“I feel like there’s this formula for local that gets repeated over and over again. It felt like I was a part of this machine that helped create that dynamic, and I didn’t feel good about that. I noticed that I would find myself talking to my Uber or Lyft driver all the time, and I kind of had a light-bulb moment.” A former NBC reporter gets his dream job. Being a Lyft driver with a podcast.

+ NPR: Scientists are Turning People’s Food Photos Into Recipes. (I hope they can turn my reaction to food photos into Pepto Bismol…)