Episode one: why slowly

There is no guest in this one. It is eleven minutes explaining why a podcast about people who work in decades needs to be recorded in their workshops rather than a studio, and what I intend to do with the silences.

If the room is doing something, the room is part of the interview. I would rather have a compressor than a clean take.

In this episode

1. 00:30 What this is, and the three rules.
2. 03:10 Arrive early, ask nothing for an hour.
3. 06:00 Why I am not going to edit out the pauses.
4. 09:15 The one question every guest will get.

Mentioned

• The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
• Field Notes, the letter this grew out of
• A car battery, on which the next episode depends

Recorded at my own desk, which is the only episode that will be.