Daniel Coyle
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1,298 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Mar
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What project are you working on that's creating something new in the world that maybe wasn't there before?
And if you can answer those questions and say, I feel alive here and here, and these are the projects I'm working on, then that's beautiful.
That's very human thing to be feeling that.
But if there isn't a part or a relationship in which you feel alive, or if there isn't a
project in which you feel like you're growing something meaningful that matters i think that's what our world sometimes can create i think it creates a profound hollowness that i think we all to one extent or another feel and the deeper challenge of it is that there's a trillion dollar economy of really smart people that are trying to pull us into that world that really
only make money if people are isolated and a little ticked off community neighborhood meaningful connection is not what pays the bills for those guys they would much rather have people typing angry things to each other and i think we're learning that it feels maybe your podcast is part of it but it feels like and it might be me because i'm writing about this topic so it's like
When you buy a Toyota Corolla, you just see a lot of Corollas on the road.
So I may be totally biased here, but it feels like there's a bit of a humanist revival that people now are understanding what's happening in the algorithmic world, right?
You can live in the algorithmic world where the algorithm will drive your choices and tell you what to do, and you can be
treated as a set of machine-like preferences.
And there's a humanist world.
There's a bit of a humanist revivals or community world.
So it feels like the community is having a bit of a comeback.
I hope that it is.
I like that, but I think the thing that I'm taking away too, just to connect those two worlds a bit, is how close they actually are.
Like experiment after experiment shows, and I think part of it is rooted in these attentional mode switches, that we have both systems inside ourselves, this kind of rugged individual, selfish, controlling, focused system, and this broad, warm, relational system.
because over and over in the book i end up encountering the same story which is well everybody was feeling disconnected and then we did these two three events and that really flipped it it wasn't like they had to start from zero and come up this we are pre-wired for community the place that captured most vividly for me was this neighborhood in paris called petit mont rouge and it was disconnected it was people in their phones pretty typical middle class neighborhood and there was a retired journalist
named Patrick Bernard, and he decided to do this experiment, which is, I'm gonna rent a ton of tables, like tables you get at Costco, right down the, 100 of them, and have a dinner for 800 people, lunch, the whole neighborhood, come to the neighborhood, longest table in Paris.
And then he set up a bunch of interest groups, let people to self-organize in interest groups.
And the only rule he had was no politics.
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