Cal Newport
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And this was really important.
And these factors were here, but honestly, those factors aren't as big as you think.
And this factor really was more important.
And so like this really was the right thing to do.
So even like your notion of,
what's true or what's not true or what it means for something to be clear is like different than if you're just looking at boom, slam dunk.
I think it's a big problem online.
Both sides of the political spectrum do this.
Like you want everything just to be this person is just garbage and completely wrong.
And there's like this one simple thing I know.
that means you're completely wrong and I'm completely right, and you're wrong in like the worst possible sort of way.
And that is like such a sophilific, I'm saying the word wrong.
Yeah, exactly.
You said it, right?
I have to read more.
But it's sophistry for sure, right?
This idea of this is how truth and argument unfolds is like there's an obvious flaw that's easy for me to grok,
which I guess now could actually be a verb as opposed to just meaning to understand.
Also, I could literally grok it, I guess.
And now it's clear that you're wrong and I feel righteous, you know.