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(3:00) skunk works and the dichotomy of DC. "I was at AllThingsD for a dozen or so years and that was within the Wall Street Journal. It was a skunk works inside the journal, we ran it without their input really." KS mentions a startup. "They were good and bad in different ways."

(?-14:30) Common Knowledge - Ben Hunt Specifically about when sponsors pull advertisements.

(28:15) “They were not twitchy owners.” KS on Grahams & Bezos at W. Post Decentralized command

(32:40) People won’t listen, millennials like snackables but podcasts: talk radio :: Zappos : Sears catalogue & (36:45) BR “The 92nd Street Y has been doing that (live interview and talk shows) for decades.”

Tony Hsieh writes in Delivering Happiness that 'shoesite.com' “To me it sounded like the poster child of bad internet ideas.” Found out though that catalog shoe sales were 5% of the industry.

(42:45) “He (Marc Andreessen) is actually one of the people who will go back and forth.” argue well

(~54:00) rapid fire of 'names' in SV.

Steve Jobs. "Fascinating, I really enjoyed interviewing him. What an interesting and complex person...he was just a complicated and interesting person. A lot of people try to cartoonize a person, 'He was mean to people!' Yeah, but lots of people are mean."

SA Tyler Cowen. “You have to worry about many more things that might be true and it’s a huge burden and people don’t like it. They like to push that stuff away, keep things neat and easy to deal with, what I call the philosophy of once-and-for-all-ism.”

(1:10:00) Podcast section.

(1:20:45) Books. Chernow, Hamilton. (lol) I'll Be Gone in the Dark. Fleishmans in Trouble. Mike Isaac. Gabby Raverez, Juliana something.

"I read a lot of the books I have to do podcasts on...I wish I read more fiction. I need to read more fiction." KS

"Everybody wants to read more fiction." BR

"For work I read the internet all day long." KS

"I have a very good ability to go, 'Thank you, next.'" Kara Swisher ← KS, on failures. All related to children.