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
- Kleiner Perkins’ Grit podcast
- Redpoint’s Logan Bartlett podcast
- Screaming in the Cloud (rss, url) - corey teaches me a ton about aws
- The Changelog (rss, url)
- Acquired (rss, url) - ALLTIME GREAT podcast
- The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch (rss, url)
- a16z Podcast (rss, url)
- Y Combinator (rss, url)
- Mixergy - Startup Stories with 1000+ entrepreneurs and businesses (rss, url)
- devtools.fm
- OSS Startups Pod
- David Senra’s Founders podcast
- Software Defined Talk
- Oxide and Friends
- 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
- https://gist.github.com/Chealion/e39a59ae487a7ce752a63d505c7872be
- https://github.com/alexwlchan/overcast-downloader
Misc Overcast listening data
Overcast doesnt retain listen length, just completed/deleted podcasts - so this biases toward frequent/daily short podcasts.