Podcasts are very unique thought publishing platform in the sense that the content is raw, unfiltered, and quite slowly consumed.
Overtime, I’ve learned (thanks to Sly and Jeff Bezos) that verbal conversation is the most inefficient form of communication. I compare the two parts of verbal conversation here:
- Talking
- Doesn’t reflect the craftsmanship/poise of writing
- Doesn’t reflect the empathy of body language or facial expression
- Fastest throughput between thought creation and output
- Quite raw and unpolished
- Listening
- It doesn’t offer the pacing of reading
- Doesn’t offer same visualization as watching
- Can be quite dissociated with an individual’s environment
- Easy to do passively
Additionally, - ideas from conversation are easy to forget - lots of meaning is lost when speaking, ideas are easily misinterpeted - gpt3 application - it is very hard to map out the information and ideas conveyed in podcasts for the future. This is a data cleanliness problem
It seems like the biggest winners in the bucket of podcast stakeholders are the podcasters themselves. Podcasting is a great excuse to strike conversations that can pass the small talk stage. It’s also a great exercise for asking the right questions—are you able to conjure questions such that it injects energy into a conversation rather than bleeding it out?
I will be starting a podcast with my friends when university starts again.
Some great podcasting tools:
- Descript
- Cappucino