E21
E21: Media misalignment, subjects controlling narratives & more with bestie guestie Draymond Green
2021-02-06 spoken.md · speaker-labeled ▶ watch ← E20 all episodes E22 →
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No tradeable captures — a media-criticism episode plus a Draymond Green interview. First half: Sacks' Tucker Carlson appearance and his Nat Hentoff free-speech framing ('you can't ban speech you hate without eventually banning speech you love'); Reddit/Discord censorship of WallStreetBets adjacent servers; the besties' thesis that every industry is disintermediating the press — venture capital going direct-to-audience (Clubhouse, Andreessen's media build-out, Sriram), athletes doing the same. Press economics: ad model collapse forces clickbait, the Gell-Mann amnesia effect (readers spot errors in their own field and then trust the next page anyway). Chamath's 'atomizing affinity' thesis — trust migrating from institutions to companies to individuals — and his interest in starting a Twitch channel; Ronaldo's $1B Nike lifetime deal generating $474M of social-media value in a single year as the proof point. Second half (35:11 on) is Draymond Green: in-season vs off-season skill development, his shooting mental block, the brutality of the COVID-testing NBA schedule (4-6h days became 10-12h), players out of shape, no release valves; 'I hate the media' rant about clicks over craft (James Harden club coverage vs his actual Rockets effort, the Kyrie two-cycle whiplash); Adam Silver as the reason the NBA is the most player-aligned league; the two-Americas Capitol-riot comparison; his Saginaw-lockdown parallel ('this feels no different than growing up... nothing was accessible'), which prompts Chamath's refugee-mattress story. Chamath predicts Draymond will be governor of Michigan or California before 50 (political, no instrument). Closes with them reading one-star reviews. Nothing with a market instrument or a falsifiable price claim — logged for completeness so the episode isn't re-read. Labels clean (Jason 82, Chamath 65, Draymond 46, Friedberg 42, Sacks 24).