Chad Aaron Hall

Michael Lewis published his first book, Liar’s Poker, in 1989. It was a huge hit. But his next book didn’t come for another decade. He later explained his hiatuses and why he fills his time with hobbies:

Writers can get in this mindset where they feel they have to write another book ... the publisher’s on you afterwards and they’re ready to get you

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The point of the podcast is not to convey information, since text is a far more efficient medium for that purpose.

Maybe we’ve realized that the internet simply works better as a fragmented thing.

There is, to put it baldly, no right not to be offended. To be sure, that doesn’t mean that deliberately offending people for its own sake is morally acceptable, or that people should be entitled to use speech to incite violence, harass, or threaten. Rather, it means that the impulse to punish people who offend is a regressive urge, one that... See more

I wanted Perfectly Imperfect to be an antidote to everything getting homogenized by Spotify playlists, Netflix suggestions, and social media, and help people discover new things outside of their bubble. I think there’s a real lack of pure and honest curation from regular human beings, not algorithms, referral-link-laced listicles, or “influencers.”

Slow Media are timeless : Slow Media are long-lived and appear fresh even after years or decades. They do not lose their quality over time but at best get some patina that can even enhance their value.