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Format, shmormat

People vs Algorithms

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What's Your Favorite Format?

I like more conversational formats that are emerging around newsletters and also podcasts like this. Because a format that I've grown it detached as the explainer format, it's the heart of a lot of the problems. This like, Hi and Mighty Vox started to really built their brand around an explainer format. That's great. Everyone needs a shtick. But what happens is when you apply everything to this kind of format, you end up having Vox explaining why no, the lab leak theory is a conspiracy. Okay. Can we start just back up a bit? What are your favorite formats? If I was just asked you guys to reflect for a second, can you think of a format

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