Ten years ago I got together with John Woong-Sae Jung and Kyu Seok Park and made a 6-song EP in a tiny studio in Seoul, Korea. We smoked cartons of cigarettes in a room without ventilation, drank energy drinks, coffee and booze, and ate cheeseburgers–a classic recipe for productivity in those days.
Anyway, since I discovered this hack I’d gotten very comfortable listening at 1.5X, which sounds like the speakers are incredibly eloquent even after 6 cups of coffee. But then a couple of weeks ago I started experimenting with 2X speed, and when I found out that my new friend, Matthew, does that exclusively, I had to make the switch. Otherwise he wins.
Okay, yes, it will sound like people on amphetamines speaking very demonstratively at first. But your brain will quickly adapt, I promise. Consider how many more books you could read if you 2Xed your reading speed. Now you don’t have to.
This is like hearing a painting being made by a bunch of geniuses in real time.
