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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 13/07/2026

Rabbi Kushner also talks about being a leader in an occupation without a long history of female predecessors, the nature of prayer, and more. Welcome our sixth guest on This Is Not Advice, Rabbi Noa Kushner. Watch here or anywhere you can find podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/3wbp...

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How to be a Rabbi, with Rabbi Noa Kushner

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 13/07/2026

When someone says to Rabbi Kushner, “I want to be a rabbi and start my own thing” her advice is similar to what I would give a startup founder. What problem do you want to solve? Her problem? She was looking for a certain kind of Shabbat. When she couldn't find it, she built it.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 13/07/2026

New episode of This Is Not Advice 🎤 I want you to be able to learn from people who are great at what they do, so you can feel more empowered in what you do. In this episode I speak with Rabbi Noa Kushner, founder of The Kitchen and author of Pretend You Believe.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 15/06/2026

Our fifth guest on This Is Not Advice, author Eric Ries... Watch here or on any of those places where you can find podcasts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgUb...

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How to be an author, with Eric Ries

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 15/06/2026

In today’s episode, Eric walks us through his journey: how a blog became a community, how a community finds a book, what it's actually like to write, rewrite, and rewrite again.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 15/06/2026

Eric coined “pivot” and Clay Christensen coined “disruptive innovation.” Both took on different meanings than the authors intended. Pivot broadened to mean basically any change, and disruptive innovation to anything that felt different. How do you manage the distortions of your own success?

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 15/06/2026

Eric shared one vexing part of putting ideas out in the world. Eventually, your ideas no longer "belong" to you.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 15/06/2026

New episode of This Is Not Advice 🎤 The job that this episode is all about: how to be an author, from the first page to the last. Welcome @ericries.bsky.social, author of the new Incorruptible (and some other things of which you may have heard).

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 30/05/2026

Labor organizing happening outside Zuck's yacht, or is it...

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 18/05/2026

Do the things only you can do. Make sure it's big enough to matter. Episode: open.spotify.com/episode/0WvC...

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How to be a Litigator, with Doha Mekki

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 18/05/2026

Everyone has limited resources. How does a litigator decide which cases to pick? I asked based on my extensive knowledge, drawn from the TV show Billions. In the latest This Is Not Advice episode, (🎤!) @dohamekki.bsky.social tells us how they did it at the DOJ.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 06/05/2026

"poignant, maddening, and genuinely hilarious" The New York Times called it a book everyone will be talking about this year. The book comes out a week after this event, though attendees will get an early copy :)

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 06/05/2026

As a freshman, Theo's reporting took down the then-president of Stanford. And now he's shedding light on how it works inside, especially for people who want to start or join tech companies. (Um, many people at Stanford, understandably!)

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 06/05/2026

If you want to hear Theo Baker, @tab-delete.bsky.social , who has exposed many a truth about Stanford, lay some of the big ones bare... we're hosting him next week in SF, and you can request to join... a week from Wednesday. luma.com/q9etleuv

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How to Rule the World: Theo Baker pre-release book lunch · Luma

Join us for an in-person conversation and lunch with journalist Theo Baker on his new book, How to Rule the World—named a book “everyone will be talking about”…

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 04/05/2026

Welcome our fourth guest on This Is Not Advice, litigator Doha Mekki.

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How to be a Litigator, with Doha Mekki

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 04/05/2026

We also talked about immigrant expectations (because game knows game), the power of a team that sees around corners, and why she thinks ordinary people deserve the same quality of legal firepower as the Fortune 100.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 04/05/2026

And the most important thing she told me about building a career: stop chasing praise. Know for yourself when you've actually done good work because the people handing out compliments and the people handing out criticism often have nothing to do with the truth.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 04/05/2026

Every trial is a morality play. A story about what happens when fair dealing breaks down. To wit, in a case about publishing, their first witness was Stephen King.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 04/05/2026

A few things I didn't expect to learn: The courtroom is almost never the point. Most of the job is writing, listening, and doing everything possible to avoid going to court.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 04/05/2026

So I called one of the best antitrust lawyers in the country. @dohamekki.bsky.social, former Acting Assistant Attorney General at the DOJ, the person who oversaw more monopolization lawsuits than the DOJ had filed in nearly forty years.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 04/05/2026

New episode of This Is Not Advice 🎤 I wanted to learn about being a litigator.

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How to be a Litigator, with Doha Mekki

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 30/04/2026

Request to join here: luma.com/3fapzmsn We’ll give pre-order copies of the book to attendees, so you can receive the book on the day it comes out. Or you can pre-order now yourself!

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Incorruptible: a conversation with Eric Ries and Roy Bahat · Zoom · Luma

Join us for a private conversation with author Eric Ries and Roy Bahat of Bloomberg Beta. In Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad... and How Great…

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 30/04/2026

We're hosting @ericries.bsky.social for a book talk *before his book comes out* -- a week from Friday. May 8 at 12p PT on Zoom.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 30/04/2026

This should be fun, and important -- Eric Ries, as you may have heard, has a new book coming out. Around how to design companies so that they resist the corrosive underside of success -- and stay true to the founder's intent. Incorruptible!

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Incorruptible: a conversation with Eric Ries and Roy Bahat · Zoom · Luma

Join us for a private conversation with author Eric Ries and Roy Bahat of Bloomberg Beta. In Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad... and How Great…

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 07/04/2026

t.co/8BqhalTg1H She went through the entire occupation of being a painter, start to finish. Including how paintings can misbehave :) Welcome to our third guest, painter and professor, Kelsey Shwetz.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 07/04/2026

New episode of the This Is Not Advice podcast... and this one surprised me. Kelsey Shwetz is a painter, and professor at Columbia and Pratt. I know her through teaching (to be specific, she teaches me to draw!). I thought I understood what she did. I did not.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 31/03/2026

Book talk next week... about how people, throughout history, have claimed to use technology to predict the future. From oracles to AI, if you will. And how we can understand this, to assert our own power. With Oxford philosopher of technology, @carissaveliz.bsky.social luma.com/8nefmidq

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Prophecy: a conversation with Carissa Véliz and Roy Bahat · Zoom · Luma

Join us for a private conversation with author Carissa Véliz, in conversation with Roy Bahat of Bloomberg Beta. What if the future isn't something that happens…

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 23/03/2026

Note, we may not be able to accept everyone who requests to join.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 23/03/2026

Join if you're figuring out what to do next, or you have someone in your life trying to figure it out, or if you just want to hear someone who's thought harder about this than most... luma.com/svvtxja3

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How to Start: a conversation with Jodi Kantor and Roy Bahat · Zoom · Luma

Join us for a private conversation with author Jodi Kantor, in conversation with Roy Bahat of Bloomberg Beta. Before Jodi Kantor became a Pulitzer…

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 23/03/2026

Before @jodikantor.bsky.social became a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, she got kicked off her college newspaper. So she knows it's not a straight line. And we're hosting Jodi on Wednesday, April 1 at 10am PT to talk about her new book... How to Start: Discovering Your Life's Work.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 02/03/2026

When we originally shared it! bsky.app/profile/royb...

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 02/03/2026

Graham is also a founder (MDCalc, a medical calculator used by two-thirds of U.S. doctors, and now Offcall, a company Bloomberg Beta backed), a podcaster (How I Doctor with Dr. Graham Walker, available wherever you listen to this!), and honest about what's broken in healthcare and what might fix it.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 02/03/2026

Why does medicine eat so much paperwork? What do doctors actually get paid, and why does the specialty you choose matter more than people realize? How do doctors die differently than the rest of us?

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 02/03/2026

How do you decide to become a doctor in the first place, when you have to jump through so many hoops? What does it feel like to walk into a room and meet someone who is terrified, and have to immediately figure out what's wrong with them?

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 02/03/2026

I wanted to understand what it actually means to be a doctor – in Graham’s case, in the emergency room. Not the TV version (maybe a little like The Pitt, but definitely not Grey’s Anatomy). So we went there.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 02/03/2026

Our *second* episode is out, and it's with someone I've had the pleasure of working with: @drgrahamwalker.com, ER physician at Kaiser San Francisco and founder of Offcall.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 02/03/2026

If you want to understand a whole occupation from snout to tail, a how-to that you can apply to your work, whatever it may be... that's what we do on the This Is Not Advice podcast. The episodes are... long. Prepare yourself :) open.spotify.com/episode/2eu4...

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How to be a Doctor, with Dr. Graham Walker

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 02/02/2026

Welcome our first guest on This Is Not Advice, neuroscientist at UChicago, Bobby Kasthuri. open.spotify.com/episode/2nk8...

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How to be a Scientist, with Bobby Kasthuri

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 02/02/2026

These are the kinds of conversations I'm fortunate to have; the people I’m fortunate to learn from. These will be long episodes. Absurdly long. They’re two (maybe three… four...) hour episodes, released once a month. Like everything I try, it’s an experiment. I hope you'll come along for the ride.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 02/02/2026

The premise remains the same: most advice is autobiographical. People tell you what worked for them, hoping it'll work for you. It usually doesn't. What you actually need is their story. Or a hypothesis. A prompt. Something to consider, then decide for yourself.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 02/02/2026

A neuroscientist on finding ideas and navigating "the system." A working painter on the inner life of making art, and the financial realities of a creative career. An ER doctor on diagnosing someone they just met, and why healthcare needs change. And more… taking the time to understand it all.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 02/02/2026

I wanted to ask successful people granular questions about how they actually do their jobs. Not the highlight reel. The real stuff, from snout to tail.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 02/02/2026

Well, the project is evolving again, because I realized that I want to go deeper with people who are truly extraordinary at what they do. So… This Is Not Advice is now a podcast. (Fine, a "pre-recorded, long-form video and audio conversation mini-series experience,” if you must.)

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 02/02/2026

First there was #thisisnotadvice: quick videos I started during lockdown in 2020, each one someone’s perspective on a dilemma about work. The videos turned into a written guide about how to work, and that became a weird little community project. thisisnotadvice.work

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#thisisnotadvice about work | #thisisnotadvice (about work)

Now, an (absurdly long) podcast

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