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On the Harmful Obsession of Podcasting as a Discipline
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I’ve been a Podcast Producer, and an expat in a foreign country, for over two years now. A necessary function of having a career in podcasting is that the discipline itself became the focus of my professional development. Getting great at podcasting… sounds awesome, right?
However, over the last few months I’ve been thinking differently about how the world is moving around podcasting as a format, the in-fighting about drastic technical changes, and I’m wondering if we’re all in too deep. Whether we’re focusing too much on Podcasting: The Discipline and ignoring the more important part of what podcasting creates: the opportunity to share your voice, expertise and stories with the world.
This week I’m going to share three specific instances in the last few months where I’ve thought about podcasting knowledge, how much of it helps us create our shows, and how its too easy to get absorbed in the mics, tech, optimising format structure, and podcast news.
Its a distraction and might be limiting how well we can create the podcasts we want to put out into the world, but a moderated approach to seeking podcasting knowledge specifically can help reduce that obsession.
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