Episode 039 – Lando Calrissian Publishers

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2015

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In this week’s episode Ben and James follow up on last week’s episode, introduce the Toilet Bowl philosophy of career development, and then dive into the future of publishers in the world of Facebook. Due to some technical issues there is a rather abrupt stop at the end – sorry about that! Links Ben Thompson: The Facebook Reckoning – Stratechery How Vox.com Approaches Publishing on Facebook – Vox Marketing Hosts Ben Thompson, @monkbent, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast Information Feed iTunes SoundCloud Twitter Feedback

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0:00.0	Hi, James.
0:01.6	Ben, how are you?
0:03.4	I am okay.
0:04.2	It is rainy here.
0:06.0	Was it rainy last week?
0:07.0	Or was it still sunny?
0:07.9	I can't remember.
0:09.3	It was, I can't remember.
0:11.4	No, I forgot to mention when you were talking about weather.
0:14.2	There's actually the worst drought in like 67 years here as well.
0:19.1	No.
0:20.0	No, yeah, totally.
0:21.0	Really?
0:21.5	Well, the problem is most of the water in Taiwan comes from typhoons.
0:26.5	And there was like one typhoon last year.
0:29.1	And there was only like two the year before, which is like way less than normal.
0:34.6	So Taiwan has all these reservoirs that fill up during typhoons and then they use that water basically the rest of the year.
0:40.1	But there's been no typhoons recently.
0:43.4	So yeah, the reservoirs are like 20% capacity or something.
0:46.9	So yeah.
0:49.0	So I feel California's pain.
0:52.1	Although Taiwan in some respects is even more messed up because the water here is like super cheap.
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