Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn’t all a dream? ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
I know we often think of our podcast episodes as building up—drip drip drip!—a body of work. We also think about the long-term availability of those episodes; We’d like them to be playable far in the future. Those are cases of our thinking of our body of work as a gift to others, or in service of others.
Many times I’ve encountered an old episode of mine and found it triggers memories and thoughts—that’s obvious.
But I’ve never really thought of intentionally treating them as souvenirs. They really are though. Each podcast episode is a souvenir of our experience of our guests (if we had one) and certainly of our experiences all around the finished audio. That’s exactly what a traditional souvenir is…
Some artifact that has special meaning to you. When you experience the souvenir, it recalls an experience that, literally, only you had.
I’ve long had a digital photo frame set up with photos chosen from 20+ years of digital photography. 500+ visual souvenirs that change, very slowly so I don’t notice it changing. Just a constant delight of visual souvenirs.
I’m thinking I should build a tool that just reminds me to go look at the web page for a random, older episode I’ve done. A sort of, “hey, remember that time you did this episode?”
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