Out of Office

“And then we're, we have a book coming out in December and, you know, the plan is for that. Me and my partner and Helen Peterson and the book tour is, you know, slated to be virtual.”

“And we developed a system that really, really worked for us that really allowed us to, you know, like be more active participants in our, in the community and, you know, volunteering and stuff like that, developing a lot more hobbies, friendships outside of, you know, the, the realm of like media and tech”

“I was really worried when, you know, we, we turned it around as quick as we possibly could. We wrote it, pitched it, uh, everything in about three and a half months, four months, maybe.”

“The way we frame it again in the book is this like long versus short term. I mean, if you, to bring Amazon up again, like listen to Jeff Bezos talk about the arc of his career and, and building Amazon.”

“We end the book with a letter to employees or workers and a letter to executives. And both of, you know, what we try to do in both of those is, is show, and again, this is sounds super corny, but like show that there's, you know, like to borrow the business term, like synergies between those things.”

“Well, I've, uh, a very religious reader of the newsletter. I look forward to devouring the book. Um, everybody out there, you can get the newsletter galaxy brain on sub stack and tell everyone where to get the book.”