New essay:
Phantom Fluency
Why listening to smart people doesn't make you more thoughtful. You're not bad at remembering podcasts. Podcasts are bad at being remembered.
New essay:
Phantom Fluency
Why listening to smart people doesn't make you more thoughtful. You're not bad at remembering podcasts. Podcasts are bad at being remembered.
@tg “Podcast listening inverts the spacing effect perfectly. You hear an idea once, in full, with no review, no testing, no return. The conditions for forgetting are ideal.”
Yes. And they are too long. Instead of a 30 minute podcast discussing and dissecting one topic, they skip through topics like a newsreel.
In the end you don’t remember anything specific. And you only just skimmed the surface of the topic.
@tg I like your idea about a podcast player that it shouldn’t look and work like a music player.
Maybe one day you can explore a podcast app in the vein of Current?