Podcasts and YouTube lectures that curate 1) achieving people sharing true insights and detail (inspiring) and 2) articulate and status-holding people giving credence to non-popular ideas (necessary). It’s incredible and still underappreciated that we can freely access these conversations when the price for a subsection of these speakers as a ticketed conference or degree plan would be thousands, if not completely inaccessible.
As the medium scales, we’ll see more of the best podcasters (superb listeners + directors of rambling guests) replace entire media organizations as supernodes in our collective consciousness, helping distribute attention across economic and political markets (including this last most important election). Below are some of my favorites:
Index
Mixed (no series) | The Tim Ferriss Show | Joe Rogan Experience | Invest Like the Best | Dwarkesh Podcast | The Knowledge Project | BG^2 | Tetragrammaton
Mixed
- Osho – Buddha Aur Meera Ka Sangam (breaking down a beautiful piece of poetry from the mystic Kabir)
Tim Ferriss
- McConaughey – Oct 2020
- Richard Koch – Sep 2020 – Pareto in everything
- Michael Lewis – May 2020
- Jerry Seinfeld – Dec 2020
- Balaji Srinivasan – Jul 2022 and Mar 2021 – Crypto, technoculture, geopolitics
- David Rubenstein – Jan 2021 – Founding Carlyle
- Naval Ravikant – Jan 2016
- Seth Godin – Oct 2020
- Dan Harris – Nov 2020
- Henry Shukman – Sep 2021 – Koans
- Michael Dell – Sep 2021
- Noah Feldman – Oct 2021
- Roelof Botha – Aug 2022
JRE
- Peter Thiel
- Elon Musk (all appearances)
- Ray Kurzweil
- Sadhguru
- Wim Hof First and Second
- Kevin Hart First and Second
- Naval Ravikant
- Tulsi Gabbard & Jocko Willink
- Gad Saad
- Marc Andreessen First and Second
Invest Like the Best
- Cyan Lanister – Motivationally Differentiated Investing
- Brad Jacobs – Platform M&A
- Josh Wolfe – Lux Capital
- Micky Malka – Ribbit, Fintech
- Bret Taylor – AI Agents
- Ken Langone – American Dream
- Erik Serrano – Investing in Investors
- Trae Stephens – GovTech
- Bill Gurley
- Jared Kushner
- Robert Smith – Vista Equity
- Ravi Gupta – KKR / Sequoia
- Antonio Gracias – Valor Equity
- Gavin Baker – Atreides
- Orlando Bravo – Thoma Bravo
- Kat Cole – Focus Brands
- Ricky Sandler – Eminence Capital
- John Harris – (public equities)
- Chamath – Social Capital
- Ram Parameswaran – Octahedron
- Rory Sutherland – Ogilvy Advertising
- Michael Seibel – Y Combinator
- Charlie Songhurst – Microsoft / VC
- Ben Thompson – Stratechery
- John Collison – Stripe
- Tobi Lutke – Shopify
- Jeff Lawson – Twilio
- Jeff Ma
- George Rzepecki – Raba, Africa
Dwarkesh Podcast
- Jung Chang (on the reality of Communist China and its psychological consequences)
- David Deutsch – AI
The Knowledge Project
- Kunal Shah – Core Human Motivations
- Tyler Cowen – Thinking
- Balaji – Network State
- Naval – Angel Philosopher
- Gary Taubes – Sugar
Tetragrammaton
- Rory Sutherland
- Robert Greene
- Chris Dixon
- Woody Harrelson