Lex is great. Some of my favorite episodes of him are with some really cool software engineers.

-- Chris Lattner -> Wrote the LLVM Compiler and lead/(leads?) development of the Swift programming language. Done a bunch of other cool things with RISC-V development too -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/5fpAb2OpRL3Uy8ZTq94vD8?si=b...

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fzFCgBznLjKvG2tJFLk3I?si=f...

-- Bjarne Stroustrup -> Creator of C++ programming language -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/2nfoXUYySjgyCtJVglb5LV?si=4...

-- David Patterson -> Turing Award Winner (Don't remember exactly what this guy did but the podcast was 4.5 hours and I listened to the whole thing so it must have been good) -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/5GgaJfeIZWLbofcapDbo18?si=8...

-- Brendan Eich -> Creator of JavaScript -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vLJaVnHrT6uWrgZdRaAkO?si=4...

-- He's had on Elon a few times too. -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/1E3ESPFzTHiAxJVXQPiRGd?si=f... He also had a bunch of really good physics and math guys on like Grant Sanderson (3 Blue 1 Brown guy) and Frank Wilcek (Nobel Prize Winner in physics, wrote "A Beautiful Question")

I'd also counter one of the previous comments and say that I think he challenges the controversial people he has on significantly more than almost anyone else doing podcasts right now. That's specifically one of the reasons I like him.

Some other good podcasts though: PodRocket -> Really good stuff on Web Development and general web technology

Command Line Heros -> Some really good episodes on the history of software. If you're young like I am this podcast gives you a really good rundown as to why things in software are the way they are and how it evolved.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg-> Great podcast for learning about how the tech ecosystem operates on a large scale. It's 4 guys who have been extremely successful in the tech/VC world and they breakdown current events in tech. I feel like it provides really good insight into where the tech world is/is going and also if you're interested in starting a company it helps wrap your head around the terminology that comes along with raising money and working in that world.

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