TWiT and why you should be listening

In my last post, I talked at length about how I prepare for my life on the road each fall.  I put around 6,000 miles on my little Honda Civic each year, and so I am very concerned with what I will have available for listening.  To be honest, I almost never listen to music in my car anymore!  As I put it in that last post:

My favorites include The Dave Ramsey Show, This Week in Tech, MacBreak Weekly, and The Tech Guy.  My car plays MP3 CDs, so I just load them on a CD-RW, and the disc starts playing where it left off every time I get in the car.  When I’ve listened through the disc, I just use Disc Utility to erase it, load some more, and I’m good to go.  The best part?  Each of these shows is free.  All you have to do is scrape together $.89 to buy the CD-RW.

The last three shows I mentioned are all part of a “netcast” network called TWiT.  Longtime tech guru Leo Laporte is the man behind the content, and he does a terrific job of assembling the best technology minds to talk about all different technology topics.  I have learned a ton just from listening to TWiT content over the last several months.  If you’re a tech fan and haven’t heard of TWiT, go there now!

For me it gets at a pretty basic issue: if I’m going to be spending this amount of time in the car, I ought to be learning something while I’m at it.  So much of what’s covered across the TWiT network is information that I can bring back to my work as a “technologist” and recruiter.  More than that, I think you’ll feel excited and empowered to bring this knowledge back to your work.  To borrow the famous quote (with a couple additions):

“You’ll be the same person in 10 years except for the people you meet and the books [content] you read [and listen to].”

So fill up your iPod or burn a CD with some of this content — you’ll be smarter than when you started (which was still pretty darn smart).