The Realignment: Cal Newport on Communications Overload, Mike Solana on San Francisco, and the First Episode of Counterbalance
Episodes of the week, Counterbalance launch, and Bookshop links
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Welcome to The Realignment
This week we aired two episodes: Cal Newport, an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University on how to overcome email/Slack/social media overload at work, especially during the pandemic, and Mike Solana, a vice president at Founders Fund and author of the Pirate Wires newsletter, on the state of San Francisco and the need to engage in local politics.
Counterbalance Launch
Also, the first episode of Marshall’s new podcast, Counterbalance, is out now. Marshall and Mike Doran interviewed Rep. Mike Gallagher about U.S.-China relations under the Biden administration.
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Episode 105: Mike Solana: What’s the Matter with San Francisco?
Episode 104: Cal Newport: Reimaging Work in an Age of Communications Overload
(Audio) (Video)
You can purchase Cal’s new book, A World Without Email, below at our Bookshop storefront.
The Realignment’s Bookshop.org Storefront
As a reminder, we’ve created a Realignment podcast affiliate shop for guest books at bookshop.org. The shop features our guests’ books, including books from Michael Lind, Scott Galloway, Reeves Wiedeman, Ross Douthat, Matt Stoller, and Lisa Napoli.
We’ve built out three Bookshop lists:
1) Our list of the best books we read in 2020
2) All of the books we’ve read so far in 2021
3) Books written by Realignment podcast guests
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Hi Saagar, I was just wondering what your stance was on the Right-to-Work laws, are you for or against? I only ask because during Krystal's Radar today you seemed to agree with rather aggressive attack against the very principle of Right-to-Work,. I personally have been helped multiple times by this law, and the projections it gives workers not to have to support potential political unions.
Just listened to the Kevin Roose episode, and I really enjoyed it. Thanks for having him on! Something he said towards the end of the episode had to do with public decline in trust in legacy authority centers. Matt Taibbi recently reviewed Martin Gurri's book "The Revolt of the Public", which deals with this very issue (as far as I understand it.) I'm not a paid subscriber to Matt's substack, so I didn't get to read the whole review, and I can't find a copy of Gurri's book in any of my library systems. So would love for you to have Gurri on the show; I think it could be a great interview!