John offers a host of career-focused insights as he tackles our overflowing mailbag to answer as many listener questions as he can.

What’s the best way to keep track of shower thoughts? How do you build a good creative workplace? How do you disclose your past wrongs to a future employer? What is Appendix A? And who picks up the tab at a coffee meeting?

In our bonus segment for premium members, bells are ringing as John and newlywed Drew discuss what makes a wedding work.

Links:

• Oppenheimer: The Official Screenplay by Christopher Nolan
• WGA Appendix A
• An Extremely Detailed Map of New York City Neighborhoods by Larry Buchanan, Josh Katz, Rumsey Taylor and Eve Washington for the New York Times
• TFI Photo Lab in Danvers, MA
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• Outro by Nico Mansy (send us yours!)
• Scriptnotes is produced by Drew Marquardt and edited by Matthew Chilelli.

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