You can always rely on me to channel my righteous indignation at shoddy data analysis into a lengthy podcast episode.

Footnotes:

• Read the essay version of this episode.
• "How Short-Form Clips Took Over the Internet" on Galaxy Brain with Charlie Warzel
• "The Clip Economy" by Ed Elson on the Simply Put newsletter
• "What happens when the short-form video bubble bursts?" by Ryan Broderick on Garbage Day
• "Sorry (Not Sorry) Self-Promotion Doesn't Work" by Tara McMullin on What Works
• "The Case for Zero-Click Content in a Zero-Trust Ecosystem" by Amanda Natividad for SparkToro
• The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han
• Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
• Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff