Strange of me to say this, but I’m actually a little excited about the Stripe sponsorship with Stratechery. While there are going to be sponsor reads now, being the resident “Stripe expert” it would be good to get a sense of what they’ve been working on.

The video Sharp Tech recordings I can take and leave. My only concern there is that video podcasts tend to devolve into a show that assumes that the person is watching, not just listening. They tend to be clip heavy, and refer to things in a video without fully describing it for an audio-only listener. I trust Ben Thompson and Andrew Sharp to avoid this trap, but I’m still a little wary about it. Yet, that’s offset somewhat by more Sharp Tech. I’m delighted to learn that they’re going back to two episodes a week.