Audio: The Companion To My Day
Published on HivePostify by @epodcaster · Thu Aug 06 2026
Podcasts and audiobooks are what I listen to when I'm doing other things.
- Cooking breakfast or doing chores around the house? Push play on a podcast.
- Driving from the countryside into the big city? Hit play on that audiobook.
Audio content in one form or another has been a daily companion for the last couple of decades. It allows me to leverage the time and attention I have at any given time. Inevitably mindset and business ideas bubble to the top when I listen. I'll pause in order to write something down or to look up a mentioned website. I learn and expand my knowledge and understanding of myself, my career, and the world all while making coffee or running errands.
This has been the status quo for a very long time and it has worked quite well. However, I can only listen to podcasts or audiobooks that I know about or have heard about. Discovery comes from outside sources. My ability to listen and learn is limited by my available time to do so. Or it was until I heard about Deepstash.
I kept seeing ads pop up on Facebook. I dismissed them until a few days of endless scroll on X and Facebook that took up more time than I was comfortable with. I would turn to social media for a break between projects or while I was waiting for something to export or filter or upload or download. Those small 1-3 minute moments turned into much longer time sucks. The "wasted" time when I had a very long to-do list made me frustrated with myself. I thought about how many things I could have done in the time spent scrolling and scrolling and scrolling.
So what does this have to do with Deepstash?
Well, on an especially frustrating day where I caught myself on the time suck of the endless scroll, I saw the Deepstash ad again. This time I thought, well if I'm going to need something to fill in the in between time, maybe I could do it productively. I downloaded the app and took it for a 7-day free rial. Their tagline: Replace doomscrolling with microlearning hit a chord. I had seven days to kick the tires to decide if they could deliver on their promise. To see if their annual price was worth it. So, I dove in and was surprised at the book summaries worked. Deepstash takes a book and condenses it down to bite-sized knowledge that you can go through in minutes. They have practice quizzes at the end of each "chapter" to check if the lesson cemented itself.
It has been helpful in quite a few ways. I wound up buying a hardback book for someone as a gift and then bought an audiobook of a book so that I could dive deeper into the concepts I learned in 20 minutes. That's two purchases on books that I did not know existed. I have also encountered books that looked interesting but after an initial listen, I knew they weren't for me. That is a time saver indeed. Knowing what is not for me is equally as important as discovering what is for me. In my short experience, Deepstash has been a great discovery tool and a positive way for me to invest time in the moments when I would have been scrolling endlessly. My 7-day trial ends tomorrow. I will be buying the annual subscription.
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