I love criticizing and love making things work better. So I’m standing, baking in the subway, waiting so that I can go home and bake some more, and get a podcast idea. I was listening to the Business Week Tech podcast–it’s like tech for your mom, if you know what I mean (no offense mom). Usually my mind is working quite a bit faster than the speed of talk, and usually I can’t verbalize well because my mind is trying to spout out something that’s 17 words and 2 thoughts ahead. I sound like a bumbling fool. So I thought, why not speed up podcasts…especially slow ones. I don’t mean Alvin and the Chipmunks style, but I’m pretty sure I could handle 25% faster on most podcasts. Then I thought, wow, what if I could speed it 2x or 3x faster, and still understand? I think I just invented something…speed listening.

Examples (courtesy of NPR): Here’s normal. Here’s fast ( 1.6x faster). Not too bad right? Here’s super fast
(2.083x). Yeah, not very relaxing but you get your shit done quick. I bet with a little practice, and a cleaner compression algorithm, I could get used to 3x.

Photo below: We need to have another damn dinner party. It’s been too long. People, come here, I’ll cook!