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Introducing How We Got Here -- NLW's new podcast
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NLW's new show How We Got Here launched today. It's a weekly deep dive into how today's biggest stories came to be, made for the topics that have too much backstory to fit into the AI Daily Brief. This is the first five minutes of Episode 1, How Tech Lost America, about how tech went from America's most trusted industry to a symbol of people's anxieties about wealth and power. Listen to the full episode, then follow, rate, and review How We Got Here: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-we-got-here-with-nlw/id6822359990 ...
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Hello, AI Daily Brief friends. Today, I'm launching a new podcast. It came directly out of making AIDB. Pretty frequently, there are important topics that just have way too much backstory to fit into a daily episode. This new show is the place for those stories. It's called How We Got Here, and it's the deep dive story of how today's most important trends, events, and phenomenon came
to be. The first episode starts with anger over data centers, then goes back 15 years to explain how America fell out of love with the tech industry. Episode two is about how stuff got cheap while life got expensive. So it's not just tech.
Anything in society, culture, or economics is fair game. The bigger idea behind it is that a lot of modern cynicism comes from feeling like the way things are was inevitable when really it was the outcome of a set of decisions. When we understand the decisions that got us here, we realize we have a lot more agency
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