Maria Popova
speaker
931 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Maria Popova’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And also, partly, I was putting it out into the world and I was very conscious of
I, as a person, don't enjoy clickbait and ads and snippet kind of shallow things.
Why would I perpetrate that on other people if I'm making something in the world?
Why not make the world we want to live in?
My faith in humanity.
In what way?
Fundamentally people are generous and people are hungry for meaning and when we value something
We show it.
I really believe that.
We don't need the middleman of advertising to turn us into data points and eyeballs in order to show someone else how much we value some kind of sellable commodity.
And I thought it's already a reward enough for me to do this, to read and to write and to try to learn how to live.
I'm still learning how to live 20 years in.
You know, that's why I write.
And I already have my reward.
If other people find it valuable, then they should decide how much they value it and in what way.
I should not enforce that or sell it.
You can't sell meaning.
Oh, it's so gross.
It's so gross.
Can you imagine when people ask me if they could pick my brain?
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