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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Jun 2019
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      Strikes me I’ve never “entered” a medium through the front door prescribed by playbooks. When I started blogging I read a bunch of blogging about blogging things and made sure to break almost every “rule”. Always sneak on through the ventilation ducts.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Jun 2019
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      Keep it short —> I went long 2-3 posts a day —> I went 1/week Find a niche —> I went all over the place Network with other bloggers —> I mainly relied on book reviews to build up momentum Not a deliberate contrarian hack-the-pods-loop plan. I am just too lazy to stick to plans

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Jun 2019
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      I tend to sincerely start with a playbook, then slouch into the laziest adjacent schtick I think I can stick to and then add idiotic stuff for pure lulz Seems to work Wonder what that schtick could be for podcasting

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Jun 2019
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      Like one thing that immediately depresses the hell out of me is that interviews/2-person conversations seem to be a podcasting staple. No way in hell I have the energy to do that regularly. But then how do I avoid podcasts turning into me droning on in monotonous monologues?

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        2. Nadia‏ @nayafia 21 Jun 2019
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          Seems to be: podcast for dialogues, YouTube channel for monologues Not sure why that is though, I'd happily listen to monologue podcasts

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Jun 2019
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          🤔

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        2. Britt Crawford‏ @britt 21 Jun 2019
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          I think you answered your own question. Unless you’re doing magazine show style pieces, it’s dialog or you invent something new

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Jun 2019
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          Dammit

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        2. Noah Rosenberg‏ @nrose 21 Jun 2019
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          …? I liked all the podcasts I’ve heard you interviewed on. you’re a thinking partner, right? Why wouldn’t the podcast be “_x_ thinks with vgr”? I’d love to hear @farnamstreet think with you

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Jun 2019
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          Too much work to produce, not improv enough

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Jun 2019
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          Ooh nice

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        2. Nate Angell‏ @xolotl 21 Jun 2019
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          Same way you avoid it on Twitter? 😃

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Jun 2019
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          Short 20 second podcasts threaded together? 🤔

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