How to make it in the creator economy with Rob Walker
Channels with Peter Kafka
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.4 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 1:00.7 | welcome to recode media of peter kofka that is me and this week I'm talking to Rob Walker, who as I discussed in this |
| 1:12.5 | interview as someone who I've admired and looked up to for like two decades. He's a writer for a lot |
| 1:18.5 | of different places. Most recently, he was working on a medium publication. And now like everyone |
| 1:22.5 | else, he's got his own substack. And we talk about all of that. And it's partly a chance for |
| 1:26.7 | Rob to talk about his work and partly for him and I to talk about what it's like to be an actual creator in the creator economy |
| 1:34.3 | Which is a phrase we're using a lot hearing a lot of these days and I'm not sure it always means the same thing |
| 1:40.8 | So I wanted to hear Rob talk about that so So we did that. And as an aside, |
| 1:47.2 | I was thinking earlier this week that I would spend some time today talking about Naomi Osaka, |
| 1:53.0 | the tennis player who pulled out of the French Open because she didn't want to do press |
| 1:57.0 | conference because she said it was difficult for her mental health. And I had a hot |
| 2:02.6 | take about that and I spent some time tweeting about it. And then by the time I got time to record |
| 2:07.9 | this today, I thought, I don't need to talk about Naomi Osaka now. You could read Jason Gay's |
| 2:12.5 | excellent column, The Waltry Journal about her. And there's no need for me to talk about the thing that everybody was talking |
| 2:18.5 | about a day ago, which is kind of one of the things Rob and I talk about in this discussion as well. |
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