Useful Podcasts Update

1.5 years ago, I had posted a listing of the useful podcasts I subscribe to. This is a skilful fourth dimension to update that listing amongst some recent favorites.

Listening to insightful podcasts is a bully mode to patch/upgrade your personal operating system. So if yous receive got some skilful ones yous tin recommend, permit me know.

Masters of Scale amongst Reid Hoffman 

This podcast talks nearly startups together with scaling them. Reid Hoffman is a original of this domain, together with he brings together with interviews bully people. He had Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Peter Thiel, together with Eric Schmidt inwards his series.  Every episode is great. The final 1 I listened to was Part 1 amongst Barry Diller. I relate really unopen to  Barry's approach to learning past times deconstructing together with agreement from the key elements, together with feeling inadequate until skilful insight together with agreement is gained.

DILLER:​ ​By role or past times temperament, I’m exclusively interested inwards those things where I haven’t figured it out, together with I truly create squall back that nonetheless it happened, that when I was presented endlessly amongst things I didn’t understand, the exclusively thing I could do—because my encephalon is slower, together with hence is to a greater extent than literal—and hence my procedure is, I receive got to acquire it downward to its tiniest particle, or else…I can’t come upward inwards together with sympathise an equation, if yous tin lay it inwards equation terms, unless I de-equation it—I can’t alternative it up. So I’m forced – past times a lack of encephalon matter, I am forced to – no I’m non maxim it – it’s true! To pause it downward every bit hardly depression every bit I tin acquire it, together with exclusively then—and that’s learning. That’s existent – that is joyous locomote to me, is getting through those layers, downward to something, together with so in 1 lawsuit I’m downward there, in 1 lawsuit I’m truly at the very, really base of operations of it, I tin truly origin to create something good.

Trailblazers past times Walter Isaacson

I am truly fond of this podcast every bit well. Of course of instruction nosotros know of Isaacson from his bully biographies. Listening him swiftly encompass the history of invention inwards a selected expanse each calendar week is a blast. I acquire so much from this podcast. In the most recent episode "the toy to the world", I learned how of import it is to dissever the agency from the ends. It is best to receive got a elementary elegant vision together with pursue that rather than doing the trendy hip thing. Yep, truthful non only for toy companies, but everything every bit well.

Revisionist History past times Malcolm Gladwell

Some people criticize Malcolm Gladwell's mass together with writing every bit beingness oversimplified. I got that vibe from a dyad of his books; I squall back it is OK if yous process the books every bit conversation starter/instigator on that topic rather than the ultimate judgment. Instigator he is, together with that is why I squall back Gladwell excels at the podcast medium. Every episode was interesting. And for the episodes on instruction inequality, Gladwell truly transcends himself.


Some other overnice podcasts I occasion to include:
+ Hidden Brain past times Shankar Vedantam
+ Recode decode past times Kara Swisher
+ This calendar week inwards startups past times Jason Calacanis
+ Design matters past times Debbie Millman
+ Futility cupboard past times Greg & Sharon Ross
+ Finding mastery past times Michael Gervais
+ Unmistakeable creative past times Srini Rao

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