This is an IHeart podcast.

Guaranteed human.

New Year's resolution.

Own how you show up online.

It's easy with a domain and matching email from GoDaddy.

Now just 99 cents per month for new customers their first year.

Ring in 2026 with a domain and matching email at goaddy.com slash new year.

That's go daddy.com slash new year to own how you show up online.

CallZo Media

Hello and welcome to better offline. I'm your host, Ed Zittron.

This is the finale of this year. Even though you're hearing it in 2025, I need you to just mentally imagine it's 2024. I did my best, okay? Anyway, in the last episode, I talked about the scale of the rock economy and specifically the practical elements and the practical results of growth at all cost thinking. And in this one,

I want to talk about how we fight back. Ideas are powerful, and things change as silly as it

sounds from the regular repetition of the names of those responsible and clear descriptions

of the things they've done to us. Now, you know I've written and spoken a lot about the raw

economy, how the growth at all cost mindset fucks things up.

And it's what directly leads tech companies to make their products worse. But what I've tried to

do in these episodes is quantify the scale, both the damage it's caused and the billions of people

that affects every day. Everything I've discussed around the chaos and the pain of the internet

is a result of corporations

and private equity firms buying media properties and immediately trying to make them grow,

each in wildly different ways, all clamoring to be the next New York Times or variety or other

legacy media brand, despite the fact that those brands already exist and the ideas for competing

...