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THB #699: Talking About Talking

THB #699: Talking About Talking

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Apr 29, 2025
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I haven’t been writing as much as I usually do lately. Travel gets the best of me and really, my idea of what I write for this platform is centered on my perspective. So if you are always writing, it is really hard to get any perspective. David Reads The Trades, the podcast with is generally 20 minutes to 40 minutes most days (I shocked myself and went an hour on one last week), is getting out almost every weekday… I missed one from Chicago a couple weeks ago… but if you are wanting current thinking on current events, please watch or read the transcript.

There is nothing in The Industry that is poking me in the face right now. But as we get to Trump’s 100th day, even though this is not a political newsletter, the issue of how we engage with one another has been cycling through my brain quite a bit. The devolution of Bill Maher is one reason. My efforts not to get sucked back into the Orange Hole is another. And last week, I made the choice to listen to my “old” friend Sasha Stone on a …

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