They make you work.

They take your money.

They expect you to like it. 

But sometimes.  Sometimes.  There is another option.  

A chaotic trip through San Jose suggests a new strategy. 

Fourth in our re-release of the audio drama: SidePocket

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Blame the bosses. 

A tried and effective strategy.

And some times, it is actually true.

But grudges can blind our eyes, leaving us with a moment of self satisfaction and not much more. 

Jessie misplays her hand

Third in our re-release of the audio drama: SidePocket

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Things sometimes go well.

Or so we hope.

Our new tech entrepreneur is in a new city with a new company, a new investment and a new start.

Maybe.  

Or maybe not.  

Vinny and SidePocket start operations in Silicon Valley.  The second episode in the audio drama.

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It's an ordinary story. 

Perhaps a bit of a fantasy.

And maybe some romance.

But perhaps our time  could benefit from an ordinary story.  

A young African-American leaves Detroit in the mid-1980s to see what he might do in Silicon Valley and in the process, learns something about investment, governance and decisions (both good and bad).    Vinny LeGoff and SidePocket

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Thomas Piketty?

Don’t get what he’s saying?  

Not sure you care?

Zach, who is back, and Maddie, who has never left tell us what is important about the writings of this economist

Or maybe not.  

Dr. Piketty wrote one of the more controversial book of the past 10 years.  Maddie will tell you why.  

And “R” makes and appearance.  But not “G”.

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Are you coming? 

Are you going? 

Do you have a place in this world?

Or do you not? 

Roger.  Yasmin.  Existential questions.  And the power of warm drinks.

The nineteenth  episode of the Audio Drama “Talking and Shopping.”  

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Are you famous?

Fame we court.  

Fame we try to wield (before it weilds us.

But are you famous?

Not the best question to hear when you are trying to understand what is happening. 

Even if you’re not famous. 

Not famous at all.  

The eighteenth episode of the Audio Drama “Talking and Shopping.”  

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He doesn’t visit often.

When he does, there’s always trouble.

Or he thinks there’s trouble. 

Or maybe heard that there might be trouble. 

The Producer comes to visit our Washington Office and faces a cast that thinks (or wishes or hopes) that things are better than they are.  

The seventeenth episode of the Audio Drama “Talking and Shopping

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Life is busy.

There’s no time to read. 

Or view YouTube videos.  

Or even listen to podcasts. 

So Maddie, the 8 year old entrepreneur an Bix, the Master Scrum Master, give you a thorough overview of Clayton Christensen’s masterwork, the Innovators Dilemma.  

It is perhaps the most influential business book of our age.  It was the centerpiece of the late Dr. Christensen’s career.  It’s important cultural icon.

And, of course, Bix hasn’t read it.  

And Maddie has read it too well. 

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