Nick Statt

We got a lot of incredibly positive feedback over the summer when Eli was out for parental leave.

So thank you for that.

It was really awesome to see some other people in the decoder chair and to see everybody have a lot of big thoughts on what those guest hosts brought to the show, what we should do differently, how we might improve.

So thank you for those.

Yeah, the first question we have is from listener Joe Rodericks.

It's actually a two-part question, Nilay.

The first part is, do you really read all the emails?

And that must be exhausting.

His second question is, he gets a ton of value from the decoder questions, which he's actually started asking candidates in job interviews, particularly how they make decisions about

So he says, I can't believe I'm going to suggest this, but I'd love it if there were more in-the-weeds decoder-type questions about business decision-making.

So his question is, Nilay, what questions do you want to add to the decoder question list?

So we've gotten a bunch of good topic suggestions from listeners.

One of them, Laura Cracknell, is a librarian in the UK.

She says she would love for Decoder to talk to some information professionals about what it's like in the current moment.

She says libraries are where lots of normal people end up for tech support and computing.

They're a vital lifeline for people who might not have digital access.

They're also at the front line of the free speech war.

She's also writing that in particular in the U.S.

right now, public libraries are under siege and they're a canary in the coal mine for the health of democracy.

So, Nilayi.