A case for more recorded conversations
You open up Instagram. Scrolling through your feed you see yet another influencer announcing the launch of their new podcast.
“Hah! Just what we need, another podcast,” you chuckle to yourself, echoing the consensus view of a world overloaded with them. Every day it seems more and more people have the gall to think they can contribute to the increasingly oversaturated world of podcasts.
We already have hundreds on every which possible topic–what more is there possibly to talk about? Why can’t people just leave it to the professionals? Between Rogan and Lex and Ferriss and the dozen or so of that caliber, they’re the only ones that can get interesting guests anyway. Everyone else is just drowning us with more noise.
It’s like the legendary mathematician Leibniz said in 1680 about the popular media type of his day:
“That horrible mass of books which keeps on growing, the disorder will become nearly insurmountable.”
With the advent of the printing press, the world was flooded with books. We already had the great books on God but now we had books about the great books. And then there were the books on the sun and the stars and which ones circled which. There were books on mathematics and arithmetic and this new thing called calculus. There were books on politics and social contracts and leviathans. And there were books on philosophy for those who needed to think to prove their existence.
Surely, the last thing we needed was more books… right?
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