Archiving Sleep
In March of 2020 during the start of lockdowns due to COVID19 in Australia, the Sleep podcast was born moreso out of a dare than any actual plan. Having been told “I have a beautiful voice…” and “Listening to your voice makes me relax and helps me get to sleep…” I decided to start recording a show that was just me…talking gently about anything in creative commons.
The show has a significant amount of downloads with the vast majority from talking cylinders where I imagine people just say “play a podcast that helps me sleep” or something similar, and out pops “Sleep”. Irrespective the last time I recorded an episode was September 2022 and I think it’s time to admit the experiment has ended.
Archiving Neutrium
When TEN launched in October 2015, two other Australian Engineers took the plunge with me and launched their own show on the Network called Neutrium. It was a hit almost immediately and was quite popular however both Trevor and Matt were busy engineers and their show, rather like Pragmatic and Causality, took a LOT of their time to produce. Ultimately they decided to refocus and stepped back from podcasting and the show finished with only four episodes.
Even though it’s been 9 years since the last episode, I’ve left it on the homepage as it was quite popular and in keeping with the original intention of the network. Having said that, it’s time to archive Neutrium as well at this point. Both shows have moved to the Archived section of the site and their feed URLs have been updated to reflect this. They will continue to be hosted, just won’t appear on the main landing page of TEN.
Adjusting Focus
With more of an admission of reality than any real change to the shows on TEN, I’ve updated the About Page to better reflect the reality of what TEN has been for the past 7 or 8 years at least: “…a group of shows about my passions in life…”
I will always be an engineer and see the world through that lens but it’s not the only thing that interests me. Many topics I’ve covered on Pragmatic over the past decade are examples including Photography, Renewable Energy, Electric Cars, Whisky amongst other things.
In coming months I’ll be exploring video further and continuing to produce Causality and Whisky Whiskey, with Pragmatic and Analytical as well.
Thanks again so much to everyone for their continued support and thank you as always, for listening and/or watching as well.