#1564 - Adam Alter

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6 • 228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Adam Alter is a Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business and the author of two books, Drunk Tank Pink, and Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Joe Rogan
0:02.0	The Joe Rogan Experience
0:06.0	Train by day Joe Rogan Podcast
0:08.0	all day
0:15.0	Hello Adam. Hey Joe. How are you? What's going on?
0:18.0	Yeah, not too bad, thanks. Not much happening.
0:21.0	Just the pandemic.
0:22.0	Uh, I really enjoyed your book man. It's terrifying and
0:26.0	accurate and irresistible. Thank you, I appreciate that. When you write a book like that. When you write a book like that, I mean, first of all, the irony is not lost on me that we're doing an electronic
0:40.2	show about avoiding electronics.
0:45.0	Like it's so much of a part of our life,
0:48.0	our addiction to all these devices and games and applications and all these different things but yet we use them
0:55.1	constantly.
0:56.1	It's such a weird balancing act, isn't it?
0:58.6	Yeah, it is a weird balancing act.
1:00.9	I think a lot of people who write about this stuff and think about it really just
1:05.2	focus on all the negatives. They're obviously massive positives, right? This is a time when we're being forced to
1:10.2	physically distance ourselves from other people and yet we are incredibly
1:14.3	lucky to be able to carry on conversations like this to be able to connect to other people
1:18.2	through screens and so screens are in many ways great but obviously there are downsides as well.
1:24.0	Yeah the good thing is that people can work remotely and I think there's a lot of people
1:28.0	that are recognizing that. It's not really necessary to be in a cooped up office all the time and many people are
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