A few podcasts that I've heard and enjoyed recently.
- 99 Percent Invisible
- This podcast has been around for years and covers urban life and the built world in diverse aspects. Homepage here.
- See #512: Hollywood Walk of Fame. Blog and entry to podcast here. With Gillian Jacobs.
- Also, discusses forgotten woman director from 1930s, 1940s, Dorothy Arzner.
- Greg McKeown Podcast.
- Author of "Essentialism."
- See home page for all 140-plus podcasts (and transcripts) here.
- Sort of in the self-improvement vein but more interesting than that sounds. #9, with Eve Rodsky, discusses her book FAIRPLAY, which is sort of at the juncture of mediation theory, negotiation theory, and maybe couples counseling. Enjoyed. #22, with Gretchen Ruben, The HAPPINESS PROJECT, about how to focus on what you really want to do, better. She notes that different personalities respond differently to externally set goals and internally established ones, and spins this in really interesting ways. Webpage. #60, author Luke Burgis discusses his book WANTING (which I had read), about how we have strong or primal instincts to model our goals and behaviors on others, but this can turn dysfunctional.
- Business Wars.
- See website here.
- Elaborately produced podcasts, typically in a story series of 5 or 6, with voices like a radio play, describing some famous business competition.
- I've listened to "Ben and Jerry's vs Haagen Dazs" and "Hershey vs Mars." Enjoyed both.
- I'm not quite sure the business model; you may get them faster or without ads from a company called Wondery but they become available on standard free podcast streamers as well.
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Every week I check what's new at two interview podcast, NPR Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and WTF with Marc Maron. Two other interview podcasts I check every month or so are Conan (O'Brien) Needs a Friend and Rob Lowe's Literally! Authors discuss Harvard biz school new case studies at "Cold Call."
