twitter thread called Just Be Social, which you can find at the hashtag Just Be Social or sometimes hashtag JBS. My second episode of this podcast was with Mollie, another JBS member, and this one is with Brenda Hill, who is Kansas City-based by way of Chicago and some other places. She’s had a varied, interesting career, and we talk about that. She also has two Gen Z sons, and we talk about her perceptions of what Gen Z migh...2019-11-2636 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 13: The five people you spend the most time withA few months ago, I was doing a couple of short podcasts with a guy that used to co-own a gym I went to. I think only 1 or 2 of them ever got published, but we did a whole episode on that idea that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
Well, now I have this podcast, and this episode I’m talking to Cesar Espino, who is a real estate investor, coach, author, and logistics guy out of the Los Angeles area. We talk a lot about the “five people you...2019-11-2222 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 12: The inherent trade-off of adulthoodI remember right after graduating from college, I had one core friend backpacking throughout Asia and Europe for a while. We all have some version of this friend or this story; as I’ve gotten older, I’ve met probably 12-15 other people that did this. The flip side of the whole deal is that you all have friends who dive into work at 16, 18, 22, whatever … and start hustling and earning money. Those people maybe have less “fun” in their 20s, but theoretically the idea is they can have fun at different points with saved money and then later on. Unless you...2019-11-1816 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 11: Work should not be everything for youBack in October of 2016, when admittedly the world seemed a bit of a simpler place, I wrote an article called “An organizational consultant can’t save you now.” Probably four years before that, as I was leaving New York City, I actually really wanted to be a consultant. Less than a half-decade later, I had soured completely on the idea. In that article I wrote, I quoted a guy named Dan Rust who has a book called Workplace Poker. In that book, he equates work to “chimp rape.” Not kidding.
Ironically, that was one of the posts where I fi...2019-11-1156 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 10: The "WTF Years"I lived in an apartment — the number was 234 — with my ex for about 34 months. Since I left my parents’ house back in probably 1999, I think that’s the longest single place I’ve ever lived. I moved out of that place, oddly 14 years to the day of my graduation from college, after we got divorced. The new place was Number 328 and for a chunk of time I lived there, I’d classify myself as “lost.” When I eventually donated the couch in 328 to the Salvation Army, there were cigarette burns on it. You get the broader idea.
Well, back in 23...2019-11-0547 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 9: "I was consistently disappointed by leaders and managers I had"If you’ve ever read my blog, you know I’m not always the biggest fan of management and leadership. There are great leaders in the world, for sure, but I’d argue the majority are disappointing -- and actually, years ago Gallup actually had a stat that 82 percent of managers end up being poor leaders and wrong for the role. 82 percent bad means 18 percent good. Imagine if you came home in junior high and scored a 18 on a test. You think your parents would be very happy with that?
So I was excited to talk with Devin...2019-10-2947 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 8: One minute of laughter vs. one minute of angerThis is probably the shortest episode I’ve done so far, but it has some really interesting nuggets in it. The guest is Dr. Gordon Pedersen. You’ll hear this story in the first couple of minutes, but around age 38, he went to Indonesia, got sick, came back to the US and went to the hospital, and someone in the OR dropped him on the floor, breaking his back and immobilizing him. Never fear, though -- by 43 he had won a Bronze Medal at the Utah Games. Believe he was the oldest medalist that year.
This is a go...2019-10-2317 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 7: Aging parents + "People are nuts" + 20-40-60 RuleAging parents is a concept that people are starting to talk about more and more. I’ve seen stats about 10,000 Baby Boomers retiring every day, but they’re retiring to lives that will last longer than they ever lasted before -- potentially we’re adding the equivalent of a third of life to people these days. Now that’s great in terms of time with loved ones at one level, but there’s a huge financial piece of the puzzle that we haven’t totally figured out yet. And this is all happening at a time when wages for most people...2019-10-1634 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 6: Do you actually need a five-year plan? Like, for real?One of my good friends passed away two years ago; if you read my blog or newsletter, you may have seen some stuff about it. Actually, on the day I’m recording this intro, there’s a memorial Mass for him at Georgetown University, but unfortunately I lacked the funds currently to fly up for it. Well, when I did attend his funeral in October 2017, one of the things that stood out from that day is that this kid I had barely seen since college asks me in the pews, “So, do you think you will stay in Texas?” It was a...2019-10-1152 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 5: "The reality of life kicking in" (The Encouragement Engineer)I’ve written probably 2,400 blog posts on my main site since about October 2013. I did the average per day on that once, and it’s something like 1.7 per day. In short, I have blogged a lot. Once in a while people ask me what my favorite-ever post is, and I mean, it’s hard to choose because I barely remember everything I’ve written on here. But … I think in 2016, I wrote a post called “New product features? How about new people features.” The idea is that workplaces become obsessed with product launches and rollouts, and those are obviously really importa...2019-10-0827 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 4: From having a gun in your mouth to making $98,000/monthI think we all love us some rebound or rebuild stories -- we want it for your own lives, for our friends, and for our family. When something bad happens to someone, or they seem kicked in the mouth by life, we want to see them rise up and succeed. That’s a legitimately cool aspect of the human condition, I’d argue. I’d even say some of the narrative about Steve Jobs that makes his story resonate is that he got pushed out of Apple, came back, and made it one of the most valuable companies in the wo...2019-10-0538 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 3: The evolution of the "system," no friends in your 30s, and not playing the victimA couple of years ago, I was volunteering at this public school in north Texas. It was not a good, high-performing elementary school, but through a series of connections, former President Bush -- W, not HW -- came to visit. I was never a big “W” fan because I grew up pretty liberal, but he was impressive on this visit. He didn’t understand the over-focus on lines in the hallway. I think someone even used the term “school to prison pipeline” while he was there. He had questions about the effectiveness of the curriculum. It’s all kind of ironic in...2019-09-3029 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 2: Miscarriages, motherhood, and sex in long-term relationshipsI’m admittedly probably a weird person, and I also admittedly have had a lot of different conversations in bars over the years with both genders. It’s weird because -- and obviously this varies by person -- normally when you’re a teenage boy, as I was about two decades ago, young boys talk about sex all the time. I’m sure young girls do too but I wasn’t privy to those conversations at that time, being a fat, awkward adolescent. But as dudes get older, potentially out of a focus on work or respect for their partner, t...2019-09-2533 minThe Blunder YearsEpisode 1: David Wolinsky and "existential adriftness"I came up with the idea for this podcast at a weird spot in my life, give or take. I’ve been mostly freelance since about November 2015, but I’ve had some bigger contracts or close to full-time engagements in that span that helped with the consistency of bill-paying and life-living. I had one of those from September 2018 until May 2019, and I lost it right around Memorial Day at the beginning of this summer. Since then I’ve been a mix of hustling and adrift. In this episode, the first of The Blunder Years podcast, David Wolinsky is going to cal...2019-09-2351 minThe Blunder YearsThe Blunder Years: A Brief ExplainerBefore we get going with original conversational episodes about your life experiences from ages 25 to 45, this is a primer on what to expect from this podcast. 2019-09-1603 min
Catalyst Sale PodcastComplexity in Work and The Challenges We Create - Guest Ted BauerComplexity in Work and the Challenges We Create for Ourselves Ted Bauer joins me on the Catalyst Sale Podcast this week. We discuss a number of different topics including universal evils in work, why they persist, manager/employee relationships, onboarding, and interviewing. Ted turns the table at the end of the discussion, and asks Mike a couple of questions as well, which was an awesome surprise. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did. Questions Addressed What is the catalyst for the questions Ted asks on Twitter? What are some topics t...2019-05-0642 minFind My Catalyst PodcastComplexity in Work and The Challenges We Create - Guest Ted BauerComplexity in Work and the Challenges We Create for Ourselves Ted Bauer joins me on the Catalyst Sale Podcast this week. We discuss a number of different topics including universal evils in work, why they persist, manager/employee relationships, onboarding, and interviewing. Ted turns the table at the end of the discussion, and asks Mike a couple of questions as well, which was an awesome surprise. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did. Questions Addressed What is the catalyst for the questions Ted asks on Twitter? What are some topics t...2019-05-0642 min
Working Wisdom from the C. T. Bauer College of BusinessWorking Wisdom: Episode 50: The Legacy of Charles T. “Ted” BauerA special episode sharing the story and impact of the historic $40 million gift made to the University of Houston’s business school by Charles T. “Ted” Bauer, in recognition of what would have been his 100th birthday.2019-02-2505 min
24-7WPLThe Pete Talks Jobs Show! Guest Ted Bauer!Sneak Peek of The Pete Talks Jobs Show! Coming to 24-7WPL, January 2019!
Ted Bauer:
Writer, Copy Editor - Ghostwriting, Copywriting, Freelance - Helps his clients by ensuring they stop "Pumping more generic drivel into the noise void".
I met Ted via LinkedIn. Many of his posts and a bulk of his articles zero in on how employers can do much, much better within the scope of recruiting, hiring, developing, leading, and retaining their talent. Extremely relevant!
Sit back and enjoy a GREAT, and frankly all too short, conversation with Ted!
Connect with Ted via Twitter: twitter.com/tedbauer2003
Or...2018-11-2030 min
The Pete Talks Jobs ShowThe Pete Talks Jobs Show-Special Guest: Ted Bauer!Ted Bauer:
Writer, Copy Editor - Ghostwriting, Copywriting, Freelance - Helps his clients by ensuring they stop "Pumping more generic drivel into the noise void".
I met Ted via LinkedIn. Many of his posts and a bulk of his articles zero in on how employers can do much, much better within the scope of recruiting, hiring, developing, leading, and retaining their talent. Extremely relevant!
Sit back and enjoy a GREAT, and frankly all too short, conversation with Ted!
By the way, this was recorded on his birthday. Happy Birthday, Ted!
Connect with Ted via Twitter: https://twitter.com/tedbauer2003
Or...2018-11-0730 min
The Pathless Path with Paul MillerdTed Bauer: The Absurdity Of The Corporate World & Real Future Of WorkTed Bauer is a freelance writer and content strategist who writes prolifically about the future of work. In this episode, he talks about some of his experiences in the corporate world. He shares a story of how he broke the record for the number of story ideas when he first joined ESPN which both captures his frustrations with the corporate world and also illuminates his process of how he generates new ideas for his writing. We talk a bit about technology and his view is that people are using technology not to engage with people but to hide from them...2018-10-1736 min