Gary Shteyngart
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I don't think I'm that big a deal.
No, no.
I still need it.
Everyone needs it.
But the point, and I do get that dopamine kick from it.
Yeah, I think that's the more honest answer right there.
Both, both, both profit and dopamine.
Let me say this.
When I started writing Super Sad,
the aughts, mid-aughts.
I didn't know much about this technology, but I had this great intern and he got me into, he was very young, into Facebook and what was it called?
MySpace, I think was the thing, right?
And the moment I got on it, I thought, this was the germ of SuperSat.
I thought, this technology is going to destroy everything.
Why did you think that?
Because I knew, look, when you're a writer or an artist, you are a part of a narcissist.
Right.
You are partly at least a narcissist because what do you do this for?
You don't just do this.
There was a great way of putting in the Soviet Union when people were writing things that the system would hate so much that you knew you could never publish it.