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Podcast: Audience of One
Episode: #043 - Michael Mayer on Self-Disgust, Media, Tech, Failure, & Durability
Description: Michael Mayer is the co-founder and CEO of Bottomless and owner of a popular pseudonymous Twitter account. We talk about Twitter and media, habits and cultivating a sense of disgust, failure, technology and startups, distinguishing what’s important from the noise, and more.
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(00:56) Caring too much about social media & audiences; taking a year off Twitter
(05:23) Changing habits & cultivating a refined sense of disgust
(10:09) Leaving Twitter leaves a hole in your habit structure; news, reading, silence
(15:25) Habits
(21:28) Planning too far out in startups is harmful
(25:37) Failing is p...