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📚👨🏽‍💻📝 … armcharing all the things!

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I am really interested to hear if @bcantrill.bsky.social got access to Gemini’s Daily Listen, and if it lives up to his prediction about curated podcast! I heard @oxide.computer and friends prediction episode just couple of hours before learning about Daily listen. Still on waitlist …

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@oxide.computer recent pod on Tech Conferences is a must listen. I wish I was in the chat to ask - how do you find great conferences?iirc I remember reading @simonwillison.net building something in the early days of Twitter that’d discover conferences from social graph. What’d that be in 2024?

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🎧📚There’s a lot to love about #audiobooks. Reading is really a one way conversation because the author isn’t around to tell you the story in person. However, a few things need to change with audiobook players.

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📞 Recall. Finally, the elephant in the room. You already have an opinion on this. And like you I deeply care about this topic, but believe it’s a separate problem/product than audio vs written books.

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I am genuinely curious to learn what good ways you are listening to audiobooks that making it more rewarding. May be audiobooks are fine the way they are. Everything need not be perfect. Everything need not be about speed. Just enjoy the rough edges.

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🎧📚There’s a lot to love about #audiobooks. Reading is really a one way conversation because the author isn’t around to tell you the story in person. However, a few things need to change with audiobook players.

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🔖Clip and Bookmarks. While they are useful tools, buried deep inside the menu, I wonder, if they are widely used. Most of the time your hands are tied up, and if it’s not just in time capture - it’s too much friction to get back to it.

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🏃🏽Speed. With practice you can increase your reading speed without sacrificing understanding or comfort. But cranking up the audio speed only makes them sound like Mickey Mouse … listening at 2.5 the speed is caping it.

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🎧📚There’s a lot to love about #audiobooks. Reading is really a one way conversation because the author isn’t around to tell you the story in person. However, a few things need to change with audiobook players.

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⏯️ Review. Sure, I can go back 30 seconds and re-listen, but that’s just a proxy for every device that the printed format uses for separating ideas - sentences, paragraphs, page.

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📝 #Notetaking and #Highlighting. These two are essential for condensing and anchoring ideas, which help in making long term connections. What if we could pause to record a short audio note that’d annotate the timestamp? What if like Kindle highlights, popular audio notes came with the book?

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