With five minutes work you’ll be set for life with an endless podcast queue. — The famous podcast discovery problem states that even with millions of episodes to choose from, it still feels difficult to find new shows that you’ll like. There is a very simple solution to always having an endless list of amazing things to listen to. I’m so confident this solution works…

Put your podcast knowledge to the test. — Last year a few podcast newsletter writers and I teamed up to make some podcast riddles for a contest. The idea was to have our audiences guess a four line rhyming riddle with a visual that acted as an additional hint. Now that the contest is over, I wanted to…

Do you want to learn for pleasure, or do you want to take action? — There are many kinds of non-fiction books, and they can be categorized in nearly infinite ways. One interesting way is to bucket them very broadly by what you hope to accomplish by reading them. Two such buckets could be non-fiction where you can learn something interesting about the world, and…

And little thoughts to go with each — 1. Podcasts are like an order of large fries. They are much better if you share them with your friends. 2. Wouldn’t it be amazing to show off your “podcast bookshelf?”

For that special podcast person in your life — What if we imagined a world where podcast Valentine’s existed? For the amount of love and joy they bring people, why don’t podcasts have a whole Valentine’s niche on the internet? Candy and cards and everything. A huge missed opportunity if you ask me. Conversation hearts are everywhere this time…

Pale Blue Pod is a new podcast about space that could scratch a special itch for science lovers — The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. That quote from Carl Sagan is one of my favorites. It’s poetic, and also quite literal. Every single element that makes up the earth, and all of us, was forged…

Use these images instead, or easily make your own using AI like DALL-E 2. — It’s no secret for anyone who reads or writes about podcasts that the images that go along with the writing can be incredibly bland and repetitive. It’s endless microphones and various other podcasting equipment. …

Take ten minutes to improve your next year of listening — Most podcast apps now come with powerful features that are easy to overlook, and all it takes is around ten minutes playing around with a new app to get yourself up to speed. …

While legacy publications rush to cover podcasts, independent publications have been documenting and celebrating its growth for years. — Podcasting started as a tiny satellite orbiting the binary stars of Radio and Internet, but over the years, it’s grown in size and influence. The increasing gravity of podcasts has pulled an impressive collection of media into a stable orbit, full of analysis, criticism, reporting, and conversation.