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. about why he doesn’t do podcasts. This helped me understand why I mostly don’t either. I’m boring and slow and awkward and if somehow you want to know what I think, read what I wrote, or ask me on twitter. (I do answer most twitter queries.)
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I like it when the interviewer is skilled. They get me thinking in ways I wouldn't think by myself. If you think of it as information being extracted from you from thought processes at various stages of maturity, you will have this reaction.
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I had very good podcast experiences with shane parrish, longform, econtalk among others. I'm completely fine improv-shitposting orally on topics where my thinking is still taking shape. That's the point! People are boring where they've "finished" thinking.
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I don't *listen* to podcasts because it's not a good input medium for me, but I get that a lot of people find it a good way to process stuff, especially in the background with partial attention. So the low density and redundancy/inefficiency actually helps them.
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Oh, that last is an interesting point, particularly! I listen to podcasts (1) while doing my boring stretching routine and (2) on long drives. They really work for me then.
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I think Scott might basically be projecting a trust issue onto a medium. Which is more true of traditional TV interviews etc. where the other side is potentially a bad-faith gotcha journalist. Podcasters are generally good-faith but low-skill.