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“If you never got paid for podcasting, would the skills and relationships you developed be enough to keep you doing it? If the answer is ‘no’, I wouldn’t pull the trigger.” – Tim Ferriss

In the inaugural episode of Deviate, Rolf goes meta and talks about podcasting with bestselling author and lifestyle-design guru Tim Ferriss (@tferriss), whose newest book, Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World, debuts this week.

Update (12/07/17): An abridged transcript for this episode is now available online in blog form, as “Tim Ferriss on his 17 principles for how to create a successful podcast.”

Links:

Podcasting Tools

• Ecamm Call Recorder (28:04)
• Zencastr (28:08)
• ATR2100 USB Microphone (28:38)
• Zoom H6 Recorder (1:15:24)
• Zoom H1 Recorder
• Shure SM7B Mic
• Audacity (software)
• Auphonic (postproduction web service)
• Yellowtec: iXm (self-enclosed mic)
• Evernote (web application)

Other links

• Rolf Potts on the Tim Ferriss Show
• Ed Catmull on the Tim Ferriss Show
• Arnold Schwarzenegger on the Tim Ferriss Show
• Edward Norton on the Tim Ferriss Show
• Dom D’Agostino on Ketosis and the End of Cancer on the Tim Ferriss Show
• Nick Szabo: The Quiet Master of Cryptocurrency on the Tim Ferriss Show
• Jocko Willink on the Tim Ferriss Show
• Debbie Millman on the Tim Ferriss Show
• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant, by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
• “1,000 True Fans,” by Kevin Kelly
• Joe Rogan podcast
• WTF with Marc Maron podcast
• Nerdist podcast
• James Lipton (interviewer from Inside the Actors Studio)
• Terry Gross (interviewer from NPR’s Fresh Air)
• Serial podcast
• Spirited Away (2001 animated movie)
• Agaric mushroom
• Tentacle erotica

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