It's the structure, stupid.

Stupid.

It's the structure.

It's the structure, stupid.

In this episode, I want to introduce to you a very powerful distinction,

which I call the content versus structure distinction.

So this whole episode is going to be about making it clear in your mind what the difference is between content and structure, on the other hand.

And we're going to do this with a lot of examples,

so let's just jump right into it.

So consider a DVD disk. The DVD disk itself and the format of the disk, the encoding, that's the structure, we'll say.

And whereas the data encoded on the disk that's the content.

Or for example consider the NFL, the National Football League, that's the structure. And then the content includes the

teams, all the teams, all the games that are played, all the individual players,

all the people who work for the NFL.

That entire organization is structured under the NFL. And the NFL sets the parameters of what the teams are going to be,

who they're going to hire, how they're going to play,

what the rules are going to be, how much is going to be charged,

etc.

What the punishments are going to be,

who the referees are going to be, so forth.

So what football can be is very much dictated by the structure of the NFL. Now of course you can go outside that structure but that's another story.

Another example of structure is the English language. The English language sets up an

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