Chris Best

I would separate video, by the way.

I mean, this is, we're on video right now.

This is an interesting long form conversation.

You know, maybe there will be clips of it that are part of a short form feed.

We're going to clip you up saying very different things.

Yeah, make me say something embarrassing.

I can do that on my own.

The Elon part, we'll clip that.

Here's how I would think of this, is what you actually want is a balance, right?

You know, I think of,

some of the short form stuff, some of the jokes, some of the whatever, some of that stuff is, I think of it as, you can think of it as fun, right?

And if you take a social media machine and you're kind of like, dial the fun up to 10 million at the expense of everything else, yeah, you can get something that's distorted, you can get something that kind of becomes this drug, this hellscape, that is a real thing that can happen.

But the solution to that is not

to become anti-fun, right?

You know, we don't want Substack to be the eat your vegetables platform, right?

If, if, if I said, Hey, you know, and it's not even a paywall thing, actually, the paywall is a different question.

You know, even for people who are paywalling stuff, we say, take your most accessible stuff, put it outside the paywall.

That's how you grow.

But even just, you know, if the only thing I ever do is write 10,000 word treatises, that if you really get into it, it's the most valuable thing in your life.

Um,