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I don't think it was short-sighted. I think his point, while partly intended to be funny, of course, was that spending 12 hours to inject a certain amount of information is inefficient if the same substance could have been gleaned much more quickly in the form of concise, curated chunks of text.
On the other had, you don't have to listen to the podcasts in one session or one day.
And really with the amount of time you will be spending building your startup, 12 hours is nothing. :-)