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Practical Stoicism

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In this week's episode we'll be reading and going over the sixth meditation from Book Three of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Link to the article mentioned: https://tannerhelps.substack.com/p/id-like-to-expose-the-math-behind -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a list of our sponsors : https://link.stoicismpod.com/sponsors -- Visit our website : https://stoicismpod.com Check out our reading list : https://stoicismpod.com/suggested-reading Read our articles : https://stoicismpod.com/category/articles -- Online copy of Meditations (Long) : https://link.stoicismpod.com/meditations-long Online copy of Meditations (Casaubon) : https://link.stoicismpod.com/meditations-casaubon Online copy of Seneca's Letters : https://link.stoicismpod.com/letters -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Most of our media are owned by a handful of tech billionaires, but there's one place that still operates like the internet was never invented.
0:10.4	On the new season of the divided dial from On the Media, we're exploring shortwave radio, where prayer and propaganda coexist with news and conspiracy theories, and where an existential battle
0:22.6	for the public airwaves is playing out right now.
0:26.3	Listen to On the Media, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:33.4	Welcome back to practical stoicism. I'm your host, Tanner Campbell, and before we get started
0:42.6	today, I have a favor to ask of you. It might seem a bit of an odd one because it actually has
0:48.0	nothing to do with this podcast or anything to do with stoicism. Instead, it has something to do with
0:53.6	podcasts in general.
0:55.6	Some of you may know at this point that my day job is in marketing and media and relates pretty
1:02.0	directly to podcasting, and it is in this realm of concern that I'd like to ask for your help.
1:07.1	It is currently possible to dishonestly influence podcast rankings by hiring shady
1:13.3	podcast promotion companies to send automated traffic to subscribe to your show on Apple Podcasts every
1:20.1	day. This traffic isn't comprised of real people, it's comprised of bots. And because of the
1:26.1	way that Apple decides its charts, think of it like
1:29.2	a Billboard Top 100, but specific to Apple podcasts, anyone willing to spend money on this fake
1:35.5	bot traffic can game the charts. It's why sometimes you'll see podcasts trending that don't seem
1:42.2	like they ought to be. Now, whether or not this practice has any benefit
1:46.1	to those podcasters who do this is highly debatable. But in any case, I'm interested in working out
1:52.4	the math of this scheme and using what I find in doing so to both disrupt the practice, because this is
1:59.3	kind of like a marketing black market, and hopefully
2:02.6	encourage Apple to change from ranking based on downloads to ranking based on other metrics that are
2:09.1	a little harder to fake. And I would appreciate it if you would read it. After reading it, if you
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