{"podcast":{"title":"The Zack Arnold Podcast","slug":"the-zack-arnold-podcast-1048782","podcast_index_feed_id":1048782,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/3d41cbb8-d093-4c61-aaac-99f8b3db1daf","website_url":"https://zackarnold.com/podcast","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2025/5/1/13/e7f6f2d3-a002-4461-98ca-5a5a30213314_743-2efe8661c570_opt_podcast_artwork-1400x1400.jpg","author":"Zack Arnold","episode_count":582,"summary":"If you want to make things that matter, I want to help you. And if you've built your entire career around your creativity, you too may be asking: Is there a future for us? Or is it game over? I don't know what the future holds, but I do promise few are more dedicated to helping us find the answers than I am.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T04:17:20.700032+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-zack-arnold-podcast-1048782"},"episode":{"title":"The Enshittification of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once","slug":"the-enshittification-of-everything-everywhere-all-at-once","published_at":"2026-02-23T14:00:16+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-zack-arnold-podcast-1048782/the-enshittification-of-everything-everywhere-all-at-once","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-zack-arnold-podcast-1048782","url":"https://zackarnold.com/podcast","audio_url":"https://audio2.redcircle.com/episodes/ab09bd0d-a7de-4ee0-8cf9-f0cfc879bf36/stream.mp3","summary":"In this mini episode, I vent about the moment I realized everything feels harder than it should, from parking apps to paywalls to bots talking to bots, and I dig into the enshittification of everything, everywhere, all at once. I break down how the obsession with optimization keeps degrading our tools, our platforms, and our attention, why AI productivity hype deserves serious side eye, and what it might cost us if we outsource the parts of ourselves that make us human. All that in more in my latest Substack → The Enshittification of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once When you're done, I'd love your thoughts here in the comments!","meta_description":"In this mini episode, I vent about the moment I realized everything feels harder than it should, from parking apps to paywalls to bots talking to bots, an…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":668,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-zack-arnold-podcast-1048782/episodes/the-enshittification-of-everything-everywhere-all-at-once/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-zack-arnold-podcast-1048782/the-enshittification-of-everything-everywhere-all-at-once.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}