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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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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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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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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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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…? 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 think with you
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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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You could use light background music to theme sections, like headings in a blog post.
But your writing is already masterful for challenging ideas/connections, use podcasts for a different experience (~live brainstorm, emotive rants, etc.), only things that wouldn't work in text.
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