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Matt Ruby on Comedy, Mindfulness, and Why Algorithms Are Ruining Everything
Yesterday, I sat down with Matt Ruby, a comedian who's somehow managed to turn drug experimentation into art, philosophical wisdom into punchlines, and crowdwork critique into a manifesto. What started as a chat about joke writing quickly devolved into an exploration of why we're all slaves to Chinese algorithms, how meditation is the antidote to everything, and why tension might just be comedy's secret weapon.
Matt's an inventive comic. He once did a special called Substance where he performs the same material drunk, high, on mushrooms, and sober – not because he's reckless, but because he's…
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