David Pakman
speaker
770 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
David Pakman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Number one, because studies seem seem to find that people who do that are actually less happy in general, but also so that you're kind of like working your ability to be bored muscle, which is something that we've kind of lost.
And so there's a lot of people, Cal Newport and others who write extensively about this stuff.
When you get home, maybe you leave your phone plugged in on the kitchen counter or the foyer instead of it being in your pocket the entire time because it introduces a little bit of friction.
Maybe when you go on Twitter.
I'm barely on Twitter, but what I do is I have a private list of about 100 people.
I only am looking at what they've posted.
I'm not looking at my for you Twitter feed and I'm not looking at dear God, I'm not looking at my replies, which is just horrifying.
I'm just looking at what are these specific people?
That's free.
I've put friction between myself and that feed that's out there constantly perpetuating itself.
These are the sorts of things people can do.
Patrick Bet-David.
Well, I enjoy it because I think he's very interesting on the show, even if I agree with very little of himself.
You know, give me your over under.
Couple different things politically, just from the standpoint of we've got to get power back from people who have terrible ideas.
We have to engage and we have to get better at playing the game.
So this is like the one side we it would be nice if the algorithms optimize truth over emotionality.
They don't.
I don't think there's any way to force them to.
So it's either you get out or you participate and you get better at it.
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