Dr. David Eagleman

Everyone hates when they surf and they get served exactly what they're supposed to get served and they get off after an hour or two and they feel like they've wasted their lives.

And there's a real opportunity for a social media company to come along and say, you know what?

We're not building our algorithm like the other guys.

It's not about just trying to get engagement at any cost with incendiary posts.

But instead, we're looking for ways to connect people.

So if you and I both love this particular thing, this particular cuisine or location or whatever it is, we get connected.

We see each other's stuff.

And the algorithm carefully, temporally sequences things so that we come to have a certain connection threshold before we find out, whoa, you have a totally different political opinion than I do on subject X. Wow, I didn't know that, but I really like Steven.

So I'm going to lean in and listen a little bit more.

I think this is very easy to do.

And I think that can actually be part of the selling point of the media company is saying, hey, we are here not to enrage you, but to actually build connection.

Yeah, maybe it's a return.

But the fact is there's now an economic opportunity now that everyone sees the landscape.

I don't know if the story is that simple that we all want to do slot machines all the time.

I don't think we do.

Exactly.

Because the fact is that a lot of people go to Las Vegas and do slot machines sometime, but we don't do that all the time.

It's kind of rare, actually.

What we really desire are meaningful connections.

We really desire feeling like, hey, you know what?