Margins & Meaning with John Wilson

The Year I Tried to Download Myself

June 29, 2026·34 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

For twenty episodes I told you judgment can't be downloaded. Then I spent a year quietly trying to download mine. This is the one I almost didn't record. There's no product here and nothing for sale. Just the truth about what I've been building in the dark before everybody gets to work, and why it scared me badly enough that I hid it behind a small word. It's about what happens to everything in your hands when you're gone. The difference between the part of you a machine can hold and the part that was never going to copy. And an old man trying to flip the math so the sharpest hours go to the beautiful work instead of the drudgery. I'm still not sure whether I built a gift or something I won't be able to control. Ask me in a year. Protect your margins. Protect your meaning.

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