Oct 25, 2026 · 54 min · 12 segments
Marcus Schögel and Gabe Bullard join Tyler Brûlé to discuss the week’s news. Plus: Petri Burtsoff at the Helsinki Book Fair, Andrew Tuck in Palma and William Agius with the latest aviation news. See…

Not quite the sunshine that we've been having elsewhere on the European continent.


Culture commentator, writer, but also author of the new book, Against Convenience, Embracing Friction in an Age of Endless Ease.
This idea that a lot of the things that are supposed to be making our lives better by streamlining or saving some sort of time or effort really are changing the fundamental nature of the experience that we have and leading to more isolation, more work for us in the case of self-service, that sort of thing.
And overall, just sort of degrading the communities and physical experiences that can make life great.

OK, listen, all guests coming up over the next 53 minutes on the show, I'm going to ask all of you, what are your convenience pain points and what we need to be deleting? Marcus Shugle is also here from St.

Not quite the sunshine that we've been having elsewhere on the European continent.


Culture commentator, writer, but also author of the new book, Against Convenience, Embracing Friction in an Age of Endless Ease.
This idea that a lot of the things that are supposed to be making our lives better by streamlining or saving some sort of time or effort really are changing the fundamental nature of the experience that we have and leading to more isolation, more work for us in the case of self-service, that sort of thing.
And overall, just sort of degrading the communities and physical experiences that can make life great.

OK, listen, all guests coming up over the next 53 minutes on the show, I'm going to ask all of you, what are your convenience pain points and what we need to be deleting? Marcus Shugle is also here from St.
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