Jack Aldane

Nov 16, 2024 | jackaldane.substack.com | Jack Aldane

One of the first viral marketing campaigns to dominate YouTube was a series of infomercials demonstrating the awesome power of the Blendtec blender. Launched in 2006, Will it Blend? presented by Blendtec’s founder, Tom Dickson, racked up millions of views from clips lasting less than two minutes. The idea behind the channel was beautifully simple. Each episode starts with Dickson uttering the phrase: "Will it blend?

Oct 20, 2024 | jackaldane.substack.com | Jack Aldane

Jack AldaneConversations about books you should read, with writers, often in restaurants. Essays about politics, culture, and boxingLaunched 2 years agoNo thanks

Jul 29, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Jack Aldane

Technology has delivered a world that we expect to revolve around us, our needs and preferences, and our unique personalities. We willingly hand over intimate information about ourselves in return for a world that’s easier to navigate. We live in the Personalised Century, where we view ourselves in terms of what rather than who we are – the objects of others’ recognition, rather than the subjects and authors of our own lives. Is this a sign of our shrinking sense of self?

Jul 9, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Jack Aldane

On the surface, David Baddiel’s childhood was fairly standard: a lower-middle-class Jewish family living in an ordinary house in Dollis Hill, north-west London. But David came to realise that his mother was in fact not ordinary at all. Having escaped extermination by fleeing Nazi Germany as a child, she was desperate to make her life count, which took the form of a passionate, decades-long affair with a golfing memorabilia salesman.

May 29, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Jack Aldane

What does it mean to live a good, whole and fulfilling life? And if the world really is ending, or at least expecting turbulent change, what kind of people will we need when it happens? In Fully Alive, Elizabeth Oldfield explores how we can build spiritual core strength for an unstable age.