All Episodes
People vs Algorithms — 202 episodes
Cognitive Struggle
Strong Meat
Owning the Narrative
Social Media is Dead
The Provenance Problem
Sales Energy
AI’s High School Cafeteria
The New Moat
In Praise of Aggregation
Protecting Alpha
The Coldplay Protocol
Cannes is CES with Rosé
Americamaxxing, AI Taste Wars, World Cup Soft Power
The Abundance Economy
The AI Pushback
Homines Contra Algorithmos
Steroid Olympics
Clauditis
Monkey Business
The Clipping Economy
Spooning the Gravy
Humans in the Loop
The Great Media Reorientation
New Media Energy
The War on Slop
First Principles Meet the Real World
Systems Are King
Hating the Player and the Game
The AI Reckoning
Best/Worst of Times
AI Anxiety
Reputation Matters
Mind Control
Monitoring the Situation
Retro Digital
Finding Leverage
Media Goonstate
The End of the Hollywood Model
Code Red
The Hustler Ethos
Main Character Energy
Media People
The Charisma Dividend
Building Good Product
Low Sovereignty
Going Post-Truth
It’s Cool to Be Human
Alex Was Right
A Good Racket
Age of Extremes
The Media Singularity
Everything is Fine (Really)
The Trough of Disillusionment
Getting Mad At Toasters
AI Is Not Your Friend
Performative Intelligence
Winners Take All
Institutional Collapse
Substack As A Unicorn
The AI Head Fake
The End of Advertising
The Substack Conundrum
AI Optimism in Cannes
Liquid Courage
From Pageviews to Proximity
One-Trick Pony
From Pages to Protocols
Brittle Apple
The AI Overhang
Group Chat
Tech Bros With Mics
Hyperpunditry
Loro Piana Populism
Media, narratives, markets with Nick Denton
The Taste Premium
The Abundance Agenda
Oral Exams
Getting Chegged
Arbitrage Media
Messy Media
The Great Realignment
Does AI need an iPhone moment?
Decentralized Work
Tech Oligarchy
The Gospel of Productivity
Zuckerberg’s Capitulation, Rabbit Holes and the War on Attention
The Information Space in 2025
The End of Artifice
The New American Power Center
Poly News
Age of Spectacle
Neutering Google
The Art of Modern Persuasion & The Manosphere
Winners and Losers
Complex’s Next Chapter
The New Media Consensus
The End of Text
Bad Bets
Above-the-Line Media
Productive Tension
Parasitic Ad Tech
100th Episode with Emily Sundberg
Founder Mode
The Recalibration to Normal
The Olympics and the Future of TV
Monopolies and Memes
The Future of Search
The Dark Side of Performance
The Network is the Media
Rules of The Information Space
"Embrace The Chaos"
Banana In the Smoothie
War on Friction
Compression
Everyone is Hallucinating
AI Time Machine
Maybe the AI Hype is Real
Transforming Time with Jess Sibley
Can the “Fediverse” Save Us?
Omnicom's Jonathan Nelson on Agencies & AI
Sex, AI and Advertising
The Power Play
Shifting Tides in the Media Business with Axios’s Sara Fischer
The Business of Influence with Emily Sundberg
Algorithmic Sameness with Kyle Chayka
Platform Shifts
Change at CNN and Google
Survivors
DDM's Neil Vogel on Navigating Change
The New Internet
Blending Realities with Rafat Ali
Game Over
The Gravity of Platforms
CES, Ackman’s War, News App Fails
Hit Pieces, Fairness, Drugs & VR
New Year, New Optimism
The New SERP, the New Syndication
Minisode: Troy and Alex discuss AI
2024 Storylines
Conspirituality, Celebrity, E-Acc vs Decels, GTA
What’s Next for the Open Web?
OpenAI and the Culture of Silicon Valley
The New Interface
Will Brands Still Matter?
Gen Z Is Built Different
The Information Space
More With Less
Chris Kimball Says Screw the Algorithm
Product People
Bustle's Bryan Goldberg on the Post-Scale Era
Misaligned Media
Dismembering Disney
Heroes, Villains and A******s
Mass Media Crackup
Media Is From Mars, Tech Is From Venus
Summer Media
More With Less
Distribution Chokepoints
Distribution Disruption
The Talent Repricing
Twilight of the Open Web
Dark Patterns
NYT vs CNN
Enter the Face Computer
The End of Ads and The Last Impression
Advertising Is Bugs
The Deterioration of Webpages
Ambient Media
The New Interface
Why Buzzfeed News got shut down
AI meets tech's friction paradox
Ideation time
Fear and Loathing, AI Edition
The death of ad formats
Format, shmormat
Bank failure or culture war?
Substack is probably important
Alex wants to burn the ad industry down
Publishing is a perpetual hackathon
The new media interface
Uniqueness, differentiation and building the next media brand
The state of optimism, was Steve Jobs a psychopath and the coming bumper sticker renaissance.
How we make decisions
Death of the Racket: 2023 Winners and Losers
Brian goes to CES and AI freakouts
Death of the Link
The 2023 Expectation Reset
People vs Platforms
People vs AI
The disappointments of the open web
Extremely hard core reality checks
Bad week for billionaire geniuses
Transitional Times
Catastrophism and media
Is AI coming for your job?
Zuck's metaverse, AI art, the future of work
Ephemeral media
WTF is a media company now?
RIP Long Tail
Is media better now?
Mr Beast Burgers, Shein, MAGA Brands
Pilot - Apple, Facebook, NFT Communities, Quiet Quitting