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Most podcasts I listen to these days consist of someone interviewing someone interesting. Since the supply of interesting people is limited, Pareto distribution
by osigurdson 4y ago
Most podcasts I listen to these days consist of someone interviewing someone interesting. Since the supply of interesting people is limited, Pareto distributions start to dominate.
- dredmorbius 4y agoThere's also a bandwagon effect, which means that once someone Becomes Known they are Suddenly Everywhere. A terrific antidote to this has been the New Books Network, an audio universe of literally hundreds of channels and many thousands of episodes on the back-catalogue. Topics, content, technical quality, interviewer quality, and recently advertising intrusiveness are all over the map, but despite all that, there are in fact many excellent episodes, a huge back catalogue, and a selection of interviewees and topics which I'd otherwise have entirely missed. There are of course some well-known (or at least known) names, but many I'd otherwise never have come across. Note that a specific episode may appear on multiple channels, but you can also focus or diversify your interests and discovery by picking topics with which you're both familiar and unfamiliar. <https://newbooksnetwork.com/ https://newbooksnetwork.com/>
- kzrdude 4y agoRegrettably, it seems like the once great 99% invisible has passed into covering the long tail. So yes, maybe they have covered all and done their best work and don't have that many ideas for great episodes left.