a16z: long and sometimes overwhelming but in a positive way, with great guests from the tech industry

FT Alphachat: my favorite finance-focused podcast with the least buzz, covering one topic in-depth each time

Global News Podcast: daily from the BBC, great for educating yourself on world issues that you otherwise wouldn't hear about, with lots of primary sources and interviews

Stuff You Should Know: two super easy-to-listen-to geeks, geeking out about various topics from ancient history to dyslexia to how things work :)

Y Combinator: solid tech podcast with top-notch guests, and more focused on practicalities and experiences than a16z's abstract, macro-level ideas

I will listen to every episode of:

* 99% Invisible

* Hardcore History

* Hello Internet

* No Such Thing as a Fish

* Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me

Close are Deutschlandfunk Hintergrund, Planet Money, Reply All, SRF Digital, Echo der Zeit, Reply All, Revisionist History and The New Yorker Radio Hour.

If I have time to catch up or need to fill some time, The Moth, Making Sense, Radiolab, Fresh Air, Ask me Another and Hello from the Magic Tavern.

Defn has been my favorite tech podcast for years.

Clojure/Functional Programming etc. Hosts: Vijay Kiran, Ray McDermott https://defn.io

On the other hand Entitles Opinions (about Life and Literature) is one of its kind. Host: Robert Harrison, professor of Italian Literature at Stanford. The podcast is aired from KZSU. https://entitledopinions.stanford.edu

Other personal favorites: The Life Scientific and In Our Time by BBC, also Intelligence Squared.

- Startups For the Rest of Us: https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

- Remote Ruby: https://www.remoteruby.net/

I'm down to two a week and often will re-listen to them throughout the week and pick out different topics.

[0] The Giant Bombcast

[1] The Giant Beastcast

I use to listen to more, but I feel like their quality dropped and many have since they jumped the Patreon Shark. I already subscribe to Giant Bomb, so I'm not looking to pay for yet another service either. Especially when the quality is less.

[0] https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/giant-bombcast/

[1] https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/beastcast/

Skeptoid with Brian Dunning

Website: https://skeptoid.com/

Episode guide: https://skeptoid.com/episode_guide.php

- The Tim Ferriss Show

- 99% Invisible

- The Freelancers' Show, podcast about the consulting business: Sales, pricing, positioning, marketing in general

- The Allusionist, a podcast about language

- Hanselminutes, tech podcast by Scott Hanselman

- Software Engineering Daily

- Adventures in Angular

- Sales for Nerds

- History of England

- The Things That Made England, a somewhat quirky show about the things that arguably define or are characteristic of England

- Revolutions, history podcast about - as the name suggests - revolutions

- Mythology, ancient myths as audio drama episodes

- Echt Gebeurd, Dutch language podcast with true stories told by people who experienced them, for brushing up on my Dutch

Where Should Ee Begin? with Esther Perel. Each episode is a real, one-shot couples therapy session. The therapist has a deep understanding of human behavior and a way of making the couples (and the listener!) pay careful attention. This American Life played one as a guest episode and I immediately sought out the rest of them.

"How I Built This with Guy Raz" on NPR

Side Hustle Nation - nice focus on side gigs people do to make some extra money

The Knowledge Project - very interesting discussions on mental models, learning, leadership etc

Akimbo - Seth Godin podcast

Developer Tea - some good stuff to think about as developers

But Why! - cool podcast for kids, great while driving in car

- Star Talk Radio - Still Processing - Stuff Your Should Know - Stuff You Missed in History Class - WTF Marc Meron - Mohr Stories

It's always good to listen to comedians. Very down to earth and go through a lot of struggles.

The Collective: interviews with creatives, mostly in motion graphics, UI and music

The Knowledge Project (Farnam Street): interviews about critical thinking and mental models

CANADALAND: to understand how batshit crazy our socitey and politics can be up here as well

The Film Reroll: Actors playing through movies as RPGs.

My Brother, My Brother, and Me: A (niche) comedy podcast about three brothers answering advice questions.

Tofugu Podcast: All about learning the Japanese language, geared mostly for beginners.

The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast - all things electronics

Business of Machining - CNC machining as a business

Cortex - CGP Grey and Myke Hurley discuss productivity

Hello Internet - CGP Grey and Brady Haran

The Joe Rogan Experience - Long form interviews, typically 3+ hours

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Talk about the meaning of life

The Unmade Podcast - Brady Haran and Tim Hinde discuss ideas for podcasts yet unmade

My favorite dev-related podcasts are Under the Radar, Swift by Sundell, and Swift Unwrapped. My go-to current events podcast is Citations Needed.

I really like the A16Z podcasts. Although a bit startup'y, I like how they bring smart people to talk about the future.

EconTalk, The Partially Examined Life, Software Engineering Daily, Track Changes, A16Z, Conversations With Tyler.

Framelab is awesome if you’re curious about language communication political speech

My latest iteration:

1) a16z

2) Conversations with Tyler (the recent one with sama was really good!)

3) Venture Stories by Village Global

4) Econtalk

Making Sense with Sam Harris.

Sam Harris is very controversial. Yet, IMHO, intellectually honest. Also, his voice is very relaxing lol.

Has to be Joe Rogan.

Mindscape with Sean Carroll. Interview format with a wide range of accomplished guests and interesting topics -- including physics from time to time, as the host is a physicist.

Making Sense with Sam Harris (formerly called Waking Up). He has some really great episodes with intellectually stimulating content and guests, but occasionally he misses the mark or gets caught up in some unnecessary controversy. The episode summaries are very helpful for choosing which episodes are valuable to listen to.

Meta note: I'm a huge fan of the long-interview format which gives a unique opportunity to have these expansive discussions on complex and interesting in the public space. I'd love to find more like the above.

- Future of Coding

- Making Sense

- The Joe Rogan Experience

- Tim Ferris Show

- 80,000 hours

- Conversations with Tyler

- Slate Star Codex

- The Art of Manliness

- Stuff You Should Know

In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg on BBC