Derek Thompson

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564 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 24 Jul

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The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · Inside the Anti-Social Century — with Derek Thompson · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

of their parents' house and into their own place, that we can give them places to socialize that aren't just in their basements and in their rooms.

So some of this, I think, is a physical infrastructure investment problem, and some of that is just a knowledge problem.

I think people are choosing loneliness, or choosing aloneness, I should say, not knowing what exactly is being lost.

Yeah, that's a great way to ask the question.

The first thing to say is that caring for your health is good.

I'm wearing an Oura ring right now.

I use it to count my steps, to look at my HIV, even though I'm not really sure what that is, to look at my resting heart rate.

I gamify essentially my own body.

I play the board game of life on my own self.

And I think overall, it makes me healthier.

But it's not very difficult to imagine the ways in which my dependence on, my relying on the numbers that I can see in the Aura app can distract me from the numbers that I can't see in my own life.

Which is to say, like...

If I really wanted to optimize my entire life around lowering my resting heart rate and raising my heart rate variability, which again is a statistic that I'm not sure I entirely understand, but I still want to maximize it anyway.

I would never, ever have a glass of wine or cocktail after 7 p.m.

Because one thing I can see very, very clearly, very clearly in the data, is that if I have that glass of wine at 5.30 before I cook dinner, my sleep is absolutely perfect.

I sleep like a tiny baby.

If I have that glass of wine or that cocktail after 8 p.m., certainly after 9 p.m., it has a cost.

My resting heart rate goes up, my HIV goes down.

So if I was just maximizing for the numbers that I can see, I would never ever meet a close friend late for drinks, ever.

But that's not what life's about.

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