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podcasts
- Read later Apps with Tristan Homsi and Dan Doyon
A fun discussion on the origins and history of my favorite app, Readwise, with the founders Daniel Doyon and Tristan Homsi.
- The Portfolio to Live Longer
I'm an occasional listener to Peter Attia's podcast The Drive. The deep dives on some areas of medicine and health are interesting to me, but a lot of it is just too in-the-weeds. This conversation from Invest Like th…
- The Rest Is History Podcast
Recently I've been thoroughly enjoying Tom Holland's Dominion, his epic history of Christianity and its influence on western culture. It's one of the most interesting (and well-written) works of history I've read in s…
- Aw, Rats
This was a surprisingly interesting discussion about urban rats (known as the brown rat, or Norway rat), their behaviors, how little we know about their populations, their speed of adaptation, and why they're so diffi…
- Patrick Collison on Progress Studies
Ezra Klein recently hosted Stripe founder Patrick Collison on his podcast for a deep dive into his thinking on progress studies. Tracking down the origins of what generates progress, and what compels things like subst…
- AirrSpaces
Last year I switched to Airr as my main podcast app when they launched the beta, and have used it exclusively just about every day since. Airr's killer feature is the "AirrQuote", which lets you clip snippets of podca…
- Visa: The Original Protocols Business
This was the first episode I've listened to of Patrick O'Shaughnessy's new podcast "Business Breakdowns". He and Alex Rampell dive deep on the history of Visa and its unique business model. Alex saw Visa's business fi…
- Permission to Leap
Tyler Cowen hosted Moderna's co-founder Noubar Afeyan for a conversation on mRNA technology, their COVID vaccine, and what's going on in the biotech space. A ton of great insights in this one. Tyler raised the now-fam…
- The Future of Media: Movies, the Metaverse, and More
An interview with media and gaming industry analyst Matthew Ball. Make sure to listen to his thoughts on metaverses (around the 34:00 mark). The section on Epic Games and the future trajectory they're putting themselv…
- Science, Innovation, and Longevity
This conversation with José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente on Erik Torenberg's podcast was an expansive cover of more topics than I think I've ever heard discussed on a single podcast. A brief sampling of the subje…
- Synthetic A Priori
Basecamp's Ryan Singer has been doing this solo podcast on a lot of his favored topics, centered around product design. But he also branches into adjacent, related areas of systems, research, user experiences, and mor…
- Investor's Field Guide with John Collison
I enjoyed this interview with Stripe co-founder John Collison. The range of topics covered in this discussion is wild. Always impressive to see someone that's been so objectively successful still maintain the level of…
- Martin Gurri on EconTalk
I've been following Gurri's work closely since I read The Revolt of a Public a couple months back. I think he's one of the sharpest minds we have right now thinking and writing about what's going on in politics, media…
- Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power
Stephen Kotkin is a historian that has studied and written mostly about Soviet history and Josef Stalin. This was an excellent interview with him by Lex Fridman — Lex asks simple, broad questions and let's Kotkin go d…
- Dithering and Podcast Subscriptions
A couple weeks ago Ben Thompson and John Gruber launched Dithering, a new podcast they’re doing together with a unique model: 15 minutes per episode, 3 times a week, only for paid subscribers. They launched with a doz…
- Airr
With the boom in popularity of podcasting, it's surprising their aren't more podcast players popping up. I've been an Overcast user for years, but there are only a few other big players these days: Stitcher, Spotify,…
- President Goop's Ultralight Beam Vaccine
Two of my favorite podcasts collide with Jonah Goldberg visiting the Fifth Column. Lively and hilarious discussion, as expected.
- North Star Podcast: Eugene Wei
This was from early 2018, an interview with Eugene Wei on his background, experience, and some of his ideas from his excellent blog, Remains of the Day.
- Weekend Reading: Virtual Oncology, Waymo Data, and the Future of Programming
🧪 Virtual Oncology A discussion among physicians on how oncology is changing and will likely continue to evolve in the wake of the coronavirus. Testing, chemo, and other treatment steps currently considered to be sta…
- Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Cultures
This was a fascinating interview with Dr. Michele Gelfand from Jonah Goldberg's The Remnant podcast. It mostly covers the subject of her book Rule Makers, Rule Breakers, on the differences between "tight" vs. "loose"…
- EconTalk Archive
If you're holed up in quarantine and have some extra time, Russ Roberts's website has a nice browsable list of all the EconTalk episodes in the archives. So many timeless interviews in here, which is unique for podcas…
- Ben Thompson's Daily Update Podcast
Ben Thompson's Stratechery is one of the must-read newsletters out there. I've been a subscriber and avid reader for 4 years now, and I think I've read every post he's published since then. Lately I'm finding I get be…
- How Elite Institutions Lost Their Legitimacy
A discussion between economist Arnold Kling and author Martin Gurri about the erosion of institutions and what that means for polarization and cultural instability. Martin Gurri doesn’t like to make predictions. But i…
- Daniel Kahneman on AI Podcast
I don't know what Lex Fridman is doing to recruit the guests he gets on his show (The Artificial Intelligence Podcast), but it's one of the best technical podcasts out there. This one is a good introduction to the wor…
- Podcast Rotation — January 2020
I've fallen off listening to so many different shows as I have in the past. During last year I found more enjoyment in audiobooks for much of my listening. On the podcast front, I spent more time diving into the archi…
- On Atlassian's Unique Sales Model
I enjoyed a couple of notes from this interview with Atlassian President Jay Simons. They've famously built a business with bottom-up adoption dynamics, allowing them to hit the $1bn revenue milestone without a tradit…
- Rory Sutherland on Alchemy
This is a great conversation from EconTalk with advertising exec Rory Sutherland on his new book Alchemy. He's got interesting ideas on the role of psychology and human emotion when it comes to decision making, market…
- Venkatesh Rao on Waldenponding
“Waldenponding” is a phrase coined by Rao to describe the growing backlash movement against hyperconnectedness, driving people to disconnect completely and long for a life of lower information overload and deeper mean…
- The All Things Tech History List
Through a Twitter thread I ran across this running catalog of resources on the history of the tech industry — books, articles, movies, and more. A definitive list of content. There are some great recommendations here…
- Russ Roberts on Key Economic Concepts for Founders
This is a good interview with a great interviewer, Russ Roberts of EconTalk. His is probably my favorite podcast — if I only listen to 1 episode a week, it's the latest EconTalk. On Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sen…
- David Deppner on Leadership, Confidence, and Humility
I thought this was a fantastic interview on EconTalk. David Deppner is a listener of the podcast that sent Russ a thought-provoking email question on the subject of leadership and what traits make for "good" qualities…
- Weekend Reading: nvUltra, Progress, and Comma.ai
📝 nvULTRA This is a new notes app from Brett Terpstra (creator of nvALT) and Fletcher Penney (creator of MultiMarkdown). I used nvALT for years for note taking on my Mac. This new version looks like a slick reboot of…
- Interview with Keith Flaherty, MD
Dr. Keith Flaherty is an oncologist specializing in targeted therapy treatments, with a background in studying and treating varieties of melanoma. I listened to this extended interview with him on Peter Attia's The Dr…
- THEMOVE Podcast for the Tour
Lance Armstrong's been doing THEMOVE podcast on the Tour for 3 years now, the first being the 2017 Tour when I spent so much time watching both the Tour itself and the podcast (then known as STAGES). On the show they…
- Jonathan Haidt on the Righteous Mind
Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind was one of my favorite recent nonfiction books I've read in the last few years. It's one of the most objective, deep analyses of a question that's interested me for years: why do pe…
- Mental Models: A Conversation with Shane Parrish
This is a great episode between two guys with interesting perspectives. Parrish's Farnam Street blog is one of my favorites out there, along with his podcast, The Knowledge Project. This conversation covers a lot on t…
- Clip Sharing with Overcast
Marco Arment just shipped a new update to Overcast (the best iOS podcast app) with an awesome new feature that allows you to clip sections to share. Since its early days you've been able to share a podcast episode wit…
- Matthew Walker on Sleep
This is an excellent 3-part interview with Dr. Matthew Walker on Peter Attia's podcast. Walker is a sleep scientist and professor of neuroscience, and this series with him dives extremely deep on sleep — sleep stages,…
- Luck, Risk, and Avoiding Losers
The latest episode of Shane Parrish's Knowledge Project podcast is an interview with investor Howard Marks. There's a ton here on how he thinks about opportunity and risk. I loved the sound beliefs on cycles — people…
- Peter Attia and Zubin Damania Conversation
I’ve listened to a few of Peter Attia’s The Drive podcast episodes. This one was a stand-out conversation between him and Dr. Zubin Damania. It’s a wide-ranging discussion about the health care system, diet, creativit…
- Rodney Brooks on Artificial Intelligence
I enjoyed this interview with robotics professor Rodney Brooks on EconTalk. The conversation around AI and automation in the popular conversation is so charged, it's good to hear a perspective that brings some reason…
- Biology and Culture
In going through the backlog of Sam Harris’s Waking Up podcast, I put on this not-too-recent episode with Bret Weinstein, evolutionary biologist, free thinker, and polymath that I’ve heard in a number of other intervi…
- Podcasts for the New NBA Season
The NBA season spun up a couple of weeks ago. With that, NBA Twitter and the NBA podcast scene is back in full force. Here are the feeds I try to keep up with: Ringer NBA Show NBA Desktop The Lowe Post The Woj Pod The…
- Weekly Links: Podcast Edition
🚗 The Man Behind Uber The Daily is the New York Times' daily radio show, which I've been enjoying lately. This episode is a companion to their recent piece on Travis Kalanick, Uber's CEO. 🚢 Containers Containers is…
- Canvas podcast series on Workflow
If you’re a podcast listener and an iOS user of productivity apps, you should subscribe to the Canvas podcast. Hosted by Federico Vittici (of MacStories) and Fraser Spiers, these guys know all there is about making th…
- Podcast Rotation, 2016
My podcast subscription library keeps growing. It's been a while since I've shared anything about what I'm listening to regularly in my rotation. If I'm not listening to audiobooks, I'm keeping up with my podcast stre…
- Melton + Ray on Safari, standards, and ad blocking
The latest episode of Debug had a great discussion with Don Melton and Jim Ray on Safari's development, web standards, and the state of web advertising. The link jumps right to the discussion of ads and the ethics of…
- Overcast
A brand new podcast player for iPhone built by Marco Arment. I've switched to using Overcast full time from a couple of years on Instacast. It's got the basics covered so far, and the addition of Overcast's "smart spe…