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Making It Up MAEKAN
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Making It Up by MAEKAN is a weekly podcast exploring the latest news in the creative world and analyzing how and why it'll impact culture at large.
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202: Collectability, cooperation, and capitalism
Charis and Eugene talk about NFTs, collectability, anti-capitalist capitalists, missing counterculture, and individualism.
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The NFT Collector | Richard Kim in Right Click Save
Hope Beyond Rugged Individualism by Tara McMullin
14 Warning Signs That You Are Living in a Society Without a Counterculture by Ted Gioia
The young, rich, anti-capitalist capitalists by Whizy Kim
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201: Over-Optimizing Creative Work & GeoGuessr
Eugene and Charis talk about efficiency, over-optimization, having slack (not the service) or intentionally holding your feet to the fire.
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200: First Twitch livestream
Charis and Eugene catch each other up about the last three months of their lives, discuss the move to Twitch, and overcome tech troubles.
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199: Pierogis and buy nothing
Eugene and Charis discuss Buy Nothing groups/movement and what a change in platform means for their participants. They also talk about Kevin LaBuz’s article “Grandma’s Pierogis” about how corporate culture is created and knowledge passed on.
00:04:47 Buy nothing
00:20:49 Pierogis
#107 - Grandma’s Pierogies from Below the Line by Kevin LaBuz
Buy Nothing exploded on Facebook — now it wants a platform of its own by Mia Sato
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198: Brunello Cucinelli slow growth and the Theranos trial
Charis and Eugene talk about the attitude of the team behind the Italian luxury fashion brand Brunello Cucinelli toward growth and family business. They also discuss the conviction of Elizabeth Holmes, former founder and CEO of the health tech company Theranos, in a trial that ended in January.
00:04:19 Brunello Cucinelli
00:23:47 Theranos
Brunello Cucinelli says 2021 growth spurt “not rational” by Luke Leitch
The Dropout, a podcast hosted by Rebecca Jarvis produced by ABC News
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197: Attention and tribalism
Eugene and Charis discuss what it means to pay close attention to anything. They also talk about the benefits of tribalism.
00:10:22 Attention
00:30:37 Tribalism
attending to the other by Jasmine Wang
The Myth of Tribalism by Dominic Packer and Jay Van Bavel
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Customer Reviews
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