Podcasts
I really only recommend one.
The only podcast I really recommend is Founders by David Senra.
This is basically the only podcast I listen to and still get fired up by. It is the one that makes me want to get on the treadmill and feel like I could run through a wall.
Most podcasts get boring after a while or start feeling out of date. This one does not. It feels evergreen. I can come back to it over and over and it still hits.
I love recommending it because it feels like the rare podcast that actually keeps delivering. Pretty much every other podcast gets put to shame for me.
Honorable mentions
The Tim Ferriss Show Highest quality and probably the longest-lasting interview podcast. I loved Tim’s early work most. Now it is a little more hit or miss for me, but the overall quality is still very high.
Dwarkesh Podcast The best high-quality AI and tech podcast I have found recently. Dwarkesh Patel is almost autistic in how sharp and obsessive his questions are, which makes the interviews really good.
All-In Podcast I debated even mentioning this because it is basically pure ragebait, but it is entertaining. It is like the Kim Kardashians of tech bros: terrible advice, great fights, pure junk food, and somehow still fun if you want to kill a few brain cells.
Notes
Outside of evergreen stuff like Founders, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, or a few real knowledge podcasts like The Knowledge Project, books are almost always better. People put a lot more effort into books, and you can feel it.
The best use case for podcasts, at least for me, is when I want to go deep on one specific person. I would rather find every good interview that person has done and listen to a bunch of those than regularly follow one show every week.
There are just so many podcasts now, and most of them are not that good. So most of the time I would still rather listen to a book. But the few linked here are the ones I keep coming back to.