Ryan is an aspiring underachiever. He’s worked for NASA, planned and conducted his own scientific research at the CDC, and served as a foreign affairs analyst/speechwriter in the British Parliament; he’s founded four companies and sold three (most recently to OKCupid), and he’s published peer-reviewed scholarship in fancy-pants journals across two separate academic disciplines. All this misguided, insecure early-life ambition mostly just taught him how disappointing and anticlimactic status-driven accomplishments can be.
(This text was lifted from Ryan’s very amusing web page. Highly recommended.)
Well, there’s another commercial-free episode in the bag! Many thanks to those of you who make that possible by supporting the podcast to the tune of $5 a month or $50 per year via chrisryan.substack.com.
Intro music is called “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range. Check them out at basinandrange.bandcamp.com. “I.G.Y. (What a Wonderful World),” by Donald Fagan. “This is the Picture (Excellent Birds),” by Peter Gabriel.
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