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This is a phenomenon we see over and over with our "Unpopular Opinions" segment. The summary statement is often unpopular, but once you hear out the person's reasoning (unless it's about food or something purely subjective) most people end up agreeing with them.
It's been tough to get _truly_ unpopular opinions (as voted on by Twitter/Mastodon users) represented on the pods.
- the epbf episode where one of you started talking like back in the old days you treated servers as pets and not as cattle
- the episode about auditing startups where most of the talk you were carried away and even said somethin “let’s continue or we won’t finish” or something
- oh and that Silicon Valley tv show stuff that just keeps popping every other time
It’s like that uncle of mine that I meet every Christmas who is always “back in my days” (I remeber when we…) or “in my old hometown they used to” (here at changelog we…)
but that’s just my personal opinion. Time is scare these days so I’d like to get as much info as possible.
But hey, I’m sure there are millions that adore you, cause in general the guests and topics are great
On the other hand, some of the drift away just shows we're all people. I'm listening podcasts on 1.5-1.7x speed and digressions are all good to me. Keep up the awesome work you do, guys! Real fan of yours!
I feel rude even saying this because I like the work you guys do and don't want to bum this person out, but I had to stop listening to the ones with Johnny. He seems to just wax poetically so often. I'm sure hes super nice, but it feels like he talks for the majority of the episode instead of letting the guests and other hosts speak. Every time he has a thought you know your in for a 3 minute spiel.
We're hard at work on the transcript for those of you who'd rather read than listen. It usually takes a couple days and there's a link at the bottom of the page you can click to be notified of when it's published.
Hope you enjoy the conversation, Brian does not disappoint!
Richard Hipp discussed this (alongside a deep-dive on the philosophies underpinning his Fossil SCM) when we had him back on The Changelog podcast recently:
Here's the link, in case you finish watching her talk and want an even deeper-dive: https://changelog.com/podcast/577