Ryan Holiday
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first heard Jul 2026
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Like how true stories got distorted and how made up stories became true and how people could get attention, what attention would do to people, the incentives of the media system.
And so the book was me kind of trying to rip back the curtain on what that was and how it worked.
Can you go into it a little bit?
Yeah, I mean, it's funny, because I mean, I wrote that book- Because it is, it's now.
Yeah, but it's funny.
It's like, you know, I wrote that book before TikTok existed, before I think maybe Instagram had just come out.
I was writing mostly about a world of blogs and, you know, sort of not traditional media, but like traditional media as it was being intersected by social media.
And I mean, if anything, just all those trends have accelerated now.
But it was ultimately what I'm trying to say in the book is like, you have to think about the incentives operating on both sides of the equation.
The people that are trying to get messages out and then the people who are communicating those messages.
And that
everyone is effectively competing for attention in this enormous ecosystem or this marketplace.
And so in a world where it used to be, okay, half the world, half the country subscribes to the New York Times, half subscribes to Washington Post.
Now both these papers have an agenda, there's a bias, but like mostly they're trying to deliver value for the subscribers of the,
of this paid product.
And they're putting out a, you know, a 40 page newspaper where once you buy it, all the information is there, right?
Like if you look at like the headline in the New York Times for the Pentagon Papers, it's like, there's no sensationalism in it.
There's no crazy, because like, you're not buying the New York Times
in Grand Central Station with a newsboy shouting, like, extra, extra, read all about it, right?
Which was the media environment in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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