Podcasts

I listen to a lot of podcasts. My secret to doing this? Listening at 2x speed.

 

Apart from the few podcasts at the bottom of the page, I listen to every single one of these podcasts, and have only skipped a few episodes of selected shows (usually where the content was too old).

How do I do it? I listen to most at 2x speed. You’ll be amazed how slow people can talk, and how much wasted time is included in recording. I also listen when I’m doing other things. I’ve training myself to listen for keywords and snippets I can take away. It’s always there to rewind if needed. Some show I site focus 100% on, but a lot of the news and general discussion show can run happily in the background.

I keep wanting to remove shows from my list but almost every episode of every show has at least one nugget of information or something that makes me think.

I only listen to what I enjoy, but shows with (★) are my absolute top picks.

 

Programming & Software Development

• .NET Rocks! ★ – One of the grandaddy’s of podcasts. Hosted by Karl Franklin and Richard Campbell, legends in the Microsoft development work. Interviews docused on Microsoft/.NET development technologies but also covering a wider range of current topics in web, apps and other languages.
• JavaScript Jabber – Discussions around all things JavaScript.
• Views on Vue – From the people of “JavaScript Jabber“. Discussions about the front-end web framework VueJS.
• Hanselminutes – Fresh Talk and Tech for Developers – Interviews by Scott Hanseleman, another legend in the Microsoft development community.
• RunAs Radio (IT/Operations focused) – Hosted by Richard Cambell of “.NET Rocks!“. Interviews focusing on IT, Cloud and operations.
• Herding Code – A technology podcast with Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scott Koon and Jon Galloway (big OG names in the Microsoft community).

 

Information Security/Privacy News & Topics

• Risky Business ★ – Must listen to weekly security news and sponsor interviews from Australian security journalist Patrick Gray.
• Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons Podcast – Weekly security news and interviews. Good for a general audience with some technical knowledge but no deep understanding required.
• Secure Digital Life (Audio)
• Hackable? – A great podcast for every day people, diving into security and privacy topics in an experimental way (usually an experiment on the host) that everyone can enjoy and learn from.
• Naked Security Podcast
• Breach
• The Threatpost Podcast
• Recorded Future – Inside Threat Intelligence for Cyber Security
• Darknet Diaries (“True stories from the dark side of the Internet”) ★ – Masterfully produced stories about cyber security, told by Jack Rhysider (who is music to the ears). One of the few podcasts I listen to a 1x speed.
• Malicious Life
• SANS Internet Stormcenter Daily Network/Cyber Security and Information Security
• Security Now
• CYBER
• Hacking Humans
• Think Like a Hacker with Wordfence
• SECTION 9 Cyber Security
• Paul’s Security Weekly
• Smashing Security
• The Privacy, Security, & OSINT Show
• Defensive Security Podcast – Malware, Hacking, Cyber Security & Infosec
• Cyber Tales – Story behind cyber security stories
• IRL – Online Life Is Real Life
• National Cyber Security Radio By Gregory Evans
• Cyber Security Sauna
• DevSecOps Podcast Series
• The Daily Swig

 

Technology: News, Discussion and Related

• Pivot ★ – Silicon Valley tech reporter Kara Swisher and Professor Scott Galloway talk technology and business twice per week. Fun, raw, honest and thoughtful.
• Recode Decode ★ – Kara Swisher’s own podcast within technology related interviews in tech, business and politics (US).
• Download This Show – ABC Radio National – Australian weekly technology show covering recent topics of interest in tech.
• Reply All ☆ – Sensationally produced show with a slant toward tech but always a whole lot of fun, interesting, quirky and unexpected.
• Screaming in the Cloud
• Reset

 

Business

• Ditching Hourly ★ – Jonothan Stark talks getting rid of hourly pricing and moving to value pricing. Ex developer and devs are the audience.
• The Business of Authority ★ – Jonothan Stark of “Ditching Hourly” and Rochelle Moulton talk business and being an authority.
• Distributed, with Matt Mullenweg – Matt Mullenweg of WordPress fame talks about and interviews people on the topic of distributed (remote) working.
• After Hours (also https://harvardafterhours.com/) ★ – A great weekly show from Harvard Business Review with the hosts discussing recent business topics.
• The Journal.
• HBR IdeaCast
• Works for Me
• Land of the Giants
• The Soul of Enterprise: Business in the Knowledge Economy
• Think Like A CEO

 

Big Thinking and Interviews

• The Tim Feriss Show ★ – By Tim Ferriss of “The 4 Hour Work Week” fame, he “deconstructs world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, sports, business, art, etc.) to extract the tactics, tools, and routines you can use. This includes favorite books, morning routines, exercise habits, time-management tricks, and much more.”
• The James Altucher Show ★ – Serial entrepreneur and author James Altucher interviews (long form) authors, artists, innovators, and peak performers from around the world.
• The Madness Continues – Discovered via The James Altucher Show.
• Revisionist History – Serial show by author Malcolm Gladwell, “each week for 10 weeks, Revisionist History will go back and reinterpret something from the past: an event, a person, an idea. Something overlooked. Something misunderstood.”
• Your Undivided Attention
• Radiolab
• You Too with Mike Bullard ★ – Interesting long-form interviews.

 

Culture & Other

• Function with Anil Dash
• You’re Dead To Me
• Recode Media
• Crazy/Genius
• Stephen Fry’s Great Leap Years
• The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

 

Good podcasts that left the list

• Too Embarrassed to Ask
• Big Questions with Cal Fussman
• Tim Ferriss’ Tribe of Mentors (and the book website)
• Freakonomics Radio
• Cyber Security Weekly Podcast – Recording quality wasn’t that high (some guest accents were too hard as well) and I couldn’t listen at 2x speed.

 

For Future Listening (if I ever have time again)

• Down the Security Rabbithole Podcast
• My Dad Wrote a Porno
• LeVar Burton Reads – Recommended to me by a good friend.
• The MFCEO Project – Business related. A good podcast, but it’s off the priority list only due to time available.
• Data Breach Today Podcast – InfoSec related. Dropped off my priority list due to lack of time.