Which is part of what is so troubling about tech today, that it's ranks are filled with managers who don't build anything. His podcast role is Chief Cynic but

Which is part of what is so troubling about tech today, that it's ranks are filled with managers who don't build anything. His podcast role is Chief Cynic but man I love listening to Ed Zitron's Better Offline. What I'm about to link is an extremely hard & direct a polemic, especially the second about the specific people at the largest companies, but damn. It was so enervating to hear. The Shareholder Supremacy episode ties it all to Jack Welsh making everything awful forever everywhere, managing by number-goes-up. And then How Shareholders Are Destroying the Tech Industry is such a real shared anger against specific leaders, that undercuts how bad & ineffective & midling this age is, being lead by people with so little inspiration & touch with their products. https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/the-shareholder-supremacy https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/the-shareholder-suprema... https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/how-shareholders-are-destroying-the-tech-industry https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/how-shareholders-are-de... This podcast series is definitely on my world treasures list, as a how-it-really-is "histories of today" account. Also, the Daily Show keeps having some real bangers... (Covering the media coverage of McDonalds vs Enemy Within was a deep cut.) It's cathartic as hell and often remarkably informative (but also sometimes less so too).