Warren Ellis is a master storyteller with over twenty years experience producing amazing stories as serials, singles, graphic novels, books and films. He is also a very funny man, in all the best senses of the word.
From his website:
Warren Ellis is the award-winning writer of graphic novels like
TRANSMETROPOLITAN, FELL, MINISTRY OF SPACE and PLANETARY, and the author
of the NYT-bestselling GUN MACHINE and the “underground classic” novel
CROOKED LITTLE VEIN. The movie RED is based on his graphic novel of the
same name.
Today, we talk politics, life in the Thames Delta, managing the creative pipeline, quiet technology, glamorless utilities and cunning folk. His new and forthcoming work includes TREES and the new James Bond graphic novels.
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Today, I talk with Nicolas Cole, a Creative Director with Idea Booth, a branding consultancy and think tank. When he was a teenager, he was a highly ranked World of Warcraft player and blogger, spending hours online as an Undead Mage while skating through high school. Now, Cole is a Quora Top Writer, author, fitness model, and marketing expert. In this episode, we talk about how he physically and mentally transformed himself over the last seven years, and what it takes to overcome the limitations you impose on yourself.
In this episode, I talk with Alice Dreger, author of Galileo's Middle Finger and former Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University in Chicago. She resigned from the position following a dispute over censorship of an issue of the medical humanities journal Atrium.
I first heard about Alice when she livetweeted her son's sex ed class, and in this episode we talk about the state of sex ed today, her work as an advocate for intersex individuals and conjoined twins, how she became interested in studying scientific controversies and contrarians, and answer some questions from listeners.
Listeners who have what used to be called a "sensitive constitution" may wish to avoid this episode, as we speak frankly about several adult topics, including genital anatomy, sexual behavior, and academic funding. Due to a higher than normal amount of email this month, any complaints about this episode must be hand-delivered to our Complaints
Department, located in the secret caverns underneath Ulaan Bator, Mongolia.
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Today, I talk with Justine Simonson and Marcus Lehmann, filmmakers and creators of the YouTube series How To Make It In _________.
From Justine & Marcus:
How
To Make It In: Berlin is the premier season of a web series about small
businesses and the owners who took a risk in creating them. This season
features 10 unique entrepreneurs and small business owners from
Berlin's street food scene, tech startups, the service industry and
more. Each season will be filmed in a different city around the world;
Berlin is the premier location. Part travel show, part business series,
How To Make It In:________ presents an in-the-know guide to its location
while also delivering helpful tips for anyone who's ever dreamed of
quitting their day job and starting fresh.
If I'm going to die, I'm going to die economic on the Fury Road.
I have an interesting observation about wages and the attention we pay to different types of inflation:
An interesting reaction to prices: we would be terribly concerned about
6% wage growth, yet find 6% energy price growth (or growth in any other volatile price) perfectly acceptable, because we
have found a lot of volatility in the latter and less in the former in recent
decades. Following decades of increases in worker productivity coupled with an
absence of wage growth, we could have 30 years worth of catch up growth in median
worker wages before we really need to worry about runaway inflation. Yes, automatic labor price increases embedded into contracts in the 60's and 70's contributed to high inflation in the 70's; however, those automatic increases leading to wage spirals are gone for most workers. Yet, members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors are having conniption fits over a tight(er) labor market, worried about "inflation" which has not appeared yet.
More than that, there remain substantial pools of workers who have passed in the opposite direction from "employment" to "unemployment" to the invisible category of "discouraged worker" who must be employed before we need to start worrying about labor costs increasing very much. Until then, the Fed should not raise its rates.
