Another Thing

How do you start a podcast?

The first episode of Another Thing. After years of thinking about it, a chalkboard sign at an art fair finally pushed me over the edge: “be brave enough to suck at something new.” In this episode I talk about why I wanted to start a podcast, why it took so long, the detours along the way (including an attempt to turn the Weekly Thing into an AI-narrated show), and a story from Dr. John Carlis about being the dumbest kid in the class. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE * thingelstad.com [https://www.thingelstad.com]: my blog, going on twenty plus years * Weekly Thing [https://weekly.thingelstad.com]: my newsletter, eight years and counting * Dr. John Carlis, former Dean of Undergraduate Studies, University of Minnesota Computer Science A NOTE ON THE TITLE This show is the third “thing” in a small family. There is the blog. There is the Weekly Thing. And now there is Another Thing.