Hi, I'm Ben Sass.

And I'm Chris Steyerwalt.

And this is not dead yet.

We're all dying, but only some of us have been brought face to face with that reality.

However long, each of us have to do it, though, we all want to live a good life.

One with meaning, love, and joy. And our guests are here to help us do exactly that.

All right, Ben Sass. Why do you want to talk to Ben Thompson?

Maybe a better question is, why would we not want to talk to Ben Thompson?

He's helped remake journalism.

Accidentally, he's an expert on the U.S. CCP long-term fight for the shape of the global order.

There's kind of nobody who knows technology development, both at a technical level, but also

at a seven of the eight biggest corporations in the history of the world. They're all American.

They're all today. They're all tech companies. He is the expert inside gossip guy on all seven of

them. Oh, by the way, he just happens to operate a side business where he's an NBA analyst.

He's a weird and fascinating dude who I subscribed to a lot of his stuff in my last couple of jobs.

And when we were in D.C., we had been come in and tutor us on stuff, and I miss him.

So this is a guy who you look to for

insight on the tech sector broadly. Yes. I mean, you'll do his bio here in a minute, but I mean,

the guy could have been a financial analyst for all the biggest most profitable companies in the

history of the world. And instead, he decided to do journalism

about that. And he made that pretty dang successful, too. So I find him a great technical analyst,

both cutting it apart from the inside out and giving you a 30,000 foot view. Okay. And he lives in

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