20yr DF Reader, lacking content
Love DF. Have read it since its first year, absolutely love the brevity. Full of content. /// Not sure what happened that Gruber thinks his readers have hours of free time to listen to insufferable tech bros yammer on endlessly. I’ve already got Pivot for that ;-) Heck, even at 1.5x this show sounds slow. Needs a firmer script, a heck of a lot of editing, and probably some sort of gap detection to get it to a 20 minute gem. Because one thing is for sure, I’m very interested in the content, there’s just very little of it.
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