February 03, 2025

Episode 483: #389 - The Man Behind The Curtain

17 minutes

You’ve heard him on Monday mornings. You’ve seen his work quarterly. We pull back the curtain on Scott Wachter to take a look behind the scenes at his work on the Lighting Industry News Brief, Today’s Lighting Distributor, and The Darkness News Update (on RestoringDarkness.com).

Beyond his work as the best-informed person in the lighting industry, he’s part of the content management team; keeping the social feeds up to date, co-authoring Today’s Lighting Distributor, developing courses for LS Evolve, the recent revamp of LS-2, and developing the new DS-1 course.

Other notable things about Scott:

Has never sold a lamp or fixture.

Wrote his senior thesis on the value of apologies in situations of bad moral luck.

His recent, unrelated podcast The Recap from Mercury was the Number 1 on the Apple Podcasts Animation Charts in Brazil (top 20 in Japan).

He once entered a stand-up comedy contest as it was running because the other comics were so bad, improvising a winning 5-minute set.

He once got in a fistfight with a bouncer at the bar he worked at.

Scott was once threatened with a lawsuit over cupcake recipes.

He makes the best gin gimlet you have ever had.

No one drinks gin gimlets.

His favorite color is blue.

He has the nicest hair in NAILD.

He should probably get a new headshot; this one is 11 years old.