Anna Gát — We Digress | Episode 211

Friend-of-the-show Anna Gát returns to discuss… well… pretty much everything!

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On April 13th, O’Shaughnessy Ventures and Interintellect - are co-hosting a Future of Publishing event at the beautiful Pratt Mansion in NYC.

O’Shaughnessy Ventures - https://www.osv.llc/
Interintellect - https://interintellect.com/

We’re bringing together established publishers, online writers, new publishing houses, journalists, technologists, authors and more to rethink and reimagine how ideas are spread in our changing world. Confirmed speakers include Coleman Hughes, Tara Isabella Burton, Tamara Winter, Sahil Lavingia and many more!

Coleman Hughes - https://twitter.com/coldxman
Tara Isabella Burton - https://twitter.com/NotoriousTIB
Tamara Winter - https://twitter.com/_TamaraWinter
Sahil Lavingia - https://twitter.com/shl

Here’s the best part - we want YOU to be there! To buy in-person tickets and for more information on live-streaming, scheduling, speakers, and more, just follow this link - https://interintellect.com/the-future-of-publishing/.

We hope to see you there!

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Important Links:

- Interintellect - https://interintellect.com
- Anna’s Twitter - https://x.com/TheAnnaGat?s=20
- Anna’s Website - https://www.annagat.com
- Interintellect Substack - https://interintellect.substack.com

Show Notes:

0:00:00 Intro
0:01:05 Main podcast
0:02:13 The Shock of Losing a Parent
0:14:57 Interintellect & the Post-Tribe Internet
0:20:05 How to Facilitate Better Conversations
0:24:43 Surprising Salons
0:27:11 Faker Spotting & the Temptations of Power
0:39:15 Avoiding Audience Capture
0:43:54 The Humanness of Casablanca
0:48:33 Greatness, Co-Creation & Doing the Work
0:55:42 Misconceptions About Leadership
1:02:05 The Personality of Language
1:10:27 What’s Next for Anna
1:13:24 Cities as Ideas
1:22:45 Anna as Empress of the World

Books Mentioned:

- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity; by David Graeber and Wengrow
- Adventures of a Bystander; by Peter Drucker
- Mating; by Norman Rush
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York; by Robert A. Caro
- Power vs. Force; by David R. Hawkins
- Tao Te Ching; by Lao Tzu
- The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics; by Stanislas Dehaene
- Embers; by Sándor Márai
- The Hunger Games; by Suzanne Collins