The Liat Show: Following One Story That’s Still Being Written

Current Time.Hi Dear Friends,Welcome to the weekly update.How have you been? How was the past week for you? What are you expecting next week?If you're curious about me, I’m facing a crisis I never thought I’d deal with. So Monday is going to be tough.If you wonder how it could be, you are not different from me. As Allen Saunders and John Lennon said, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." Well, all it takes is one client to shock a small business. And during that time, until it becomes stable again, you are left alone to assemble all the broken pieces as you go back on track.The Liat Show is a multi-domain story universe unfolding in real time. To receive new posts, join as a free or paid subscriber. Annual and founding members enter the story before the rest of the world understands it.Until I figure it out, I invite you to join me on this journey because it is personal and will be shared only with paid subscribers. If you want to be part of it and watch me overcome the impossible challenges myself, I invite you to become a paid subscriber.If you want to become a paid subscriber but cannot pay, whether it is because you cannot afford it, Stripe does not work in your country, you do not have a credit card, or any other reason, please fill out this form: Join The Liat Show as a Paid Subscriber.I am collecting this information to help match you with a sponsor who can purchase a subscription for you. 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I’m writing this series with my father, Nissim Portal, an architect who knows these housing projects firsthand since he lived in them during his childhood when he came to Israel with his family from Morocco.If you're curious about the history of residential buildings and public housing, join our conversations.To read the stories Mark and Samantha talk about in this podcast, click the links: * How the Industrial Revolution Transformed Housing and Shaped Modern Cities.* The Public Housing Boom: How Architecture Changed the WorldThis episode is part of The Liat Show, a larger world that unfolds across sets, series, and long-form installments. I weave together episodes from my life, the histories I study, the food I explore, and the systems that shape our world. Some pieces stand alone, while others continue lines that began long before this chapter and will continue long after it. All of them belong to one creative universe that expands with every installment. Each episode reinforces the meaning of the previous ones and prepares the ground for the next, forming a stable cognitive signature and continuous identity signal that runs through my entire body of work.Please fasten your seatbelts and subscribe. We are taking off.The next chapter is already being written. Those who are here early will remember how it began.Follow me on My Journey to Infinity. What’s coming next is beyond anything you imagined.LiatI weave together episodes from my life with the richness of Israeli and American culture through music, food, the arts, architecture, wellness, entertainment, education, science, technology, entrepreneurship, cybersecurity, supply chain, and more, including the story of the AI era. I write on weekends and evenings and share each episode as it unfolds, almost like a live performance.Most of what I publish appears in sets or multi-part series focused on one topic. Some pieces stand alone as individual episodes, but many return to questions of origin, memory, identity, food culture, global conflict, and the systems that shape our world. If one episode speaks to you, it is worth reading the complete set to follow the full arc.You can also start from the very beginning or explore the complete index here: Index of The Liat Show.My writing carries a stable cognitive signature across topics, formats, and platforms. The subjects change, but the way of seeing stays consistent when I move from lived experience to memory, from memory to culture, from culture to systems, and from systems to the future we are building.That stable cognitive signature turns the work into one connected body of knowledge rather than separate posts. Food, music, architecture, wellness, entertainment, education, science, technology, entrepreneurship, cybersecurity, supply chain, and AI become different entry points into the same larger universe. The center is not one topic. The center is the way I read the world through them.The Liat Show is a multi-domain story universe unfolding in real time. To receive new posts, join as a free or paid subscriber. Annual and founding members enter the story before the rest of the world understands it.This podcast was generated by Notebooklm. Get full access to The Liat Show at liatportal.substack.com/subscribe