Brace is... a decent writer with unique insight, and more importantly, the ability to self-reflect and process outside criticism, which is pretty important as a former drug addict.
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This is a great read. I also didn't know any of that background information about Brace. Since I've started reading more, I've been consuming a lot less podcasts. The kids have an aversion to them as well, they call them "stories" and I don't fight them over it. I just subject them to my music which to them is just as bad, but sometimes we vibe and it's all good. I think reading and not mindlessly listening to a podcast has built a wall up between me and these creators. Which is good. I care a lot less about what is happening online. His breif point about hating silence in real. I fight against it regularly. I've come to like silence, or at least some appropriate background music.
I still don't understand how people just walk around with earbuds in constantly listening to something. I'll see people driving with ear buds in and I have convinced myself that they simply find it to cumbersome to take them out and store them. I know they're listening to something through. I tried this once with headphones and found the experience terrifying. Never again.
The way he lays out the history of podcasts and is interaction of the political landscape I feel rings true. I was very much a listener of This American Life in podcast form. I tried starting a podcast around that time which suffered from a rapidly growing arms race in the fandom I was building it for. I'm glad I stopped trying to maintain an archive of that on the internet. I'm very sure it was wildly problematic by today's standards. Seeing where those people ended up makes me think I dodged a bullet by giving up on the project.
Anyway. I'd read a lot more of this kind of stuff from Brice. It's good, really good.
I still don’t understand how people just walk around with earbuds in constantly listening to something.
for me it's the 'tism, the predictable noise of an audio book, radio drama, music, or podcast is good for my head
You would think that my ADHD would work similarly but I have the opposite reaction when I have headphones in, which is I become anxious that I'm not hearing something or someone I need to, and thus missing something important or forcing someone to get my attention. Naturally I already have this issue, so its like a doubling effect.
Super relatable.
he's the gay HST