← All writing My Fave Podcasts 2024 - The Big Reset 4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory , with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my OPML file growing from 566 rss feeds in 2022 to 771* in 2024 (with quite a few of my fave NPR podcasts dying), and my backlog mounting to 43GB (according to this script , my outstanding episodes: 11915 (played: 22451)), I am now needing to declare podcast bankruptcy.
After a year of languishing feature requests with Overcast , I'm now keen on moving to a new app, Snipd (thanks to Kevin Ben Smith for onboarding me ), which at least has transcription even if I don't super value the snipping. I didn't move before because the porting process was not well worked out, but now that I have decided to declare podcast bankruptcy, it's a good time to switch, and take stock of what I need going forward.
*Note: its not literally 771 podcasts i susbscribe to, that number is every thing ive ever listened to even 1 episode of, over 6 years, including occasional oneoff youtube videos that i stripped for audio
What I want to listen to Going Forward
Basing off my 2020 categories, here is what i am keeping:
AI: After the 2023 pivot , I actively maintain this list on ai-notes
News
HN Recap pod Mainstream: WSJ The Journal. (rss , url ), NYT The Daily (rss , url ), Economist The Intelligence (rss , url ) and Editor’s Picks from The Economist (rss , url )
NEW: Sharp Tech (replaced Ben Thompson's old Exponent) and Dithering and Stratechery podcast
Techmeme Ride Home (rss , url )
Slate Money (rss , url ) - I have loved Felix Salmon from his days at Reuters.
The Breakdown with NLW
Tech/Founders
Background Audio/Friends
This American Life (rss , url )
The Moth (rss , url )
Decoder - Nilay Patel
The Vergecast (rss , url ) - I enjoy the “no bullshit” tech industry chats
Ben Orenstein's new pod with Adam Wathan - the successor to The Art of Product (rss , url )
Lex Fridman (rss , url )
CLUBLIFE (rss , url )
Eelke Kleijn | DAYS like NIGHTS Radio (rss , url )
Popcast (rss , url )
Switched on Pop (rss , url )
Cal Newport's Deep Questions
Ship30for30 podcast Death sex & Money
Sex & Pyschology podcast
Body Tutor
A Whole New Level
LessWrong podcast
Other good overcast export scripts
Misc Overcast listening data
Overcast doesnt retain listen length, just completed/deleted podcasts - so this biases toward frequent/daily short podcasts.
Title
Count
Techmeme Ride Home 235
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis 158
Hacker News Recap 155
Today In History with The Retrospectors 133
The Journal. 102
PG Essays 86
Pop Culture Happy Hour 84
Stratechery 81
Changelog Master Feed 78
Equity 74
My First Million 73
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) 72
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend 67
The Intelligence from The Economist 63
LessWrong (Curated & Popular) 62
Grit 61
AWS Morning Brief 60
Reqless 57
Papers Read on AI 56
The Breakdown 55
TED Talks Daily 54
Dithering 52
The Moth 49
"The Cognitive Revolution": AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis 48
Business Wars 47
The Stack Overflow Podcast 47
Lenny's Podcast 46
PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket 45
The Cloudcast 44
The Vergecast 42
CLUBLIFE 42
How I Built This with Guy Raz 41
The Data Stack Show 40
The Swyx Mixtape 40
Big Technology Podcast 40
The Colin and Samir Show 40
Software Defined Talk 37
Founders 37
Popcast 37
Marketing Against The Grain 37
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg 35
Huberman Lab 35
Deep Questions with Cal Newport 33
The Logan Bartlett Show 33
Switched on Pop 32
Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin 32
The Straits Times Podcasts 32
Neville Medhora Talks Copywriting 32
a16z Podcast 31
The Gradient: Perspectives on AI 31
Slate Money 30
The Official SaaStr Podcast 29
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! 29
Startups For the Rest of Us 28
ShopTalk 28
Decoder with Nilay Patel 28
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson 28
Manager Tools 27
Radiolab 27
Screaming in the Cloud 27
Open Source Startup Podcast 27
The New Stack Podcast 27
The Art of Manliness 27
Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal 27
No Priors 27
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson 27
Intentionally Blank 26
The HeyCreator Show 25
Infinite Loops 24
Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) 24
Sex and Psychology Podcast 24
Big Take 24
Eye On A.I. 23
Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald 23
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford 23
The ChatGPT Report 23
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy 23
This American Life 22
Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques 22
Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI 22
MicroConf On Air 22
Postgres FM 22
Scaling Postgres 21
Editor's Picks from The Economist 20
Radio 1's Screen Time 20
The Tim Ferriss Show 20
The YNAB Podcast 20
The MongoDB Podcast 20
Crypto Critics' Corner 20
Greymatter 20
Babbage from The Economist 20
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle 19
Bankless 19
The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship 19
Indie Bites 19
The AI Podcast 19
devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development 19
Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman 18
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source 18
The Week Unwrapped - with Olly Mann 18
Talking Too Loud with Chris Savage 18
LEVELS – A Whole New Level 18
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) 18
Y Combinator Startup Podcast 18
Twenty Thousand Hertz 17
Getting Things Done 17
The Compound and Friends 17
StrictlyVC Download 17
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers 17
Honestly with Bari Weiss 17
Scaling DevTools 17
Talk Ville 17
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast 17
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast — Practitioners talking LLMs, CodeGen, Agents, Multimodality, AI UX, GPU Infra and all things Software 3.0 17
Modern Love 16
Song Exploder 16
Death, Sex & Money 15
The Psychology Podcast 15
Another Podcast 15
The Artificial Intelligence Show 15
The Inside View 15
Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist 15
The Analytics Engineering Podcast 15
Unsupervised Learning 15
FYI - For Your Innovation 15
Built to Sell Radio 14
Above Board 14
Lex Fridman Podcast 14
Future of Life Institute Podcast 14
SmartLess 14
Open Source Data 14
Revisionist History 14
The Great Creators with Guy Raz 14
Unchained 14
Acquired 14
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week 14
The Iced Coffee Hour 14
Unthinkable with Jay Acunzo 13
Podcast Archives - Software Engineering Daily 13
Ear Hustle 13
Sand Hill Road 13
Last Week in AI 13
Business Breakdowns 13
Monday Morning Data Chat 13
Odd Lots 13
The Weekly Build 13
"Moment of Zen" 13
The Aarthi and Sriram Show 13
Malicious Life 13
Talk Python To Me 12
Autonocast 12
Beyond the Screenplay 12
Land of the Giants 12
Goldman Sachs Exchanges 12
Metamuse 12
Crossing the Enterprise Chasm 12
LeVar Burton Reads 12
The Espresso Hour 12
Under the Radar 11
Everyone Hates Marketers 11
Indie Hackers 11
3 Books With Neil Pasricha 11
The Robot Brains Podcast 11
Bootstrapped Web 11
Foundation: The Official Podcast 11
SaaS for Developers 11
Plain English with Derek Thompson 11
Riskgaming 11
The Modern Mann 11
狗熊有话说 11
Lateral with Tom Scott 11
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg 11
Design Details 10
Psychology of Video Games Podcast 10
Planet Money 10
Svelte Radio 10
Found 10
ACQ2 by Acquired 10
Software Unscripted 10
Oxide and Friends 10
Talk Social To Me 10
Against the Rules with Michael Lewis: The Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried 10
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish 9
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders 9
My Climate Journey 9
Startup to Last 9
Dwarkesh Podcast 9
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