Dave Chang

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9,910 appearances 24 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2d ago

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The Dave Chang Show · Is Optimization...a Bad Thing? · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

Mm-hmm. voice-verified

And I think that we're seeing this plateau in a lot of different things in culture because voice-verified

I personally believe while cooking is better and younger cooks and just new people in the generation, they have a really tough task because voice-verified

There's so much information at their fingertips that there's paralysis of choice. voice-verified

And it's harder and harder to have something to say when everyone has access to the same information. voice-verified

You have not internalized it, you have no idiosyncratic beliefs, you haven't fucked up with it in a way that you can imprint yourself on it. voice-verified

And I personally think, not just in food, like creativity is probably better in a way, but also not nearly as original. voice-verified

And I don't know if that's because it's harder to find anything original, or I tend to believe it's because it's too easy to gain that information. voice-verified

And I think pound for pound, there's more ingenuity and original original thought before. voice-verified

Social media. voice-verified

And I tend to think I see that in a lot of different pockets of culture, and I'm like voice-verified

We should have more new shit. voice-verified

We should have more avant-garde. voice-verified

It's karate kit. voice-verified

It's doing all the things that you think, like, why is this why am I doing this? voice-verified

Dumb. voice-verified

This is so dumb. voice-verified

I think too when Jonathan Beno at Craft I got I didn't get promoted and I was pissed because I was stuck at Garmeret. voice-verified

I now know it's because I was really good at Garmerget and they wanted to go to Garmerget station. voice-verified

But he's like, dude, like voice-verified

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