Ryan Holiday
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1,843 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
Ryan Holiday’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Or something that makes you kind of angry is not gonna spread as well as something that makes you laugh really hard.
And so it's creating this incentive for extremes, right?
Um, so everything becomes an exaggerated, you know, distorted version of itself to meet that.
And then you layer on top of that, like this is the first in the sort of blog world, one of the first kind of big breakthroughs was like reporters or influencers or whatever, your job performance was like how much traffic your article got or how many views your video got, right?
Which is different than how journalists had basically been paid for the entirety of the institution.
And so in the same way that you wouldn't want a journalist to own like shares in a stock that they were reporting on, now they own stock in the story.
Like they want, instead of being like, hey, it's complicated and we don't know, which isn't gonna do well, they're like, it shapes the story that they're writing.
And I think what we're seeing now, now that people are working for outlets less and less and working for themselves more and more,
Like, are you gonna tell your Substack audience what they don't wanna hear?
Are you gonna have a guest on?
Like, not you, but like you can imagine someone in a different financial position
You're like, hey, when I have these kind of guests, my Patreon numbers go down.
And when I have these kind of guests, my Patreon numbers go up.
Or, you know, donations go up when I do this, and they go down when I do this.
And so now, again, these financial incentives are acting on the information that people are getting.
And people are not good at evaluating the...
Yeah, and there's always gonna be someone who will fill that need.
So, like we saw this in the aftermath of the 2020 election, right?
It's like, oh, if you're not gonna tell the audience what they wanna hear,
then they're just gonna go watch this channel.
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