Show Notes
Editing itself is a series of putting a structure, a controlled narrative, onto life - which is itself uncontrollable. In the book “The Uncontrollability of the World” author Harmut Rosa writes about how, in life today, there can be “no space in public and political discourse for the idea — the reality — of uncontrollability in social life.”
Today the internet imbues us with an expectation we can control all aspects of our lives. We have apps to monitor our sleep, steps, heart rate and productivity. We have notifications for our cloud based to-do lists and endless reminders of meetings and anniversaries. If anything, ever, is forgotten, we can be called, emailed and pinged. On social media I scroll past photographs of a constructed expectation of an event, babies are smiling and the sun is always setting. Nothing can fall out of control.
This episode looks at three individuals' stories from when the dot-com bubble burst and how they all fell out of control due to the market.
Eugenie Diserio looked to the celestial bodies and founded Astronet, a pioneering astrology start-up, but the stars didn’t align and the business crashed due to the whims of media conglomerates.
Jan Wellman built Riot Entertainment and he rode the dot-com boom, but the crash would take his business down just before it was about to take off.
And Martha Lane Fox survived the dot-com crash - but chaos still managed to intervene.
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