Some thoughts

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/2/18510958/social-media-addiction-boredom-loneliness-society-technology-smart-phones

"One thing we found interesting was how 18th- and 19th-century Americans viewed the self. From childhood, people were constantly warned against self-celebration and self-promotion and told to always remember they were mortal, frail, and flawed. Keeping this idea of human frailty in mind was all part of avoiding the sin of vanity; those teachings were designed to make people aware of their human limits.

Over the course of the 19th century and 20th centuries, these older senses of vanity, of the vain futility of life, fell away. And as a result, what we see today is that when people post on social media, there’s no sense of their own limitations as humans. There’s often little modesty, or little fear that one could be going too far in self-promotion. So certainly 19th-century moralists would have been puzzled by our self-disclosing and self-promoting behaviors."

As the concept of sin vanishes being frail and flawed makes us angrier.

https://tim.blog/2019/02/18/jim-collins/

"It seems to me you spend a lot of time trying — worrying about if you’re going to survive. Well, you’ll probably survive. And you spend too much time thinking about if you’ll be successful. It’s the wrong question. The question is, “how to be useful?”"

Podcasts are certainly a different experience, or at least this one was. Even if the conversation format usually does nothing for me there was a lot of value behind the anecdotes and the analogies used, the kind of stuff that comes with expertise and you can't really fake, and it flows more naturally than the sometimes overprepared or dumbed down video format you can find on sites like youtube.

The issue I have with them is, since they are so long and are just audio for some reason I tend to drift away because I'm not using my eyes, which doesn't usually happen with a movie, a book, or even listening to music. But if the quality is like this I'll need to start paying more attention then.

Or maybe is just a matter of choosing the right content?

"One of the themes by the way I think that’s going to come up in our conversation is what I see as the incredible that who luck, the luck of the right people that intersect your life plays in the journey."

Audiobooks are still a no-no, to be honest. Why would you want to downgrade the immersion level.