What If Making Good Work Still Isn’t Enough? with Ian Danskin

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Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

News, Arts, Performing Arts, Business, Society & Culture, Politics

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Video essayist Ian Danskin joins us to talk about the exhausting economics of doing thoughtful work online—and what it means when your most meaningful content can’t pay the bills. From burnout to bad faith backlash, Ian opens up about what it takes to keep going when attention is currency... and you're broke. Bonus episodes + extras: https://patreon.com/pastdue Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In today's fast-changing digital world, proving your company's trustworthy isn't just important for growth.
0:06.6	It's essential. That's why Vanta is here. Vanta helps companies of all sizes get compliant, fast,
0:13.0	and stay that way with their proprietary AI, automation and continuous monitoring.
0:17.8	So whether you're a startup tackling your first SOC 2 or ISO-27-001
0:23.6	or an enterprise managing vendor risk, Vanta's trust management platform makes it quicker, easier and more scalable.
0:30.6	It even helps you complete security questionnaires up to five times faster, so you can close bigger deals sooner. And the impact? According to a recent
0:39.6	IDC study, Vanta customers cut over $500,000 a year in costs and boost productivity by three
0:47.0	times. Establishing trust isn't optional. Vanta makes it automatic. Visit vanta.com slash go to sign up for a free demo today. That's va.com
0:58.3	slash G-O. In today's fast-changing digital world, proving your company's trustworthy isn't just important for growth. It's essential. That's why Vanta is here. Vanta helps companies of all sizes get compliant, fast, and stay that way with their proprietary AI, automation and continuous monitoring.
1:17.6	So whether you're a startup tackling your first SOC 2 or ISO-27001 or an enterprise managing vendor risk, Vantanta's trust management platform makes it quicker,
1:29.3	easier and more scalable.
1:31.3	It even helps you complete security questionnaires up to five times faster, so you can close bigger deals sooner.
1:37.3	And the impact?
1:39.3	According to a recent IDC study, Vanta customers cut over $500,000 a year in costs and boost productivity by three
1:47.2	times. Establishing trust isn't optional. Vanta makes it automatic. Visit vanta.com
1:53.2	slash go to sign up for a free demo today. That's va.c.com slash geo.
2:05.5	What happens when the job you love leaves you emotionally and financially wrecked?
2:07.8	You can get 99 nice comments and one mean comment.
2:09.2	You're going to fixate on the mean comment.
2:17.5	Ian Danskin is the creator behind Innuendo Studios, known for deeply researched, emotionally intelligent video essays on media, politics, and culture.
2:22.3	But in 2025, after years of barely scraping by, he hit a wall. The debt just to the IRS broke like $60,000, and then I also had a maxed-out credit card
2:30.1	that was in collections.
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