Ian Bogost
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439 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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So I started missing my phone a lot less.
I didn't have to like lock it up.
And I try to address this in the book too, that that feeling of oddity, of like embarrassment, of strangeness,
That's both something to overcome, to learn to overcome, but it's also a tell.
It's like when you start feeling, is it kind of weird to be so delighted in this rubber bumper on my water bottle?
You're like, ah, I'm living in gratification land here.
That's a sign that you're on the right track.
One of the things that I've discovered about it is that
When you talk about these experiences with other people, they're usually like right there with you very quickly.
And it's sort of like you go first kind of a thing that we've been in.
There's an example I talk about whereby my wife and I are peeling off a plastic protective film from the name label on a new knife block we bought.
And if you bring that example up of the plastic protective film with like anyone on earth who's ever encountered it, they'll be like, oh, I'm so delightful to do that.
I can't, sometimes I just leave it on for a year.
So I have something to do later.
They're right there with you, but they wouldn't maybe bring it up on their own, you know?
And so you're right.
There is a folly.
It feels unimportant.
Like I called the book, The Small Stuff, because the small stuff feels unimportant and it isn't.
It's super important.
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