"Time is a thief." I learned this phrase in elementary school. It was regularly uttered by an administrator who, on the first day of school, would wistfully greet the student body, marveling at how much each child had grown over the summer. As a 10-year-old kid, I didn't put much stock into the musings of a middle-aged vice principal. Decades later, however, I better understand and appreciate the sentiment of her words.
And remember when we used to talk on the phone? Actually answer calls? Speak to humans? Luckily, the mailbox saved us, at least for a while, until it started telling us not to leave voicemails but to text instead. Voice notes came next. Great for the lazy typers, less so for the unlucky listener trying to find the right "environment" to hit play. We traded ringtones for vibrations, calls for texts... and now suddenly we're all excited because GenAI has voice mode.
Money may not be able to buy you happiness, but it can make life a lot easier. That's the view of Simran Kaur, a financial educator and investor who hosts the "Friends That Invest" podcast. In an episode this week, Kaur spoke about money "myths," including the notion that money can't buy happiness. Having more money doesn't necessarily improve emotional well-being or happiness, she said, it just helps to solve inconveniences.
Just recently SVPG Partner Christian Idiodi hosted Shreyas Doshi on his Product Therapy podcast, where they discussed the role of product leadership. If you haven't yet listened to this interview, I would strongly encourage it, as I loved hearing Shreyas' thoughts on this critically important topic. Shreyas described three different archetypes of product leaders: the craftsperson ("it's all about the product"), the operator ("it's about scale"), and the visionary ("it's about the future"). I hope you listen to the full interview as Shreyas shared valuable context and nuance that I consider essential for this foundational topic.
Brendan Abernathy is a singer-songwriter who went viral earlier this year for an earnest performance of his song "married in a year." The backlash was immediate, and one word popped up over and over again in the comments: "cringe." Brittany and Ramtin Arablouei, co-host of NPR's Throughline, get into the rise of cringe culture: where it comes from, how it's hurting us, and how leaning into cringe is good for art.
Killer Mike's new podcast, "Conversate with Killer Mike," merges unscripted conversation with humor and human perspective, featuring co-host Cutmaster Swiff.
Available on board through the LNER digital portal, accessed by scanning the QR code on the back of customers' seats, and on all major platforms, it offers an engaging selection of stories, interviews, games, and fun facts tailored for young listeners.
Ruth Marcus emphasized that the legal questions posed by the Trump Administration are unprecedented, stating, "They never taught you these things in law school, because he's pushing on areas of the law that are not normally pushed on."
Much of the credit for this unusual and patently unstable mixture goes to our guest, Sports Illustrated's Emma Baccellieri. All of these are, somehow, her areas of expertise, and as such the decision to divide the episode between MLB (her former beat), the WNBA (her current one), and her beloved carbonated beverages (her lifetime beat, true passion, and the subject of her newsletter The Soda Fountain) more or less made itself.
