Moonshot Minute

Moonshot Minute

Moonshot Consulting

Episodes 20
Avg. Duration 2m
Activity Highly Active
Since Feb 2026
Latest Episode Jun 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule
Weekly
Format
Episodic
Consistency
91%
Hosting
anchor.fm

About This Podcast

AI is rewriting hiring faster than HR can keep up. Weekly intelligence on recruiting tech, employment data, and what is actually happening beneath the headlines. AI, work, and the people caught in between. Hosted by L. David Oliver. No fluff. Just signal.

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Recent Episodes

Episode 20: The Vibes Are Crashing

Jun 08, 2026 2m

blowout. Then the Nasdaq dropped 4.2 percent.Here is why. 60 percent of money in US stocks sits in passive funds. They don't evaluate risk. They just buy the top 10 tech names on autopilot. And those…

Episode 19: The Jobs Report Smashed Expectations. The Uncounted Did Not!

Jun 05, 2026 2m

The US economy added 172,000 jobs in May. The headlines are celebrating.Here is what the headlines did not tell you. Healthcare and government carried the load. Private sector growth remains soft.…

S1E18 Episode 18: The Zero Evidence Problem

Jun 01, 2026 4m

Apollo's chief economist says there is zero evidence AI is killing jobs. The layoffs are real. The AI narrative is not holding up.This is Episode 18 of Moonshot Minute. One story. No fluff. Just…

Episode 17: The Zero ROI Purge

May 26, 2026 1m

Last week Meta dropped the axe. 8,000 employees terminated, many getting the news at 4 AM Singapore time. Another 7,000 forcibly reassigned to AI pods. 6,000 open roles eliminated. All while Meta…

Episode 16: The Player-Coach Purge

May 19, 2026 2m

May 14. Cisco reports record revenue. $15.8 billion. Then cuts 4,000 people anyway. The money isn't lost. It's moving from payroll to GPUs.Two days ago, Coinbase announced the end of "pure managers."…

S1 Episode 15 - The Two Labor Markets

May 11, 2026 3m

April's jobs report told two completely different stories — depending on where you work.Healthcare, warehousing, and retail added 115,000 jobs. Headline unemployment held steady at 4.3%. The White…

S1 Eposide 14 - The Wrong Question

May 04, 2026 2m

Episode 14.Tesla's former HR chief says 80% of U.S. workers are at companies that are NOT hyperscalers. The AI panic is real, but it is concentrated.

S1 Episode 13 - The 4.6 Percent

Apr 27, 2026 2m

The unemployment rate you hear about is 4.3%. The number they are not printing is 4.6% — the U‑4 rate that includes discouraged workers who have stopped looking because they believe no jobs exist.…

S1E12 Episode 12 - The 144000

Apr 20, 2026 2m

The March jobs report added 178,000 jobs. Unemployment ticked down to 4.3 percent. The headlines called it a rebound.But the Bureau of Labor Statistics buried a number. Discouraged workers spiked by…

S1E11 Episode 11 - The Oracle Hangover

Apr 13, 2026 2m

Oracle cut 30,000 people and filed 3,126 H-1B visas in the same breath. Marc Andreessen says AI layoffs are fake. Software jobs are at a three-year high, but the people who were fired can't get them.…

S1 Episode 10 - THE 6 AM EMAIL

Apr 06, 2026 3m

Oracle fired 30,000 people at 6 AM via email. Record profits. $50 billion for AI. No manager. No phone call. Just "Oracle Leadership." This is the new normal.

S1 Episode 9 - The "Thank You" Note

Mar 30, 2026 2m

A developer wrote the code that trained the model. The model got good. The developer got laid off. Then Sam Altman posted: "Thank you for getting us to this point."Anthropic's study found a 61 point…

S1 Episode 8 - The Memory Hole

Mar 23, 2026 4m

OpenAI hired a manager to fix chaos. Alexey's agent wiped 1.9M rows. Scale AI: 2.5% success. Alibaba: 75% break old code. Gartner: half will rehire. The invisible infrastructure is the only thing…

S1 Episode 7 - The Uncounted

Mar 16, 2026 4m

A 47-year-old business writer posted on Reddit two weeks ago. She's been laid off three times. She's asking strangers what trade she can learn that doesn't wreck her joints and pays at least…

S1 Episode 6 - The Revolt

Mar 09, 2026 4m

On February 28th, Claude became the number one downloaded app in America. ChatGPT dropped to number two for the first time ever.Not because Claude is better. Because millions of people made a…

S1 Episode 5 - The Week AI Stopped Pretending

Mar 02, 2026 3m

Block cut nearly half its workforce. OpenAI raised $110 billion. Anthropic told the Pentagon no. One week. Three stories. One conclusion: the old rules are gone.Companies are smaller. Money is…

S1 Episode 4 - The AI Washing Confession

Feb 23, 2026 2m

Sam Altman calls out companies using AI as a cover for routine layoffs. January hit 108,000 cuts — the worst since 2009 — but fewer than 8,000 were actually AI-related. Meanwhile, one in four…

S1 Episode 3 - The Transparency Paradox.

Feb 17, 2026 1m

Moonshot Minute is a weekly 60-second briefing where AI meets talent acquisition. One minute, one story, the signal you need while everyone else is catching up.Episode 03: The Transparency Paradox.…

S1 Episode 2 - The Soft Skills Lie

Feb 09, 2026 1m

108,000 layoffs in January—worst since 2009. Tech billionaires say "study humanities, learn soft skills, you'll be fine." But their AI coding tools just crashed tech stocks by making engineers…

S1E1 The Data Vacuum (Series Premiere)

Feb 02, 2026 1m

This is Moonshot Minute. Your weekly 60-second intelligence briefing where AI meets talent acquisition.Every week: one minute, one story, the signal you need while everyone else is catching up. No…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does Moonshot Minute have?

Moonshot Minute has published 20 episodes since February 2026, covering topics in Business, Careers.

Is Moonshot Minute still active?

Moonshot Minute is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 2m.

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