History is often written in bold type. We remember the wars, the inventions, the big cultural shifts that announce themselves with headlines. But Glenn Fleishman has been spending his time reminding us that the things history forgets—scraps of type, obsolete tools, obscure printing processes—are often the very things that shape us the most. They make up the invisible machinery of culture.

Glenn’s career has been built on chasing down these overlooked artifacts and giving them back their dignity. He’s written for the New York Times and The Economist, produced deeply researched books like How Comics Were Madeand Six Centuries of Type and Printing, and helped shepherd ambitious publication projects like Shift Happens, a 700-page cultural history of keyboards. Along the way, he’s become something unusual in the digital age: a historian of tactility, a man who believes that physical impressions—whether pressed into paper or cast in memory—endure in a way pixels never quite can.

In our conversation, Glenn talks about his childhood hours with microfilm readers, his fascination with forgotten crafts, and his frustration at watching knowledge slip away. But what emerges most powerfully is the joy he takes in sharing. Glenn doesn’t guard his discoveries like relics; he builds communities around them, from Kickstarter campaigns to type museums small enough to fit in a breadbox. His chosen epitaph—which you’ll hear—is both pun and philosophy. Our legacies aren’t measured by what we keep, but by what we don’t let ourselves forget to pass on.

Links & Notes

• Six Colors – ‘Help Me, Glenn!’ where Glenn writes regularly about Apple and technology.
• Take Control Books – Glenn has authored many. I don’t know how he stays so far ahead of this stuff.
• How Comics Were Made – (Kickstarter project, now a bookstore edition from Andrews McMeel Publishing under the title How Comics Are Made).
• Six Centuries of Type and Printing – (Kickstarter book).
• Shift Happens – by Marcin Wichary, which Glenn helped bring to life. I haven’t finished because it is… in a word… extraordinarily comprehensive.
• Tiny Type Museum & Time Capsule – Glenn’s Kickstarter project creating a cabinet of printing artifacts.
• Blog (Glog) – Glenn Fleishman interrogates the past — a richly written blog where he explores the history of printing, comics, technology, crowdfunding, and forgotten tools.
• Bluesky
• Mastodon

When Srdjan Injac was a kid, he was small. Picked last for dodgeball small. Picked on. Smacked around. Defended by others on the playground small. He carried a condition called pectus excavatum that made his chest cave inward, and for years he hid it under shirts, and shame, and silence.

Then war broke out in Sarajevo.

What follows is not a tale of overnight triumph, but something far more compelling: a young man who survives four years of war, moves to a country where he barely speaks the language, discovers his own strength—not just physical, but moral—and builds a life centered around helping others feel at home in their own bodies.

In this episode, Srdjan talks about growing up during the Bosnian War, finding strength in the face of disfigurement and displacement, and how the body became his way of healing the mind. He shares how his transformation from bullied to bodybuilder gave way to something even more meaningful: a career built on empathy, discipline, and showing others that strength isn’t just about muscle—it’s about the courage to keep going when everything tells you to stop.

If legacy is what we leave behind, then Srdjan’s is written on every life he’s helped reshape—one rep, one conversation, one small act of belief at a time.

Links & Notes

• Elev8fitness

What happens when the people you’ve spent years working alongside suddenly aren’t there anymore? For Kyle Olson—writer, podcaster, audio dramatist, and inveterate storyteller—grief arrived not as a single storm, but as a pair of Thursdays. This week, Kyle shares the sudden losses of two important figures in his life and reflects on what it means to grieve not just family, but work kin: the people who see us at our most capable, our most frustrated, our most ourselves.

Along the way, we dig into the odd rigidity of American funerals, the messy unpredictability of grief, and the surprising ways death has crept into Kyle’s creative work without him even noticing. From the origins of The Swashbuckling Ladies Debate Society to a poignant headstone he’s been quietly carrying in his pocket since he was 16, this episode explores the legacy we build not through accolades or architecture, but through the lives we touch—and the stories we keep telling.