I created a podcast (and it's just for me)

Every Monday morning a new episode shows up in my podcast app next to all the regular shows I listen to. It's about 35 minutes long, the host covers everything relevant to my work that week and how I might apply it, and nobody else can hear it.

It's made from my weekly intelligence brief, a ten-page report my AI operating system writes for me every Sunday night from more than 70 sources. The brief is genuinely valuable. The problem was that I'd stopped finding time to sit down and read it. I do have time on the school run, on my runs, and while I'm making dinner, but then only my ears are free.

So one night, awake at 3am with jet lag after flying home from Minnesota, I asked Claude whether we could turn the brief into a podcast. It took about two hours. Claude rewrites the brief for the ear first, because a page full of bullet points and links doesn't work spoken aloud. Then Google's text to speech narrates it in a voice I picked, and the episode goes to a private feed my podcast app checks on its own.

It runs every Monday at 6am with nothing for me to approve, which is rare in my system. It costs about $0.96 an episode. And the same idea works for any report, newsletter or set of meeting notes you never quite get to.