042 - On Optimization, Staying Stoked, And Our New Website

You may already be aware if you’re a Zengineering powerfan, but for everyone else, we’re excited to announce the launch of a brand new website at ZengineeringPodcast.com. As Zengineering has become an increasingly more important part of both our lives, we’ve realized that we want to make more content available, with more control over how it looks, where it goes, and how we interact with all of you. Check out new the site to scope brand new episode art, all the show notes we’ve always promised (at least on the newer episodes), articles and stories we’ve been writing, and, of course, all our new and old episodes.

This episode contains a bit of reminiscing on the technology that’s been part of Zengineering Podcast, and all the physical, mental and digital tricks we’ve come up with keep the show going. We share our stoke test, our production workflow, and the fact that, as artists, we’re pretty uncomfortable a lot of the time trying to promote our own creations. We dive into all the tech we’ve used, how it works, what was good, and what was bad. Then we share all the details of our brand new setup, our podcast host, our website, analytics, etc. etc. etc. If you ever want to do your own podcast, or you’re just curious how we do ours, this episode is a good primer.

As a bonus to this episode, Adam has been working on a series of posts (titled: “Ruthless Optimization”) that will fill in all the holes and help you get up and running with your own cast (or just learn more about ours). More so than ever, please hit us up with thoughts on the new site, ideas for episodes and articles, and let us know what we left out of this conversation. We can now followup with posts on the Zengineering Blog to fill in gaps and share your thoughts. And, as always, don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes and support the show on Patreon.