Podcasts I Like

Podcasts I Like

I have always felt closer to sound. That's why I stuck with learning a guitar longer than painting on a canvas. When I am not performing cognitively demanding tasks e.g. walking in the evenings or cycling to work or in a Grab, I am usually listening to music or podcasts or audio books.

Before I forget, I wanted to compile some of the engaging podcast shows and episodes which I have found to be more engaging and quite a lot more densely packed with information than YouTube videos OR books.

For listening, I use Pocket Casts for my podcasts. The following features won me over - cross device sync of episode progress, web version available, storage space to side load audio books and use the same progress sync feature. The Plus doesn't add much but is a nice way to support the team.

For listening, I use Spotify now.

Top 1-time Mini Series
  1. Washington Post - Moonrise
  2. BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon Season 1
  3. Maximum Fun - The Outer Reach
Miscellaneous Podcast Shows/Episodes I have loved
  1. Business Wars - Nintendo vs Sony (Season 34 Episode 1-6), Boeing vs Airbus (Season 33 Episode 1-7)
  2. Game Scoop - What Are the Most Important Games of the Decade?
  3. Against the Rules - Season 2 Episode 1-8 about Performance Coaches
  4. Tech Deciphered - The wonderful world of productivity, Recruiting Primer Part 1-3
  5. The Portal - Peter Thiel, Werner Herzog, Josh Wolfe, Garry Kasparov, Sir Roger Penrose, What if everyone is simply insane?
  6. The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard (Existentialism)
  7. Invest Like the Best - Charlie Songhurst: Lessons from Investing in 483 Companies (Charlie is an angel investor in Transcelestial)
  8. The Handmade Network Podcast - Handmade Seattle 2020 Special: The Race to Replace C and C++
  9. Founders - Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters. All of them
  10. Idea Machines - Focusing on Research with Adam Marblestone, Invention, Discovery, and Bell Labs with Venkatesh Narayanamurti
  11. Thoughts in Between - Anton Howes: The history of innovation - and how to get more of it
Top Recurring Podcasts with some great episodes below
  1. Sean Carroll's Mindscape*
  2. Lex Fridman's Podcast*
  3. The Tim Ferris Show
  4. Victory The Podcast (because Entourage!)

*DISCLAIMER: I am a Patreon supporter for Sean Carroll's and Lex Fridman's podcasts

Below are my favorite episodes from the above shows:

Sean Carroll's Mindscape

Solo

Natural Sciences

Philosophy

Miscellaneous

Lex Fridman's Podcast

Natural Sciences

Philosophy

Computing

Miscellaneous

The Tim Ferris Show

Entrepreneurship & Investing

Philosophy

Natural Sciences

Ones I have been interviewed on!
  1. EF's Scaling Ambition - Transforming Communications Technology and Maximising Your Personal Impact
  2. Founders Unfiltered - Building for Space

Keep Listening!