In 2024, I tried in small ways to “quantify my life”. Logging activities with Strava, books using Goodreads, songs in Spotify, good articles read manually. Not fully successful. Hope to make an app for myself someday to make it easier and instant, along with some notes or learnings. One such was podcasts. After experimenting Google Podcasts and Spotify, I am using AntennaPod app since last couple of years since it had playing history and it has only podcasts with no other distraction. I have subscribed to a few, scan the new episodes once in a while, add some to the queue and listen to it during commute, daily walk or house chores. I listen at 1.5x speed which is now comfortable speed for all accents.
I recently discovered that Youtube videos can be converted to podcasts. NotebookLLM from Google seem to be exploding now that can convert anything (articles, research papers etc) to podcasts.
I lost some of my listening history in August when my phone crashed. Apart from that listened to 90 podcasts. Top one was Lenny’s Podcast which is all things Product development. Others were – The Seen and the Unseen (long conversations with interesting people in India, but it is getting longer and longer), Invest like the best (I don’t listen for investment related ones, but for some good conversations), The Tim Ferris Show (again some interesting interviews or conversations), Infinite Loops, How I write (writing advice, some interesting conversations with good authors), Dwarkesh podcast (with some AI founders, historians).
Few episodes that I liked, if someone wants starting points.
Build better products with continuous product discovery | Teresa Torres
Developer Experience is a Critical Issue for Organisations Today
Dare to Dissent (from NPR, good stories about dissent. When entire world is silent, how people find courage to speak up despite the risks)
Radical Candor: From theory to practice with author Kim Scott (for going from “being nice” to “being kind”)
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt (author of one of the Strategy books. It is great to listen to the authors of the books we read.)
Freakonomics : The Curious Mr. Feynman (stories about the maverick scientist)
Radiolab - Stochasticity (Original GOAT for me – Radiolab in its early days was the one that introduced podcasts to me. This one about randomness.)
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin - Robert Greene (again, listening to an author. Of “48 laws of power”)
Amor Towles: The Secret to Telling a Great Story (one more author, of one of the best novels I read in last few years, “A Gentleman in Moscow”)
Claire Hughes Johnson, Building Stripe from 160 to 6,000+ Employees — How to Take Radical Ownership of Your Life and Career (#724) (she wrote the book “Scaling People”)
Cyan Banister - Investing for a Higher Purpose (apart from investing side of it, some crazy stories from one’s life)
Sarah C. M. Paine - WW2, Taiwan, Ukraine, & Maritime vs Continental Powers (history and world today)
Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Visakan Veerasamy — Expanding Our Possibility-Space (EP. 210)
Interview with Benjamin Labatut, Author of When We Cease to Understand the World (one more author, of “When we cease to understand the world”)
Opinion | How to Discover Your Own Taste - The New York Times (nytimes.com) (Taste is something I read quite a bit about in 2024, this was a good podcast on the subject)
The Agent Era - Colossus (on upcoming Agentic AI)
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