This chapter examines the evolution of journalism and media accountability by contrasting historical political events with contemporary issues. The discussion highlights the decline of substantive reporting and the rise of superficial media narratives while touching on the engaging dynamics of modern political communication. Additionally, there is a humorous exploration of audience engagement, the significance of surprise in political discourse, and the complexities of transparency in relationships and investments.
As the saying goes, only three things in life are certain: death, taxes & Alex Danco.
Armed with sizzling hot takes on the sad death of Twitter likes and a new secret weapon in the form of his catchphrase-turned-episode theme (“Without mystery, there is no margin”), Alex returns for his eighth episode.
Despite our intentional lack of preparation, somehow this ended up as one our most cohesive conversations yet.
As usual, we’ve included links and an episode transcript over on our Substack, where we’ve also made the foolhardy attempt to distil one overriding theme from eight episodes of fiercely unstructured, defiantly unplanned, proudly meandering conversation.
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Show Notes:
- What the fuck is going on? & the sad death of Twitter likes
- Where are the journalists?
- Without mystery, there is no margin
- Why aesthetics are underrated
- Friction is good, actually
- Make things to gain agency
- Empowering small firms to access the mysterious margin
- Everything is positioning
- How to learn effectively
- Alex as emperor of the world
- MORE!
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