Ask HN: What podcasts do you like listening to?

Lately I’ve been listening to the back catalog of Balaji Srinivasan interviews, which is spread across multiple feeds but which is available on https://balajis.com/content-archive/

Making Sense by Sam Harris, The Daily Dish and Your Undivided Attention because Big Tech is going to destroy the world

Reply all Daily tech news show After On podcast, Rob Reid

I listen to Sleep With Me sporadically - it’s great for some funny, surreal stories while winding down away from screens before bed.

Pod Save America is pretty funny with high production value if you’re like-minded with their politics. Former Obama staff members, so it’s very much an echo chamber, but still an entertaining way to stay on top of recent events. Also by Crooked Media is a daily 15min show What A Day, mostly very lighthearted and fun.

Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s podcasts are cool if you’re interested in guided meditations with Buddhist philosophy/dharma talks, as opposed to “just” guided meditations from Headspace etc. More rooted in American/Vipassana secular-ish Buddhism.

My gf pursuing psychiatry turned me on to Psychology In Seattle, which is really eye opening to me to hear about clinical work. Learned a lot about empathy from that one.

The Lyft Mobile podcast is also a great peek into what it’s like to work on their amazing team (I left recently).

Fall of Civilizations - humanizes the nature and fall of civilizations https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/

History of English - why do we speak the way we do? https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/

Greater Than Code

Software Engineering Radio

The Changelog

The Amp Hour

I just started to listen to "Science VS" a podcast which tries to see what science says about different topics. For example anti-vaccination, what does science say about what kind of harm vaccine can cause what's the pros of vaccines. And in the end of each episode they present the number of citations used to create each episode.

The Portal with Eric Weinstein is my favorite. Very information dense and each episode is facinating. Though he's releases them very sporadically.

- Tiny Meat Gang

- Coffee with Butterscotch

- Crime Junkie

- Stuff You Should Know

- Serial

I've tried listening to some engineering/tech podcasts, but honestly I've grown more and more fatigued with anything tech beyond the 8 hours of work.

- Criminal

- History of English

- The Dollop

Mostly politics, law and science Lawfare Rational Security National Security Law Deep State Radio The Bulwark The Dispatch Science Vs Science Friday Fake Doctors Real Friends

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99% invisible

The Moth

Software Developer‘s Journey

Malicous life, just heard a very interesting episode about Jan Sloot and his compression system. [0]

50 things that made the modern economy.

[0]: https://malicious.life/episode/jan_sloots_data_compression_s...

- Ark invest podcast https://ark-invest.com/podcasts/

- Bio is eating the world https://a16z.com/bio-eats-world-podcast/

The Art of Product

Acquired

Lex Fridman Podcast A16z Podcast

2bobs

Two business consultants to creative design firms, with rules that should be applicable to tech. Topics: positioning, pricing, negotiating, managing the form, etc

Blair Enns and David C. Baker.

99pi and Changelog are great!

I listen to a lot of podcasts, in alphabetical order:

A Million Little Gods <- Serious but accessible philosophy discussions, Season 2 was an absolutely mind-blowing discussion of "race"

Bundyville <- Limited series about the far-right movement in the western USA

Fandible <- Personal favourite actual-play RPG podcast, geeky but I love it

Freakonomics Radio <- I resisted at first because of the brand name, but the general content is so good.

Functional Design in Clojure <- Exactly what it says, works surprisingly well as a podcast. I really appreciate that it's "intermediate-level", and really focused on "how do you build real software"

Lexicon Valley <- Incredible and well-presented linguistics topics w/ some idiosyncratic music choices thrown in

JS Party <- from the same folks that make changelog. I honestly don't listen to every episode after the change in format after the incredible Season 1, but I stay subscribed and listen when the topic grabs my attention.

Sinica <- I came for the China content, but I stayed because these are the smartest conversations I hear about any topic anywhere.

Software Engineering Radio <- I don't listen to every episode, but it's good when it's good, mentioned by a few other commenters.

Stuff You Missed in History Class <- well worth an archive binge, there's a LOT of fascinating content deep inside.

This American Life <- I still listen even though I don't live in America anymore. :-)

We have ways of making you talk - ww2 history

Dan snow history

Gossipmongers - nonsense

Sopranos

people just do nothing / chatting shit

Every person I meet listens to totally different podcasts - what a great conversation starter.

Personally:

Peter Attia - Drive: I pay 15$ a month this is, I have gotten so many actionable tips from it.

Tim Ferris Show: Amazing interviewer.

Jocko Podcast: Best leadership podcast I’ve come across. No fluff.

Indie Hackers: like hearing about people making an independent living off software.

Python__init__: One of a couple programming podcasts.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape[1] is by far my favourite podcast.

[1]. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/

Car Talk on npr

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