It's been a while since I posted the list of podcasts I am listening to, but after several discussions on the topic with friends over the past few months I thought it was time to revisit it. Especially considering that my list has changed so much since the first few times I did write about podcasts.
I'm a podcast transient: I like exploring different podcasts on the same topics until I find the ones that resonate the most with me... until they don't. And then I find new ones. I am also a podcast fanatic. I listen to 20-30 hours of podcasts per week, when I'm commuting, cooking, cleaning, running and doing any other physical activity that I don't find mentally engaging enough on its own.
I recently set my podcast app to play nearly everything at 1.5x speed because I have just too many podcasts I want to listen to. Truth be told, it triggered some big anxiety symptoms at first, giving me an uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my stomach and stressing me out to a surprising level. It took me a few tries but now I can listen to almost everything sped up, which makes me quite happy since there is so much good content coming out weekly and I really hate paring down my list.
So, what is on my list these days anyway? I'll break these out into a few categories since there are currently 41 podcasts in my app (is that excessive?). For simplicity, they are listed alphabetically:
I'm a podcast transient: I like exploring different podcasts on the same topics until I find the ones that resonate the most with me... until they don't. And then I find new ones. I am also a podcast fanatic. I listen to 20-30 hours of podcasts per week, when I'm commuting, cooking, cleaning, running and doing any other physical activity that I don't find mentally engaging enough on its own.
I recently set my podcast app to play nearly everything at 1.5x speed because I have just too many podcasts I want to listen to. Truth be told, it triggered some big anxiety symptoms at first, giving me an uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my stomach and stressing me out to a surprising level. It took me a few tries but now I can listen to almost everything sped up, which makes me quite happy since there is so much good content coming out weekly and I really hate paring down my list.
So, what is on my list these days anyway? I'll break these out into a few categories since there are currently 41 podcasts in my app (is that excessive?). For simplicity, they are listed alphabetically:
Tech podcasts
- Business Schooled - Interviews with entrepreneurs and tech leaders
- Internet History Podcast - Interviews with people who shaped the Internet
- Moonshot - Interviews with people who are shaping the future of tech
- One Team Gov - Interviews with people working in digital government around the world
- Reply All - Odd, often investigative, stories from around the Internet
- Should This Exist? - An exploration of the ethics of technology
- Talks at Google - Interviews taped at Google with entrepreneurs and creators
- The Dropout - Exploration of the fascinating failure that was Theranos
- The Wired Podcast - Tech stories from The Wired UK
- This Week in Tech - Discussion of the week's tech news
- Valley of Genius: The Voices That Built Silicon Valley - Interviews with founders and employees who lived through the Web/ tech bubble of the early 2000s
Design and User Experience podcasts
- 99% Invisible - Stories about design in everyday life
- Design Life - Discussion about life and work as a designer
- Design Matters - Interviews with artists and designers (hosted by the incredible Debbie Milman)
- Design Untangled - Discussion about general UX design topics
- Design and Architecture - Stories centered around design and architecture in LA
- Obsessed Show (formerly Obsessed with Design) - Interviews with designers and creatives
- Presentable - Interviews with designers and product owners
- The Content Strategy Podcast - pretty self-explanatory
- The Honest Designers Show - An honest look at life as a creative
- The Rosenfeld Review - Interviews with UX authors and speakers
- UI Breakfast - Discussions on design and UX topics
- UX Podcast - Interviews with UXers from around the globe
- UXPod - Interviews with UXers
- UXRadio - Discussions of UX topics and methods
- Voice of Design - Interviews with UXers
- What is Wrong with UX? - Discussion and interviews about UX with a lot of snark :)
Life podcasts
- Call Your Girlfriend - Discussion about politics, feminism and everything in between
- Changed My Mind - Interviews with people about a time they changed their mind, and the impact it had on them
- Hidden Brain - Stories about science and human behaviour
- Nothing Much Happens - Bedtime stories for grown-ups (to help me turn off my brain at bedtime)
- Terrible, Thanks for Asking - Real talk about the crappy parts of life
- The Allusionist - Exploring language and its cultural impact
- The Good News Podcast - Happy stories for the happiest 5 minutes in your whole day
- The Moment - Interviews with creators from the entertainment industry
- Toddcast - Discussions on mental health and work-life balance with members of the Canadian public service
- Unladylike - Discussions and interviews fueled by feminist rage
- Without Fail - Interviews about success and failure
Comedy Podcasts
- Everything is Alive - Fictional interviews with inanimate objects
- How Did This Get Made - Hilarious reviews of terrible movies
- The Good Place: The Podcast - Interviews with the stars of The Good Place