Pandemic Podcasting: What I learned from reading 50+ Books in 2020

Dr. Brian Keating’s 10 Most Popular Medium Articles of 2020

This was a challenging year for many people around the world. Back in April, I realized many of my friends and colleagues who were authors wouldn’t be able to travel on Book Tours. Doing a book tour, such as it was — to 5 states — for my book Losing the Nobel Prize was a highlight of my career as a writer (again, such as it is).

So I wondered how I could use my platform as a small YouTuber and host of the Into the Impossible Podcast to make a difference for my author-buddies. I decided I would invite on as many guests as possible with new books to promote, and afterwards I would write up my notes and observations based on these conversations with incredibly brilliant luminaries. In the end, I hosted six Nobel Prize Winners, several billionaires, a few of my fellow podcasters, planetary explorers, two astronauts, and a Holocaust Survivor. What a ride!

I posted most of these notes and sent them to my mailing list and posted some on Medium.com… In the end, I read over 50 books and wrote up over 20 episodes’ worth of show notes. I can’t believe the response I received — my short show notes were read tens of thousands of times!

I was also blessed to see my subscribers on YouTube grow from 300 in January 2020 to over 16,000 in December 2020! My podcasts went from a trickle of downloads to several thousand for each and every episode.

Below are links to my top 10 episode show notes, as determined by Medium.com. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them!

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1. Patrick Bet-David: Your Next Five Moves! | by Brian Keating |
2. An Elegy for a British Lioness: Margaret Burbidge (1919–2020)
3. An interview with Stephen Wolfram: has he found a Theory of Everything?
4. Eric Weinstein and the Soul of Physics | by Brian Keating
5. Life lessons from Jim Simons: The ‘World’s Smartest Billionaire’
6. Noam Chomsky: Turing, Musk, AI, and Cancel Culture!
7. YouTube’s #1 Astronomer, Dr. Becky
8. L. David Marquet: Great Leaders NEVER Say This Word!
9. Michael Shermer on his new book, GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE
10. Rapper, Entrepreneur, Podcaster: Zuby! A Brief History of Rhyme!

Don’t forget to join my mailing list to receive notes from all my interviews, plus amazing giveaways like signed books, meteorites, and foundational papers in the recent history of physics. Next year promises to be even better! So stay in touch — Please join my mailing list; just click here 👉 http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php.

🎧 Please subscribe to my podcast: Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, & Stitcher🎧