Aadil Mamujee

Note: Updated in July 2023

In addition to audio books, I love listening to podcasts about mostly technology, entrepreneurship and mental models.

I use Overcast and listen to most podcasts on around 1.25-1.5x speed without any noticeable sound distortion. Overcast also has a nice feature which dynamically adjusts the speed if ads or ‘intro sequences’ are played so you save some time when listening.

Here are some of my favorites in rough order:

• All-In: Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg chat about tech, politics and investing and I’ve been listening to this every week since the start (2021).
• Tim Ferris Show: Tim can be polarizing, and his interviews are long. I pick and choose shows with people or topics where I have interest. I found his podcasts with Peter Attia to be particularly good about health and longevity.
• Lex Fridman Podcast: Long form discussion with great guests generally looking into the future and focused on the intersection of technology and culture.
• Invest Like the Best: Patrick O’Shaughnessy has some great investors on this show and he’s a fantastic interviewer. Learned a lot from his discussions with some of the great capital allocators.
• Acquired: Deep dives into successful technology businesses that go for 2+ hours but very informative.
• Bankless: I think this is the best crypto podcast out there. It functions more like a news show because they produce so much content but helps me stay very current on the happenings.
• 20 Minute VC: Harry Stebbings gets really good guests on his podcasts and they move through the conversation at a pretty quick clip.
• A16Z Podcast: This is really tech centric, and I only listen to the episodes with people or topics that I’m interested in learning more about.
• How To Get Rich: This special mention is a 3.5hr podcast from Naval Ravikant with some good principles. I don’t love the title, but the content is excellent.
• Hidden Brain: Shankar Vedantam from NPR presents well researched episodes about the human behaviour and society.
• Freakonomics: Steven Dubner gets some really excellent guests to talk through a variety of topical issues. I don’t listen to them all, but select the ones that I find interesting.
• Distributed: Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic interviews folks who know a lot about building remote/distributed companies and scaling them.
• The Knowledge Project: Shane Parrish has a wide range of thought leaders across a range of areas. I don’t listen to them all, and pick the guests I find interesting.
• Starting Greatness: Mike Maples (partner of Floodgate) gets some excellent technology investors and entrepreneurs and shares lots of good stories and wisdom.
• Software Engineering Daily: This one is new, but I’ve enjoyed listening to more technical folks talk about designing systems.