This is Smart People Podcast, a podcast for Smart People, where we talk to smart people, but not necessarily done by smart people.

All right, listen, this is a pilot episode, if you will. This is trial and error. It's probably going to take a little bit of editing because I don't have anything written.

But I felt compelled.

For a lot of reasons, I felt compelled to record this.

I don't even know if it's going to see the light of day.

I just finished, literally just hung up with Richard Caitoic, the episode that is going to air

late on December 2nd.

He is the author of the book, Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age.

And as you can imagine, what we talked about in that episode was the impact of screens,

digital distraction and sensory overload.

Now, one thing I realized in this conversation is so many platitudes, so many common phrases today are taken as not just common knowledge or common sense, but it's like because we can recite them,

we understand them.

Let me give you an example.

Almost everybody has heard the phrase, technology is a drug.

Right?

And so we go, yeah, it is.

There are so many of those moments in this episode with Richard where I said, wait a second,

I have long known this, but I haven't thought of it this way.

So my intent with this conversation is to walk through some of those moments, some of those

ahas, and break down why they were so impactful for me.

Now, I do this to an extent in the interview,

but I thought maybe this format will be beneficial,

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