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Diary of a CEO is doing something genuinely damaging to indie podcasters. Not maliciously. The damage is the business model.
Hi, I'm Neal Veglio, The Podmaster.
In this episode, I'm breaking down exactly why comparing your show to mega-podcasts like Diary of a CEO, High Performance Podcast, and Young and Profiting isn't just unhelpful — it's statistically irrational.
Using Phil Rosenzweig's Halo Effect, Nassim Taleb's Silent Graveyard, the Columbia Music Lab experiment, and Daniel Kahneman's narrative fallacy, I'll explain the intellectual architecture behind why these shows exist, who they're actually designed to serve, and why their 'success strategies' are largely retrospective fiction.
You'll hear why the gap between what these shows promise and what they can actually deliver is not a flaw — it's the product.
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Useful links:
Phil Rosenzweig's The Halo Effect summarised: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klngdRa8nOI
Nassim Taleb's Fooled by Randomness: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Chance-Markets/dp/0141031484
The music lab study: https://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_dodds_watts06_full.pdf
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