I just figured out how to 10x my podcast consumption.
Here's the problem we all face:
My podcast list keeps growing. Huberman. Diary of a CEO. Tim Ferriss. Breaking B2B. Marketing Millennials.
But I never have time to listen to them all.
They are all freaking awesome, but one episode each wee,k each x 15 podcasts.
I don't have 15 hours.
Sound familiar?
So I tried something different.
I used the COMET browser to pull the last two episodes from each podcast and create summaries.
First attempt? Generic AI $it. Just bland copy that taught me nothing.
But then I refined my prompt:
"Give me practical tips and actionable insights with short stories."
The difference was night and day.
I learned right away how to use the Signal and Noise concept from DOAC and how it helped Steven Bartlett fight his own noise.
Instead of boring summaries, I got real takeaways like:
Steven reflects on a period of personal struggle—friend Pablo’s illness and grief, while launching global business expansions for Flight Story. He realized that ambition often drowned out true priorities. Steven started using two columns—Signal for non-negotiable work, Noise for delegation or delay. He references advice from Apple’s Johnny Ive: “How many things have you said no to?” This helps him, as a creative, not to burn out or get lost in endless ideas.
That's something I can actually use.
The key was asking for stories behind the insights.
Stories stick. Generic advice sucks.
Now I can absorb the best ideas from 10+ podcasts in the time it used to take me to listen to one episode.
The real lesson?
Don't just consume content. Extract what matters.
Your time is too valuable to waste on information that doesn't change how you work.
What's your system for staying on top of all the content you want to consume?
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