Sometimes if things are really low signal:noise I've gone up to 2.5 lol.
But yea if it's really something I'm taking time to chew on I'll slow it down. Or, often enough, take what I heard and throw it into AI to dive deeper. I had Gemini basically make Tom Luongo and Simon Dixon have a debate that I directed the other day after their back to back appearances on Simply Bitcoin which helped get my head around what Tom meant when he called Simon a London asset.
It's just important to remember that podcasts are more like a dashboard, and not a replacement for real research. They put things on your radar, but at least most of them don't go much below the surface. And as anyone who's used radar knows, MOST of your radar is pretty ho-hum. But you continue to use it because when it puts that one blip in front of you, it can change everything.
I've done the same thing with RSS for years for news, just skimming hundreds of headlines a day. Ir's how I found Bitcoin when Slashdot covered it in 2011. Something I picked up after reading Transmetropolitan. The big thing to remember is to leave enough time for the actual deep dives. Rather than more surface scanning. When I find myself not getting to my reading list is when I start looking for podcasts to cull or at least get more selective about listening to.
Cykros
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