Jeff Bezos

We co-evolve with our tools, right? So, you know, we invent new tools and then our tools change us.

It goes in a circle.

It goes in a circle.

It goes in a circle.

A hundred percent. And, you know, you can feel your brain. Brains are plastic. and you can feel your brain getting reprogrammed. I remember the first time this happened to me was when Tetris first came on the scene. I'm sure you've had, anybody who's been a game player has this experience where you close your eyes to lay down to go to sleep and you see

A hundred percent. And, you know, you can feel your brain. Brains are plastic. and you can feel your brain getting reprogrammed. I remember the first time this happened to me was when Tetris first came on the scene. I'm sure you've had, anybody who's been a game player has this experience where you close your eyes to lay down to go to sleep and you see

A hundred percent. And, you know, you can feel your brain. Brains are plastic. and you can feel your brain getting reprogrammed. I remember the first time this happened to me was when Tetris first came on the scene. I'm sure you've had, anybody who's been a game player has this experience where you close your eyes to lay down to go to sleep and you see

all the little blocks moving, and you're kind of rotating them in your mind, and you can just tell as you walk around the world that you have rewired your brain to play Tetris. But that happens with everything. And so one of the, I think, we still have yet to see the full repercussions of this, I fear, but I think one of the things that we've done online is

all the little blocks moving, and you're kind of rotating them in your mind, and you can just tell as you walk around the world that you have rewired your brain to play Tetris. But that happens with everything. And so one of the, I think, we still have yet to see the full repercussions of this, I fear, but I think one of the things that we've done online is

all the little blocks moving, and you're kind of rotating them in your mind, and you can just tell as you walk around the world that you have rewired your brain to play Tetris. But that happens with everything. And so one of the, I think, we still have yet to see the full repercussions of this, I fear, but I think one of the things that we've done online is

largely because of social media, is we have trained our brains to be really good at processing super short-form content. And your podcast flies in the face of this. You do these long format things. And reading books is a long format thing. And we all do more of... If something is convenient, we do more of it. And so when you make tools, we carry around... we carry around in our pocket a phone.

largely because of social media, is we have trained our brains to be really good at processing super short-form content. And your podcast flies in the face of this. You do these long format things. And reading books is a long format thing. And we all do more of... If something is convenient, we do more of it. And so when you make tools, we carry around... we carry around in our pocket a phone.

largely because of social media, is we have trained our brains to be really good at processing super short-form content. And your podcast flies in the face of this. You do these long format things. And reading books is a long format thing. And we all do more of... If something is convenient, we do more of it. And so when you make tools, we carry around... we carry around in our pocket a phone.

And one of the things that phone does for the most part is it is an attention shortening device because most of the things we do on our phone shorten our attention spans. And I'm not even going to say we know for sure that that's bad, but I do think it's happening. It's one of the ways we're co-evolving with that tool.

And one of the things that phone does for the most part is it is an attention shortening device because most of the things we do on our phone shorten our attention spans. And I'm not even going to say we know for sure that that's bad, but I do think it's happening. It's one of the ways we're co-evolving with that tool.

And one of the things that phone does for the most part is it is an attention shortening device because most of the things we do on our phone shorten our attention spans. And I'm not even going to say we know for sure that that's bad, but I do think it's happening. It's one of the ways we're co-evolving with that tool.

But I think it's important to spend some of your time and some of your life doing long attention span things.

But I think it's important to spend some of your time and some of your life doing long attention span things.

But I think it's important to spend some of your time and some of your life doing long attention span things.

If you're talking about generative AI, large language models, things like ChatGPT and its soon successors, these are incredibly powerful technologies. To believe otherwise is to bury your head in the sand, soon to be even more powerful. It's interesting to me that large language models in their current form are not inventions, they're discoveries.