Ask HN: What podcast episodes changed the way you think about startups?
7 points by gls2ro 3 months ago | 8 commentsI feel like there are a lot of podcasts and in case of audio is very hard to find specific episodes that are really good or skim their content to assess if it is high-quality.
I want to improve or better say upgrade my general knowledge about business/marketing/sales/startups.
- 3dsnano 3 months agohttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/snakepit/id1625569471?...
Radical dependency calculation for PMF min/maxing at scale, 20 minute interview with cloud computing 2 nanometer mushroom tentacles. An intense deluge of immersive think-pieces that will forever change how you think about entrepreneurship in the age of LLMs. Increased my dopamine by 69x with 420 seconds of application.
- PaulHoule 3 months agoI think if a podcast episode changes your opinion about something it's more about you and less about the the episode. (e.g. your mental model isn't developed and/or you got seduced) The popularity of Joe Rogan to me calls into question the safety of podcasts as a medium.
- redeux 3 months agoI think you’re right about the first part but every medium has its junk and scams including scientific journals and books. Personally, I’ve found business podcasts engage almost exclusively in mythology and hero worship.
- PaulHoule 3 months agoWell there was that time my evil twin came out because I read a bad book...
But really any kind of literature has problems with hero worship which in turn comes out of a kind of survivorship bias. There's almost nothing you can learn from studying Apple that applies to your business so the cult of Steve Jobs is basically pointless.
(e.g. Jobs completely called the 1980s wrong because he had no idea how slow progress was going to be in the microcomputer space... Had he skipped the /// and Mac and shipped the //gs a year or two earlier they could have avoided at least one of their near death experiences [1] and had a straighter path to where they wound up)
[1] Choosing Motorola in retrospect was a choice between certain death and a near death experience but that's only clear in hindsight where we know Motorola took down almost all the opposition to the PC
- PaulHoule 3 months ago
- gls2ro 3 months agoI agree with you. Maybe what I am looking for is listening to people with experience who can formulate well a hypothesis or a framework and help strategize based on experiences.
- paulcole 3 months agoWould you say the same thing about a book?
- PaulHoule 3 months agoDepends on the book. There are a lot of books that are the equivalent of a podcast episode (anything by Malcolm Gladwell) or a series of podcast episodes (anything by Robert Greene) and even some serious and influential books in the social sciences and can be cooked down to a single university lecture like
Exit, Voice and Loyalty by Albert O. Hirschman
Logic of Collective Action by Mancur Olson
The Zero-sum Society by Lester Thurow (want to know why the world gave up on tariffs?)
maybe some worthwhile management books could be extended into a podcast series, I'd say
Quality is Free by Phillip Crosby
Then there are some books that really could change your life, say
Solid State Physics by Ashcroft and Mermin
The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth
Principles of Compiler Design by Aho and Ullman
Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art by Steve McConnell
The Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home by Paul Stamets
Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe
Being and Event by Alain Badiou
Liberation in the Palm of your Hand by Pabongka Rinpoche
The Art of Happiness by Mirko Fryba
All of which have the element that they'll only change you if you engage deeply with them or the subject, like for the Rippetoe book you're going to have to pick up a bar.
- PaulHoule 3 months ago
- redeux 3 months ago
- tocs3 3 months ago#394 – Jeri Ellsworth and the demise of CastAR
https://theamphour.com/394-jeri-ellsworth-and-the-demise-of-...
About her work on the Tilt Five Kickstarter.