# My Fave Podcasts 2024 - The Big Reset

Original: https://swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2024
Published: 2024-07-15

> 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…

4.5 years after [my initial podcast inventory](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts), with COVID and a career change under my belt, with [my OPML file growing from 566 rss feeds in 2022 to 771* in 2024](https://github.com/swyxio/2024podcastreset) (with quite a few of my fave NPR podcasts dying), and my backlog mounting to 43GB (according to [this script](https://yaleman.org/post/2020/2020-02-03-simple-overcast-stats/), my outstanding episodes: 11915 (played: 22451)), I am now needing to declare podcast bankruptcy. 

After a year of languishing feature requests with [Overcast](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34527918), I'm now keen on moving to a new app, [Snipd](https://x.com/snipd_app) (thanks to [Kevin Ben Smith for onboarding me](https://x.com/kevinbensmith)), 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](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2023#my-hard-ai-pivot), I actively maintain this list on [ai-notes](https://github.com/swyxio/ai-notes/blob/main/Resources/Good%20AI%20Podcasts%20and%20Newsletters.md)
- News
	- [HN Recap pod](https://www.wondercraft.ai/podcasts/hacker-news-recap)
	- Mainstream: WSJ The Journal. ([rss](https://video-api.wsj.com/podcast/rss/wsj/the-journal), [url](https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal)), NYT The Daily ([rss](http://rss.art19.com/the-daily), [url](https://www.nytimes.com/the-daily)), Economist The Intelligence ([rss](https://rss.acast.com/theeconomisttheweekahead), [url](https://theintelligence.economist.com/)) and Editor’s Picks from The Economist ([rss](https://rss.acast.com/theeconomisteditorspicks), [url](http://www.economist.com/))
	- NEW: Sharp Tech (replaced Ben Thompson's old Exponent) and Dithering and Stratechery podcast
	- Techmeme Ride Home ([rss](https://rss.art19.com/techmeme-ridehome), [url](https://art19.com/shows/techmeme-ridehome))
	- Slate Money ([rss](https://feeds.megaphone.fm/slatemoney), [url](http://www.slate.com/slatemoney)) - I have loved Felix Salmon from his days at Reuters.
	- [The Breakdown](https://www.coindesk.com/podcasts/the-breakdown-with-nlw/) with NLW
- Tech/Founders
	- [Kleiner Perkins' Grit podcast](https://www.kleinerperkins.com/podcasts/)
	- Redpoint's [Logan Bartlett podcast](https://www.youtube.com/@theloganbartlettshow)
	- Screaming in the Cloud ([rss](https://feeds.transistor.fm/screaming-in-the-cloud), [url](https://screaminginthecloud.com/)) - corey teaches me a ton about aws
	- The Changelog ([rss](https://changelog.com/podcast/feed), [url](https://changelog.com/podcast))
	- Acquired ([rss](https://acquired.libsyn.com/rss), [url](https://acquired.fm/)) - ALLTIME GREAT podcast
	- The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch ([rss](http://thetwentyminutevc.libsyn.com/rss), [url](http://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/))
	- a16z Podcast ([rss](https://feeds.simplecast.com/JGE3yC0V), [url](https://www.a16z.com/))
	- Y Combinator ([rss](http://feeds.backtracks.fm/feeds/ycombinator/ycombinator/feed.xml), [url](http://www.ycombinator.com/))
	- Mixergy - Startup Stories with 1000+ entrepreneurs and businesses ([rss](https://mixergy.com/?feed=mixergy_feed&rss_source=itunes&), [url](https://mixergy.com/))
	- [devtools.fm](https://devtools.fm/)
	- [OSS Startups Pod](https://oss-startup-podcast.launchnotes.io/)
	- [David Senra's Founders podcast](https://founders.simplecast.com/)
	- Software Defined Talk
	- Oxide and Friends
- Background Audio/Friends
	- This American Life ([rss](http://feed.thisamericanlife.org/talpodcast), [url](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/))
	- The Moth ([rss](http://feeds.feedburner.com/themothpodcast), [url](http://themoth.org/))
	- Decoder - Nilay Patel
	- The Vergecast ([rss](https://feeds.megaphone.fm/vergecast), [url](https://www.theverge.com/the-vergecast)) - I enjoy the “no bullshit” tech industry chats
	- Ben Orenstein's new pod with Adam Wathan - the successor to The Art of Product ([rss](https://feeds.fireside.fm/artofproduct/rss), [url](https://artofproductpodcast.com/))
	- Lex Fridman ([rss](https://lexfridman.com/category/ai/feed/), [url](https://lexfridman.com/ai/)) 
	- CLUBLIFE ([rss](https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/clublife-by-tiesto), [url](http://www.tiesto.com/))
	- Eelke Kleijn | DAYS like NIGHTS Radio ([rss](http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:1525250/sounds.rss), [url](http://www.eelkekleijn.nl/))
	- Popcast ([rss](https://rss.art19.com/music-popcast), [url](http://www.nytimes.com/podcasts/music-popcast))
	- Switched on Pop ([rss](https://feeds.megaphone.fm/switchedonpop), [url](http://www.switchedonpop.com/))
	- Cal Newport's [Deep Questions](https://www.calnewport.com/podcast/)
	- [Ship30for30 podcast](https://www.youtube.com/c/Ship30for30)
	- 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.

| Title | Count |
|-------|-------|
| [Techmeme Ride Home](https://www.ridehome.info/show/techmeme-ride-home/) | 235 |
| [The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis](https://sites.libsyn.com/468519) | 158 |
| [Hacker News Recap](https://wondercraft.ai/) | 155 |
| [Today In History with The Retrospectors](https://www.theretrospectors.com/) | 133 |
| [The Journal.](https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal) | 102 |
| [PG Essays](https://api2.wondercraft.ai/feeds/podcasts/1589ba25-4f39-4ed0-ae6c-c4d244bd0169.rss) | 86 |
| [Pop Culture Happy Hour](https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510282/pop-culture-happy-hour) | 84 |
| [Stratechery](https://stratechery.com/) | 81 |
| [Changelog Master Feed](https://changelog.com/master) | 78 |
| [Equity](https://techcrunch.com/) | 74 |
| [My First Million](https://www.mfmpod.com/) | 73 |
| [The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)](http://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/) | 72 |
| [Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend](https://teamcoco.com/) | 67 |
| [The Intelligence from The Economist](https://theintelligence.economist.com/) | 63 |
| [LessWrong (Curated & Popular)](https://sites.libsyn.com/421877) | 62 |
| [Grit](https://www.kleinerperkins.com/podcasts/) | 61 |
| [AWS Morning Brief](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/) | 60 |
| [Reqless](https://aboard.com/) | 57 |
| [Papers Read on AI](https://papersread.ai/) | 56 |
| [The Breakdown](http://nlwcrypto.libsyn.com/) | 55 |
| [TED Talks Daily](https://www.ted.com/talks) | 54 |
| [Dithering](https://dithering.fm/) | 52 |
| [The Moth](http://themoth.org/) | 49 |
| ["The Cognitive Revolution": AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis](https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/) | 48 |
| [Business Wars](https://www.wondery.com/shows/business-wars/?utm_source=rss) | 47 |
| [The Stack Overflow Podcast](https://stackoverflow.blog/podcast/) | 47 |
| [Lenny's Podcast](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/podcast) | 46 |
| [PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket](http://podrocket.logrocket.com/) | 45 |
| [The Cloudcast](https://www.thecloudcast.net/) | 44 |
| [The Vergecast](https://www.theverge.com/the-vergecast) | 42 |
| [CLUBLIFE](http://www.tiesto.com/) | 42 |
| [How I Built This with Guy Raz](https://wondery.com/shows/how-i-built-this/?utm_source=rss) | 41 |
| [The Data Stack Show](https://datastackshow.com/) | 40 |
| [The Swyx Mixtape](http://swyx.transistor.fm/) | 40 |
| [Big Technology Podcast](https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/big-technology-6901970121829801984/) | 40 |
| [The Colin and Samir Show](http://youtube.com/colinandsamir) | 40 |
| [Software Defined Talk](https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/) | 37 |
| [Founders](https://www.founderspodcast.com/) | 37 |
| [Popcast](https://www.nytimes.com/column/popcast-pop-music-podcast) | 37 |
| [Marketing Against The Grain](https://www.hubspot.com/podcastnetwork?hubs_post=blog.hubspot.com%2F&hubs_post-cta=null&_ga=2.137319926.735863617.1675966337-1473551662.1664480619&_gl=1*plfdhm*_ga*MTQ3MzU1MTY2Mi4xNjY0NDgwNjE5*_ga_LXTM6CQ0XK*MTY3NTk2NjMzNS4zMS4xLjE2NzU5NjY0MzUuMC4wLjA.) | 37 |
| [All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg](http://allinchamathjason.libsyn.com/website) | 35 |
| [Huberman Lab](https://www.hubermanlab.com/) | 35 |
| [Deep Questions with Cal Newport](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1121972) | 33 |
| [The Logan Bartlett Show](https://theloganbartlettshow.simplecast.com/) | 33 |
| [Switched on Pop](http://www.switchedonpop.com/) | 32 |
| [Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin](http://www.akimbo.link/) | 32 |
| [The Straits Times Podcasts](https://www.straitstimes.com/st-podcasts) | 32 |
| [Neville Medhora Talks Copywriting](https://copywritingcourse.com/) | 32 |
| [a16z Podcast](https://a16z.simplecast.com/) | 31 |
| [The Gradient: Perspectives on AI](https://thegradientpub.substack.com/s/podcast) | 31 |
| [Slate Money](https://slate.com/podcasts/slate-money) | 30 |
| [The Official SaaStr Podcast](http://www.saastr.com/) | 29 |
| [Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!](https://www.npr.org/podcasts/344098539/wait-wait-don-t-tell-me) | 29 |
| [Startups For the Rest of Us](https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/) | 28 |
| [ShopTalk](https://shoptalkshow.com/series/default-podcast/) | 28 |
| [Decoder with Nilay Patel](https://theverge.com/) | 28 |
| [Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson](https://sharptech.fm/) | 28 |
| [Manager Tools](http://www.manager-tools.com/podcasts/manager-tools) | 27 |
| [Radiolab](https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/projects/podcasts) | 27 |
| [Screaming in the Cloud](https://screaminginthecloud.com/) | 27 |
| [Open Source Startup Podcast](https://oss-startup-podcast.launchnotes.io/) | 27 |
| [The New Stack Podcast](https://thenewstack.simplecast.com/) | 27 |
| [The Art of Manliness](http://www.artofmanliness.com/podcast/) | 27 |
| [Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal](https://aliabdaal.com/) | 27 |
| [No Priors](https://no-priors.com/) | 27 |
| [Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson](https://sharptech.fm/) | 27 |
| [Intentionally Blank](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1796140) | 26 |
| [The HeyCreator Show](https://heycreator.com/) | 25 |
| [Infinite Loops](https://infiniteloopspodcast.com/) | 24 |
| [Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/machinelearningstreettalk) | 24 |
| [Sex and Psychology Podcast](https://www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/series/sex-and-psychology-podcast/) | 24 |
| [Big Take](http://www.bloomberg.com/) | 24 |
| [Eye On A.I.](http://www.eye-on.ai/) | 23 |
| [Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-fake-doctors-real-friends-60367049/) | 23 |
| [Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford](https://www.pushkin.fm/) | 23 |
| [The ChatGPT Report](https://www.thechatgptreport.com/) | 23 |
| [Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy](https://joincolossus.com/) | 23 |
| [This American Life](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/) | 22 |
| [Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques](https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/think-fast-talk-smart-podcast) | 22 |
| [Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI](https://wandb.ai/site/resources/podcast) | 22 |
| [MicroConf On Air](https://microconfonair.com/) | 22 |
| [Postgres FM](https://share.transistor.fm/s/bab81285) | 22 |
| [Scaling Postgres](https://www.scalingpostgres.com/) | 21 |
| [Editor's Picks from The Economist](http://www.economist.com/) | 20 |
| [Radio 1's Screen Time](http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02r4zfx) | 20 |
| [The Tim Ferriss Show](https://tim.blog/podcast) | 20 |
| [The YNAB Podcast](http://www.ynab.com/) | 20 |
| [The MongoDB Podcast](https://podcasts.mongodb.com/public/115/The-MongoDB-Podcast-b02cf624) | 20 |
| [Crypto Critics' Corner](https://cryptocriticscorner.com/) | 20 |
| [Greymatter](https://greylock.com/greymatter-podcast/) | 20 |
| [Babbage from The Economist](https://www.economist.com/) | 20 |
| [Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle](http://www.tropicalmba.com/episodes) | 19 |
| [Bankless](http://podcast.banklesshq.com/) | 19 |
| [The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship](https://saasclub.io/saas-podcast/) | 19 |
| [Indie Bites](https://indiebites.com/) | 19 |
| [The AI Podcast](https://blogs.nvidia.com/ai-podcast/) | 19 |
| [devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development](https://devtools.fm/) | 19 |
| [Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman](https://www.hanselminutes.com/) | 18 |
| [The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source](https://changelog.com/podcast) | 18 |
| [The Week Unwrapped - with Olly Mann](https://www.theweek.co.uk/the-week-unwrapped) | 18 |
| [Talking Too Loud with Chris Savage](https://wistia.com/series/talking-too-loud) | 18 |
| [LEVELS – A Whole New Level](https://levels.link/wnl?utm_campaign=bio) | 18 |
| [The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)](https://twimlai.com/) | 18 |
| [Y Combinator Startup Podcast](http://www.ycombinator.com/) | 18 |
| [Twenty Thousand Hertz](http://www.20k.org/) | 17 |
| [Getting Things Done](https://gettingthingsdone.com/podcasts/) | 17 |
| [The Compound and Friends](https://thereformedbroker.com/podcast/) | 17 |
| [StrictlyVC Download](https://strictlyvc.com/) | 17 |
| [Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers](https://www.se-radio.net/) | 17 |
| [Honestly with Bari Weiss](https://www.bariweiss.com/) | 17 |
| [Scaling DevTools](http://bitreach.io/) | 17 |
| [Talk Ville](https://www.talkvillepodcast.com/episodes-category/season-4) | 17 |
| [Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast](https://podcasts.data.world/public/127/Catalog-%26-Cocktails-2fcf8728) | 17 |
| [Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast — Practitioners talking LLMs, CodeGen, Agents, Multimodality, AI UX, GPU Infra and all things Software 3.0](https://www.latent.space/podcast) | 17 |
| [Modern Love](https://www.nytimes.com/column/modern-love-podcast) | 16 |
| [Song Exploder](http://www.songexploder.net/) | 16 |
| [Death, Sex & Money](https://slate.com/podcasts/death-sex-money) | 15 |
| [The Psychology Podcast](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-the-psychology-podcast-96239856) | 15 |
| [Another Podcast](https://another-podcast.simplecast.com/) | 15 |
| [The Artificial Intelligence Show](https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/podcast-showcase) | 15 |
| [The Inside View](https://theinsideview.ai/) | 15 |
| [Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist](https://blog.joelonsdale.com/podcast) | 15 |
| [The Analytics Engineering Podcast](https://roundup.getdbt.com/) | 15 |
| [Unsupervised Learning](https://unsupervised-learning.simplecast.com/) | 15 |
| [FYI - For Your Innovation](https://ark-invest.com/) | 15 |
| [Built to Sell Radio](http://builttosell.com/radio) | 14 |
| [Above Board](https://usefathom.com/) | 14 |
| [Lex Fridman Podcast](https://lexfridman.com/) | 14 |
| [Future of Life Institute Podcast](http://www.futureoflife.org/) | 14 |
| [SmartLess](https://wondery.com/shows/smartless/?utm_source=rss) | 14 |
| [Open Source Data](https://www.datastax.com/resources/podcast/open-source-data) | 14 |
| [Revisionist History](http://revisionisthistory.com/) | 14 |
| [The Great Creators with Guy Raz](https://wondery.com/shows/the-great-creators-with-guy-raz/?utm_source=rss) | 14 |
| [Unchained](https://unchainedpodcast.com/) | 14 |
| [Acquired](https://acquired.fm/) | 14 |
| [ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week](https://sub.thursdai.news/podcast) | 14 |
| [The Iced Coffee Hour](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-selby4) | 14 |
| [Unthinkable with Jay Acunzo](http://jayacunzo.com/) | 13 |
| [Podcast Archives - Software Engineering Daily](http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/category/all-episodes/exclusive-content/podcast/) | 13 |
| [Ear Hustle](https://www.earhustlesq.com/) | 13 |
| [Sand Hill Road](https://art19.com/shows/sand-hill-road) | 13 |
| [Last Week in AI](https://www.lastweekinai.com/) | 13 |
| [Business Breakdowns](https://www.joincolossus.com/episodes) | 13 |
| [Monday Morning Data Chat](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ternary-data) | 13 |
| [Odd Lots](https://bloomberg.com/podcasts/odd_lots) | 13 |
| [The Weekly Build](http://theweeklybuild.com/) | 13 |
| ["Moment of Zen"](https://www.podpage.com/moment-of-zen-1/) | 13 |
| [The Aarthi and Sriram Show](https://good-time-show-by-aarthi-and-sriram.simplecast.com/) | 13 |
| [Malicious Life](https://redcircle.com/shows/malicious-life) | 13 |
| [Talk Python To Me](https://talkpython.fm/) | 12 |
| [Autonocast](http://www.autonocast.com/) | 12 |
| [Beyond the Screenplay](https://www.patreon.com/beyondthescreenplay) | 12 |
| [Land of the Giants](http://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/land-of-the-giants) | 12 |
| [Goldman Sachs Exchanges](https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/series/exchanges-at-goldman-sachs/index.html) | 12 |
| [Metamuse](https://museapp.com/podcast/) | 12 |
| [Crossing the Enterprise Chasm](https://share.transistor.fm/s/535333d2) | 12 |
| [LeVar Burton Reads](https://www.stitcher.com/) | 12 |
| [The Espresso Hour](https://www.ship30for30.com/) | 12 |
| [Under the Radar](https://www.relay.fm/radar) | 11 |
| [Everyone Hates Marketers](https://podcast.everyonehatesmarketers.com/) | 11 |
| [Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/) | 11 |
| [3 Books With Neil Pasricha](http://www.3books.co/) | 11 |
| [The Robot Brains Podcast](https://shows.acast.com/the-robot-brains) | 11 |
| [Bootstrapped Web](https://bootstrappedweb.com/) | 11 |
| [Foundation: The Official Podcast](https://apple.co/-Foundation-) | 11 |
| [SaaS for Developers](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/saas-for-developers) | 11 |
| [Plain English with Derek Thompson](https://www.theringer.com/) | 11 |
| [Riskgaming](https://www.luxcapital.com/riskgaming) | 11 |
| [The Modern Mann](https://www.modernmann.co.uk/) | 11 |
| [狗熊有话说](https://redcircle.com/shows/gou-xiong-you-hua-shuo) | 11 |
| [Lateral with Tom Scott](https://www.lateralcast.com/) | 11 |
| [Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg](https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/) | 11 |
| [Design Details](https://designdetails.fm/) | 10 |
| [Psychology of Video Games Podcast](http://www.psychologyofgames.com/) | 10 |
| [Planet Money](https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money) | 10 |
| [Svelte Radio](https://www.svelteradio.com/) | 10 |
| [Found](https://found.simplecast.com/) | 10 |
| [ACQ2 by Acquired](https://acquired.fm/) | 10 |
| [Software Unscripted](https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/software-unscripted) | 10 |
| [Oxide and Friends](http://oxide.computer/) | 10 |
| [Talk Social To Me](http://flick.tech/) | 10 |
| [Against the Rules with Michael Lewis: The Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried](https://atrpodcast.com/) | 10 |
| [The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish](https://fs.blog/knowledge-project/) | 9 |
| [Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders](https://art19.com/shows/entrepreneurial-thought-leaders) | 9 |
| [My Climate Journey](https://www.mcjcollective.com/media/podcast) | 9 |
| [Startup to Last](https://www.startuptolast.com/) | 9 |
| [Dwarkesh Podcast](https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/podcast) | 9 |


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