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Episode 193 — Sovereign Podcasters

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Ben and James discuss Substack and the rise of the sovereign creator. Links Ben Thompson: Sovereign Writers and Substack — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Never-Ending Niches — Stratechery Bruno Maçães: History Has Begun — Hurst Publishers Ben Thompson: Defining Information — Stratechery Hosts   Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review   Podcast Information   Feed iTunes SoundCloud Twitter Feedback

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0:00.0

Hi, James. Ben, how are you? I'm good. I'm good. Another bat signal from, from, I was going to say

0:06.9

your side of the pond, but you're still on my side of the pond. So I guess, uh, your side of the street,

0:11.5

something along those lines. Exactly. I'm starting to settle into life in Singapore. I'm

0:16.1

gradually adjusting to maybe San Francisco levels of humidity when the fog was in, but certainly

0:23.3

consistently.

0:24.0

No, no, there's no, there's no humidity like Singaporean type humidity.

0:30.9

Maybe in Miami in the summer, like, but, but yeah.

0:34.2

When the fog comes in, actually, I never tested this. When the fog comes in, is that count as high levels of humidity?

0:40.9

Because there definitely been nights walking around San Francisco where it feels like I'm in a cloud.

0:46.2

But even if the humidity is up, it's definitely nowhere near as hot there.

0:51.9

Like the humidity plus the heat has taken some adjustment, but I'm slowly getting there.

0:56.5

Yeah, well, it's interesting because the humidity is actually the worst part of humidity is when it's cold.

1:01.7

And that's which people in San Francisco will get that, right?

1:03.9

Where it's just, it's a chill.

1:07.1

Yeah, it just cuts through like your clothes.

1:09.5

You're just cold.

1:10.7

And you look at the thermometer, it's like 65 degrees.

1:13.2

It's like, why am I so cold?

1:14.4

It's because that's actually humidity working the opposite direction.

1:17.0

And so that happens with winter's here, where winters here are actually kind of

1:21.3

miserable because it's humid and there's, it's, there's just this chill.

1:27.0

And you look at the, the temperature's like you look at the the temperatures like why am I

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