Late Checkout - a Substack by Greg Isenberg Share Thank you for supporting Late Checkout. This is a collaboration between Late Checkout and The Generalist. I hope you like it. “You ever stop to realize how fragile all this is?” George Carlin wears a black long-sleeved t-shirt, hunched over a microphone. In the minimalism of his outfit and the starkness of his bald pate, he almost resembles a tech executive delivering a keynote. But he’s too rumpled for that, too delightfully sour, as if a satyr stumbled through Steve Jobs’ wardrobe. “It wouldn’t take much to throw us right back into barbaric times. All you’d have to do would be eliminate electricity.”