Jason Schreier
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Um, many of them are very fascinating looks at money and the way the economy works and the way the planet works.
And, uh, a story about gig work and how that has impacted people and how like these companies, how it used to be this boon for gig workers to be able to like set their own hours.
And then how it just got squeezed as, uh, as like a competition got squeezed out and, and the kind of effects that monopolies can have on the market.
It's a very just kind of like, um, uh,
factual look at markets and the way they work it's a very just kind of uh it's not it's not there's no agenda in the book which i really appreciate it's very much like we are looking at this from a perspective of like what is fair and what is accurate and that is it that is their entire kind of
They want to inform people about the way that the world works.
There's a great chapter about remote work and the kind of the people that it's good and who it's bad for and the kind of the hybrid model just being a great balance for a lot of people.
And yeah, fascinating book.
I recommend it.
And I really recommend the podcast.
Even if you don't want the book, you should go listen to the podcast series about it.
how it was made.
And if you're curious at all about how the process of book creation, um, the reporter who did that at the end of it was like, I will never look at a book in the store the same way again, after learning about all this.
Um, they talk about how a bestseller, how like a book becomes a bestseller.
They talk about the printing process, the auction process.
You guys would find it really fascinating.
I think everybody would.