No Mercy / No Malice: World Cup Experience

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. The experience economy is booming. That's good news for building connections with other people. But like everything else in the K-shaped economy, access is unevenly distributed. World Cup experience, as read by George Hahn.

I've seen more men embrace during the past two weeks than in the past two years. The beautiful game, football, generates a beautiful byproduct, togetherness. The World Cup isn't an anomaly. The biggest trend of 2026 isn't AI chatbots, it's IRL experiences. In a 1998 Harvard Business Review article, Joseph Pine and James Gilmore coined the term experience economy.

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