The Space Between

Podcasters with 5,000 downloads, 100 downloads, or in the case of this show, roughly five downloads, are suddenly worried they need video or their show will become irrelevant. The video-versus-audio debate is real at the scale where shows have hundreds of thousands of listeners and ad revenue to protect. At every other scale, it's mostly a distraction. Video adds complexity to the editing process,...

Algorithms get a bad reputation, mostly for good reason. But posting about Widow's Bay on Mastodon and Bluesky and getting almost total silence made me think more carefully about what algorithms are actually bad at versus what they're quietly good at. Those platforms are built around who you follow, not what you care about, so if you don't already have the right people in your feed, you're posting...

Podcasting gets none of the algorithmic help that TikTok or Instagram Reels give you. When you drop an episode into a feed, there's no machine surfacing it to people who don't already know you exist. I've been sitting with that reality on my morning walks lately, and the honest answer is: the freedom from algorithmic control is real, but the cost is a near-total absence of feedback. No replies flo...

A friend posted to a private list feeling forgotten, expendable, not interesting or important enough. I read it and felt it immediately, because I know that feeling from the inside. The gap between what you know and what you feel is what makes it so hard. I can run through the list of people who genuinely care about me and still wake up the next morning feeling like garbage because nobody noticed...

Widow's Bay on Apple TV+ sits in a strange and comfortable place between horror and comedy, leaning hard into the horror while using comedy as seasoning rather than the main course. Unlike Shaun of the Dead, where the jokes are front and center and the horror serves as backdrop, Widow's Bay inverts that dynamic entirely: the horror leads, and the comedy keeps things from going relentlessly bleak b...

My theme for 2026 is simple: more whimsy. More silliness, more lighthearted experiences that don't need to justify themselves with monetization, user growth, tokens, or AI slop. Just fun for its own sake. Roost is the app that crystallized this for me. It's a social messaging app where your messages are carried by virtual birds traveling at roughly the speed a real bird would fly between two locat...

A post about the Survivor finale sparked a real back-and-forth with Eliza, a former contestant, and pulled a whole pocket of Survivor fans into the thread. That kind of spontaneous, cross-cultural collision is exactly what made early Twitter worth checking, and it's what Threads is quietly recreating. The platform has somehow managed to stay culturally mixed and largely tolerable, whether through...

Aubrey won Survivor 50, and of the three people sitting at final tribal council, she earned it by doing something the other two didn't: she told a story. Joe and Jonathan rattled off moves and challenge wins like a résumé. Aubrey connected the dots, made it personal, and gave the jury something to hold onto. There's a fair asterisk around how much speaking last helped her, but she had the slot and...

Detail is an iOS app for recording multi-camera video on your phone, and it does more than most people expect. You can run the front and back cameras simultaneously, bring in other participants on their own iPhones or iPads, and record podcast interviews whether everyone's in the room or connecting remotely. The app handles the multi-angle cutting automatically, which removes a significant chunk o...

In this first post on Subwave, I explore what the platform appears to be and why it caught my attention. Subwave comes from the team behind Detail, the iOS video and audio editing app, and represents their move into social media and podcast creation. The platform blends content creation tools with social sharing in a way that feels distinct from typical editing apps or social networks. Rather than...