A Motorcycle for the Mind
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Nivi: Hey, this is Nivi. You’re listening to the Naval Podcast. For the first time in recorded history, we are not at the same location. I am actually walking around town and Naval might be doing the same, so there might be some ambient noise, but we are going to try hard to remove that with AI and some good audio engineering.
Naval: Podcast recording is so stilted, because it’s like you have to sit down and you schedule something, and you have this giant mic pointing in your face and it’s not casual. It makes it just less authentic—more practiced, more rehearsed. I get that it produces maybe higher-quality audio and video, but I feel like it produces lower-quality conversation.
Nivi: And we…
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