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Re: Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes

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Sure, but so are tabloid newspapers, glossy magazines and junk food. (Edit: These are other examples of billion dollar industries that equate to low quality experiences you can choose to give yourself, but which will have longer term implications.)

That's such a BS comparison. What's the negative externality of listening to podcasts?

Consuming information distracts you from producing work. Similar to watching television, reading newspapers, and browsing internet.

Re: Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes

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I love podcasts and I'm glad for any service that helps me find useful content. That said, I'm not quite getting how I'm supposed to be using this. From a consumer viewpoint, I have a front page recommending episodes and a weekly summary. I get that, cool.

Now if I want to heart episodes to tell other listeners about episodes I particularly enjoy...I go to the website and search/submit the episode...I guess?

Anyway, I'm interested - I just wanted to share my first impression in case it was useful.

Re: Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes

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post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's such a BS comparison. What's the negative externality of listening to podcasts?

Consuming information distracts you from producing work. Similar to watching television, reading newspapers, and browsing internet.

Bullshit, I listen to podcast while working all the time and it doesn't affect my productivity

Re: Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes

#77
Since there is relatively little information on the linked page, I'll put some questions I have here.

1. How does it work? It would appear the list is user curated. New submissions are from users (via submit) and ranking is based on hearts? Is there any future plan to be able to associate # of plays with a given episode (not sure if podcast app apis allow this).

2. In relation to #1 (an asked already by others), how can I subscribe to this in my podcast app?

Re: Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes

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Recently noted down my favorite podcasts I love. It's a bit hard to keep up at times even with 2x/2.5x speeds and smart speed on with Overcast. There's so much good content out there. https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/podcasts

Solid stuff! Just what I have been looking for!

Re: Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes

#79

Please show podcast date; I appreciate you need to bootstrap signups by having Sam Altman on your front page but the product is not just useless but actively wastes my time when I can't tell if this is new content. (The Sam Altman interview is from Nov 2018 and this info is concealed by podnami)

Why this obsession with "newness"? If the podcast is crap because nothing they are talking about is new enough, then maybe you're better of not listening to it. If it's good content and discussions, they'll be timeless.

>good content and discussions, they'll be timeless.

It really depends on the topic.

Something like 99 Percent Invisible is pretty evergreen. An interview about AI research? Something from a few years ago is probably going to be a bit dated unless it's about fundamental principles. A podcast that deals primarily with current news/politics/etc.? I'm probably not going to be interested in something a year old.

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