Episode 422: Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel is editor-in-chief of The Verge\xa0and hosts the podcast Decoder.\n\n\u201cThe instant ability\u2014unmanaged ability\u2014for people to say horrible things to each other because of phones is tearing our culture apart. It just is. And so sometimes, I\u2019m like, Man, I wish our headline had been: \u2018iPhone Released. It\u2019s A Mistake.\u2019 \u2026 But I think there\u2019s a really important flipside to that \u2026 a bunch of teenagers are able to create culture at a scale that has never been possible before. Also, a bunch of marginalized communities are able to speak with coordinated voices and make change very rapidly. And that balance\u2014I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve quite understood.\u201d\n\nThanks to Mailchimp for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow Notes:\n\n@reckless\nPatel's archive at The Verge\n02:00 Decoder\n02:00 The Vergecast\n03:00 Recode Decode\n08:00 Platformer (Casey Newton)\n12:00 "Mark in the Middle" (Casey Newton \u2022 Verge \u2022 Sept 2020)\n22:00 Patel's archive at Engadget\n26:00 Processor (Dieter Bohn \u2022 Verge)\n28:00 "Foxconn Is Confusing the Hell Out of Wisconsin" (Josh Dzieza \u2022 Verge \u2022 Apr 2019)\n28:00 "Foxconn Says Empty Buildings in Wisconsin Are Not Empty" (Josh Dzieza \u2022 Verge \u2022 Apr 2019)\n29:00 "Condo at the End of the World" (Joseph L. Flatley \u2022 Verge \u2022 Nov 2011)\n45:00 Stratechery (Ben Thompson)\n45:00 Kevin Roose on Longform\n45:00 Charlie Warzel on Longform\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices