Escape From Plan A

Chris reunites with Plan A, along with resident professors Chong and Fred, to discuss Tony Thulathimutte's short story collection "Rejection", a tour of modern alienation, pathos, and terminal loneliness.Part 1 of 2For access to bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamagChris's review of 'Rejection' at his Substack: https://salieriredemption.substack.com/p/rejects-r-us(**link to private video of Chris's short story reading in the bonus**)

*Note, we have migrated off of SoundCloud, our new public webpage for EFPA episodes: https://rss.com/podcasts/escape-from-plan-a/Mike and Teen spend a Saturday evening looking back on our working decades, life after work, and the investment-over-work mindset.Part 1 of 2For part 2 and all bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamag

Teen continues his experiment with AI, to try and get a better understanding of what we're all actually talking to. This time, he talks about personal investment strategy, because it's involves both the empirical and subjective domain.Conclusion: You Got To Know When To Fold 'Em.Part 1 of 2For bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamag

Jess and Teen talk about why fancy, high-skilled hobbies become more Asian as you climb higher on the skill and investment level. In the bonus section, they discuss the corollary of the Asian immigrant insistence on suffering and not living well.Part 1 of 2For bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamag

In an experimental podcast episode, Teen talks with the large language model DeepSeek-V3.2 to talk about the transgression and the professional managerial class, and why our view of it may be completely inverted. What does transgression actually mean within the constraints of a culture at once obsessed with virtuous perfection, and unvarnished degeneracy? And what is the nature of the dissociated, eternally discontent PMC subject?Part 1 of 2For Part 2: patreon.com/planamag

Back from a 5 month world tour, Twitter moot Scott (@alreadydawn, born in Taipei, raised in SoCal) talks with Teen about his world city rankings. What makes a city great (Osaka) versus loathsome (ahem LA)? And what exactly constitutes a city even?See Scott's city rankings at: alreadydawn.substack.comPart 1 of 2For Part 2 and access to bonus pods: patreon.com/planamag

Steve joints Teen from Hong Kong to catch upon buying Chinese EVs, the surreal political landscape of the US, and using real cameras again.Part 1 of 2For access to bonus pods: patreon.com/planamag

Fred (@fredsoda on X) joins Teen to talk about starting out his career after just graduating from the famed HBS, and what life and work looks like at the beginning of the high arc track. What do these people actually want? What are they willing to do to get it?Part 1 of 2For access to part 2: patreon.com/planamag

Two humanities professors -- Fred (poli sci) and Chong (literature) -- join Teen to discuss C.S. Lewis's "The Abolition of Man", a short book from 1943 that has found renewed currency in America in the wokeness debate and 'trad' values. Pt. 1 of 2 For Part 2 and all bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamag

Angelica Oung (https://taipology.substack.com/) talks with Teen about recent changes in Taiwanese political consciousness and its attitudes towards China vs. America. Also, Angelica talks about going to fancy private schools, and the great Chinese real estate develeraging.] Part 1 of 2 For access to Part 2 and all bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamag