HTDE: Motivation, Secret Messages, and Stealing Your Thunder

HTDE: Motivation, Secret Messages, and Stealing Your Thunder

Published: October 29, 2025

Duration: 18:08

This week: Filmmaker Alice Wu shares a clever trick to help you finally finish that thing you’ve been working on, why teenagers are taking over the comments sections of old podcast episodes, and the origins of the phrase “steal your thunder”. Plus we continue in our quest to be your out of office emergency contact.

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