Novel
topic on 4 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
the Knowledge Project 
the Neon Show 
the MAD Podcast 
the a16z Podcast
4 statements about Novel, every show
Socher: Moral panic over chatbot friends mirrors early reactions to novels
“There's also some amount of moral panic about chatbot friends, similar fashion to how novels used to be a really bad thing.”
Doing one creative endeavor well temporarily empties the creator's well
“The great part about doing one creative activity well, whether that's a startup or a, Novel is that it takes all of what you have as a human being, I guess, and you pour it into that creative activity, and after that, in a way, the well runs dry.”
Hugh Howey: Writing One Hour Daily Yields a Novel in a Year
“One hour a day of writing, you'll write a novel in a year, guaranteed.”
Johnson: Novels train brain empathy systems better than other art forms
“Novels, in a sense, train the, kind of, empathy systems in the brain because you're sitting there like projecting your own mind into the mind of another listening to their inner monologue, their kind of consciousness in a way that almost no other art form can …”