I 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.
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.
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
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.
https://theamphour.com/394-jeri-ellsworth-and-the-demise-of-...
About her work on the Tilt Five Kickstarter.