Curious about stuff
In case you like the new Apple TV+ show “Foundation” (after Isaac Asimov’s books), you should listen to the accompanying podcast, as well. The executive producer of the show, David S. Goyer, participates in all episodes and he goes pretty deep into the decisions they made that were different from the books.
An entertaining 30-40 minutes per episode, if you enjoyed the show.
Here is the link: Foundation: The Official Podcast
In 2006 I started a radio show called Internet Links. The radio station was an online radio in Romania, called Radio Lynx, so this is where the name comes from.
What started as a weekly 30 minutes show with interesting stuff happening online, from news to howtos, ended 6 years later with more than 100 episodes of 2 hours interviews. About 3-4 shows in I realised it was much more interesting to talk to people about their online projects. After that, about 10 shows in I understood that I needed more than 1 hour and I cut all the music I had from time to time. The guys at Radio Lynx were really nice and understanding and adjusted their Wednesday evening schedules (8pm) to give me those 2 hours.
That show connected me to most of the people doing anything relevant online at that point in Romania and even outside of it. But more than this, I loved talking to my guests. I loved finding out more about their projects, I loved asking “stupid” questions and getting unexpected answers.
I was always a curious person and these interviews fulfilled that need.
Today I just interviewed someone again. Not about business online this time, but about something I was interesting in finding out more since hearing about the concept the first time. I won’t tell you what yet, because I will publish that interview some time soon.
I was just thinking that after about 1h30’ of talking, I finished the interview energized, smiling and remembering how much I loved this. Amazing!
Besides reading as much as I can, I listen to lots of podcasts on a weekly basis. I listen mostly to technology and “tech lifestyle” if you want, but I also listen business podcasts, on an episode by episode basis. I listen to them when I walk my dog, when I go around the town doing chores, whenever I have some “dead” time on my hands.
Today I found a really comprehensive list of 80 podcasts for the online business owners, from Businessese. They’re categorized, with categories like Marketing and Sales, Blogging, Finance and Legal, Mindset, Branding, Writing and Content Creation, Organization and Productivity, Creatives and Creativity, General Business. What’s more interesting, for me, at least, is that they avoided the most well known podcast, like Tim Ferriss’s one, and they tried to find less known, but really targeted ones.
In our own searches for new blogging and business podcasts to devour, we’ve found that most “best podcast” lists tend to feature the same major players we’ve heard before. That’s no good for the podcast obsessed! So we rolled our sleeves up and scoured the internet to curate a huge list of podcasts that has something for everyone, at every stage of business. Enjoy!
I got the list from an interesting newsletter I subscribed a long time ago to, Useletter by Amy Lynn Andrews. Look over it and, while you to this, don’t forget Cristina sends a really good newsletter every Monday, as well, here, at The CEO Library. She often recommends good podcasts she listen to, so you have that, as well, as a good reason to subscribe.
Finally, here are some podcasts I listen to, mostly Tech: Accidental Tech Podcast, Connected, Cortex, Analog(ue), The BirchTree Podcast, Real Money, Real Business. If you’re Romanian, I also listen to Andrei Rosca’s Zero Plus, Podcastu’ lui Katai and Radu Dumitru’s Radu and Matilda.
Oh, and one tip: if you want to listen to more podcasts or you don’t have enough time, use Overcast as your podcast client of choice, if you’re on iOS. It has a smart thing called Smart Speed that actually cuts pauses and it can cut 10-15% of the time you need. Also, I listen on 1.1x or 1.2x speed, which doesn’t distort the voices too bad and I get some more time from this as well.
Happy listening! :)
At the beginning of December, we launched a podcast at The CEO Library.
Well, the last episode we recorded, the fourth, was about the books we’ve read in 2017. The best books, the worst and some in between.
Just to give you a taste, the best book I read was, I think, The Hard Thing about Hard Things. Or was it? :)
Listen to the episode, if you have the time, and let me know if you enjoy it. You can listen to it on Apple devices, on Google Play, on Libsyn or on the website. Any feedback you have is really appreciated.
I was listening recently to Reid Hoffman’s podcast, Masters of Scale. Listen to the third episode, The Beauty of a Bad Idea. I would link directly to it, but the site is weird and there’s no direct link, so find it for yourself.
The reason I think you should listen to the episode is that it tells the story of getting rejections from VCs. It gives you an idea of how to handle those rejections and, most importantly, how to identify investors that might waste your time. That’s because some VCs don’t really understand what you’re doing, but they just don’t want to say NO. And it means you waste valuable time, time you don’t really have.
It’s 30 minutes, go and listen to it.