Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 2021-10-13
Alex Kantrowitz & Charlie Warzel: books mentioned on Big Technology Podcast
Is Social Media A Scapegoat For Bigger Problems? — With Charlie Warzel at Unfinished Live
Charlie Warzel writes the Galaxy Brain newsletter on Substack, a publication he started after a career at The New York Times and BuzzFeed. Warzel joins Big Technology Podcast in a live recording at Unfinished Live to discuss what a nuanced conversation about social media's harms should look like.
Charlie Warzel discussed How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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How to Do Nothing
Discussed“When my mind isn't totally shot and fried from banging my head against the wall on this thing, you know, I actually feel like I have a little more space. Um, you know, I think like the mind is, you know, there's this, um, this writer, um, Jenny O'Dell who wrote this book, how to do nothing.”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Out of Office
“And then we're, we have a book coming out in December and, you know, the plan is for that. Me and my partner and Helen Peterson and the book tour is, you know, slated to be virtual.”
Plugged Out of Office
“And we developed a system that really, really worked for us that really allowed us to, you know, like be more active participants in our, in the community and, you know, volunteering and stuff like that, developing a lot more hobbies, friendships outside of, you know, the, the realm of like media and tech”
Plugged Out of Office
“I was really worried when, you know, we, we turned it around as quick as we possibly could. We wrote it, pitched it, uh, everything in about three and a half months, four months, maybe.”
Plugged Out of Office
“The way we frame it again in the book is this like long versus short term. I mean, if you, to bring Amazon up again, like listen to Jeff Bezos talk about the arc of his career and, and building Amazon.”
Plugged Out of Office
“We end the book with a letter to employees or workers and a letter to executives. And both of, you know, what we try to do in both of those is, is show, and again, this is sounds super corny, but like show that there's, you know, like to borrow the business term, like synergies between those things.”
Plugged Out of Office
“Well, I've, uh, a very religious reader of the newsletter. I look forward to devouring the book. Um, everybody out there, you can get the newsletter galaxy brain on sub stack and tell everyone where to get the book.”