🚀🚀 What are text messages from Elon Musk like? And new podcast launch 🚀🚀
🚀 🎧 New Podcast: Launching The Shift with Eliza Filby
🌳 Why I enjoy party conference
🕵️ What happened to Harry Cole?
🚀What are texts from Elon Musk like?
🍺 Birmingham drinks meet up
🎭 99 Comedy Review
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Dropping into your inboxes a bit earlier this Sunday, as I know plenty of you will be heading to Birmingham for Conservative Party Conference
🚀 🎧 New Podcast: The Shift with Eliza Filby and Jimmy McLoughlin
This is a project that I have been working on for a while …. and we are finally launching tomorrow, but you can access it here.
Eliza Filby has one of the interesting jobs I have ever encountered, she is a generational historian studying consumption and demographics.
The purpose of the show is to discuss the future of work, I believe it is a distinct topic from the future of jobs, of course there are significant overlapping areas and elements.
Fundamentally, I don’t think anyone has the future of work cracked yet, I spend a lot of my time talking to businesses of all shapes and sizes about it.
There are lots of stories about companies trialling different methods, for example Atom Banks four day week.
So that is what the show will be about, we’ll be picking a couple of stories each week that have piqued our interest and discussing them.
One of the most common requests we get for Jimmy’s Jobs is to hear more from me and my views on topics, something that this show will give me more freedom to do.
The first episode we discuss Video CVs, Duke of Edinburgh, why go to the office and the end of the one salary job.
Podcast geekery - now those of you who study podcast charts in depth (OK, just me then!?) will notice that at the top of the charts are generally two hander podcasts. As James Marriott, Head of Podcasts / Deputy Books Editor at The Times (another very cool job - if you ever want to come on Jimmy’s Jobs, James),
‘Two smart people talking to each other really is an unbeatable formula’
With Eliza, that means we are halfway there with this podcast.
The first 48 hours for a podcast launch are critical, so please do rate, review and share with people who may enjoy it, particularly HR / Talent / People Chiefs …
You can find the show here on Apple Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
❤️ Why I enjoy party conference
I really enjoy Conservative Party Conference, the parties, the people, the policies, all of it. This year is going to be absolutely incredible, I have no idea what the atmosphere will be like.
Will it have the excitement of a new leader and Cabinet three weeks into the job? Or will it be a party that is absolutely shell shocked at being thirty-three points behind in the polls. To give some context, Boris Johnson won a landslide victory with a 11.5 point lead. Tony Blair’s victory in 1997 was 12.5 lead.
I’ll report back next week, so make sure you have subscribed.
Part of the reason I enjoy conference so much, is it brings back so many memories, it feels like a bit of a marker of where I am in life.
I have attended as a student, in my first job, a party member, a special adviser to the PM. Now as I go as a podcaster and I am interviewing Andy Street, the West Midlands Mayor and former CEO of John Lewis on the Monday morning in the main hall.
My first one was in 2007 at Blackpool, I was there as a student, sharing a room with three people. Gordon Brown was on the verge of calling a snap General Election to take advantage of a 10 point poll lead. Despite that, my memory was of an electric energy and giddy excitement that only the prospect of an election can bring.
The real surge started when George Osborne announced the policy of increasing the inheritance tax threshold to £1 million. Could Kwasi look to repeat Osborne 15 years on I wonder?
And of course, the conference was finished with David Cameron’s no notes hour long speech.
But how do you get the text of an off the cuff the speech to the media straight after?
Well I can exclusively reveal 15 years on you gather a bunch of twenty something students marshalled by Oliver Dowden. We had to listen to 45 seconds at a time and then read the words out to another student who did their best to transcribe it accurately ….
Who was in this motley crew? Well one was a chap called Harry Cole, I wonder what he is up to nowadays?
🍺 Birmingham drinks meet up
As I’ll be spending the week in Birmingham, I thought it would be fun to host a drinks event for listeners of the podcast, no agenda, no recording.
Just an opportunity to chat, podcasts, politics and business, three of my favourite topics :) now if only some Derby fans can pop along.
Brasshouse pub, Broad Street - outside the secure zone, so you can still attend even if you aren’t a delegate of the conference.
Monday between 5-7pm
Hit reply to this email if you plan to come along.
🚀 What are text messages from Elon Musk like?
Well thanks to Big Technology Substack we now know, who have been through the text messages released by a Delaware court around his attempt to buy Twitter.
I particularly enjoyed the messages from Tim Urban below about his podcast.
Just to let Elon Musk know, that he is welcome on Jimmy’s Jobs too, only if helpful to him though ….
Tim Urban: I haven’t officially started my podcast yet but if you think it would be helpful, I’d be happy to record a conversation with you about twitter to ask some of the most common questions and let you expand upon your thoughts
Urban: but only if it would be helpful to you
Full post available below.
🎭 Comedy Review: the 99 Club
What is the highest calling in life? Philosophy, academia, journalism?
I actually think the ability to make people laugh is a high calling, being a jester is of course one of the world’s oldest jobs.
So it was with great delight that my wife brought me tickets for the 99 comedy club in Leicester Sqaure this week, it was fabulous.
It was a great mix of up and coming comedians who have a bit of experience doing Mock the Week, etc. I imagine we’ll be hearing much more from Eshaan Akbar, Luke Toulson, Kyrah Gray it was MC’d by Jay Handley.
Matt Green was the headline act, Matt’s speciality is doing political sketches of meetings that happen in No.10 and across politics.
So, I couldn’t resist going and having a chat with him after and introducing myself and my background, and he asked, ‘how accurate do I get it?’
My response was, ‘sometimes you are so accurate, I actually don’t find it funny’, which in turn he seemed to find rather funny …
Worth checking out Matt’s work below and that is our Be More Frank section for this week.
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