Thank YOU for listening. Your hosts wrap up the first season and say goodbye to these chips on their shoulders, while welcoming in the next set for Season Two. Everyone deserves peace, safety, and dignity. You can donate to World Food Program USA to help the most vulnerable in the occupied Palestinian territory, Sudan, Haiti and many other location…

Short Story Fridays, where I explore the depths of my insecurities, hope you guys enjoy! That short "Iranian accent" clip is from comedian Amir K, check him out, he's hilarious: Amir K - Traffic Court Amir K - Instagram Also mentioned, Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, English

We talk about the well-meaning but awkward questions we sometimes ask each other. Here's a funny video that gets to the heart of "Where are you from?" Also mentioned, Dr. Derald Wing Sue, who has a whole interesting body of work around microaggressions.

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If you're in the US, you can donate to UNRWA here: https://www.unrwausa.org/donate You might enjoy the occasional celebrity content but you've probably had your fill of the endless celebrity gossip, Reese Witherspoon x Snoop Dogg collabs (idk if that's a thing but probably at this point), and total celebrity oversaturation in every aspect of our li…

This week's Short Story Friday features inimitable transition music from the late 90s vocabulary building program, Verbal Advantage. The program almost veered into Stephen Covey/Dale Carnegie territory, but it was way cooler because it only cared about one thing: giving you a really kick-butt vocabulary which would, according to the author, almost …

You've probably had at least one boss or CEO you've come across who is insufferably self-important, but is that the narcissism or is it just a requirement of the role? We consider the CEO, why they're a glass ball waiting to shatter, and why it's not so easy to replicate their success as they move to new roles. Show notes: The MBA Myth and the Cult…

Another Short Story Friday: where we dive into the nostalgia of growing up in the boomtown age of mid-1990s Southern California and its sea of red-tiled, salmon-colored tract homes.

Chip on My Shoulder is a podcast of two people discussing ideas, the resentments they sometimes have, and how they're living and embracing life anyways. In today's episode, we continue the privilege chat and dig into private collections (what is that really?), hotels as a side hobby, attitudes around universal basic income and any type of cash tran…

We dissect ideas we've been holding on to around status in 5 minutes or less, beginning with the woman I would obsess over at the gym and her Hermès Birkin handbag.

Chip on My Shoulder is a podcast of two people discussing ideas, the resentments they sometimes have, and how they're living and embracing life anyways. Join us on our very first episode, it can only get better from here! Show Notes: Who Picks the Next Kings of Tech?