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Hello and welcome to this week's Better Offline monologue.

I'm your host, Ed Zittron.

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It-R-O-N-7-6. I will protect your identity. Tell me all your secrets. I'd love to know them. Anyway, this week I wanted to

talk about the stuff that gets me through doing this show every week and start with the point that I was

told when I was told I should do monologues as to really make them sometimes just kind of a rant about

how I'm feeling. So for once, you're actually going to get one of those rather than something I pre-prepare all neatly and nicely. And if it's a bit self-indulgent, well, you know what? What do you think you're getting with this podcast? I'm a dramatic creature and I love it. Anyway, today's really about what keeps me going through the grind and what I think this work can mean long term. I realize I'm literally,

by the way, a podcast that's talking about the computer and that there are people with significantly

hardly jobs. I'm not trying to be too dramatic. But this shit does kind of run you down a bit,

if only because a large part of my work comes down to explaining at length why so many people are

wrong about something in a way that may threaten our entire economy,

and a lot of them are doing it, and it's quite strange. I know some of you are going to say that

this is Brandolini's law, which talks about how disproving misinformation tends to require far more

effort than creating it, but this is different, because we live in a time where our markets have

become part of a death cult of short-termism, where nothing bad ever happens until everything bad happens at once.

Yeah, writing about this on some level is therapeutic. It sounds a little deranged, but in writing

about 45,000 words in the past two months for both the newsletter and the podcast, I've honed

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