David Imel
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1,697 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2d ago
David Imel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I remember when I was a a kid I had a friend whose dad was like the regional manager for Best Buy.
So he was so busy, he was working eighty hours a week.
He paid no attention to his kid.
But for every birthday it was like, Here's the most expensive thing at Best Buy, now go have fun.
And it was like that's not
That's not what love is.
And if if that's what AI is doing, you know, it's like, here's the most surplus of anything you could ever have, but there's no there's nothing that is targeted at you because you are not paying attention to what the person actually cares about.
Also very true.
Yeah.
Maybe a dumb analogy and I want to get into like Liz's thoughts on this.
But it's like when you're playing Animal Crossing Yeah and there's the ability to s time skip and you can just time skip and then have all the fruits and then pay off your house and you're like, Wait, where's the game?
Yeah, where's the game?
That was the game.
Yeah, fail upwards.
Yeah.
And and to the that point of being bad.
Like that's that that was the other kind of primary idea in this piece that I really resonated with was the idea that the point of hobbies is not to be good at the hobby.
Like when I well, I'm terrible at guitar, but I still go play in the park because I enjoy the process of I don't know, I don't even see myself getting better, but maybe every couple of weeks I'm like, oh, I can play this now and I didn'
Yeah.
And if you can just be instantly good at anything, like what is it's the same thing as the Animal Crossing analogy.
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