s21e02: What Does it Mean to be Friends?

0.0 Context Setting

Wednesday, 14 January 2026 in Portland, Oregon where while the conditions in the U.S. may not be argued to be fascist as such (i.e. the government is losing in courts and appears to be following, to a certain degree injunctions), it’s not as if the government isn’t trending in a fascist direction. Sure the water’s not boiling, but it’s also not getting hotter, and just because there are still institutions that are slowing things down, slowing things down is different from “stopping”, and “stopping” is different from “reversing”, and “reversing” is different from “the degree to which you are confident that systemic changes will be put in place to prevent This Sort of Thing from Happening Again”.

This episode is another accidental lots of words, sorry.

0.1 Events

Other Events

Alongside the Han to Hon Combat I co-host with Ted Han, I am also yoloing another podcast!

Courtney Eimerman-Wallace of Wildcard will be co-hosting The Turnaround where we’ll be talking about product turnarounds with founders and leaders who’ve watched their products fail and then figured out how to fix them. If you’d like to take part,