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All right, let's get started with the show. Hey, it's Thursday morning. Thanks for joining us on the

Tropical MBA podcast. This week, Ian and I both pulled together five links to content that inspired us, that forced us to think over

the last year. And we figured we just list them out for you so that you could check them out.

But something unexpected happened this week, which is that we use these links, these pieces

of content as sort of a catalyst to have a deeper philosophical conversation about some

things we've been thinking about lately. And anyway, hope you enjoy and would love to hear your

thoughts this week's episodes at tropical MBA.com slash reading material.

Ian, it's been a while since we did a book episode. Way back in the day, we did the 10

game-changing thinkers, the 10 most

influential books we ever read. And I think we have that available for download. Yeah, you can go to this

post. This is a tropical NBA podcast episode 43. So this week, I thought it would be cool for us to share,

I don't know, some different stuff. These aren't the classic, you know, read getting things done, read Purple Cow, read four hour work week, all this kind of stuff. This is going to be sort of some maybe off the beaten path stuff, but some stuff that's a little bit more recent. So, so I'm good? Yep. How are things down to Saigon, by the way? They are awesome, man. I couldn't be more happy with Saigon. Yeah. I've got a new thing. Yeah, go to a different restaurant pretty much every day. So you could be occupied for the rest of your life pretty much in that city. You know, restaurants pop up here like weeds. I mean, just every other day. All right, buddy. The first one is an article that you sent to me. It's a New York

Times article about journalists covering the Edward Snowden affair. The article's title is called

How Laura Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets. And this is one of those long-form pieces of journalism

that I was completely engrossed in.

And I think it's relevant for people in the technology space just about how much our communications are being monitored.

And a lot of people look at stuff like this and they think doomsday.

They think it's all downside.

But I think it's very interesting

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