The Utility of Self-Delusion (and Big Show Update)
Proxy with Yowei Shaw
Yowei Shaw
4.8 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Yowei shares exciting show news and goes on a self-delusion bender with the team at Proxy HQ. Is she being delusional? Or is delusion just necessary for starting any new project?
From the episode:
— Useful Delusions: The Power & Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain by Shankar Vedantam
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it's Yo-A. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to Praxie. |
| 0:10.1 | Today's episode is going to be a shorty. |
| 0:12.6 | I have a big show announcement, and then I'm going to talk about an emotional conundrum that is attached to this news, a conundrum that probably everyone deals with at some point. |
| 0:27.8 | Okay, good news first. |
| 0:29.8 | If you've been following along with the meta arc of this podcast, you know that I got laid off from NPR, that I started this podcast, and that we've been publishing |
| 0:38.9 | these early episodes independently with no promo, no funding, no marketing, and that we're |
| 0:45.8 | officially launching on April 22nd with new episodes every other Tuesday. |
| 0:52.5 | Well, listener, she has an update. |
| 0:56.4 | I am very excited to share that proxy is now a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. |
| 1:03.5 | Can we get some air horns? |
| 1:09.4 | Radiotopia is the legendary indie label of the podcast world. |
| 1:14.1 | It's the home of some of my favorite shows, like normal gossip, song exploder, ear hustle, articles of interest, and more. |
| 1:23.4 | And here's what's great. |
| 1:25.3 | Radiotopia is the kind of place that does not ask for your IP. |
| 1:29.5 | I still own my show, and Radiotopia is going to give proxy all kinds of marketing, |
| 1:35.1 | ad sales, and technical support. |
| 1:38.1 | As someone who is Googling what is an RSS feed the night before I published my trailer last year, |
| 1:43.5 | this is huge. |
| 1:46.4 | But I want to make sure this is crystal clear. |
| 1:50.0 | Proxy is still an independent show. |
| 1:53.7 | Radiotopia is not giving Proxy any money. |
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