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ymeskhout  11mo ago (text post)   2264 thread views

The Bailey Podcast E032: Information Goons

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In this episode, we discuss information addiction.

Participants: Yassine, Jason, Neophos, Shakesneer. Credit to Internaut for the inspiration.

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Recorded 2023-05-08 | Uploaded 2023-06-03

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Forgot to comment in a timely fashion and now the podcast details are fuzzy... one thing that stuck with me is that you guys didn't consider content consumption and creation as obviously very different things. Maybe consumption and "getting likes" does scratch the same itch but surely the act of invention (and implied interaction with the wider world) should elevate creation out of the gooning category?

What kind of creation? Most "content" is goons making faces for the camera, even if it's not the figurative soy. Five takes of molding your lobster ice cream pizza bagel so it looks good in the edit, or else, a lot of staging and arrangement so it works in one take. Content isn't candid, it only looks that way, because creators carefully arrange everything to look candid. This all changes the way they relate to themselves and their audience.

I concede I was thinking more of this podcast and less of some perfectly-satisfying video when I talked about creation. But I think I'll double down here.

Even if the act of creation is producing something that is essentially crack cocaine in meme form there is still something to trying different things, refining your craft, optimizing your message for your target audience. Whether the end result has cultural etc value is largely irrelevant to the experience of the creator.

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