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S2, Ep3 How to Fail: James Frey
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Katerina: A Novel About Divorce
I always liked villains, right? I liked Baudelaire Rumbo and Henry Miller. And when it came to doing what I did, it was a lot about I didn't want to be hated universally. If you want to change the world in some way, you better be willing to suffer for it. "It took me 12 years to do this," he says of his book Katerina. 'This was not anything overnight'
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Speaker 2
E, like, mi, my course, is analogos to that again, on the lik, draw analoges between military and testa, that the one is wat clearly way more important and dangerous than the other. Ok, like that. But would i could, wan, one of the things i could draw from there is, like, you know, we would have 20 trailers show up, because we worked in a wareouse environment, and were just, youknow, service distribution, 20 trailers show up, and your waro is full. And then, and then you're like, what the hell is that? And then people are like, now you just have to figure out how to fit it in there. Ok, i guess we'll have to figure out how to fit it in there. And the stuff like that would happen all the fricking time. Just a situation arises, and then you have to figure out how to deal with it. But it's not just like, you know, o i ges, i got rejigger one hour of my work. No, it's that you have to re design the frickan warehouse toll be able to take in 20 truck loads. You know, it's like, it's wild, wild stuff, but an a lot of diamonds, or orante fire. I guess a, there maybe a very last topic for for the, for the lition, before we leave, the breaking news that we had a couple hours ago. I'm curious to hear everyone's opinions herbert des leaving volk's wagon. Does does anybody know if he was fired, or did he, did he leave on his own? Anybody know? I want wanr look at a, i well, we have a, well, we have a think, but any any immediate reactions to that?
Speaker 1
Where dd he goaro nose and elin have had a pretty good relationship, you know, a boy, that would be an interesting twist, if he's cominto tesla. If that's not the situation, obviously a, you know, he has been the one guy elin as talk highly o on leadership in leading a company out of a tough spot. So, you know, i think that goes a long way to saying, perhaps the road he was on, yes, don't know.
Speaker 3
So here i can't help but think about, you know, thet the innovator's dilemma in it that basically it's impossible to transform a company like bo wagon to a new technology platform from within. That the only companies that successfully make that transition do it by spinning off an independent, small company that grows alongside the new technology. And sye, it seems like, you know, regardless of how good herbert dsis at wanting to transform volkes wagon into an e v company, structurally, i don't know a that's even a possible thing. And then if volk's wagon can't do it, what does that tell you about ford and g m and stalantis and toota? Well, e
Speaker 2
don't seem like a guide. Mike
Speaker 3
dis was the biggest, a pusher for the evy future of folks wagon. And so to see em go is kind o a sad.
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