Over the last 2 years, he's been bringing on fewer and fewer tech-related guests while injecting more and more of his own (often political) commentary into the podcasts rather than simply asking good questions. The podcast has gotten worse, not better (at least from the perspective of someone who just wants to hear insights from proven tech leaders).
I think he began running out of those people or just wanted to expand. Some of the new format guests are great, but I skip many episodes now, whereas before I enjoyed 99% of them.
Still, at its best it remains one of the most informative and insightful podcasts I know of, largely due to the guest expertise.
Disappointing that the one guy everyone holds up as neutral, curious party is just another partisan.
-- Chris Lattner -> Wrote the LLVM Compiler and lead/(leads?) development of the Swift programming language. Done a bunch of other cool things with RISC-V development too -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/5fpAb2OpRL3Uy8ZTq94vD8?si=b...
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fzFCgBznLjKvG2tJFLk3I?si=f...
-- Bjarne Stroustrup -> Creator of C++ programming language -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/2nfoXUYySjgyCtJVglb5LV?si=4...
-- David Patterson -> Turing Award Winner (Don't remember exactly what this guy did but the podcast was 4.5 hours and I listened to the whole thing so it must have been good) -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/5GgaJfeIZWLbofcapDbo18?si=8...
-- Brendan Eich -> Creator of JavaScript -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vLJaVnHrT6uWrgZdRaAkO?si=4...
-- He's had on Elon a few times too. -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/1E3ESPFzTHiAxJVXQPiRGd?si=f... He also had a bunch of really good physics and math guys on like Grant Sanderson (3 Blue 1 Brown guy) and Frank Wilcek (Nobel Prize Winner in physics, wrote "A Beautiful Question")
I'd also counter one of the previous comments and say that I think he challenges the controversial people he has on significantly more than almost anyone else doing podcasts right now. That's specifically one of the reasons I like him.
Some other good podcasts though: PodRocket -> Really good stuff on Web Development and general web technology
Command Line Heros -> Some really good episodes on the history of software. If you're young like I am this podcast gives you a really good rundown as to why things in software are the way they are and how it evolved.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg-> Great podcast for learning about how the tech ecosystem operates on a large scale. It's 4 guys who have been extremely successful in the tech/VC world and they breakdown current events in tech. I feel like it provides really good insight into where the tech world is/is going and also if you're interested in starting a company it helps wrap your head around the terminology that comes along with raising money and working in that world.
I'm also a big fan of Coder Radio (https://coder.show/) Tagline: "taking a pragmatic look at the art and business of Software Development" They called the layoffs and salary adjustments happening now back in April 2021
If you want to look at software from a non-coastal US perspective (and don't mind occasional [or in early episodes not-so-occsional] profanity) I like Friday afternoon deploy (https://friday.hirelofty.com/)
I also was to second the Go Time recommendation from another post (https://changelog.com/gotime) - while it is Go focused more often than not, in recent months they've done show on intellectual property, tech horror stories and code maintenance