Editor's Note: This was supposed to be posted last, last thursday. Sorry, Drew!
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I'm writing this from work because, well it's Thursday and I haven't written anything yet. I'm kind of under the gun here.
At
my wife's suggestion I wrote a whole post about burritos. Luckily for
all of you I developed some sanity before going too far with that, but
I'll keep it in my back pocket for someday when I'm really desperate
for ideas.
It's kind of ironic that, given
how hard it is sometimes for me to come up with anything to write about
week after week, I've been seriously toying (oxymoron?) with the idea
of starting a podcast.
Now overall,
starting a podcast is dead simple. You record something, somehow, then
put it on the... web? Right. It's easy to get started, but I'm
historically a starter.
You know how some
people are non-starters? I'm a starter, i.e. a non-finisher. It's
gotten so bad that within the last few years I'm such a non-finisher
that I've almost flirted with the idea of becoming a non-starter
altogether. "Close the loop" as they say in the boardrooms of America.
I've
read David Allen's crap-tacular fiction piece "Getting Things Done" and
cruised the websites that it's inspired. One of the few concepts that
I've managed to take away from that is the "Someday" list. Mine is
growing.
I do however want to move the
"Start a Podcast" from "Someday" to "Today", which is fairly trivial to
do. The problem is that I would like to be sure I do so in such a way
that it doesn't move right out of "Today" and into "Yesterday". I want
to be sure I've set myself up for success, as it were.
Sorry, sitting in this office just brings out the CEO Bingo in me.
My
main concern obviously is with TIME. When the hell am I supposed to do
this? I can barely scrape together 10 songs worth of a time to write a
blog post, much less record and edit a podcast.
Then
of course there's content. I'm leaving time out of the equation for now
and focusing on what the hell I'm supposed to talk about. There are
many facets to my life, including some never really discussed here (my
day job, for one), so I've got several areas of interest I could ramble
on about.
In other words, I can bore the shit out of you people six ways from Sunday.
Advice welcome.