JRE-shaped · practitioner-proof
Long conversations reward nuance — no twelve-minute vendor infomercial disguised as “thought leadership.”
Month 5–6Depth lane
The Donkey Pod — for operators who are tired of LinkedIn panels.
Long‑form interviews with engineers, TPMs, and transformation leads who can speak plainly because they’ve shipped — and cleaned up — what decks promised.
Runtime
90–120 min
Drop
Biweekly → weekly
Guests
Builders only
Season arc
Quarter themes
Designed like a product — not a content calendar afterthought
Every format shares the same backbone: name the dysfunction honestly, earn attention with craft, then route practitioners toward tools and thinking that survive contact with reality.
Waveform is decorative — audio is raw signal.
- Cold open: one thesis about why corporate AI narratives diverge from production.
- Deep dive: architecture, procurement scars, or organizational antibodies.
- Rapid fire: tools that survived POC hell vs. slide‑deck miracles.
RSSYouTube long-formApple · Spotify
Season architecture
Quarterly themes mirror macro cycles: procurement winters, board mandates, open‑weight summers.
Guests under NDA reality
Fuzzy titles when needed; concrete patterns always.
Companion shorts
Clip grammar feeds Donkey Shorts + The Dispatch essays.
Sponsors
Mid-roll breaks tied to problems discussed in-episode — never generic reads.
Donkey Pod listeners get annotated drops from The Dispatch — transcripts cross‑link to tools mentioned on‑mic.
Get The Dispatch first →