The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · 2026-07-25 · 17 min · 2,095 words

No Mercy / No Malice Turns 10

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Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Scott Galloway and this is No Mercy, No Malice. We often say storytelling is the most valuable skill, a superpower I'd grant my boys if I could grant them anything. Every Friday for the past decade, my storytelling practice has included writing this post, No Mercy, No Malice. It's the laboratory at the center of our books, podcasts, and propji media.

No Mercy, No Malice turns 10. As read by George Hahn. Ten years ago this month, I began writing No Mercy, No Malice every Friday. My firm at the time, L2, was a reincarnation of my first business, Profit, but I wanted to get it more right this time. Profit was and is a good firm, but it was trapped in a transactional service model versus a recurring revenue model.

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