i'm trying out podcasts!
see the thing is, i've always struggled with my concentration. it's almost definitely because of the ADHD lol. it's been a lifelong problem: i try to watch something, i get bored halfway through, and ultimately stop watching due to some distraction or whatever. therefore, i always ruled out the whole medium of podcasts as something i couldn't try, because i always thought i wouldn't be able to focus.
that changed with one podcast on youtube: the runthrough. it's a podcast by two former olympian figure skaters (adam rippon & ashley wagner) and a figure skating fan/researcher named, funnily enough, sarah hughes (no relation to the 2002 olympic champion!). and as i've gotten back into full-time figure skating fandom since the olympics (i'm not a filthy 4-year fan, i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob), it's been fun to listen to new episodes as they come out!
maybe i've been able to focus on the runthrough because it has a visual component through its youtube videos? i don't know for sure, but i never really keep the tab focused as i listen. i usually multi-task while listening. with that, i realized: maybe this could work!
just yesterday, i decided to fully commit, after my friend roland mentioned a new ice dance-focused podcast called the flattest edge. i installed GNOME podcasts, a desktop podcast client, and i've enjoyed its simplicity so far, even if i'm not huge on the GNOME UI, and added some podcast RSS feeds:
- the runthrough (duh)
- the flattest edge (duh, again)
- the pen addict (i've been getting into stationary lately lol)
- ruminate (i love robb knight's blog)
- hemispheric views (obligatory tech podcast)
- dead code (history of the software industry! i love mess!)
- citation needed (reading & discussing wikipedia articles, totally my thing)
- 2.5 admins (sysadmin-ing yayyyy)
i got some of these from recommendations from friends! i do plan to listen to more (i actually haven't listened to half of that list yet, there's only so much time in the world!), especially what my friends have recommended, but i'm taking it one step at a time.
oh, and i made a little page on my site eunoia: a podroll! it's just a list of the podcasts i've listened to. i'm not adding more until i've listened to at least one full episode, so right now it's just the two figure skating podcasts + ruminate.
i'm really hoping i can get more into podcasts. i think nonfiction/conversational topic-related ones appeal to me best, so i'm sticking to those so far. i doubt i'll be able to juggle a ton of podcasts at once, but again, we'll see.
if anything, i'll definitely be listening to the runthrough and the flattest edge a lot lol. there's always that, in case the others don't work out for me.
