My Bike and A Podcast: We Take Our Digital World For Granted

Over the past year or so, I’ve been cycling a great deal. To me, cycling in sunny and warm weather is just a bit boring. In fact, I love cycling in the rain and wind— including yesterday when I got soaked through. Overall, we should enjoy an ever-changing climate — and it’s just one of the reasons I love living in Edinburgh. In fact, my winter cycling is some of the most enjoyable, especially being wrapped up in my own little cacoon. Why? Well, it gives me a chance to focus, as it’s often difficult to concentrate in our modern world, as there are so many distractions … such as News Alerts coming through on an hourly basis.

Basically, we should all have something that takes us away from our busy lives, and gives us time to study, to think, and to learn. Gaining knowledge and expertise is worth so much more than all the money that we can ever earn, but increasing our world is full of surface learning. Why learn anything, when Chat-GPT can give us an answer straight away? Why learn? Well, it’s you, and you are not a slave to the machine. You are unique. Everything you learn makes you a better person.

And, so, I’ve always loved radio, as it allows me to work and listen to something in the background — and I especially love Internet radio and DAB. But, for my bike, it’s podcasts that I’ve fallen in love with. Why…