On the 8 Spot

You Create Your Own Stage, The Audience is Waiting!

+written on a fortune cookie found by Stephen Eley

I wish people take this to heart,

Start your Blog,

Start your Band,

Start your Novel,

Start you Startup,

Start just Start,

Your Audience is Waiting!

Got the quote of th day from an escape pod pod cast. Since I walk to college and generally think while walking (truth be told I do a lot of my thinking during my walks to school) and since starting work, doing my thinking during my daily commute podcast was not really an option for me since if I had my headphones on and my normal absent mindedness while walking I was bound to die early.

I started getting addicted to podcast because of TED talks, and the various pod casts that the Bayesian Heresy blog links to. I must say that I find it hard concentrating on one task alone, I usually can concentrate when I am ignoring another task.

Enter podcast, since last week I’ve been working in a no internet access mac mini and doing lots of work, my only source of distraction is the podcast. The pod cast acts as the thing I am ignoring and its done wonders to my productivity. That said It’s not that I am not able to listen while working rather i seem to like thinking of two things at once, a light thinking task (listening to podcast) and a heavy thinking task (work/studying stuff). I suspect that this is the reason that I am not a good exam taker, except when they allow you to bring an mp3 player, or you can sing to yourself while taking the exam.

That said , specially for people who do not have full internet access at their terminals podcast may give you enough information to give you a sense of learning some things beyond what you are doing. Helps you develop orthogonal skills that may be useful in another future situation.

I’d even burn you a cd of some of the podcast in my machine if you ask me.