The Realignment Vacation Edition: Greetings from NYC, DC, and Orlando
Episodes of the week, Team Realignment's recommendations, and more
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As we mentioned in this week’s episodes, the show’s off until Tuesday the 11th. Producer Phil’s in Orlando taking a much-needed break, Marshall finally moved full-time to Brooklyn (no more splitting time between DC and NYC), and Saagar’s prepping to move to a new house next week.
Still, we're committed to sending this newsletter regardless of what we’re up to. This week was slow, but we promise that next week’s episode with Senator Hawley will make up for it. The Senator’s obviously controversial, especially in media circles, so we would love to hear your thoughts over the weekend.
Welcome Back to The Realignment
This week, we released two episodes: Marshall interviewed The New York Times’ Cade Metz about his new book, Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World. Today’s episode focused on the entire team of The Realignment. We brought Phil Hegseth, the show’s editor/producer along with our production assistants, James Lynch and Emma Posey. Everyone offered recommended books, podcasts, and their favorite episodes of The Realignment.
Episode 123: Vacation Special: Team Realignment’s Favorite Episodes, Books, and Podcasts
Episode 122: Cade Metz: How Google, Facebook, Elon Musk’s OpenAI, and the U.S. and Chinese Governments Will Shape AI’s Future
The Realignment Bookshop
As a reminder, we’ve created a Realignment Bookshop affiliate store showcasing books by guests, what we’re actively reading this year, and deeper dives into the featured topic of an episode.
Most importantly, you don’t need to go with our recommendations if you want to support the show. If you go to Bookshop.org through our link and then purchase *anything* we still get your support. So huge thanks to whoever purchased Star Wars Thrawn: Ascendency (Book II: Greater Good) this morning.
If you purchase a book using our link, the show gets a 10% commission, a local, independent booksellers gets support, and you get an awesome book!
Here are three of the lists we’ve built out:
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
Let us know what you think about this or any other week’s episodes. Please share The Realignment with anyone who’d enjoy the podcast.