Podcasts

My daily commute lasts about 1 hour and I quickly tend to grow tired of listening to the radio. So I listen to podcasts. Lots of them. I listen to every show at 1.5x speedup, which did take a while to get up to, but has become second nature now. In fact, if I listen to a podcast at a normal speed, it just sounds plain weird now.

I’ve gotten into many conversations about which podcasts I listen to, so from now on, I’ll just point people to this article (yeah, just like you).

Note: The star (*) next to the podcast indicates I never miss a show. If I see it pop into my podcatcher (which is Instacast these days) I will most likely stop and listen to it immediately.

Technical

I try to keep up with the ever changing world of tech and have found that podcasts are a nice way of doing just that.

• Under the Radar *
• Magpie Talk Show *
• The Ruby Rogues
• Software Engineering Radio
• Javascript Jabber
• The iPhreaks Show
• Hanselminutes
• The Changelog

Startup

You might say that a lot of the technical podcasts do deal with startup life, but there is only one true entreperneour podcast on my list.

• Dorm Room Tycoon

Non-technical

To get away from the creepy crawlies, erm tech news overload, I splice in a few non-technical/science podcasts.

• The Sceptics’ Guide to the Universe *
• No Such Thing As A Fish *
• Serial *
• Star Talk Radio
• TED Radio Hour

NBA

I’m a huge NBA junkie. And I have to get my weekly fix of NBA news and rumours. Call it my guilty pleasure.

• NBA Lockdown *
• The Vertical Podcast with JJ Reddick

Slovenian podcasts

Good to keep an eye on what the locals are up to.

• Številke
• Odbita Do Bita
• Frekvenca X
• Apparatus
• Glave