Playing With Networking (Weekly Recap 11/8/2025)
November 8, 2025·0 comments·zg
You Can Only Be the Revolution: Ursula K. Le Guin
When the scale of a problem is too big to solve alone, most people freeze. I watched myself do it this week: 8 billion people on Earth, 1.46 billion English speakers, and the problem is "nobody knows how to talk to anyone anymore." So what do you do? You could give up. Or you could embrace being one. Just one. Me and you are both stuck on one and one. The revolution isn't something you organize at scale - it's something you become, one conversation at a time. Just Press Record, the project that sits at the center of this week's recap, lives in this exact philosophy.
Journeys, Destinations, and Getting Present
In a season when everyone's obsessed with year-end reviews and next-year planning, there's a quiet rebellion in simply enjoying the climb. Harold V. Melchert's wisdom hits differently when you're stressed about fitting everything in: glance at the summit, yes, but don't miss the view from each vantage point. My imagination doesn't operate in reality - it never has. But my body does, and so do the people who make my life worth living. That's why staying present, even while planning forward, becomes essential. The mountains are real. So are the moments between summits.
Grow Your Network: Kevin Leahy Is A Bridge Builder Between The Analog And Digital Audio World
Kevin Leahy left NPR because he understood the machine well enough to rebuild it differently. That's the move. And here's what I love most: he spent a decade mastering one corner of the radio-to-podcast transition world, but instead of staying comfortable, he decided he wanted to understand more. When he started talking about leaving, other people helped him pull it all the way out. Now he's building bridges between traditional media and the podcast revolution, advising creators on strategy, production, and how to actually make this thing sustainable. But the real insight? Portfolio beats pedigree. He learned more covering court cases as a curious young reporter than any credential could have taught him. The actual work you finish matters infinitely more than the box you checked.
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