With five minutes work you’ll be set for life with an endless podcast queue. — The famous podcast discovery problem states that even with millions of episodes to choose from, it still feels difficult to find new shows that you’ll like. There is a very simple solution to always having an endless list of amazing things to listen to. I’m so confident this solution works…

1x speed. Check. Good headphones. Check. Let’s do it. — It’s late 2014, early 2015, and this is my impression of every message board that discussed podcasts. “Hey I just finished Serial and loved it. What else should I listen to?” Cue dozens of people stepping all over each to say some variation of: “Oh ‘Colors’ from Radiolab for sure…

A nostalgic adventure for your ears with a heavy focus on the early 8-bit and 16-bit era — One of the best rabbit holes I’ve recently fallen into is the world of video game music podcasts. It all started with an episode of Twenty Thousand Hertz called Zelda: A Beep to the Past. …

Even with the best AI and a computer with infinite power. — AI is getting so good lately it’s easy to imagine that some algorithm is right around the corner that will finally crack the code on accurate weather predictions. And by accurate weather prediction, I mean specifically to be able to answer this type of basic question: “What will the temperature…

Add these podcasts to your queue before (or after) seeing Oppenheimer. — Even two weeks out from seeing Oppenheimer in my local IMAX (well digital IMAX but good enough), I can’t get enough content about the movie. Here are some of my favorite things I’ve listened to and watched that pair well with the movie. Cows In The Field: Oppenheimer (w/ Bilge Ebiri) Cows in the field A movie podcast inspired by a Werner Herzog quote, "We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the…pod.link

Put your podcast knowledge to the test. — Last year a few podcast newsletter writers and I teamed up to make some podcast riddles for a contest. The idea was to have our audiences guess a four line rhyming riddle with a visual that acted as an additional hint. Now that the contest is over, I wanted to…

Do you want to learn for pleasure, or do you want to take action? — There are many kinds of non-fiction books, and they can be categorized in nearly infinite ways. One interesting way is to bucket them very broadly by what you hope to accomplish by reading them. Two such buckets could be non-fiction where you can learn something interesting about the world, and…

And little thoughts to go with each — 1. Podcasts are like an order of large fries. They are much better if you share them with your friends. 2. Wouldn’t it be amazing to show off your “podcast bookshelf?”

For that special podcast person in your life — What if we imagined a world where podcast Valentine’s existed? For the amount of love and joy they bring people, why don’t podcasts have a whole Valentine’s niche on the internet? Candy and cards and everything. A huge missed opportunity if you ask me. Conversation hearts are everywhere this time…