Acemoglu: Poder, Progreso e IA en el Trabajo

You know, John Lennon, he's got that famous quote, "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." That's what happened to me. I never thought I would be doing a podcast on podcasting, writing books on podcasting, or doing anything related to podcasting other than my own podcast, but here we are big podcast. Here's the deal. I ended up with a podcast on podcasting. It was called Big Podcast Daily. And the reason I had Big Podcast Daily is that I was part of a challenge called Napaad Pomo, which is National Podcast Post Month. It's kind of a funny name, but it comes from Nano Write Mo, something national novel writing month, 30 days of writing to make a novel. A woman in Jennifer, she thought that it would be interesting to do something similar with podcasting. She said 30 episodes in 30 days. I said, "Okay, great. That sounds fantastic, but what am I going to podcast about?" I decided to do a podcast about podcasting. I called it Big Podcast Daily. Now I did that for 150-something days. I kept on and on and on. Eventually, the Daily became not seven days a week, but five days a week, and here we are now. It's called Big Podcast Playbook. But kept it up. Start writing books about podcasting because I was having so much fun. I say this to say I want to talk about National Podcast Post Month. It is coming up in about a month, it's November, and it may be an opportunity for you. I'm thinking about possibly doing my own variation of this at the first of the year, and I don't want to take away from Napaad Pomo. I think you should do that one, and do the one that I'm going to do maybe first of the year, January, May will do February, have 28 days instead of 30, because it's tough. Getting the reps in, though, is important. And because of that, I wanted to mention it to you. Here's what the website says. It says, "30 days to find your voice, make 30 episodes by November 30th. This is assuming you're starting November 1st. Start a show, revive the feed, or experiment with a new format. The goal is not perfection. It is discovering what happens when you keep making." And I think that's important. We've got to go through this difficult process if you want to get where you want to go. Let's talk about it here for a minute. If you're new to podcasting, if you're already podcasting, either one of these things is going to be good for you, because if you're new, you're going to get reps behind the mic. And this could be literally a five to seven minute podcast. It doesn't have to be complicated. It's you showing up every day recording something. And before you can record it, I suggest you have an outline. You might want to script it. Then you're going to want to edit it, and then you're going to publish it. So those three things, maybe four. Doing that over and over again, you're going to get quicker. You're going to get better, more efficient. You're going to know what works and what doesn't. At the end of those 30 days, you're going to go back to that first episode and think, "Man, I wasn't that good. I thought I was okay, maybe." Or I was nervous, but now I'm less nervous, and now I'm better than I was. And if you're already podcasting, I like this to do a breaking routine. Test to format. Maybe you've got a buddy you want to do a co-hosted podcast with. It's good for you to show up and do whatever you want to every day. And that's what I talk about with that sticky middle. This is coming up November 1st, 1st through 30th, all of November. Here's what I said. She's actually got a quote. And this is what got me thinking about. She said, "Can I use your quote on the front page of this? Because this has been so influential for me." As in the podcast, you start as never the one you end up with. To me, one of the best parts of Napaad Pomo, by releasing so many episodes in such a short period of time, you figure out what works and what doesn't work a lot quicker than you would with a more traditional release schedule. So think about that. 30 days from now, November 30th, at the end of Napaad Pomo, if you want to wait to start, you don't have to wait to start. You could do it right now. You're going to be better. You're going to be more clear on what it is that you want. You're going to have a better podcast than you would have. Will you be tired? Yes. Maybe burn out a little bit. Yeah. That's what I'm thinking about doing mine in February, 28 episodes. Regardless, it's a fun time to do it with Napaad Pomo specifically. You've got a great community around you. I think it's a great opportunity for you to be a better host. Maybe you just want to read. You could be a better reader. Will you take random things and you read them? And this is something I do every day outside of Napaad Pomo. I'm about 1,500 days in, only because I accidentally skipped a day. I had about 2,000 before that. So you're talking close to 10 years of doing this practice of reading, improvising, thinking on my feet. These kind of podcasts do help. The difference with Napaad Pomo is at least according to me, it's going to be something you want to edit. You're part of something that other people are going to be sharing their work with each other. Maybe you want to do that. You could get some new listeners, get people excited about what you're doing. There's maybe a little more stakes than you would have with something like I have this secret podcast that really doesn't get any listeners. I don't even say what the name of the podcast is. I've got a couple of Monday secret podcasts, if you want to look for them, but everybody's a secret podcast. She says, "One, choose your experiment, two, make your 30, three, finish together." So consider that. Consider Napaad Pomo. It ain't a bad deal. And it's a lot of fun in that community there. If you're looking to do podcast with other people, you're feeling like you're all alone. You're not going to be all alone with Napaad Pomo. Quick transition for you. I am recording this with Audacity 4.0. The last episode of this podcast talked about Audacity 4.0. A couple of things have come up since that podcast episode. One, I just recorded it on Audacity 4.0. I hadn't used the export features. I hadn't gotten into the editing. And as a podcaster, I talked about this with the Napaad Pomo experiment. You're going to want to edit because you've got people listening to your stuff. Editing not as easy on Audacity 4. I'm waiting for the update any day now. Because the selection of audio, it's not that great. You'll select audio, play that selected track. But it doesn't play that selected track or it keeps going or it goes where your cursor was before. So the selected audio playback, that's a little bit weird. The other thing is exporting each individual track that you record. The way I do this right now, I've got a monologue track. I've got the guy who says. Big podcast. That's on a different track. If I put any kind of music, different track. And I need different tracks to be exported individually. I don't want them all on a master track when I go to editing, when I go to mastering. That master track, where everything is on the single track, that's only for getting listened to. If you're a multi-track person like me, Audacity 4, probably not ready for you. It's going to be soon, I would imagine the next week or two. By the time you hear this, it might already be available. It's audacityteam.org. There's some other little things that are weird. A lot of people are really upset about it. Because they got used to doing something a certain way for years and years and years and years. Not a whole lot of updates on the interface and how the thing worked. It's arguably a better mouse trap. It is better than it was. But not catching all the mice. Let's leave it at that. I'm going to end it here. You can find me bigpodcast.com. If you want to subscribe to this. Do that 28 out of 28 days together. Or now pod pomo. 30 episodes and 30 days. Bigpodcast.com/subscribe. That is where to go. You'll find three buttons. One for Android, one for iPhone, one is an RSS feed. Three buttons. You pick one of them. You'll subscribe to every episode. You will never miss one. You want to unsubscribe good. We can still be friends. But I hope you at least check it out. That is where to go. Pick one of those three buttons. And I will see you on the next episode of Bigpodcast Playbook.