Podcast episodes are kind of the new longform writing, for better or worse

When people have important ideas they want to communicate in depth - they go on a podcast to share them, they don’t write an essay or blog post

Or maybe they use the podcast as marketing for the written piece - but most people end up just consuming the podcast and not reading the work

think it also tracks with the type of content ppl consider “important” changing. Explanatory essay seems less interesting now than the narrative dialogue

Who are some of these ppl?

And are transcripts available?

How much of this is attributable to ppl getting worse at writing overall these days do u think