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Podcast Jitters

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The Jitters. How will this go? I think I’m imagining a storm of 100,000 haters. Or, at least, will the required process of editing and memeification invert what I believe?

Essay Architecture is all about complexity. In a way, it doesn’t require me to translate ideas or make them digestible and catchy; it’s about training machines with infinite patience to create a piece of software that is—to the user—simple and profoundly useful.

I guess this is a test to see how well the idea can be meme’d. Is this something you can enjoy listening to while you wash the dishes? It’s a hard constraint. A fun problem.

To tie this in with David’s tweet on how managers prompt people, an interview is something like a host promoting their guest to package their ideas according to the taste of the host. So in some ways this will be like my ideas through David’s vision for his channel.