I've been slacking on my Mention Mondays-longtime readers of this space are aware that I'm long on promising things, and famously, hugely, enormously short on delivering them.
But I'd like to mention a couple of things that deserve your attention:
Jason Calacanis, the infamous @jason on Twitter, has an email list that you can sign up for at www.jasonnation.com. Calacanis is a new dad, a poker player, a dog owner, a Knicks fan and an entrepreneur who has managed to get pretty filthy rich. He has appeared on the podcast "This Week In Tech", and is very passionate and evangelistic about his ideas. Somewhat similar to Dan Carlin, you may not agree with him, but I guarantee you will not finish a JCal email without having been made to think.
On a completely separate note, Michael Glen Schmidt (not, famously, the baseball player) is at mikeschmidtcomedy.com. He is a standup comic and writer, and has a longrunning podcast available at his website called The Forty Year Old Boy. Schmidt's podcast is very hard to describe-he arrives at the microphone with no set agenda, and still manages to weave more than 90 minutes of story, anecdote, bawdy humor, and occasional bursts of melancholy. He curses occasionally, and certainly delves into very adult themes, but he manages to make you keep listening, and he usually makes you laugh loudly, especially when you're somewhere public, like inside the Vatican.
Thanks! I will check them out. I always appreciate hearing of good places to go.
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