"[Listening to podcasts while doing other things] doesn't feel like it eats away at other time, except—and this is the real key to me—it eats away at your brain's time to just be your brain on its own. If you're always filling your mind with the thoughts of others, how do you know what you think about anything? This is another place where I feel concerned about this attentionness of the modern world. ... all of a sudden the podcasts are just eating up all of the mental space of my life. I'm just listening to other people talk about things. ... it is eating away at chunks of time where the brain has nothing to do. And this again I feel like, goes right back into the idea of an attention-deficit disorder society."
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CGP Grey from 1:32:10 in H.I. #108: Project Cyclops, Hello Internet on YouTube (30 August 2018)
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