Overwhelmed By Sheer Volume of Podcasts & Videos? How to Find Signal Within the Noise, and Refocus Your Content Consumption
<p>Last night we were watching an episode of Lego Masters as a family and Evil Will (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Arnett" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Will Arnett</a> the host) appeared. At the end he left to “go do a podcast” with normal Will exclaiming “Noo — there are too many podcasts already”.</p>
<p>As I’m starting to develop more and more content (and learning how hard it is to do it really well) this feeling comes up quite a bit. At the same time, the power of the small audience with YouTube has constantly amazed, and uplifted, me as I search for something that is an obscure maker interest of mine, and find some wonderful, useful YouTube video that already exists to help with this.</p>
<p>I must confess, though, that I’ve often gotten overwhelmed with podcasts and video offerings. There are lots of ways this can happen. It mostly happens when I “subscribe” to rather than search for videos or podcasts. In general, I get instantly overwhelmed — there is so much content already on most channels, and I don’t have time for it. I consider this massive volume of content offerings an anti-pattern that ‘keeps noise-levels high’. (<em>An anti-pattern is a commonly offered solution to a problem that superficially looks helpful, but actually generates negative consequences; in this instance, I think that serving people truckloads of content seems initially “helpful”, but actually creates a burden of visual noise and cognitive overwhelm.)</em></p>
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