Linen Suit & Plastic Tie

Linen Suit & Plastic Tie

By Gorav Menon & Kevin LiuSociety & Culture
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Linen Suit & Plastic Tie episodes

  • How Do You Write Your Own Story? ft. a Memoir Author (Carrie Sun)
    Why should you read the author's bio of a book? Where do we find the most compelling and powerful story from our lived experiences? How do you protect your own memory when telling a story about your past? This week, we chat with Carrie Sun, author of Private Equity, a memoir from her unique experience working for a Wall Street hedge fund billionaire and her deeply personal self-discovery journey.
    Carrie Sun was born in China and raised in Michigan. She holds an MFA in creative writing from The New School. She graduated early from MIT, worked as a quant, dropped out of MBA, worked in one of the most prestigious hedge funds in the world, and left to become a writer.
    51 min
  • Can Gaming Transform the Paper of Record? ft. a Head of Games @ the New York Times (Jonathan Knight)
    Did you know that The New York Times has been one of the hottest gaming companies in the past few years? YA THE NEWSPAPER. So, What are "New York Times games", and why does Wordle fit so perfectly with New York Times' brand? How does The Sims enable storytelling for players? This week, we chatted with Jonathan Knight, Head of Games at The New York Times.
    Before joining the New York Times, Jonathan worked on some of the best-known IPs and game franchises, including Quake, Wolfenstein, The Sims, Harry Potter, and The Simpsons.
    43 min
  • What Are The Stories Behind Our Decisions? ft. a Behavioral Scientist (Nuala Walsh)

    When making life decisions big and small, are you choosing the best option on paper, or the best option for YOU? How can storytelling trick people in their decision making, and how do we see through the trickery? To kick off Season Four, we chat with Nuala Walsh, a behavorial scientist, one of 100 Most Influential Women in Finance, and former Marketing executive at some of the best-known investment banking firms.


    In her new book Tune in: How to make smarter decisions in a noisy world, Nuala delves into the common traps when we make decisions, and how we can navigate them.

    45 min
  • Season Four Trailer
    Here's a sneak peek of something new for LSPTPod Season Four ;) We believe that storytelling is the essential skill that makes us human, and we invite you continue this journey with us. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @LSPTPod and LinkedIn.
    1 min
  • How Did a TV Movie Save the World? ft. a Communications Professor (David Craig, Apocalypse Television)

    How did a TV film save the world from nuclear destruction? What do we miss out on if we dismiss social media? Why do we have so many dystopian sci-fi stories but few in the opposite light? This week, we talk to David Craig, Clinical Professor of Communication at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

    An expert on Hollywood and social media entertainment, David's new book Apocalypse Television accounts an important period in TV and world history around The Day After: a film that contributed to what historians describe as "Reagan’s Reversal” in the 1980s, which led to the end of the Atomic Arms Race. As Disney CEO Bob Iger wrote in the book's foreword, "those who tell the stories may save the world."

    44 min
  • Storytime - LSPTPod 3rd Year Anniversary Special (w/ Dr. Drea Letamendi, Craig Thompson, Mark Chavez)
    Why is college NOT the best years of your life? Why do people like horror & crime stories? What goes into deciding what to omit from a half-memoir? What do sci-fi and rom-com have in common? What does it mean to "break the story"?
    For the 3-year anniversary of LSPTPod, we rewind the tape to bring you some bonus content: fun stories where we went off a tangent that didn't make it into our released episodes. We're diving back into some bonus content from our chat this season with Dr. Drea Letamendi, Craig Thompson, and Mark Chavez. We're glad and grateful that you've been with us on this journey of exploring storytelling for so long. Here's to many more!
    57 min
  • Can AI Help Write A Novel? ft. an AI-Experimenting Novelist (Stephen Marche)

    At this point, you've probably heard so much about ChatGPT and language model AI, but can it actually help write a book? How is an AI-written novel really created? Amid all the craze and myths of the recent "AI boom", we chat with Stephen Marche, a novelist who was tasked to create an "AI-generated novel," Death of an Author, (with Pushkin) to really understand the capabilities and limits of language model AI / linguistic AI, and how we should treat this tool.

    Stephen Marche is a novelist and essayist. He has written features and essays for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and many others. He has collaborated with artificial intelligence on the first AI-generated novel reviewed in The New York Times, Death of an Author.


    44 min
  • What is Your Golden Moment? ft. a fmr Director @ MasterClass (Davis Carter)
    How do you create master classes with some of the most influential people in the world? How do "golden moments" shape our lives and stories? How do we decide what to leave out of a story vs. what to keep in? This week, we chat with Davis Carter, former Director of Content at MasterClass. Davis has worked as Director of Content at MasterClass, where he oversaw more than 20 projects including classes with President Bill Clinton, Metallica, Amy Tan, Neil Gaiman, and Chris Voss.
    42 min
  • Where Are Your Roots? ft. a Non-Fiction Graphic Novelist (Craig Thompson)

    Why is the American agriculture story relevant to you (yes, you)? Is comic book a genre or a medium? Why should you care about where your food comes from? How does the story of an herbal root connect the United States and China?

    This week, we chat with graphic novelist Craig Thompson about his latest autobiographical comic book series Ginseng Roots. Kevin stumbled upon an issue in the series and got super curious - what could an American artist possibly say about Northeastern China and an herbal root best known in Chinese medicine? He ended up loving the entire series. Ginseng Roots explores class divide, agriculture, holistic healing, the 300-year-long trade relationship between China and North America, childhood labor, and the bond between two brothers.

    Craig Thompson is a cartoonist and the author of the award-winning books Blankets; Good-bye, Chunky Rice; and Habibi. He grew up in a rural farming community in Marathon, Wisconsin, world capital of ginseng.

    45 min

About Linen Suit & Plastic Tie

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What power lies in your story? How do you tell your story? As two young “adults” journey into the life of suit and tie, they begin discovering the impact of storytelling on their career, business, mental health, and life. One of them in a linen suit, the other a plastic tie.