Better Offline podcast

Better Offline

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build.  Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build.  Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

 

#253

Monologue: Blame AI For Making Everything More Expensive

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how AI is inflating th... more

14 hrs Ago

08 MINS

08:12

14 hrs Ago


#252

Trashfuture x Better Offline: Goosed In The Shell

This week’s Better Offline is the first joint episode with Riley, November, Hussein ... more

Yesterday

59 MINS

59:29

Yesterday


#251

Monologue: Meta Admits It Bought Too Many GPUs

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through Meta’s plans to ... more

03 Jul 2026

06 MINS

06:13

03 Jul 2026


#250

The WSJ On Polymarket's Questionable Ads

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with the Wall Street Journal’s Caitlin... more

01 Jul 2026

34 MINS

34:41

01 Jul 2026


#249

Monologue: Tokenpocalypse Now

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how organizations are ... more

26 Jun 2026

23 MINS

23:47

26 Jun 2026


#248

Monologue: Silicon Valley is A Cargo Cult

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how AI is the pinnacle... more

24 Jun 2026

08 MINS

08:54

24 Jun 2026


#247

The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with computer science professor and writer C... more

19 Jun 2026

1 HR 02 MINS

1:02:25

19 Jun 2026


#246

Exclusive: OpenAI Spent $34 Billion In 2025, With Losses Up 8X

In a special exclusive episode of Better Offline, Ed Zitron digs into the audited financia... more

16 Jun 2026

04 MINS

04:02

16 Jun 2026


#245

CZM Rewind: The Rot-Com Bubble

Tech's hyper-growth era is ending, with online 100 million new people getting online betwe... more

10 Jun 2026

30 MINS

30:52

10 Jun 2026


#244

Monologue: AI Can't Afford To Slow Down

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how the “does AI... more

05 Jun 2026

06 MINS

06:22

05 Jun 2026


#243

Why AI Has No ROI with Paul Kedrosky

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by economist Paul Kedrosky to tal... more

03 Jun 2026

47 MINS

47:09

03 Jun 2026


#242

Monologue: Everyone Suddenly Cares About AI ROI

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how AI’s move to... more

29 May 2026

11 MINS

11:50

29 May 2026


#241

The AI Industry Is Losing

In this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron runs you through how Uber’s COO said the qu... more

27 May 2026

19 MINS

19:28

27 May 2026