The Uncertainty of Speaking

"I'm definitely not sort of the right person or the optimal person to be making all kinds of decisions. In fact, I'm the optimal person, you're making a decreasing fraction of decisions," he says. "Because speaking can kind of only happen once and generally not to everyone ... that's a giant production." But writing persists through time,. And can be revisited and can be updated and so forth. It also has a helpful, at least in the good cases, sort of rigidity and clarity to it.