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 |
