As promised, I’m getting up the transcripts of all the episodes here in this Medium collection. It’s always better to *go listen* to hear the magic that Jonathan Hirsch brings to the show, but hey, for posterity, for accessibility, for searchability, here you…

I’ve been working on an audio documentary called Containers about how global trade has transformed the economy and, well, everything.

It represents, for me, a return to storytelling, after a couple years as a manger. Maybe because of that, I’ve been happily…

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As always: the standards caveats around this script apply: it changes sometimes in production, we tweak things at the end, and it’s always better to listen to the episode if you can, so you can hear…

As always, go listen to the the show! It really is better than reading the flat text, but for accessibility and archivability, here you go.

Worth noting up here only that if you’re in the Bay, Jonathan Hirsch and I are having a…

Ok, I know I say every week you should *listen* to this, but really, this week, you should listen to the magic if Jonathan Hirsch’s sound design.

Here’s the setup: It’s 1979 and containerization is sweeping through the waterfront, leaving the old docks in…

When I started thinking about Containers, my audio documentary about global shipping, capitalism, and technology, I started spending a lot of time at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park, a thin sliver of a place pinned between the Bay and the Oakland International Container…

This is my scratch paper to talk about some of the stories behind Containers, my new audio documentary on global trade, technology, and the people who make capitalism run. Episode 2 just dropped. In it, we meet two Filipino sailors, who risked…