#40 Ben Thompson: Thriving in a Digital World

You need to learn to consistently And repeatedly start with new assumptions. Hello and welcome. I'm Shane Parish and this is The Knowledge Project. A podcast exploring the ideas, methods, and mental models that help you learn from the best of what other people have already figured out.

To learn more about the show or our previous guests, go to fs.blog slash podcast. My guest today is Ben Thompson author of the technology site Stratekery. I reached out to Ben because Stratekery, which provides an analysis on the strategy and business side of technology on society, is one of the few sites that I read. Just like us at FS, Tratekery also offers both free content and paid content as a means to sustain a living. As you'll soon find out, Ben has an interesting take on most things. Enjoy the conversation.

Mm-hmm. Stratekeri. Is is that even how you say it? Is it Stratekeri? It is it is strata strategy and tech. Uh I I I like to say that um naming things is is clearly not my forte. It it's weird though. I mean you can uh I kind of a running joke with me, my subscribers, about the name, but there is there is a good reason that I chose it. And it's very, you know, sort of prosaic, which is it was I was poor in debt and I was starting a website and it was available. It returned zero Google search results. There was a Twitter handle available.

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