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All Things Tech! A New Podcast

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Episode zero of a new Podcast : ) It is still early days and might change over time. All feedback is welcome, please be as critical as you want since we are all learning!

This first episode includes a brief discussion on the state of tech jobs in the current climate.

It is available at the following locations and is 20 minutes long, to not overly burden listeners' time since they all will have things to do!

Spotify

Apple

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EDIT: The next episode is up! It is at the same links above.

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  • I was able to listen today. Production-wise, you guys did a great job. It did not sound like your first podcast, which is no easy feat!

    For what it is worth,I see no reason to limit yourselves to 20 minutes for the audience's benefit. Limiting your recording time is for your benefit, not ours. I am unsure where this notion comes from, but many podcast hosts often bring it up. "Oh, we don't want to go on too long because you are busy!" So? Personally, I have never had the expectation of listening to an entire podcast episode in a single session. I listen in 10-15 minute chunks throughout the day.

    Just looking through my queue, the shortest episode I have waiting is 45 minutes, and the average is almost twice that. Just my two-pence.

    Anyway, I think you guys did a great job, and I look forward to the next one!

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  • I was able to listen today. Production-wise, you guys did a great job. It did not sound like your first podcast, which is no easy feat!

    For what it is worth,I see no reason to limit yourselves to 20 minutes for the audience's benefit. Limiting your recording time is for your benefit, not ours. I am unsure where this notion comes from, but many podcast hosts often bring it up. "Oh, we don't want to go on too long because you are busy!" So? Personally, I have never had the expectation of listening to an entire podcast episode in a single session. I listen in 10-15 minute chunks throughout the day.

    Just looking through my queue, the shortest episode I have waiting is 45 minutes, and the average is almost twice that. Just my two-pence.

    Anyway, I think you guys did a great job, and I look forward to the next one!

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  • in reply to baldengineer

    Hi James,

    Thanks for listening, and for the feedback!

    We didn't get a complete consensus from an unpublished hour-long "pilot" we shared with some colleagues, some didn't mind even 2-hour podcasts since that was the length of time they listened to existing ones occasionally.

    Others suggested covering just 2 or 3 core subjects with a time limit of 10 minutes or so. Another suggested short and sweet, and another mentioned that it should be mixed up, some quicker ones and then some deep dives that could be longer. From what you say, perhaps we have gone to an extreme of trying to keep it at 20 minutes, and we should just extend where needed, and as a few people also mentioned, to not switch topics so much.

    The next podcast is already recorded, it ended up being close to 25 minutes because although we were keeping an eye on the time, we forgot. I'll let my colleague know that we shouldn't be afraid to extend longer instead of an artificial stop. Also with longer podcasts, we could either split and publish several in a day, or chapterize it, by writing in the written description (since it's harder doing it in the audio stream since we are not editing it, we are doing just a single take) what will be on the recording so people can fast-forward if they are not interested in one topic but are interested in another.

    Thanks again for the feedback, probably we were a little nervous at the start, but hopefully it will improve rather than go downhill as it progresses!