Announcing Merge Commits, my all-new podcast (sort of)
Okay, so hear me out. Last year, I started my first podcast: Breaking Change. It's a solo project that runs biweekly-ish with each episode running 2–3 hours. It's a low-stakes discussion meant to be digested in chunks—while you're in transit, doing chores, walking the dog, or trying to fall asleep. It covers the full gamut of my life and interests—from getting mad at technology in my personal life, to getting mad at technology in my work, to getting mad at technology during leisure activities. In its first 15 months, I've recorded 33 episodes and I'm approaching an impressive-sounding 100 hours of monologue content.
Today, I launched a more traditional, multi-human interview podcast… and dropped 36 fucking episodes on day one. It's called Merge Commits. Add them up, and that's over 35 hours of Searls-flavored content. You can subscribe via this dingus here:
Wait, go back to the part about already having 36 episodes, you might be thinking/screaming.
Well, the thing is, with one exception, none of these interviews are actually new. And I'm not the host of the show—I'm always the one being interviewed. See, since the first time someone asked me on their podcast (which appears to have been in June 2012), I've always made a habit of saving them for posterity. Over the past couple of days, I've worked through all 36 interviews I could find and pulled together the images and metadata needed to publish them as a standalone podcast.
Put another way: Merge Commits is a meta-feed of every episode of someone else's podcast where I'm the guest. Each show is like a git merge commit and only exists to connect the outside world to the Breaking Change cinematic universe. By all means, if you enjoy an interview, follow the link in the show notes and subscribe to the host's show! And if you have a podcast of your own and think I'd make a good guest, please let me know!
Look—like a lot of the shit I do—I've never heard of anyone else doing something like this. I know it's weird, but as most of these podcasts are now years out of production, I just wanted to be sure they wouldn't be completely lost to the sands of time. And, as I've recently discussed in Searls of Wisdom, I'm always eager to buttress my intellectual legacy.