Ask HN: Who is the Joe Rogan of coding? Who are some great interviewers / podcasters for technical coding topics; like Joe is for MMA? Or Machine Learning Street Talk is for ML, etc. I'd love to hear in depth interviews with people like: - Video game lead engineer - SpaceX flight systems engineer - DeepMind infra. engineer - HFT firm engineer - etc. etc. |
Some examples:
- Richard Hipp (SQLite creator) (https://changelog.com/podcast/454)
- Co-founder of Cockroach Labs (Massive scale and ultra-resilience)
I like how all episodes have transcripts so you can read/search instead of listening as well.
Are we watching the same person? I like Rogan's interviews, but he draws out good content by being dopey and asking simple questions, not by being charismatic and deep.
He votes for Bernie Sanders.
Not to take anything away from Fridman (he's great!), but I'd imagine being a research scientist at MIT probably helps a lot with that. :-)
Whatever you're smoking, I'd love to take a hit because Friedman is absolutely cringy. Smart, yes, but mostly cringy.
I discovered interesting people like Lex Friedman, Sean Caroll, Eric Weinstein, through Rogan's show.
Granted, I don't watch JRE anymore but back when I did I found it to be a gateway to people I might not have discovered otherwise. To me that was useful.