My guest today is Max Meyer, the proprietor of Arena Magazine, a new quarterly publication exploring technology, capitalism and civilization.
Arena’s aim? To “make it okay to dream in public again.”
Max and I discuss why he launched a print magazine in 2024, WTF happened to legacy media, the wisdom of Ratatouille and MUCH more.
I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. For the full transcript, episode takeaways, and bucketloads of other goodies designed to make you go, “Hmm, that’s interesting!”, check out our Substack.
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Show Notes:
- What is going on with legacy media?
- Print advertising and the race to the bottom
- The collapse of trust in the media
- TikTok brain, news consumption & social media as a steam valve
- Bailouts & the appeal of the “zero interest fairyland”
- The wisdom of Ratatouille
- The decline of Presidential oratory
- American progress & the population bomb that didn’t go off
- Failure is a ladder
- The one rule of capitalism
- Long haul flights: Where’s our roast turkey?
- Why is Arena a physical magazine?
- Max as Emperor of the world
- MORE!
Books & Articles Mentioned:
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World; by David Deutsch
- The Ultimate Resource; by Julian L. Simon
- The Population Bomb; by Dr Paul R. Ehrlich
- The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism; by Howard Bloom
- How United Became an Airline; by Andy Kessler (WSJ)
- This is Water; by David Foster Wallace line.