This week, like old Italian men with their hands clasped behind their backs at construction sites, we are monitoring various situations: Snowmageddon 2026, OpenAI’s inevitable embrace of advertising, Claude Code’s escape from the nerdery, why publishers are embracing prediction markets, the Davos divide between the Mark Carney and Donald Trump styles of communication, and the latest reminder that nothing ever really dies in media, it just mutates.
Chapters:
00:00 Open
00:46 Welcome
05:30 OpenAI Getting Into Ads
26:29 Claude Code’s Escape From The Nerdery
40:16 Prediction Markets
50:29 Quick Hits
01:15:40 Good Product
01:17:14 Outro
