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b'Alexis C. Madrigal is an editor-at-large for Fusion, where he\\u2019s producing the upcoming podcast, Containers.\\n\\n \\u201cSometimes you think like, \'Man the media business is the worst. This is so hard.\' When you spend time with all these other business people, you probably are going to say, \\u2018Capitalism is the worst. This is hard.\\u2019 Competition that\\u2019s linked to global things is so hard because global companies are locked in this incredible efficiency battle that just drives all of the slack out of the system. Like media, there\\u2019s no slack left, and I don\\u2019t know where things go after that.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp, Stamps.com, and Casper for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n@alexismadrigal\\nalexismadrigal.com\\nMadrigal on Longform\\n[00:00] Longform Podcast Survey\\n[03:00] Madrigal\\u2019s Archive at The Atlantic\\n[03:45] Consumer Conspicuous\\n[05:00] Ross Andersen on the Longform Podcast\\n[05:30] "First-Gen T. Rex Was No Bigger Than You" (Wired \\u2022 Sep 2009)\\n[06:45] Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology (Da Capo Press \\u2022 2011)\\n[12:45] Nuzzel\\n[15:30] "BuzzFeed editor-in-chief in year-end memo: \\u2018Fake news will become more sophisticated\\u2019 than ever in 2017" (Oliver Darcy \\u2022 Business Insider \\u2022 Dec 2016)\\n[19:00] "The alpha dog that wouldn\\u2019t hunt: How Trump\\u2019s ludicrous \\u2018alpha male\\u2019 act is destroying him" (Matthew Rozsa \\u2022 Salon \\u2022 Oct 2016)\\n[24:00] "How Google Builds Its Maps\\u2014and What It Means for the Future of Everything" (Atlantic \\u2022 Sep 2012)\\n[27:45] "A Fleet of One" (John McPhee \\u2022 New Yorker \\u2022 Feb 2003)\\n[28:15] Uncommon Carriers (John McPhee \\u2022 Farrar, Straus and Giroux \\u2022 2006)\\n[29:15] Madrigal\\u2019s Archive at Fusion\\n[29:15] Real Future\\n[37:45] Slacker\\n[46:00] "American Aqueduct: The Great California Water Saga" (Atlantic \\u2022 Feb 2014)\\n[48:45] Madrigal\\u2019s Archive at NPR\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'