Transcript
Mike Chen (0:00)
Foreign.
Mallory O'Meara (0:06)
You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better. I'm author and book devourer, Mallory o'.
Bria Grant (0:13)
Meara. And I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker and e reader. This episode, we're talking about reading while doing other activities. Is it a good idea? Is it bad idea? Does multitasking exist? We'll examine. Plus we test out the popular walking pad. I'm here at Mallory's to give you a live test, let you know how it goes. And we interview Glasser favorite, Mike Chen.
Mallory O'Meara (0:33)
Very exciting. But first, Bria, what are you reading?
Bria Grant (0:35)
I am listening to a book that came out a year or two ago, maybe just last year. It is in why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and what to Do about it by Cory Doctorow. You know, I love Cory Dr. I know you do. I read his science fiction books, but this one, not science fiction.
Mallory O'Meara (0:51)
I wish it was, but it's not.
Bria Grant (0:52)
Yeah, we're living through the great in Shittening. Basically, it's like, here's all the things that we rely on and we need and here's why we've made them bad and how we've made them bad. We start with going like, you know, what's good is like Kindles, wow, they can provide such great opportunities for us to read and anyone can read. But here's how they got gradually worse to the point where now they're not useful to us anymore and they are shitty. And so how we get there and he. He takes everything, he goes like iPhones, he goes, Amazon. Like all these things that we. At first we're like, oh, isn't it great? Isn't it great that we have Twitter and we can talk to each other and like, how the great and shitty fighting happened. It is. It will make you really mad.
Mallory O'Meara (1:33)
I'm already really mad.
Bria Grant (1:35)
Basically, it's like, here's the policy choices that they go. We don't care about our users. We don't care about the people involved. We don't care about what. We just start to care about money. And so we're going to make it shitty for you. If you want to be mad, this is a great book. It also kind of helps you understand where you are.
Mallory O'Meara (1:52)
Yeah, I think it might be good for me to read because I think a lot of us are having that feeling of like, everything is really feels really bad right now and everything. Nothing works anymore and you don't really know why.
