Mike Michalowicz

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1,537 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 20 Feb

Mike Michalowicz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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So there used to be like this weird parent-child relationship.

I'd say, no, you can't go out.

Or here's your lollipop, you can go out.

It's like bizarre.

It's kind of creepy.

And now we're a team looking at the account, and there's not enough money in the account.

There's a conversation about it.

We see we can't do this now.

Do we decide to override the system or not?

That's how it works.

Yeah.

So Parkinson's law is based upon a theory by this guy Northcote Parkinson from the 1950s.

And he observed something really interesting, and we already alluded to it, is that when a resource expands its availability, we consume more.

The classic economics curve says that demand dictates supply.

So the more people want your podcast, the more you're going to produce podcasts.

The more people want to sponsor your show, the more you're going to charge for it.

And he argued that is true in a certain number of economic cases financially, but in most cases humans behave in the reverse.

It's not demand dictating supply, it's supply dictating demand.

And the classic example is with, well, you can do with soda cans.

100 years ago or 200 years ago when soda came out, soda cans were what we consider almost a shot glass.

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