The Rise of Bacon and Person of the Year Discussions

Taped a few days before heading off for the holidays, Youngme, Felix, and Mihir share their After Hours Awards for 2018, including their awards for Best/Worst Trend of the Year, Biggest Fail of the Year, Sleeper of the Year, Comeback of the Year, Work Cut Out for Them Next Year, Most Under-Reported Story of the Year, Most Over-Hyped Story of the Year, Person of the Year, and Favorite Entertainment of the Year.

Some recent picks:

• Atavist Magazine
• Atlanta, Season 2 (Netflix)
• Bloomberg article (“Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women At All Cost“) and Response from Jefferies CEO Richard Handler
• The Value of Everything, by Mariana Mazzucato
• 21c Museum Hotels
• The Truth As Told By Mason Buttle (by Leslie Connor)
• TikTok (phone app)
• Today, Explained Podcast, Nov. 30 Episode (Humans 2.0)
• Babylon Berlin (Netflix)
• “The Prison Inside Me” (Reuters)
• Robert Stavins (follow on Twitter)
• FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)
• RBG (Documentary on Amazon Video)

You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: harvardafterhours@gmail.com. You can follow Youngme and Mihir on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon and @DesaiMihirA.

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