David Pearce

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14,416 appearances 53 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 18 Sep

David Pearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 53 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 20.

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The Vergecast · What's behind the Google AI shakeup · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

I don't know, but I am s I am certain that's how that meeting goes. voice-verified

I get it. voice-verified

Somebody yells efficiency and it's like meeting over. voice-verified

Like it just it it means you have to try hard. voice-verified

You have to you have to do good expensive things over and over and over. voice-verified

Yes. voice-verified

So, okay, you know what you're making me think? voice-verified

Uh, this is this is what you might call the time spent epidemic. voice-verified

We we spent a long time railing against engagement as the main metric, right? voice-verified

That the the thing that you needed was to make people do something. voice-verified

That if people clicked a button or responded in some way, that was a success, right? voice-verified

This is this drove social media into what it is. voice-verified

Now that if you can make a lot of people angry such that they comment, that post was a victory and you've done a good job and we should show it to more people. voice-verified

And I think you can make a real case, and I have made it before that engagement kind of broke the internet. voice-verified

And we we have moved on, or at least all these entertainment companies have moved on to time spent. voice-verified

Time spent is the thing they all talk about. voice-verified

And it is, it is the race. voice-verified

It's why, you know, Reed Hastings said they compete with sleep. voice-verified

It's why you voice-verified

YouTube is competing with video games. voice-verified

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