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Christopher Lochhead Follow Your Different™
by Christopher Lochhead · English
Christopher Lochhead | Follow Your Different is pioneer in real dialogue podcasts. “The best business podcast” – Podcast Magazine “The worst business podcast” – Neil Pearlberg
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Bruce Feiler on Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World
Bruce Feiler discusses his new book The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World, arguing that people increasingly seek work with meaning rather than just “a job,” and that modern work…
11 Nov 2026 · 1h 21m · 25 chaptersPSJ Special Segment: The First AI-Assisted Election | The Pirate Street Journal
A “Pirate Street Journal” special segment arguing the 2022 midterms may be the first election significantly assisted by AI, focusing on how AI changed voting decisions, what went wrong, and concerns…
6 Nov 2026 · 24m · 10 chaptersAnthropic S1: Their biggest customers spend 0.1% of revenue on AI | The Pirate Street Journal
Analysis of Anthropic’s S-1 (and amended S-1) and what it implies about growth, capital efficiency, market share, risks, and the “intelligence” category’s demand potential.
6 Nov 2026 · 39m · 15 chaptersSeth Godin on Breaking the Cycle of Competition by Winning Your Own Game
Seth Godin and Christopher Lochhead discuss breaking the cycle of competition by choosing your own customers, distribution, and “competition,” designing a life with agency, and using AI as a tool for…
4 Nov 2026 · 54m · 24 chaptersSteven Kotler on The Art of Impossible
Steven Kotler discusses The Art of Impossible—how to make “impossible” goals more probable by aligning motivation, learning, creativity, and flow with neurobiology.
28 Oct 2026 · 1h 22m · 28 chapters465 Growing Up With Radical Islam with Işık Abla
Dr. Işık Abla recounts growing up in Istanbul in a strict, devout Muslim environment marked by civil unrest and family abuse, then describes her conversion to Christianity after a suicide attempt and…
22 Oct 2026 · 1h 12m · 33 chapters464 Jersey Mike’s Is Worth $7.5 Billion And 2% Of Its Customers Are Gen Z | The Pirate Street Journal
Topic 1: Jersey Mike’s IPO after Blackstone; valued ~$7.5B, ~$4.3B sales, 20 years same-store growth; 2% Gen Z customers. Wall Street values it ~20x earnings with ~$1.8B debt.
30 Sep 2026 · 34m · 17 chapters463 James Dyson built a $499 Toothbrush And Has No Idea How Many He’ll Sell | The Pirate Street Journal
Topic 1: Dyson’s $499 “Camera Jet” toothbrush. James Dyson (79), who built 5,000+ vacuum prototypes and previously launched a $400 hair dryer, says he doesn’t know how many toothbrushes he’ll sell.
23 Sep 2026 · 35m · 19 chapters462 The Doomer Industrial Complex
The “Doomer industrial complex” using Y2K as a case study—how a real technical risk can be amplified into mass hysteria that benefits media, consultants, experts, and vendors.
19 Sep 2026 · 14m · 5 chapters461 California’s New Life Savings Tax Hiding in the “Billionaire Tax” with Hoover Institution Top Gun Benjamin Jaros
California’s proposed Prop 40 “Billionaire Tax” (a 5% one-time net worth/asset tax) that would amend the state constitution to allow taxing unrealized gains and life savings, potentially expanding…
17 Sep 2026 · 1h 24m · 39 chapters460 Apple Is Seven Years Late To The Fold And Takes 44% Of The Money | The Pirate Street Journal
Category design analysis of three business stories: Apple’s foldable iPhone launch under new CEO John Ternus; the “SaaSpocalypse” panic and why enterprise SaaS incumbents held up with AI; and Nike’s…
16 Sep 2026 · 42m · 19 chapters459 Dolly Parton Told Elvis No. It Was Worth $10 Million. | The Pirate Street Journal
Topic 1: Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” deal with Elvis. Dolly refused Elvis’s request to take half the songwriting profits; she owned the publishing/copyright via her 1967 publishing…
9 Sep 2026 · 38m · 14 chapters458 9/11 Hero Tim Brown
Tim Brown, a former NYC firefighter and emergency management supervisor, recounts his perspective on Sept.
3 Sep 2026 · 1h 9m · 27 chapters457 Meta Agreed To Pay $18 Billion For What Its Apps Did To Teenagers | The Pirate Street Journal
Meta’s $18B settlement with 48 states over teen harm from Instagram/Facebook apps; NVIDIA’s record quarter and AI/data-center outlook; Kelanova/Pringles’ AI digital twin improving chip consistency.
2 Sep 2026 · 38m · 19 chapters456 The Los Angeles Lakers sold for $12.5 billion in 72 hours | The Pirate Street Journal
Topic 1: The Los Angeles Lakers sold for $12.5B in 72 hours, setting the record for any sports team sale. Mark Walter bought in about a year earlier at ~$10B.
1 Sep 2026 · 42m · 18 chapters455 “Only Idiot Startup Founders Will Stay In California.” – Mark Cuban | Different
Mark Cuban’s remark (“only idiot startup founders will stay in California”) is used to argue against California Prop 40, a proposed “one-time” 5% tax on net worth above $1B that would amend the…
27 Aug 2026 · 28m · 11 chapters454 WSJ celebrated Burger King’s 8.5% growth, but doesn’t get BK’s Category Design is still broken | The Pirate Street Journal
Category design critique of three business news items: Burger King’s 8.5% U.S. growth, brands gaming Reddit/AI citations, and the return of mascots.
26 Aug 2026 · 39m · 19 chapters453 How To Talk To Your Parents About Money Before It’s Too Late | Category Pirates
How adult children should talk to parents about money early—especially avoiding annuities and other “guaranteed” products that can lock up funds—using AI to demystify contracts, managing conflicts of…
20 Aug 2026 · 51m · 16 chapters452 Zuckerberg Is Spending $600 Billion To Buy The One Thing That Was Never For Sale | The Pirate Street Journal
The Pirate Street Journal (category design lens) covers three business stories: (1) Zuckerberg’s AI “Future is for Everyone” manifesto versus Meta’s massive AI/data-center spending and trust issues;…
19 Aug 2026 · 41m · 18 chapters451 The US Economy Counter Factual, How to Make Your Kids Rich & More | DisruptTV
The episode argues the US economy is not headed for a recession, highlights “AI Exponential” shifts creating record new company formation, and promotes “Invest America”/“Trump accounts” as a way to…
13 Aug 2026 · 35m · 11 chapters450 Chili’s Is Up 500% Since 2022 Betting On Basic Tech | The Pirate Street Journal
Topic 1: Chili’s turnaround. Brinker International’s stock is up 500% since June 2022, with 20 straight quarters of same-store sales growth (last quarter comps +4%).
12 Aug 2026 · 36m · 14 chapters449 Google’s Free Cash Flow Went Negative For The First Time. Does it matter with $242 billion in cash? | The Pirate Street Journal
Topic 1: Alphabet/Google earnings and free cash flow. Despite Q2 revenue of $119.8B (+24% YoY), net income $112B (+~300%), and cloud revenue +82% with a $514B backlog, Alphabet’s free cash flow…
5 Aug 2026 · 38m · 19 chapters448 Mid-term Madness, Oprah or George Clooney Running For President? with Political Pollster & Advisor Lee Hartley Carter
Midterm and 2028 election outlook through the lens of political communication, polling, and persuasion—plus how “facts vs feelings” shape voter decisions.
30 Jul 2026 · 1h 11m · 26 chapters447 Niching Down on Weird Data with AI Solves Ice Cream, Movies, and Power Bottlenecks | The Pirate Street Journal
Topic 1: China dominates battery storage (90% of global storage battery cells), but the episode argues the “power layer” won’t be won by the biggest centralized grid alone.
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