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Sep 24
1h 2m

Is Doing It Yourself the Only Honest Way...

Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle
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Writer and video essayist Michael Burns joins us to talk about what happens when the platform you helped build stops serving the work and starts serving itself. After Wisecrack, he set out to make something smaller, stranger, and more his own. We get into the emotional cost of reinvention, the illusion of creative security, and why doing it yourself might be ... Show More
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