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🗓️ 15 May 2025
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Gurwinder rose to fame writing elaborately insightful Twitter threads about how to be human in the twenty-first century. He now publishes The Prism, on Substack, a guide to navigating the digital age.
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0:00.0 | Gahy humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. What are we all doing here? How are we all talking to each other? What technology doing to us? What kind of cognitive biases and thinking traps are we falling into? What's the point of it all? I hear you ask. And when my mind goes to such matters, I turn to the incredible |
0:22.6 | substack, or perhaps a very ultra-long Twitter thread written by today's guest, Gawinda Bogal, |
0:28.7 | who sort of achieved fame by writing these extraordinary, soaring, hyper-intellectual, in-depth |
0:35.1 | Twitter threads that might be 30 or 40 tweets long, |
0:39.3 | explaining all kinds of different problems with the way that we think about things, |
0:43.0 | our in-group and out-group preferences that shape the way that we relate to our community, |
0:47.7 | both online and off, absolutely fascinating stuff. |
0:51.5 | I wanted to get him on the show, and if you want to hear more from him, |
0:54.3 | he has an incredible substack called The Prism, which is essentially a guide to modern digital |
0:59.5 | life. But it's really so much more. I hope you enjoy as much as I did this dance through a |
1:04.9 | wonderful, exotic intellectual playground with the one, the only, Gawinda. |
1:14.9 | Thank you. playground with the one, the only, Gawinda. That was included. |
1:16.8 | Right. |
1:17.4 | Basically, London. |
1:18.4 | We'll call it London. |
1:19.6 | Yeah, it's near London. |
1:21.0 | It's about 20 miles away. |
1:22.6 | Yeah, yeah. |
1:23.1 | It's about 20 miles away. |
1:24.0 | These people who buy easy jet flights think that it's in London. |
1:27.6 | Basically, it's kind of like an extension of London. |
1:30.9 | London kind of just encompasses all the places around it as well, because it's just a sprawling |
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