The Python Podcast __init__

Check out https://www.pythonpodcast.com/steven-lott-learn-to-code-episode-283/. This was a fun conversation on Python and learning.

We didn't talk about my books in detail. Instead, we talked about learning and what it takes to get closer to mastery.

It's a thing I worry about. I suspect other writers worry about it, also. Will the reader take the next steps? Or will they simply think they've got it because the read about it?

My First Webcast

http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3255

I'm a pretty good public speaker. But I've avoided webcasting and podcasting because it's kind of daunting. In a smaller venue, the audience members are right there, and you can tell if you're not making sense. In a webcast, the feedback will be indirect. In a podcast it's seems like it would be nonexistent.

Also, I find that programming is an intensely literate experience. It's about reading and writing. A podcast -- listening and watching -- seems very un-programmerly to me. Perhaps I'm just being an old "get-off-my-lawn-you-kids" fart.

But I'll see how the webcast thing goes in January, and perhaps I'll try to do some podcasts.