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Dr. Eleanor Janega always wanted to be a historian but she discovered that her particular interests and skill set didn't make her a great candidate for academia. After a bit of soul searching, however, she discovered that history didn't have to reside in an ivory tower and instead could be shared with the world. She's now the author of multiple books including The Once and Future Sex: Going Mediev...

Remington Scott knows how to build amazing digital worlds. He's the technologist who brought us Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movies, a motion-captured character that was one of the first and most compelling motion-captured characters in cinema history. But, for a few years, he was persona non grata in Hollywood. Why? Because the artists were afraid of his technology and felt that it reduced the...

Alina Braverman has had a long and varied career. In this podcast she talks about living a life full of ups and downs, managing people who don't want to be managed, and finding a client's wife in Queens when she didn't want to be found. Want to be featured on Keep Going? Ping me at john@biggs.cc Our theme music is by Policy AKA Mark Buchwald . (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/policy/) This is a...

Stephen Marche is the author of On Writing and Failure: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer , a clever little book on the horrors writers faced - and face - while creating their work. In this episode, we talked to Stephen about the sadness of Herman Melville and how none of us are ever really successful. Our theme music is by Policy AKA Mark Buchwald . (https:/...

Josh Gondelman is a writer and comedian who has built a career working for some of the biggest names in media. But one gig in Atlantic City sent him packing. In this episode, he talks about the horrors of bombing and how he turned things around after some catastrophic gigs. Our theme music is by Policy AKA Mark Buchwald . (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/policy/) You can subscribe to Keep Going...