Hi guys. I'm currently on my book tour, so I'm playing you some of my favorite episodes from the past. I will be back soon with a brand new live episode. Until then.

So today I have kind of a funny one for you, kind of an interesting interesting one I wonder if you guys will go here with

me today I'm going to talk about why we need to be more interesting as a community now I'm including

myself in this and it is not an accusation at all let me tell you how I came to this topic, why I think it's important to talk about

and why I put together a list of things that I think we can do. Number one is my brain rot is so

bad because I spend so much time on the internet. You know, I spoke a lot with Taylor Strucker

about this, about phone addiction. And I think I've come to the conclusion that like we can't really stop phone addiction. We're probably not going to stop using social media. But, you know, it's something to be aware of. It's I don't feel comfortable with this addiction. I don't really like how I feel when I'm fully just like,

you know, TikTok six hours a day, Instagram all the time, whatever. So, and I think that that's

true for everybody, where, you know, we see a decline in our attention spans. We see, you know,

that we're not really reading articles anymore. We're just reading the first paragraph. And I think that this has a lot of

negative knock-on effects for us in our everyday life. And I think one of them is that we become

less interesting. Yeah, sure, we can talk about TikToks all day long and we can talk about trends and,

you know, Instagrams that we saw. But how deep do those conversations really go? Like how deep can they go?

Yeah, for sure. Sometimes TikToks spark a really interesting debate and I love those. But I'm talking

about deeper conversation. Now, I think that this is going to be different depending on how old you are.

If you are a millennial like me, you likely

remembered a time when you would have very deep conversations with your friend group for hours

without phones. And like I mentioned on the pod with Taylor, I don't know if we're ever going to be

able to get back to that, but I think it's particularly difficult for millennials because

we miss that. At least I miss that. So that's one thing.

It's like brain raw being bad. Second of all, don't roll your eyes. Ready? Second of all, AI.

So AI is coming and I'm more calm about it than I was last year. I think at Cannes I went to a lot of panels and heard a lot of speakers about, you know, the impact it's going to have. And it is going to take on a lot of jobs. It is going to erase a lot of jobs. It is going to do a lot of the work that we, you know, humans do now. And I don't really want to talk about that. What I want to talk about is if I'm being optimistic and playing this out, it's like, okay, so if AI is doing a lot of the jobs

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