When I listen to podcast hosts like Lex or Rogan or Cowen, I'm partly listening because the interviews are great. But they're entertainment, after all.

The real reason I'm listening is because I want to understand how they ask questions, why they're so good, how to be that good.

With Cowen, he just asks by far the best questions of anyone I have ever listened to.

He's like a turret gun. He doesn't let up. You can bullshit one thing or another, but he just keeps going, and then just as quickly zooms out and jumps across the material so effortlessly.