Hello, everyone, and welcome to this Tech Won't Save Us update. I don't have a regular interview for you today, but I did want to record a special, short little episode because this month, in April of 2023, the podcast is turning three years old.

And so, you know, I just wanted to give a little update on how things are going, but also to let you know

something very exciting that we have planned because this is the big birthday month. The show,

as I said, is three years old. It's hard to believe that this podcast I started in April of 2020

in the early stages of the pandemic while lockdowns were still kind of going on, you know, has not only

lasted this long, but has continued to grow and get even more popular. You know, it's had 1.8

million downloads over more than 160 episodes that we have now and nearly as many guests.

And those guests have come on to inform us about so many

different aspects of the tech industry, to give us their expertise, and to let us know

critical insights that we need to understand these technologies and these tech companies and

these powerful people who shape not only this industry, but so much of the world and have effects on the lives of

billions of people around the world. One of the reasons I keep doing this show is because I do

feel like it has an impact, right? Not only because we're informing people about the tech

industry and about all of these technologies, giving people a perspective that they otherwise might not get through

other sources, but also because I have so many people who reach out and say that it made a

difference to them, right? That it helped give them a different perspective on these things.

And hopefully those perspectives then filter into their actions, right? Hopefully there's some

kind of concrete difference

just beyond education that comes out of this too. And really, all of this is possible because of

people like you, right? People who listen to this show, people who feel like they learn from it

and then share it on social media, share it with their friends and colleagues, all of that is

essential to growing

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