What Are Podcasts Good For?

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Powell: I think books are good for learning and transferring information as well as intervening. He says podcasts serve a bunch of different roles, one is to give you a hook into something that you then go explore. "True beliefs on average" could be added to the podcast's slogan.

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Is it possible to be both agreeable and skeptical in conversations? How can you give feedback and challenge people constructively without triggering their automatic self-defense mechanisms? More generally, how can you challenge people intellectually without riling them up emotionally? What skills are needed to be able to have detailed, productive conversations across a wide range of topics? How can you push through plateaus in the process of self-improvement? What are podcasts as a medium good for?

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