Ryan Holiday
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1,843 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
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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And if that channel isn't gonna do it, they're gonna watch this channel.
And so it's hard, like choice is good, but the problem with choice when it comes to information is that you're creating a market incentive for people to lie to you.
And typically that incentive is mitigated or by the fact that the media outlet is owned by a big company or the reporter themselves is a salaried employee who identifies as a journalist or a writer or whatever.
It's different when it's like,
No, no, no, like I write for Substack and I am directly dependent on how many subscribers I have, paying subscribers.
So like audience capture, there's fewer intermediaries between the creator and the sort of payment structure
Now, in many ways, this is great for creators because there's fewer people taking, you know, picking their pocket along the way, but it also means that they are directly exposed to, um,
some perverse incentive, like audience capture is right there.
Yeah, and like it takes a person, it takes some character and some self-control and some ideals to be like, no, no, no, no, I have an audience, the audience doesn't have me.
Like I say what I think needs to be said, not what's gonna do well.
Yeah, yeah.
They're outraged about this and then, oh, no, no, we're not outraged about that anymore.
Now we're outraged about this.
And no, no, actually, I never said that.
Like, you're surfing the audience.
And it's both exhausting and also...
it just doesn't feel like success to me, right?
Like if success is like, I have to tell you what you want to hear, then like,
Yeah.
Yeah, I think deciding...
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