Episode 135: Home for the Holidays

Michael rejoins Jessica for the last episode of 2020, to look back at a difficult year that disrupted so many routines, including sitting down every other week to record an episode of this podcast:

It's actually become hard for me just to understand the value of listening to myself talk, hearing my own voice…and the assumption it implies that everything I say is worth listening to.

I've had some really rewarding experiences where I found myself in situations where I've been able to just lurk on the outskirts of things and listen and learn and not feel that I was there to take control of the situation or even make an occasional speech, but just to drink it in.

Also mentioned this week:

• BankerWessel
• Alan Fletcher
• Fast Company, 10 New Rules of Design
• Mellon Foundation, The Monuments Project
• A French Village trailer
• I May Destroy You 
• The Queen’s Gambit 
• The Crown
• Mank
• How To With John Wilson
• Randy Rainbow, Gee, Anthony Fauci!
• Stuart Thompson and Jorge Colombo, New York Times, Find Your Place in the Vaccine Line

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