# 724 - Ryan Norbauer (Retro-futurist)

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Podcast: [Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan](https://stenobird.com/podcast/tangentially-speaking-with-christopher-ryan-1017483)
Published: 2026-05-19T21:40:25+00:00
Episode link: https://chrisryan.substack.com/p/724-ryan-norbauer-retro-futurist
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Duration seconds: 6691

## Resource

Ryan is an aspiring underachiever. He’s worked for NASA, planned and conducted his own scientific research at the CDC, and served as a foreign affairs analyst/speechwriter in the British Parliament; he’s founded four companies and he’s published peer-reviewed scholarship in fancy-pants journals across two separate academic disciplines. All this misguided, insecure early-life ambition mostly just taught him how disappointing and anticlimactic status-driven accomplishments can be. (His words.) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chrisryan.substack.com/subscribe

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