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This is Alex Cantroitz, and joining us today is a man who needs no introduction, but we'll give him one just for kicks. It's

Casey Newton. He is the Silicon Valley editor at The Verge, and he writes a newsletter that you all

probably subscribe to already called The Interface. Casey, welcome to the show. Thank you for

having me, Alex. It's nice to be here. Yeah, my pleasure. You know, I think I got a lot

writing on this episode. You know, Newton Nation is strong and we're just launching. And I feel like if we

don't deliver, if I don't deliver mostly, then, you know, that's sort of the end of this podcast.

So hopefully we won't mess it up too bad. Well, I've brought a lot of, a variety of spicy takes and controversial statements that,

you know, will hopefully allow this episode to succeed.

All right.

Let's start with the question that's on everyone's mind to begin with, which is, is the tech

press bad?

No, the tech press is really good, the tech press is really good.

The tech press, I think, has done probably the best work of its life collectively over the

past four years.

I feel like I have a much better understanding of the inner workings of the biggest technology platforms today than I've

ever had. And it's because of the incredible work that so many people are doing around the

country and the world. And in fact, one of the reasons why I wanted to start my newsletter was I

was just reading so much good stuff every day and was feeling frankly overwhelmed by it and felt like it might be useful to gather the best of it into

one place and kind of point out what I thought was interesting. So I think the tech

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