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

And you had anatomical representations of each company, right?

There was the head and the heart.

Yeah, the gut and the genitals.

Yeah, well, I felt like I was late to the game a little bit because I had been following Bill Simmons, who's been podcasting since, you know, the 1990s or something.

But yeah, Crazy Genius was really fun.

And that was a pure tech show.

And that particular season, we really wanted to talk about the tech giants.

And so it was just incredible to have someone who'd written a book on it.

And I remember talking to my producer when we had you on.

She was like, that guy is awesome.

Like,

He could have a potential in this medium.

You never know.

Yeah, first off, I love that setup.

I'm so glad that you got to the heart of this piece, which is trying to get at this idea that our crisis is not quite loneliness.

In many ways, the crisis is the opposite of loneliness.

It's that we don't feel that social cue to be lonely enough.

So maybe the best way to think about the antisocial century is to juxtapose it with something like you could call the social century.

For the first 50, 60 years of the 20th century, basically every indicator of social belonging and social capital was rising.

People were spending more time with each other.

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