Ian Bremmer
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Podcast Appearances
And try not to spend as much time following the news on that.
So for example, if you're trying to set up your social media feed so it is useful for you on news,
avoid the people that are experts on the topic that you are super biased on.
Because you're not going to get anything from that.
All you're going to do is like the people that already agree with you and hate watch the people that don't.
But it's not going to help you at all.
So stay away from something that is a structural bias.
And then also longer form, longer form.
It's why, I mean, when they say kids don't read and they're worried that everything is a headline, kids listen to podcasts all the time.
I've got folks, I mean, 80 year olds watch my show on PBS.
20 year olds are listening to the same thing on a podcast.
In fact, sometimes it's an extended version and they're getting more out of it.
So it's not like young people can't do long form, but they digest it in different ways.
And long form content is better
Because when you're talking about serious and complicated issues, it doesn't lend itself to a short, pithy answer.
Like the world, the next order, is it going to be unipolar?
Is it going to be multipolar?
Is it going to be tech companies that run it?
The answer is it's a very complicated discussion that you and I would have over 30 minutes or an hour.
I can't do it in a tweet.