Since most people who produce information of any form written, spoken, visual, musical, whatever, produce very little that is novel or interesting, and since I

Since most people who produce information of any form written, spoken, visual, musical, whatever, produce very little that is novel or interesting, and since I can skim to find the interesting parts or new-to-me parts in written material much easier than I can in any of the others, including podcasts, the bar to me listening to a random person's podcast is much higher than the bar to me reading an article on some random person's blog. There are some great podcasts out there, but the standards are much higher than for writing and it's way harder to get noticed if you aren't already known for something else[0]. [0]: I mean, you can get noticed for courting controversy or being super political or something, but that is entertainment.