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mezzrow's avatar

Podcasts that are "information dense" like yours should outperform those that are less efficient in being actually useful for staying informed. My advice is to keep that as a metric for future plans.

People who think (your audience) are focused on maximizing the yield from their time.

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Tucker Chisholm's avatar

I find myself more inclined to listen to a podcast episode if the topic discussed feels evergreen. Keeping up with the constant news cycle is impossible, and each topic is memory-holed after two weeks, so what was the point of listening to analysts pithy takes for hours a day?

I think that when people are expecting a crescendo politically and culturally then the (feeling of) immensity of moment seems to draw in more news consumption and opinions on current events. But weve seen the battles that we engaged in turn into forever-moments, or be swept away without the long-due victory various factions feel they are due.

If its just gonna be business as usual forever then my intrigue in a podcast is based on acquiring lifelong wisdom, not on learning the fleeting happenings of the day

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