Stop Listening to Dev (or Start Up) Podcasts. They're Making You Worse.

Most commentators are either a has-been or someone who never made the team. There is great content, thats not the argument here. It's not hate. That's just true. Sports. Music. Business. Tech. The people in the booth talking about the game are not the ones playing it. If you're a developer right now spending more time consuming content about building than actually building, you might be sitting in the booth and not realizing it. This is the tap on the shoulder. The content trap looks exactly like productivity. You know the loop. Open the laptop. Today's the day. But first, check that Reddit thread about the new framework. Then 20 minutes of a podcast where two guys debate which LLM is better. Then a tutorial you skim, bookmark, and never come back to. Two hours later your editor is still empty. But you feel like you did something. That's the trap. Your brain got fed technical language and new ideas so it gave you the same reward it would've if you actually built something. You didn't.