When writing, people have a point that they want to make and teach their audience. With podcasts, it’s more free flow in sharing a story. It allows people to draw their own conclusions.

Creating an independent brand led to a neck tattoo instead of wearing anyone else's brand. Ambition in certain circles is heavily encouraged and then in other places in wrestling they do not want you to. The choice was to go big and shoot for the moon. Rock is famous for the Brahma Bull on his arm and Conor McGregor had the big lion on his chest so the neck was chosen over the spine to compete in box office.

They were built in an interesting way. They were on a lake and everything came in a barge, so a barge would come along with cole, with steel, and the barges kept coming along with raw materials, went into a big factory and a car came out.

They would only built black cars, and they did wonderfully well, but they never got the message that other cars (blue, white...etc), were just as desirable, maybe more desirable than their black cars.

According to Sahil, we would be a lot better off as a world if we focused more on creators and companies that are delivering value for the sake of creating valuable products, instead of explicitly chasing billions of dollars.

Because people open up only after you go first. On Disrupting Japan, Tim Romero says guests froze when he rented a studio and put a microphone in their faces. He got no usable tape from three tries. He switched to lapel mics in their offices, brought beer, and accepted worse audio. Dropping the polish for a personal conversation was one of the best decisions he made. He later found the same rule in the conversation itself. If he stayed a detached observer, guests would not be honest. Only when he shared his own hopes, fears, and insecurities were they willing to share theirs.

Nilay Patel asks how NBCUniversal is handling pressure on NBC News from the Trump administration and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, including broadcast licenses and what a network is allowed to say. Matt Strauss says he has not had those direct conversations himself. A government affairs team works with regulators in DC.

He credits Cesar Conde and the NBC News organization as believers in freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and says they are doing a fantastic job. News programming is on Peacock, on NBC, over the air, and on NBC News Now.

Peacock also carries the company's local stations, so a viewer in New York can watch Los Angeles or Philadelphia local news. Strauss says there is pro

On Instant Message, host David Pierce and his colleagues look at a Facebook plan to delete more data by default, including messages after a month or a year, and to make disappearing Stories the norm. One encouragement is governments: if a government demands the data and Facebook can say it no longer has it, Facebook is in a stronger position. They doubt the change protects users. A reporter argues Facebook may not need a year of history to target ads, because the useful signal is what you do in the moment. Airbnb, they note, judges trust from behavior on the spot. Copying a feature from Signal is not the same thing as becoming a private product.

The price was not raised after a marketing test. It started at 25 and was left at 25 because that was how much people would pay to see the stand up. The subscription stayed at the same number instead of moving through different prices.

AJ created ~70% of all the templates by himself, and then he also hired a designer and a few coders to help.

It worked really well, but he did make sure to set the standards and validate/verify what his helpers were producing.

Back in 2015 all three of the podcast hosts learned they were going to become parents and so they decided to document their impending fears of fatherhoods, birthds, and the following adventure of being parents.

Kids are just like adults, but since they cannot do or understand a lot of things in the world, they come with constraints. Imagine yourself in your kids' shoes, and you'd realize how disempowering and oppressive it is to be a child. Someone is always telling you what to do, and how to do it.

It’s hard to admit and even harder to practice, but as parents we have to be a lot more relaxed around our children, and we have to be more prepared. Our patience is always tested. Nevertheless, giving kids freedom to decide on their own is the best thing we can do, both for them and for ourselves.