The best way to respond to criticism is at such great, vacuous length, you exhaust them to the point they give up and go away
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tips for low-cost production of that great and vacuous length? I can point to concrete examples of people doing this, maybe, in the wild, and they are beautiful. I think the responder put in a good twelve hours a pop, though.
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Trump! Any dictator in fact. Seems to be a primary job qualification, being able to drone on for hours daily to a captive audience.
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In your line of work many gurus do this too. Producing tapes that go on for dozens of hours used to be a primary cult growth-hack. College roommate used to listen to Art of Living (Ravishankar) tapes... hours daily saying nothing in a soothing ASMR voice. Annoyed me no end.
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Ah yes. People who follow me may note that my current 15,000 word thing is painfully long but written with zero repetition, on purpose. That makes it a very steep interpretive cliff, but I refuse to waste people's time in the other direction, by like podcasting or something.
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I've thought about trying to do content isomorphism--long audio for people who like that, but utterly credibly (to the audio-haters) truly saying absolutely nothing more than what's in the written material, so that the audio-haters never, ever have to deal with the long versions.
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It’s hard. I’ve tried that with just reading written texts to make podcasts but it’s tough to not deviate. Easier to have someone else read the audio I suspect.
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Another reader would be tempting, to avoid that deviation pressure. But maybe (especially?) problematic to have another reader for meditation-related writing. Maybe a collaborator would read my stuff w/ the right vibe, though.
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Why even do a meditation app if you're going to have voiceover artists, instead of meditation masters, record the tracks? These profit-seeking reductionistic know nothings are polluting the world with 'dead words.' 
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