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Friends,
Today we will be launching our 58th newsletter, Inside Meditation. Over the last decade I’ve been meditating and it’s had a profound impact on my life, lowering stress, making me more focused and fostering a sense of equanimity in my life.
The newsletter will focus on the latest science, techniques and culture around mindfulness. We are starting with two weekly editions, one in our classic top 10 format and the other taking deep dives into the practice.
If you’re feeling stressed by all the news and your social media feeds, I highly recommend signing up. Thanks to Muse for sponsoring the newsletter for the next year — it really means a lot to me and the team to have your support for this important newsletter.
We are currently hiring eight more full-time writers for Inside.com, if you’re interested in working from home and helping us delight our customers you can apply at jobs.inside.com.
We are also considering a couple of new newsletters in the coming months, you can vote with your email here:
Inside.com/nocode
Inside.com/music
Inside.com/apps
If you have other ideas for newsletters, hit reply
All the best, Jason@calacanis.com
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1. I recently spoke with an iHeart executive about the company's process for determining awards nominations and category fit. The executive responded that the company "[has] a panel that makes these decisions, and it's not just iHeart people." She sent me the list of the panelists, which I published in this newsletter yesterday. Since then, I've received a number of responses from representatives of the companies and organizations that were included. Here's an example:
We were asked to vote on winners, yes. However, we were not at all involved in selecting who the finalists would be. That was done before it got to me. We were simply sent a voting form with all of the finalists already on there, and told that is who we had to pick from. No write-in option or anything.
I heard this same thing from others, including Podnews' James Cridland, who posted a detailed article on the matter this morning.
I've reached out to iHeart for comment; if anything comes of that, I'll report it here.
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3. Follow Friday: I'm not really a watch-this-adorable-video-of-a-cat kind of person. For one thing, I hate cats (sorry but they're mean). And for another, forced cuteness is just, UGH. But I stumbled across @akkitwts' Twitter feed the other day and now, Oh My God WHAT IS HAPPENING — it's brimming over with cat videos, amazing humans, gorillas using sign language, babies beat-boxing, and just-rescued dogs and I'm just overcome with drippy, sappy love. Seemingly overnight I've become that annoying colleague who yells, "Wait, guys, I know you have an urgent meeting, but you've GOT TO SEE THIS VIDEO." I just, I can't stop.
You ever have a hard day? A hard week? Don't worry, Akki's got you.
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4. The third season of Family Ghosts begins on December 4. According to the season trailer, the podcast (which investigates the true stories behind "a mysterious figure whose legend has followed a family for generations") features long-lost fathers, long-lost brothers, descendants of U.S. slaves, and more. To celebrate the upcoming season, host Sam Dingman and his team are producing a live show at Caveat in Manhattan on December 3. (get tickets here).
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6. The creators of Dolly Parton's America and Moonface have both released playlists inspired by or heard within their shows. The Dolly list features songs from the country goddess herself, Rhiannon Giddens' band The Carolina Chocolate Drops, the Dixie Chicks, Faihruz, and others. Moonface's list includes work from a number of musicians including OYSTER KIDS, Joyce Kwon and Peggy Gou. I will be listening to both!
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8. Hyperobjects Industries' Adam McKay has partnered with Adam Davidson and Laura Mayer over at Three Uncanny Four Productions, to create "an exclusive joint venture to develop original podcasts." McKay and Davidson have partnered on a number of projects in the past including Surprisingly Awesome, and the more recent Broken: Jeffrey Epstein. Former Wolf Den producer Harry Nelson rounds out the team as its resident producer. According to a story in Deadline, the unnamed enterprise will produce both "scripted and unscripted" programming (please see a rant on this wording here) and will begin releasing content in 2020. — DEADLINE
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This newsletter was written and curated by podcast junkie and recovered publicist, Skye Pillsbury. Over the years, Skye has crafted digital media strategies for brands like Yahoo! and Microsoft and worked regularly with media outlets such as the New York Times, Rolling Stone and NPR. Skye was famous for 49 minutes when she and her son were featured in an episode of Gimlet Media’s Heavyweight podcast. Follow her on Twitter @SkyePillsbury.
Editor: Kim Lyons (Pittsburgh-based journalist and managing editor at Inside).
We're at work on Season 2 of the Inside Podcasting podcast and hope to have more to share soon. In the meantime, you can catch up on the first season which included interviews with:
Ian Chillag, the creator of Everything is Alive
Jessi Hempel, who hosts Linked In’s podcast Hello Monday
Martine Powers, who hosts Post Reports from the Washington Post
Leon Neyfakh, the co-creator of Slow Burn, who is now the host of Fiasco
Madeleine Baran, the investigative reporter behind In the Dark
and Inside CEO Jason Calacanis, who hosts This Week in Startups
You can find the show wherever you get your podcasts. Let us know what you think!
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