6 tweets · October 2022 · 20 likes · 0 retweets · read on Twitter
@EyalShay2 it's not necessary nor sufficient, but the fact that he has the convos live in person with nice mics definitely helps I was enjoying a basically-unedited video call podcast convo recently and the guest's mic was really bad, and it was definitely a turn off
@EyalShay2 and it looks like he was doing that since podcast #1 (tho the mics have gotten nicer) youtube.com/watch?v=Gi8LUn…
@EyalShay2 also when I sorted his youtube from oldest to newest, I discovered that before he started those interviews, he'd posted 60+ videos, many of which were "quick insights": short edits of others' quotes the sort of thing that goes decently viral youtube.com/watch?v=yjOV3x…
@EyalShay2 and he'd also posted some famous people guest lectures at MIT, which have 100k+ views thus probably he had 100s or 1000s of subs before ep1 youtube.com/watch?v=9Z06rY…
@EyalShay2 but let's face it, he also had Elon Musk on for episode 18, and you don't get that through any amount of being a good interviewer. youtube.com/watch?v=dEv99v…
@EyalShay2 although interesting, after ep12 he posted this video of just himself, which has 1.4M views (idk how many were back then or more recently) so arguably he earned a bit of his attention via stuff like that too, idk youtube.com/watch?v=O5xeyo…