Podcasting
Ritual prevents the ordinary from dissolving into invisibility. If you light a candle at dinner, the meal becomes an event. If you walk at the same time each day, it becomes more than exercise. Anthropologists will tell you that rituals function as technologies of attention: certain ordinary acts aren’t trivial, they’re the architecture of meaning.
Often when people are stuck in life it’s because they’re holding out for the delusional possibility of a costless way of getting what they want, instead of just paying the cost
Sasha Chapinx.comI met some of my heroes and some of them sucked; I attended events that were hollow and demented but looked fun online; I eventually realized the best parts of my life weren’t exclusive whatsoever but run-of-the-mill: a result not of being elevated above my peers (on a stage, say) but thrust among them (in the crowd). In time I came to see these po... See more
Haley Nahman • #221: “The tension of staying too long”
Podcasting is where you go when your eyes are busy!
YouTube just announced that 1 billion people watch podcasts on YouTube every month, a remarkable flex. Here's the bigger picture:
1. Edison Research had already cited YouTube as the # 1 destination for podcast listening, but that's always been a US number. Over 90% of YouTube's mobile users are outside of the US, where Android dominates —this has lo... See more
1. Edison Research had already cited YouTube as the # 1 destination for podcast listening, but that's always been a US number. Over 90% of YouTube's mobile users are outside of the US, where Android dominates —this has lo... See more
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