Ben Thompson

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518 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 2d ago

Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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TBPN · Harvey's Margin Whiplash, Human Powered Agents, McLaren Rebrand, Insects > Humans? | Ben Thompson, Gagan Biyani, Alex Ratner, Peter Kalogiannis, Daniel Petkevich · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

they were always sort of distributed and developed lots of processes and ways to work around that that were really interesting. voice-verified

I wrote about it when the COVID thing hit because all these companies had processes around assuming people were in the office and then they tried to retrofit it with Zoom and it was a total disaster. voice-verified

It kind of still is a total disaster as far as I can see. voice-verified

But there's also personal things about working from home. voice-verified

Working from home is a significant upheaval voice-verified

or can be to a marriage, just as an example. voice-verified

Like when I'm writing, I need to be in the zone, no interruptions, nothing bothering me. voice-verified

And that just doesn't compute when you're like within your house, like you're in the house, why cannot things be done? voice-verified

And so the importance of like either establishing that or getting an outside office for writing or whatever it might be. voice-verified

That was an example where I actually lived what everyone experienced like a decade voice-verified

There's other stuff like... voice-verified

You can't voice-verified

No, the answer, if you can swing it, the answer if you can swing it is to get out of the house. voice-verified

Because it's kind of like you're exporting, externalizing. voice-verified

your problem onto your family and it's not their job. voice-verified

And so it's almost like you owe it to your family to get out of the house. voice-verified

If you need to not be bothered, that's your problem. voice-verified

So figure it out. voice-verified

Otherwise, they're like, they're not getting paid to not bother me on this Zoom call. voice-verified

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