Hm. I was actually assuming in this post that the podcasts in question were actually “Effective Information” as opposed to “Trivia” or “Mental Masturbation”. The issue is that even if they are “Effective Information”, you also need to have solitude in your “diet”, and the benefit of additional “Effective Information” probably isn’t worth the cost of less solitude.
But I’m also realizing now that much of the time podcasts aren’t actually “Effective Information” and are instead something like “Trivia” or “Mental Masturbation”. And I see that as a separate but also relevant problem. And I think that carbs is probably a good analogy for that too. Or maybe something like refined sugar. It’s a quick hedonic hit and probably ok to have in limited doses, but you really don’t want to have too much of it in your diet.
Hm. I was actually assuming in this post that the podcasts in question were actually “Effective Information” as opposed to “Trivia” or “Mental Masturbation”. The issue is that even if they are “Effective Information”, you also need to have solitude in your “diet”, and the benefit of additional “Effective Information” probably isn’t worth the cost of less solitude.
But I’m also realizing now that much of the time podcasts aren’t actually “Effective Information” and are instead something like “Trivia” or “Mental Masturbation”. And I see that as a separate but also relevant problem. And I think that carbs is probably a good analogy for that too. Or maybe something like refined sugar. It’s a quick hedonic hit and probably ok to have in limited doses, but you really don’t want to have too much of it in your diet.