I mean, if you want a lecture, YouTube has those in spades. I’ve got a few financial reports I listen to month-to-month. They’re very dry, info dense, and getting through them feels like dragging myself across sand paper.
I tend to prefer podcasts that mix in the history and the news with a few joking asides and tangents. Makes the show feel more human and less like I’m supposed to take an exam on it at the end of the week. And, frankly, I’ve found more hot tips in TrashFuture than anything UBS has dolled out.
Ugh yes. Podcasts are so low density for information per minute. No offence if that’s what you’re in the mood for and it can certainly fill a long commute / chore. Just really not my cup of tea.
I sort of hate podcasts. I don’t want parasocial relationships. I don’t want to hear in 30 minutes what I could have read in 3, with better options for following up (highlight -> search vs “what did they say? how do you spell that?”)
They can be, or they can be very dense. It depends what you listen to. Many podcasts are just radio shows that actually do go out over the air, but are also repackaged as podcasts. For those, they tend to keep the information dense. The other kind are the stuff that could never be a radio show because it’s just a few guys chatting for a few hours. But, IMO, those can be valuable too because it’s not being rushed to fit in a certain time slot.
No Such Thing As A Fish: Four QI researchers each pick a fact they find out about and discuss it. Very good and has been going for years. It’s where I get a lot of my useless facts from.
I was a fan until they started talking about something I know quite a bit about. It was like they were regurgitating “facts” from a Ladybird book they read when they were five.
I can believe that. They’re panel show researchers, not some sort of high level expert on whatever so I’ve found that for a baseline of “interesting but maybe not super in depth” it’s fine for me.
If you want to know about alex jones you should check out the knowledge fight podcast, dan the one host who listens to alex then searches for sources to be able to properly rebuke him was brought on as an expert on alex in at least one of the sandyhook trials, dan and jordan do a decent job making the whole thing entertaining though some people don’t like how loud jordan is but he’s just not someone who hides emotions the kind of guy who might be at a real risk to bight trump if stuck close to him for too long
The formulaic objects covers stuff that happen court, episode 930 was fun to see alex uno reversed on when he got told that fire can’t melt stone buildings, episodes 960 and 961 alex waxes philosophical with gpt
‘ArtHoles’ for biographies of some famous artists.
I also enjoyed John Siracusa’s musings and rants about tech on ‘Hypercritical’ — listened through it quite recently, despite it being a decade old. There was one episode where Siracusa went into a diatribe about filesystems and particularly HFS+ for two hours: what some modern filesystems can do and how HFS+ does none of that. It was great. Siracusa is now in the ‘Accidental Tech Podcast’, but it’s more of a conversation deal.
I just miss people talking about something they know in an organized and professional manner.
I just don’t care for random string of consciousness to pretend I am part of a conversation I can’t actually participate in.
Just attend your work meetings bruh
Oh man if only…
But let me loop back to you about this when we figure out our org goals
Sounds like you need a weekly meeting to figure that out
Let’s have a quick call to discuss how to organize these weekly meetings?
I will also rant about something offtopic for half an hour.
Can I call you NOW?
Circle back with me after our next one-on-one
I mean, if you want a lecture, YouTube has those in spades. I’ve got a few financial reports I listen to month-to-month. They’re very dry, info dense, and getting through them feels like dragging myself across sand paper.
I tend to prefer podcasts that mix in the history and the news with a few joking asides and tangents. Makes the show feel more human and less like I’m supposed to take an exam on it at the end of the week. And, frankly, I’ve found more hot tips in TrashFuture than anything UBS has dolled out.
Ugh yes. Podcasts are so low density for information per minute. No offence if that’s what you’re in the mood for and it can certainly fill a long commute / chore. Just really not my cup of tea.
I sort of hate podcasts. I don’t want parasocial relationships. I don’t want to hear in 30 minutes what I could have read in 3, with better options for following up (highlight -> search vs “what did they say? how do you spell that?”)
Seriously.
Annoys me about a lot of youtube videos and documentaries as well.
They can be, or they can be very dense. It depends what you listen to. Many podcasts are just radio shows that actually do go out over the air, but are also repackaged as podcasts. For those, they tend to keep the information dense. The other kind are the stuff that could never be a radio show because it’s just a few guys chatting for a few hours. But, IMO, those can be valuable too because it’s not being rushed to fit in a certain time slot.
No Such Thing As A Fish: Four QI researchers each pick a fact they find out about and discuss it. Very good and has been going for years. It’s where I get a lot of my useless facts from.
I was a fan until they started talking about something I know quite a bit about. It was like they were regurgitating “facts” from a Ladybird book they read when they were five.
I can believe that. They’re panel show researchers, not some sort of high level expert on whatever so I’ve found that for a baseline of “interesting but maybe not super in depth” it’s fine for me.
I know, and I enjoy QI, it’s a great show. But in the podcast they pose as experts presenting facts.
If you want to know about alex jones you should check out the knowledge fight podcast, dan the one host who listens to alex then searches for sources to be able to properly rebuke him was brought on as an expert on alex in at least one of the sandyhook trials, dan and jordan do a decent job making the whole thing entertaining though some people don’t like how loud jordan is but he’s just not someone who hides emotions the kind of guy who might be at a real risk to bight trump if stuck close to him for too long
The formulaic objects covers stuff that happen court, episode 930 was fun to see alex uno reversed on when he got told that fire can’t melt stone buildings, episodes 960 and 961 alex waxes philosophical with gpt
Hmmm. Bite or fight? Both is good.
Nah, bight. Like, address with the slack or loop of a rope.
Like literally bite him
I agree, I want the meat of the story, not pointless banter and sound effects that reduce information d density
Might want to try BBC’s ‘In Our Time’.
Or ‘The History of English’.
‘ArtHoles’ for biographies of some famous artists.
I also enjoyed John Siracusa’s musings and rants about tech on ‘Hypercritical’ — listened through it quite recently, despite it being a decade old. There was one episode where Siracusa went into a diatribe about filesystems and particularly HFS+ for two hours: what some modern filesystems can do and how HFS+ does none of that. It was great. Siracusa is now in the ‘Accidental Tech Podcast’, but it’s more of a conversation deal.