I usually don’t listen to the podcast. I assume, maybe wrongly that the same material is in the essay. I much prefer to read than listen. I retain the information better.
I signed on for your written commentary, as I have for others on substack, which I thought was the original intent of the service. Now it's gotten infused with podcasts and video by those seemingly out for celebrity, or because writing is harder.
I don't watch/listen to podcasts - they take too much time. I wonder that people who do have nothing else going in their lives for them to have so much time.
I rarely have time for a podcast, and Substack programs them poorly, at least for iPhone: they tend to take it over and crowd out other content. Result, I don’t click on video content in Substack. However, when I see one of your posts without a video feed, I always click on it and read it. If I were King, you’d be able to send out parallel posts, and I could choose the one that works for me at that moment. However, that may be too much trouble and too much to ask. Whatever works for you, I’ll try to adapt.
I'm reading on a computer, typically, since the app was leading me down some dark algorithmic misery. Didn't need more ethnonationalists in my life, plenty of that going around already.
Can I read the essay? Like others here, if I access it via email or through Substack read on a browser, yes I can. If I use the app (on an iPad) where I do most of my Substack reading, no I can’t. There podcasts appear as a full page with a blurry background and a few rudimentary podcast controls, with no obvious way to access any attached text. (It is there—I’ll find it occasionally via a fortuitous swipe of the screen, but there’s no clearly marked access point that leads to text content.) Incidentally, podcasts used to be much more accessible through the app—they appeared at the top of a regular Substack post, just like the one you linked to here. Sometime last year Substack introduced their execrable full-page podcast feature on the app which I’ve been living with and hating ever since. To summarize: it seems that those of us who access Cosmopolitan Globalist content via the app are much less likely to be seeing and reading podcast-attached essays. Something needs to be done about how podcasts and their associated content are posted to the app.
The thumbnails on the subscription list show a video icon over the photo so I assume it's a podcast/video which I don't like, so I do not open those with the video icon.
There are people who excel at the podcast medium and people who excel at written content. It's been my experience that only a couple of content creators can do both. I subscribe to you for written content and I have zero interest in adding another podcast to my life.
I don't have enough time to watch more podcasts than the ones I usually check out for AI and economics issues. (Well, also how the Trump admin is creating a police state.) Geopolitics comes third, keeping in mind the considerable overlap between economics and geopolitics. I don't watch your podcasts. That's OK - I subscribe because of what I see in the email blasts coming to my Inbox--high quality stuff. I rarely use phone apps - 80-year-old eyes ill-adapted to phone. Good luck with all that technology and keep up the good work! :-)
Yes and no. On the web it shows the article but on the phone app when you click on it, it opens the audio player and doesn't show the article. Better to keep them separate, imo, as listening and reading are pretty different contexts anyway.
I can see both via that link. Neither showed up in my substack feed.
I usually don’t listen to the podcast. I assume, maybe wrongly that the same material is in the essay. I much prefer to read than listen. I retain the information better.
Me too.
I signed on for your written commentary, as I have for others on substack, which I thought was the original intent of the service. Now it's gotten infused with podcasts and video by those seemingly out for celebrity, or because writing is harder.
I don't watch/listen to podcasts - they take too much time. I wonder that people who do have nothing else going in their lives for them to have so much time.
...and to be clear, that is in the app.
Hi Claire. I can say for sure that at least the last three pods have had essays attached.
My husband works from home so I usually only read the essay...(I'm trying not to be annoying...)
I also see the essay in my email
I never listen to podcasts, much preferring to read. But if there is an essay (or transcript) I'll usually look at it and read it if it interests me.
I HATE the slowness of getting information via podcasts or video.
But then again I'm old...
I see the essay w/ the podcast both on the laptop and in the app on my phone.
PS: I didn’t realize that there were essays attached to the video posts! I have some catching up to do…
I rarely have time for a podcast, and Substack programs them poorly, at least for iPhone: they tend to take it over and crowd out other content. Result, I don’t click on video content in Substack. However, when I see one of your posts without a video feed, I always click on it and read it. If I were King, you’d be able to send out parallel posts, and I could choose the one that works for me at that moment. However, that may be too much trouble and too much to ask. Whatever works for you, I’ll try to adapt.
I see the essays.
I'm reading on a computer, typically, since the app was leading me down some dark algorithmic misery. Didn't need more ethnonationalists in my life, plenty of that going around already.
Can I read the essay? Like others here, if I access it via email or through Substack read on a browser, yes I can. If I use the app (on an iPad) where I do most of my Substack reading, no I can’t. There podcasts appear as a full page with a blurry background and a few rudimentary podcast controls, with no obvious way to access any attached text. (It is there—I’ll find it occasionally via a fortuitous swipe of the screen, but there’s no clearly marked access point that leads to text content.) Incidentally, podcasts used to be much more accessible through the app—they appeared at the top of a regular Substack post, just like the one you linked to here. Sometime last year Substack introduced their execrable full-page podcast feature on the app which I’ve been living with and hating ever since. To summarize: it seems that those of us who access Cosmopolitan Globalist content via the app are much less likely to be seeing and reading podcast-attached essays. Something needs to be done about how podcasts and their associated content are posted to the app.
The thumbnails on the subscription list show a video icon over the photo so I assume it's a podcast/video which I don't like, so I do not open those with the video icon.
There are people who excel at the podcast medium and people who excel at written content. It's been my experience that only a couple of content creators can do both. I subscribe to you for written content and I have zero interest in adding another podcast to my life.
I don't have enough time to watch more podcasts than the ones I usually check out for AI and economics issues. (Well, also how the Trump admin is creating a police state.) Geopolitics comes third, keeping in mind the considerable overlap between economics and geopolitics. I don't watch your podcasts. That's OK - I subscribe because of what I see in the email blasts coming to my Inbox--high quality stuff. I rarely use phone apps - 80-year-old eyes ill-adapted to phone. Good luck with all that technology and keep up the good work! :-)
Yes and no. On the web it shows the article but on the phone app when you click on it, it opens the audio player and doesn't show the article. Better to keep them separate, imo, as listening and reading are pretty different contexts anyway.