The Rocinante Essays is a podcast for anyone who loves tech but breaks into hives at the thought of reading another 5,000-word thinkpiece. We take long-form essays on immersive tech, enterprise dysfunction, and the heroic (or catastrophic) role of consultants—and turn them into snark-filled, binge-worthy audio episodes. Perfect for your commute, fake focus time, or while dodging yet another 187-slide PowerPoint titled “Digital Transformation 2030.” The Rocinante Essays is your no-BS, mildly irreverent way to stay smart on tech without having to endure one more article that starts with, “In today’s rapidly changing AI landscape…”
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Rocinante Essays is a podcast for anyone who loves tech but breaks into hives at the thought of reading another 5,000-word thinkpiece. We take long-form essays on immersive tech, enterprise dysfunction, and the heroic (or catastrophic) role of consultants, and turn them into snark-filled, binge-worthy audio episodes.
The Rocinante Essays is hosted by Daniel Eckert. The show has published 8 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Episode 7: VR/Spatial Consultancies: The Rise and Fall of the Metaverse Industrial Complex" (21 May 2026, 38 minutes), "Why Enterprise VR Failed - Episode 6:User Experience, or, “You want me to wear this clunky thing on my head for HOW long?”" (19 January 2026, 25 minutes), and "Why Enterprise VR Failed - Episode 5: Corporate Learning & Development: Where good ideas and dreams go to die" (10 October 2025, 24 minutes).
The Rocinante Essays publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 25 minutes across 8 episodes.
Booking probability for The Rocinante Essays is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Rocinante Essays requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Rocinante Essays's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Rocinante Essays are IT Services & Software Development and Business & Management Consulting. The Rocinante Essays has a technology audience.
Daniel Eckert hosts The Rocinante Essays, a technology podcast with 8 episodes published.
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Episode #7
<p>Episode 7 takes apart the Metaverse Industrial Complex: consultants, vendors, analysts, innovation labs, and executives all declaring the metaverse inevitable before anyone proved it was useful.</p><p>The product was...
Episode #6
<p>Welcome back, friends, to another episode in our ongoing autopsy of Enterprise VR — a bold vision of the future that somehow resulted in headaches, nausea, and the Operations VP quietly asking if VR training is...
Episode #5
<p>Welcome to Episode 5 of the Why Enterprise VR Failed series. </p><p>In this episode we’re asking a tougher question: <b>Did one of the most critical groups for Enterprise VR’s success actually contribute the most to...
Episode #4
<p>Now we arrive at the fourth installment of our "Why Enterprise VR Failed" novella. And if you were hoping this would be the triumphant turning point—where VR gets its act together, management and employees are happy...
Episode #3
<p>Episode 3 of our series on "Why Enterprise VR Failed" pokes fun at the underbelly of VR software development tools to determine if software is the true villain of our story or was it wildly misaligned teams and a...
Episode #2
<p>Once upon a time—okay, five years ago—enterprise VR looked like the next corporate messiah. Training, collaboration, simulations… the future was here, and it had headsets. Unfortunately, so did the IT audit team...
Episode #1
<p>Welcome to Episode 1 of Why Enterprise VR Failed, where we unpack the beautiful dumpster fire that was Enterprise Virtual Reality. For decades, tech bros, consultants, and wide-eyed futurists pitched VR as the cure...
Episode #1
<p>The <b>Why Enterprise VR Failed </b>series is a no-holds-barred deep dive into why Virtual Reality, once hailed as the messiah of corporate training and collaboration, tripped over its own headset and is now hiding...
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