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Decoder with Nilay Patel

Recode Decode: Joanna Coles, author, 'Love Rules'

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.23.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Joanna Coles, the chief content officer at Hearst, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Love Rules: How to Find a Real Relationship in a Digital World." Coles says dating apps can be a great tool for meeting new people, but they can encourage the wrong attitudes among their users: Seeing potential mates as interchangeable, wasting weeks to texting in the buildup to one conversation and fantasizing about whether a stranger is "the one." She also talks about the negative impact of online porn on women's satisfaction in heterosexual relationships and how to manage an ongoing relationship despite digital distractions. Plus: Why Coles joined the board of Snap, what she thinks of the future of magazines and what happens after #MeToo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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1:02.0

Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Executive Editor of Recode. You may know me as someone starting a fashion magazine for the Trump family.

1:08.0

I think Orange really is their color, but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.

1:15.0

Today in the red chair is Joanna Cole's, the chief content officer at Hearst Magazine's.

1:21.0

She previously was Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan, an author of a new book called Love Rool, how to find a real relationship in a digital world, which is right at my alley.

1:30.0

The last time I interviewed her on stage at Code Media in 2017, she turned the tables on me and tried to interview me and came up with a sex position called Swisher, was it?

1:41.0

Anyway, yes. We'll see how far you can get today, Joanna. Welcome to Recode decode.

1:47.0

I think you have to be athletic to be able to perform the Swisher. Yes, you do. You have to do a lot of soul cycle and I stretchy bendy things.

1:54.0

Yes, you have to stay flexible in all ways. Thank you for updating this question.

1:58.0

And I want to reassure people that the chair really is red because they haven't seen the studio here, which is rather fancy.

2:04.0

No, it's not rather fancy. It's quite fancy. It's not fancy. It's not dining room table and there's some bits of old food. That's right, that's my food.

2:11.0

I didn't get to eat it. I'll take Joanna. We're talking about your book now. Look, good.

2:15.0

Last time I interviewed you, besides you discussing sex positions with me, which the only time I've turned red on stage, you were also running Cosmopol at the time, right?

2:25.0

You had not moved to your lofty position. So why don't let's give a little background of you for the people because people attuning and may not know who you are, although everybody in New York does.

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