# Episode 146: Dealing with Professional Envy Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/dead-languages-7044455/episode-146-dealing-with-professional-envy Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/dead-languages-7044455/episode-146-dealing-with-professional-envy.md Podcast: [Dead Languages](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dead-languages-7044455) Published: 2026-03-25T06:58:00+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deadlanguagespod/episodes/Episode-146-Dealing-with-Professional-Envy-e3gtu1t Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/dad4a0dc/podcast/play/117421565/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-2-24%2F420691052-44100-2-912dfe3b2acf5.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dead-languages-7044455/episodes/episode-146-dealing-with-professional-envy Duration seconds: 4451 ## Resource Don't you hate it when one of your writer friends sells a story to a big mag? What about when they get a blurb from your hero? Or go viral? Or sell a lot of books? Orβ€” There's many ways envy can be stoked amongst writers and this episode we talk all about those ugly feelings and how to cope with them. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dead-languages-7044455/episodes/episode-146-dealing-with-professional-envy/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/dead-languages-7044455/episode-146-dealing-with-professional-envy.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.