I’ll keep it brief. I started a podcast because I thought it would be fun. Covid had an unusual effect which is that through social distancing, it caused an increase in person-to-person communications through Zoom and the like. I noticed it because I switched from doing in-person workshops to online workshops. Demand grew, and cost structure of producing workshop education shifted from large fixed costs to small fixed costs and the ability to scale.
But the main thing I noticed was that it made talking to people through Zoom normal. Everyone was doing it. It just was a part of life. And that meant no one had to be coached on things like installing software to do a podcast series. I could just assume they already had Zoom installed, already used to having Zoom invites showing up in their calendars, and just trust that our mics, while not perfect, would have to work. And so far it’s worked. It’s been a lot of fun.
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