Recommendation Week: March
A reader in Lagos slid into my WhatsApp last week asking when the next recommendations piece was dropping. So here we are. This one's for you.
Every month I pull together the things worth your time across business, podcasts, books, and film. No fluff. No affiliate deals. Just stuff I've actually consumed and think you should too.
Business: Prof G Goes All In On Substack
Scott Galloway's Prof G Media has made a bold move. After years of running free, ad-supported content across multiple platforms, including Prof G Markets, Raging Moderates, and No Mercy No Malice, they're consolidating everything under Substack and charging for it.
What's interesting isn't just the platform shift. It's the strategy. Substack's live event and webinar features make it a genuine broadcast tool now, not just a newsletter home. For a media operation built on personality and point of view, this is an interesting play.
I'd love to get one of the Prof G team on the podcast to talk through the decision. The economics of independent media are genuinely fascinating right now, and they're right in the middle of it.
As a side note most of their content is still free in the usual places.
Podcast: The AI Episode That Actually Makes Sense
A lot of AI content makes my eyes glaze over. The AGI obsession, the Silicon Valley messiah complex, the breathless predictions. It's exhausting.
This episode featuring Nick Frost from Cohere is different. He cuts through the noise and makes a simple, useful argument: treat AI as infrastructure, not ideology. The AGI conversation, he says, is less scientific than it is religious. And he's not wrong.
What I appreciated most was a rare moment of honesty from an industry insider about wealth inequality and who actually benefits when AI scales. You don't hear that often from people inside the machine.
Worth your time: First Time Founders: Is Cohere the Next AI Powerhouse?
"AI as infrastructure, not ideology. That reframe alone is worth an hour of your time."
Book: Every Second Counts by Charlotte Glennie
Full disclosure: I know Charlotte as an old colleague. But I'd recommend this regardless.
Charlotte is a journalist who spent years covering Asia during a period of enormous geopolitical and cultural change. The book is part memoir, part front-row account of how TV journalism actually worked in the field, and part recovery story after a life-altering accident.
What struck me most was the entrepreneurial instinct she brought to her work as a correspondent. She wasn't waiting to be assigned the story. She was building the infrastructure to tell it. That mindset is something midlife professionals trying to reinvent themselves will recognise immediately.
I'm thinking about getting her on the podcast. Watch this space.
Get the book here: Every Second Counts
Documentary: The Manosphere with Louis Theroux
I'm a Theroux fan, so I'm biased. But this one is worth watching even if you're not.
The criticism I've seen is that he didn't push hard enough or offer solutions. That misunderstands what Theroux does. He holds a mirror up to his subjects and shows you their reaction. The discomfort you feel watching is the point.
The Manosphere is a real and growing cultural force. One documentary isn't going to solve it, and it was never meant to. But the follow-up journalism this will generate will be interesting.
Watch it on Netflix: The Manosphere with Louis Theroux
That's March done.
If you've come across something worth sharing, send it my way. A podcast, a book, a documentary, a business move that made you think. The best recommendations in this newsletter come from readers, and I'd love to feature yours next month.
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