I’m looking to refresh my podcast subscriptions with thoughtful, insightful, non politics stuff (enough of that already in my subscriptions). I’d love some recommendations for:
- Techie stuff for a luddite like me
- Long form explorations of a single topic
- Video gaming (loved the video game historian but he stopped)
- TTRPGs and game design
- Reading and Writing
- Absolutely no interest in art, finance, crypto, cars, sports, aliens, murder/horror/crime, or influencer style conversation casts (Rogan or Piker)
My current subscriptions are to:
- Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
- Disasters Deconstructed (though I’m not liking the academic tone anymore since I left this career, so stopped listening as much)
- Ralph Nader Radio Hour
- CBC podcasts, a wide variety on politics
- Autocracy in America
- NPR Shortwave and Planet Money
- John Stewart
- Trevor Noah
Print recommendations were stellar. I thank you! I’m glad, too, as some of the magazines you mentioned were available through my library via e-magazine. Otherwise, I go and read when I can. But I did subscribe to Macleans.
Pertaining to 80,000 hours it struck me as a new variety of affective altruism/morale ambition. Very AI bro feel to their career advice and work.
I am open to YouTube as well.
I’ve since come to understand 80,000 Hours as basically MBA-lite (all the “what’s wrong with you,” less filling). Their “free consultations” require having first read all the literature and accepted your role as a cog (as such, I lost interest). I don’t find it inherently worthless – I was, after all, still running into people in their 30s and even 40s bereft of direction and purpose, and for some, it might have been useful.
But of course, only a cult claims to have a One True Way.
Interestingly, I took one of those personality tests from a career counselor late in high school, and it came back with three top results:
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I had zero interest, having been told not to write by high school teachers. How the hell would that be my destination? I didn’t run into that long-forgotten dot-matrix printout until I was cleaning out my apartment for a move in 2018. Why was I moving? Because I’d been dating another newspaper editor for a couple of years, and paying separate rent was starting to look stupid.
only inserted because Lemmy seems to disregard two CRLFs after a bullet list and sets the next bit within the same graf ↩︎
So, I’m going to open with the obvious: Nader, Stewart and Noah are scarcely apolitical.
I enjoy Seth Meyers’ A Closer Look segments but rarely care for much more. I’m also going to violently reject your prohibition on finance by suggesting Patrick Boyle, just because he knows enough to keep me abreast of underlying trends internationally. Miniminuteman is usually a good time, but he can be a bit hit-or-miss. I like Mentour Now/Mentour Pilot to learn about aviation. For video games, I like The Geek Cupboard, OrbitalPotato and Real Civil Engineer. Tom Scott, GamersNexus are also at the top of my subscriptions. And if you like watching middle-aged men solve sudokus, Cracking the Cryptic is perfect for a certain mood.