Jason Schreier

And so if you're interested in the nitty-gritty of book publishing, you can listen to this series by this guy, Alexei Horowitz-Gazi, this reporter of theirs, who goes behind the scenes.

And the first episode is about how a book is pitched and bid on by publishers.

And the second one is about how they decide where to print a book.

And they just dive deep into the creation

of this book that's that's very planet money of them that's very cool very cool compliment to it um turns out they reveal in this podcast series this book got an advance of more than one million dollars which is a lot of money for a book an incredibly popular podcast i bet it

Yeah, I mean, it's it's sold.

I believe it's already sold more than 100,000 copies.

So it's justified that advance and then some.

But yeah, but I've been I'm about halfway through the book and I really enjoying it.

It jumps around.

It's like a whole bunch of different kind of stories from all over the world.

And

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.