Don’t despair if you’ve wrapped your identity around a dude on a podcast.

Whether it’s a “hit piece” or not, I promise you there’s a hundred more Huberman clones waiting in the wings to take your time, attention, and money away from your family and friends.

This is my podcasting tech stack:

Your stack:&10;Php&10;Objective-C&10;Deno&10;Cargo&10;Angular&10;Svelte&10;Tursodb&10;Ionic&10;Node&10;Go

I’m both sides of this meme. Which is why I edit podcasts. 😆

Meme showing two muscle men shaking hands, one side captioned “engineers who can’t code” and the other side is “designers who can’t design” and the handshake below is “WordPress”

I have a podcast client who talks about how important it is to be professional, tweak your artwork, episode titles, etc. and then the next client I’m editing has a guest who’s having amazing success hitting record, not editing at all, and just publishing.

I love that both can work in this medium.

Friday lukewarm take: If your podcast app features clips of Joe Rogan’s podcast in any promotional images, it’s an immediate red flag for me.

My pessimistic hot take: Video for podcasting is overhyped and by the end of 2024 (if not sooner) many shows will either be back to audio only, or have dropped off the map due to budget / time constraints trying to keep up with video.

A selfish suggestion: Micro.blog should treat it’s version of podcasting the same way it does the posts and make it easy to cross-post the episodes to other podcast hosting platforms like Transistor.

I’m convinced this is the same guy at 29 and at 54 and nobody can tell me otherwise.

Screenshot of the Rich Roll podcast episode with Cal Newport as the guest.

My Friday $0.02 inspired by Monday’s ShopTalk Show: Don’t ask for ratings or reviews for your podcast, ask people to link to your podcast from their blog.

Do you need a video version of your podcast on YouTube or do you just need to submit your podcast via RSS to YouTube so people can subscribe there?