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Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.

Portable podcast kit

A small case of consumer recording gear that travels to the guest

Microphones, a recorder or interface, a camera and a light, packed small enough to carry onto a plane. Interviewers use it to record wherever the guest already is, rather than asking them to fly to a treated room. Consumer gear is now good enough that listeners rarely notice the difference. The trade is that you get no control over the acoustics of the room you walk into.

Who backs it

Sorted by strength of stance

  • Lex FridmanDoes it

    AI researcher · Lex Fridman Podcast

    Records with a little suitcase of basic consumer equipment and one light. An acoustics expert once looked at his room and told him everything he was doing was wrong, and what he took from that was that he does not need experts.

    Source: Lex Fridman Podcast: Pieter Levels transcript

Aimed at the same thing

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    Home gym

    A private training space at home, from a garage rack to a fully equipped room

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    Kindle e-reader

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    E-ink reader that makes a daily reading habit easy to keep

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    MacBook Pro

    Apple

    Apple's laptop, used as the one machine that runs the talk and the studio

    Backed by 4 of 62 stacks: 4 do it, 0 recommend it, 0 have discussed it
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    Standing desk

    A desk that raises, so part of the working day happens on your feet

    Backed by 4 of 62 stacks: 3 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it
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    iPad

    Apple

    Apple's tablet, used here as the device the reading app runs on

    Backed by 3 of 62 stacks: 3 do it, 0 recommend it, 0 have discussed it
  • Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.

    Paper notebook

    A bound notebook for thinking on paper away from a screen

    Backed by 3 of 62 stacks: 3 do it, 0 recommend it, 0 have discussed it

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