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I Declare 'Expectation Bankruptcy!'
If you constantly feel like you're falling behind, failing to meet your own expectations, or exhausting yourself trying to optimize every facet of yo…
4 hours ago
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If we haven't met before, hey! I'm Zack, an award-winning Hollywood e…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Introvert's Pocket Guide to Building Genuine Connections In a Disconnected World
Walking barefoot across a minefield of LEGOs or robbing Kevin McCallister on Christmas Eve still sounds more appealing than networking to me, because…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
We've created a world where nobody knows our names.
My father was the unlikely combination of a small-town hero and a reclusive introvert, yet still built a network where everybody knew his name and sh…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
How to Not Get F•cked by AI: A Creative's Manifesto
In this mini episode, I imagine being thrown back to the “Dark Ages” of 1994 with no Internet, no Google, no AI, and I ask myself where I’d be frustr…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Is it too late to de-enshittify our humanity?
In this mini-episode, I explain why calling out the enshittification of modern technology doesn’t make me a Luddite, even if I’m a Xennial who still …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Enshittification of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
In this mini episode, I vent about the moment I realized everything feels harder than it should, from parking apps to paywalls to bots talking to bot…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Feel like you're always behind and never enough? Blame work-life "balance."
I’m doubling down on the live grenade I tossed into the room when I said work-life balance is bullshit, and in this mini-episode I unpack why buildin…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
When setting goals triggers an existential crisis
What happens when the simple question “What do you want to achieve this year? And why?” leads to an existential crisis?
In this mini-episode, we pull …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The crippling fear of never knowing what's "next"
When uncertainty feels constant and exhausting, this episode explores how to ignore almost everything outside your control, accept that uncertainty i…
4 months, 3 weeks ago