One thing that makes me eager to upgrade to the next-gen iPad when it comes out (…and I’m actually seriously contemplating the 12.9″ this time around) is how fabulous it is to be able to do the entire workflow for things like cameras on it with just normal cables.

It is already my default device for photo editing (Lightroom on iPad is 💯) and I think it’s going to be my default for podcast editing after having done Winning Slowly 8.03 in Ferrite. (To anyone interested in podcasting, I’d absolutely recommend Ferrite over anything else out there at this point. The experience of editing a podcast with that app and an Apple Pencil is just phenomenal.)

This is, perhaps, a little odd, but: one of the little things I’m most excited about with Winning Slowly right now is that — at long last, and years overdue — we’re actually doing something with Patreon. We’ve had it, and had minor benefits for it for a long time. Now we’re taking it seriously: keeping it up to date, publishing extra materials there, etc. Crazy talk, I know!

I just got curious so I looked up: Winning Slowly has published 120 episodes in the last 6 years! Sloooow but steady (as is only right 😂). Averages out to ~20/year, which is surprisingly high given the last couple years, but we were churning them out fast those first couple seasons.

Podcast pet peeve: interview hosts who talk over their guests, and don’t even bother to smooth it out with a light edit. It makes it really clear you’re not actually editing at all, and frankly shows a lack of respect for both the guest and the listeners!

As of 15 minutes ago, my almost-7-years-running Winning Slowly cohost Stephen Carradini and I have now published more episodes this season than any previous. Good job, us!

Really enjoyed listening to this podcast episode with my friend¹ Stephen Carradini discussing social media from his vantage point — both as a Christian and as a professor at ASU focused on the subject. Give it a listen!

Consider this your friendly semi-regular reminder from me that a really tightly-edited podcast is an enormous amount of work. A ~30-minute Winning Slowly episode normally takes a solid 3 – 4 hours of “production” work!

In the “weird things I happen to knock out while migrating from my old machine to my new machine” bucket: Run With Me is back up and working. 😂

Who knows, maybe I’ll start recording again once I’m over COVID! Post-COVID spring training in 2022 could be a fun topic.

I keep having to remind myself that it would be unwise to commit to spending the time to do a Wheel of Time reaction podcast with Jaimie, because it sounds obnoxiously fun.

Feeling melancholy this morning as we put Winning Slowly on indefinite hiatus. It was time, but it’s always strange to wrap up things like this.

Did do something very fun for the wrap-up, though!