Joshua Citarella

And the path isn't straight.

And, uh,

Yeah, when you look back, you don't see a massive amount of glory in this.

It wasn't you fighting off some fucking alien horde or a bunch of orcs or something.

Right.

It was you dealing with your own internal doubt, your own sort of lack of self-belief, your own fears.

Yeah, it makes for an interesting reframe, I think.

Well, I think there's a difference between...

being a person who comes up with answers and being a person who identifies questions and you seem pretty good at doing both but particularly good at the questions thing and i'm not too bad at the questions thing too i've had some all right ideas about like the state of signaling behind body positivity movement and what happened when ozempic came in like mismatch function from evolutionary psychology these are not world-changing insights uh

But what I'm not bad at is saying, huh, there's like a membrane.

This is what it feels like in a conversation sometimes to me.

And I wonder whether you've had this too.

It's like running your hand across the top of a balloon.

And every so often there's a little divot in the balloon or there's a little hole or there's a little bit of grit.

You go, huh, what's that?

And it's usually the intersection of two or three or four different things.

And you go, hang on a second.

Like Mamdani and Trump, isn't that an interesting horseshoe, just like the horseshoe that we just said there?

Well, what do we think about, well, kayfabe, you know, like build these things together and then why, right?

Like it's not, I don't think that it is necessarily, and it is for lots of people, lots of content creators online proselytize about their thing.