027: Chronically Late

We talk about being late, airports, slow walkers, networking in Latin American lobbies, trains, standardized time, life and death by bureaucracy, Chiune Sugihara (Japan’s Oscar Schindler), the Japan-Germany alliance during WWII, frenemies, a story of escape, the fall of the USSR, motifs and gimmicks in art and literature (Haruki Murakami, Ridley Scott, Wong Kar Wai, Peter Greenaway, Wes Anderson), BTS, evading the algorithms, Phoenix vs Tucson philosophies of lawns, and Asimov’s rules of robotics. Mentioned in this episode Jenny Odell's books How to Do Nothing and Saving Time The Man in the High Castle television series Kleo television series The Windup Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway film) Stinkweeds Record Store Foundation television series adapted from Asimov The Bear television series This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit satellitehaiku.substack.com