How I Listen to Podcasts - by Josh Hou - Josh with a Blog

A mental model for optimizing your listening experience

The two famous unavoidable constants in life are death and taxes. Perhaps we should add Lex Fridman’s slow speaking to the list. Lex Fridman@lexfridman A few people have suggested that I sound like a robot in lectures and that I may in fact be a robot. I cannot confirm or deny this. But, hypothetically, suppose I am a robot. Of course in order to fit in I want to convince you that I'm not, how would I do it? Asking for a friend. 4:17 PM · Jan 21, 2019 48 Reposts · 621 Likes The idea for this post came to me after listening to one of Lex’s recent podcast episodes: “Balaji Srinivasan: How…

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