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The Decision Layer

Bill Anastas

The Decision Layer is a short-form podcast about production, taste, technology, and the choices that make work real. Hosted by Bill Anastas, a production and creative operations executive, each episode examines the judgment behind deadlines, feedback, risk, priorities, teams, and AI-era work. Essays, transcripts, show notes, and every episode: https://banast.as/the-decision-layer/

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19 episodes

  1. Bring Them In Earlier 4:53
  2. Before You Show the Work 7:43
  3. The Work Can Change the Brief 7:12
  4. Leave Some of It Unsolved 6:51
  5. When the Workaround Becomes the Workflow 6:39
  6. What Calm Is For 8:18
  7. Taste Is a Compression Algorithm 9:45
  8. Every Medium Refuses Something 9:22
  9. A Deadline Is a Decision About What Will Not Get Done 9:51
  10. The Better Version Can Still Lose 9:46
  11. A Knowledge Problem Becomes Labor 9:09
  12. Not Every Mistake Is Equally Survivable 9:38
  13. The Producer Is the Translator Between Worlds 11:41
  14. The Version In Front Of You 8:48
  15. A Decision Is Not Real Until Something Dies 12:12
  16. Notes Are Often Disguised Anxiety 11:03
  17. The Work Does Not Care What You Meant 11:28
  18. The Smart Room Problem 10:27
  19. Production Is the Art of Killing Almost-Good Options 10:39