I have consumed podcasts for a very long time, and occasionally I like an episode
so much that I share it here. My interests span technology, politics, government,
law, and science, which can be reflected in some of the podcast episodes I found
the most engaging & memorable:
I listen in Overcast and extracted my favorited episodes (331!):
The Tim Ferriss Show (26)
- 2025-09-24 – #777: Derek Sivers, Philosopher-Entrepreneur — The Greatest Year of His Life (permalink)
- 2025-05-27 – #812: The Random Show — New Health Gadgets, Tim’s Latest Adventures, How to Drink Less, Zen Retreats, AI + Your Genome, and Colonoscopy Confessions (permalink)
- 2025-04-04 – #803: Craig Mod Returns — Epic Walks in Japan, The Art of Slowness, Digital Detox, Publishing “Impossible” Books, and Choosing Beauty Over Scale (permalink)
- 2025-04-04 – #802: Craig Mod — The Real Japan, Cheap Apartments in Tokyo, Productive Side Quests, Creative Retreats, Buying Future Freedom, and Being Possessed by Spirits (permalink)
- 2025-01-19 – #736: A Strategic Deep Dive on TikTok, The Boiling Moat of Taiwan, and China’s Next-Gen Statecraft — Matt Pottinger, Former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor (permalink)
- 2025-01-05 – #784: Dr. Becky Kennedy — Parenting Strategies for Raising Resilient Kids, Plus Word-for-Word Scripts for Repairing Relationships, Setting Boundaries, and More (permalink)
- 2024-10-07 – #767: Jerry Colonna — Tim and Uncle Jerry Tackle Life, Big Questions, Business, Parenting, and Disco Duck (permalink)
- 2023-09-21 – #540: Harvard Polymath Noah Feldman — Deep Focus for Hyper-Productivity, Learning 10+ Languages, Predicting the Future with History, the Possibilities (and Limitations) of DAOs, Lessons from the Iraq Invasion, Designing the Supreme Court of… (permalink)
- 2022-11-08 – #620: Dr. Gabor Maté — The Myth of Normal, Metabolizing Anger, Processing Trauma, and Finding the Still Voice Within (permalink)
- 2022-09-05 – #619: Dr. Suresh Muthukumaraswamy — LSD Microdosing, Classical Psychedelics vs. Ketamine, Science and Speed in New Zealand, Placebo Options, and The Infinite Possibilities of Studying Mind-Altering Compounds (permalink)
- 2022-08-29 – #608: Signal Over Noise with Noah Feldman — The War in Ukraine (Recap and Predictions), The Machiavelli of Maryland, Best Books to Understand Geopolitics, The Battles for Free Speech on Social Media, Metaverse Challenges, and More (permalink)
- 2022-08-12 – #614: Q&A with Tim on Wealth and Money, Book Recommendations, Advice on Taking Advice, C.S. Lewis, Relationships, Behavior Change and Self-Awareness, Why We Are All (Mostly) Making It Up as We Go, and Much More (permalink)
- 2022-03-14 – #571: Boyd Varty — The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life (permalink)
- 2022-03-10 – #578: Tim Ferriss and Matt Mullenweg in Antarctica: Exploring Personal Fears, Bucket Lists, Facing Grief, Crafting Life Missions, and Tim’s Best Penguin Impressions (permalink)
- 2022-02-12 – #125: Derek Sivers on Developing Confidence, Finding Happiness, and Saying “No” to Millions (permalink)
- 2022-01-18 – #564: Performance Psychologist Michael Gervais — Fear{less} with Tim Ferriss (permalink)
- 2021-12-15 – #553: Jessica Lahey on Parenting, Desirable Difficulties, The Gift of Failure, Self-Efficacy, and The Addiction Inoculation (permalink)
- 2021-10-27 – #538: How I Built The Tim Ferriss Show to 700+ Million Downloads — An Immersive Explanation of All Aspects and Key Decisions (Featuring Chris Hutchins) (permalink)
- 2020-12-04 – #483: Jim Collins on The Value of Small Gestures, Unseen Sources of Power, and More (permalink)
- 2020-11-29 – #479: Mary Karr — The Master of Memoir on Creative Process and Finding Gifts in the Suffering (permalink)
- 2020-09-26 – #466: Richard Koch on Mastering the 80/20 Principle, Achieving Unreasonable Success, and The Art of Gambling (permalink)
- 2020-05-25 – #272: Sir Richard Branson — The Billionaire Maverick of the Virgin Empire (permalink)
- 2020-05-13 – #431: Howard Marks on the US Dollar, Three Ways to Add Defense, and Good Questions (permalink)
- 2020-04-15 – #273: Lessons from Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, and Ben Franklin (permalink)
- 2020-02-26 – #409: Brené Brown — Striving versus Self-Acceptance, Saving Marriages, and More (permalink)
- 2017-11-22 – #138: How Seth Godin Manages His Life — Rules, Principles, and Obsessions (permalink)
Acquired (2)
Cortex (1)
Decoder with Nilay Patel (4)
Twenty Thousand Hertz (17)
Search Engine (4)
Otherwise Objectionable (1)
The Vergecast (1)
World Class (8)
Remote Ruby (1)
The Ezra Klein Show (13)
Bay Curious (9)
Civics 101 (11)
Software Engineering Radio (1)
Masters in Business (7)
Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates (1)
The Lawfare Podcast (20)
DealBook Summit (1)
The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) (2)
The Daily (40)
Unexplainable (6)
Radiolab (12)
Lex Fridman Podcast (10)
The Talk Show With John Gruber (1)
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future (3)
Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson (2)
The Secure Developer (3)
Where the Internet Lives (2)
ACM ByteCast (2)
History Daily (2)
How I Built This with Guy Raz (5)
Hard Fork (7)
Before Breakfast (4)
Radio Headspace (5)
CoRecursive: Coding Stories (1)
Masters of Scale (4)
Freakonomics Radio (4)
The TED Interview (6)
Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra (3)
Security Cryptography Whatever (1)
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers (2)
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish (13)
The David Rubenstein Show (2)
99% Invisible (10)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google (6)
Today, Explained (24)
Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter (1)
Stanford CDDRL podcast (1)
Bill Gates and Rashida Jones Ask Big Questions (2)
Voternomics (2)
Reply All (4)
LeVar Burton Reads (1)
Seeking Refuge (1)
Deep Questions with Cal Newport (2)
Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath (2)
The Penguin Podcast (1)
The Anthropocene Reviewed (1)
CodeNewbie (2)
The Ticket: Discover the Future of Customer Service, Support, and Experience, with Intercom (1)
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