Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Joe is planning to have Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, back on his podcast for a round 2
• About 50% of his Joe’s podcasts listens come from his Youtube uploads (it used to be only 10%)
• Joe accepts sponsors for his podcast, while Sam’s is supporter funded through his website
  • “My philosophy getting into advertisements was – I’m gonna do whatever the fuck I want to do, 100%, and not allow it to have any impact whatsoever on the content of my podcast. Whatever advertisers I’m going to make deals with, they need to understand there is no way I’m going to change the content of the podcast. If I lose them, I lose them. I don’t care.” – Joe
• Sam has some good thoughts on the future of digital media:
  • On Facebook, the users are the product – their attention is sold to advertisers
  • Companies like Netflix charge a subscription
  • “I’m hoping the digital future looks more like Netflix and less like Facebook”
    • “Ads have anchored everyone to the illusion of free – everyone expects their content for free”
• Your behavior at any point in time is the result of a cumulative force of influences and societal conditioning, much of which is out of your control
• A great quote from Sam:
  • “You can learn that when you suddenly feel anger, if you just pay attention to the experience of it, if you just watch the mere physiology of it, and get out of your thoughts about it, and just become interested in it….the half life of the emotion is seconds. It’s impossible to stay angry for very long if you get out of the story you’re telling yourself about why you should be angry.” 
• It’s a superpower to say to yourself – “Do I really need to stay angry about this?” or “How useful is it to stay angry about this?”
• We should be teaching children at a much earlier age how to self-regulate emotions by becoming aware of them

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Sam Harris is a neuroscientist and author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape. His podcast called “Making Sense” is available on iTunes & Stitcher.