I love Dwarkesh's guests.
My problem with this podcast, is that the host talks too fast.
I have found this rushed "fast" talking amongst westerners, but few seem to complain about it. Any one else experience this?
My problem with this podcast, is that the host talks too fast.
I have found this rushed "fast" talking amongst westerners, but few seem to complain about it. Any one else experience this?
I wouldn't say it's representative of westerners, but more of hyper-active, eager intellectuals (over-represented in the programming world, from my experience). Marc Andreessen is another example of someone who talks very fast.
As an aside, some people whose first language is not English speak English too fast, because their first language uses fewer phonemes and hence uses a higher syllable rate to reach the same information rate. I wondered if that might be the case here, but this sounds like a native speaker.
So, for many urban middle-class Indians, English is actually their "first language" as in the language they know best, even though it might be the third language in the order that they learned it. (Actually, even the notion of learning them in an "order" applies only loosely because you'd be learning all 3 languages at the same time).
This is also true for many Chinese people. E.g. a person's mother tongue may be Shanghainese but eventually they learn Mandarin and English to a much more advanced degree than Shanghainese.