45: Nicholas Thompson - A Life of Long Form

Title: 45: Nicholas Thompson - A Life of Long Form Podcast: Spotify Source: si=jN2_cMOiRR2mT8PpiyhwZA Audio: mp3 Transcript source: assemblyai Summary: Dialectic · Episode Transcript: Listen to books while we're walking, listen to podcasts while we're walking, right? So we have this incredible capacity. I just mean that the amount of time that people spend reading books, particularly younger generations, is significantly lower. And some of that time they substitute with really great stuff, right? Like listening to your podcast. Some of that stuff they substitute with useful social media stuff, right? Like watching YouTube videos that teach you how to like bend a soccer kick so it curves into the corner of the goal, right?

Like there's amazing stuff, or like how to like, Fix your hair dryer, right? You know, YouTube's incredible. Even amazing, like video essays, like with incredible depth. Right, or like here's how quantum computing works. Like some of it's just awesome. A lot of it's totally trivial and a lot of it's negative, right? And so back to your question, I'm not sure. I mean, what's nice about reading, right? If you create a book, we create a magazine, you create, you can like, everybody can read the same thing, right? So it's sometimes, some ways a conversation is better and that I can