Alexander Prähauser ( https://alexanderpraehauser.com/ ) is an artist and mathematician living in Austria. Alexander and I discuss the legacy of J.R.R. Tolki...
Yeah this kinda mirrors my experience but I stopped listening to him quickly because I have hangups about doing the “background noise” thing, except with more entertainment-focused content that I don’t feel like I have to take at all seriously. I usually really want to get something out of the things I listen to, and Varn’s output has been… very low density on that front, to the point of boredom? Idk. Maybe I’m too judgemental but I don’t want to spend oodles of time listening to “just some guy who reads a lot” talk about stuff, I want them to be able to condense it, synthesize it in novel ways, or at least just regurgitate the content in another form without losing comprehensibility and meaning (so that I can choose to listen rather than read for example, when the occasion calls for it)
I listen to him as background noise while working sometimes. Sometimes there are interesting tidbits, but God damn can it be meandering and unfocused.
I wish he cited better in the notes, because I don’t want to go searching through three hours of audio to find the one book he mumbled out
Overall, he seems like a guy who would be more interesting to talk to then listen to lol
Yeah this kinda mirrors my experience but I stopped listening to him quickly because I have hangups about doing the “background noise” thing, except with more entertainment-focused content that I don’t feel like I have to take at all seriously. I usually really want to get something out of the things I listen to, and Varn’s output has been… very low density on that front, to the point of boredom? Idk. Maybe I’m too judgemental but I don’t want to spend oodles of time listening to “just some guy who reads a lot” talk about stuff, I want them to be able to condense it, synthesize it in novel ways, or at least just regurgitate the content in another form without losing comprehensibility and meaning (so that I can choose to listen rather than read for example, when the occasion calls for it)