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22 hours agoI’m intrigued. I’d have a look.
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Listen at x2 speed. A 40 min podcast becomes a 20 min podcast and is clearly comprehensible and enjoyable. It actually gets annoying hearing regular speed for how slow it is.
Set your podcast app to autoskip the first and last 1 to 2 min (depending on the podcast) as these are usually ads and shoutouts to other podcasts. A lot of podcast episodes are less than 10 min in total. Skipping 2 min is 20% of the podcast time.
Delete upcoming podcast episodes that are not of interest. You don’t have to listen to everything.
I listen any time I can give attention. Commuting (40 min x2), chores like cleaning (an hour a day), gym (an hour every other day). I’ll even listen in the shower or while shaving or while I’m sitting in the park watching my kids play on the swings from a distance. I’m effectively listening for 2 hours max (real time) in a day. With double speed this effectively gets through 4 hours of podcast content.
I even put one earphone in and listened to podcasts while getting a root canal and crown at the dentist. It makes a huge difference if you can keep yourself mentally engaged rather than just staring at the ceiling and thinking about the drill grinding away your tooth. Podcasts can be amazing and much better than doom scrolling brain dead content (just need to avoid brain dead podcasts).
I first got into podcasts by looking all through BBC listings. There’s enough there to last a lifetime. After that I’ve found other stuff from YouTube recommendations, other podcast recommendations, suggestions online, etc.
Recently commented in a similar post, so I’ll paste that comment:
Podcasts are my thing. I’ve got you covered.
Depends on what you’re into:
More or Less: Behind the Stats - analysis of some statistic from the news
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos - what science says about how to be happy
The Audio Long Read - long form articles from the Guardian newspaper
You Are Not So Smart - cognitive science related. How we know things, our biases, how our thinking is flawed, etc.
Dan Snow’s History Hit - One of the few history podcasts I really like
Short History Of… - a short history of some specific thing
The Forum - expert panel discussion about some topic
Behind the Bastards - Very well known podcast focusing on some bastard personality
CrowdScience - in depth investigation of a listener science question
Radiolab - in depth investigation of a topic of their interest. Quite broad scope.
Unexpected Elements - a very varied mix of discussions around a science topic from the news
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford - Tim Harford is the podcast king for me. This show is a deep dive into something that went wrong in news or history, and an investigation of all the systemic failures around it. It tries to show how blame is hardly ever warranted on a single person and the systems are at fault.
The Martin Lewis Podcast - UK consumer advocate and saving guru
Show Me The Meaning! A Wisecrack podcast - a couple of philosophers talk about a movie
The Inquiry - a deep dive into a news story
Revisionist History - Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about a range of different things
The Law Show - UK legal system issues
The Infinite Monkey Cage - comedy science panel show
The Supermassive Podcast - space related podcast
File on 4 investigates - detailed story from deep investigative journalism
Thinking Allowed - light philosophical ramblings
When It Hits the Fan - two public relations experts talk about PR issues from current events
Discovery - science related. Currently mostly doing shows about “a life scientific” I.e. talking to a scientist about their life
Overthink - philosophy made accessible
What It’s Like To Be… - a person from a particular occupation talks about their job
People Fixing the World - people from different parts of the world fixing some local problem in their community in a creative way
Hidden Brain - my absolute favourite. Cognitive science related. Explains how the brain works and how to use the understanding to male your own love better.
Within Reason
Your Parenting Mojo - evidence based parenting. Can be a very dry long-winded research presentation, but this has improved my parenting (and life) immensely
Sideways - different ideas and how to look at things differently
Darknet Diaries - stories from the dark underbelly of the internet
The Reith Lectures - once a year short lecture series, but well worth listening to the backlog
Evil Genius with Russell Kane - comedians discuss how some villains from history weren’t so bad and how some heroes from history were terrible people
Owls at Dawn - ramblings of a couple of philosophers
Sound of Gaming - excellent music show about music soundtracks from videogames
Playing god? - medical ethics discussion
30 Animals That Made Us Smarter - this series has ended but it is worth listening to the backlog
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy - this series has ended but it is worth listening to the backlog
A History of the World in 100 Objects - this series has ended but it is worth listening to the backlog
I would also recommend the podcast series made to accompany the Chernobyl and Last of Us TV series.
S Town - a nice fiction mini series drama story.
This is why I love roguelites. I don’t need a story to tell me why I’m in this dungeon, just give me a gun and/or sword.
3·5 days agoI thought I did. I’ll fire it up again sometime and double check. Wipeout on the PS1 gets praised enough for me to give it another shot.
PS1 and N64 were so early in the days of 3D gaming. I play older games but I’m usually looking for pixel graphics or 2D games. PS2 was the console of my childhood and my mind is anchored in looking for at least that sort of 3D quality.
Man I love Wipeout.
Gotta admit though, PS1 era graphics are too dated for me. I tend to stick to PS2 onwards. I do play a lot of Wipeout Pure and Wipeout Pulse for the PSP and those have been great.
2·5 days agoVery pleased to have blown you. Enjoy.
Wicked Game - HIM
Radioactive - Within Temptation
The Trooper - The Hu
Viator (Ryu’s theme) - Lame Genie
Toss A Coin To Your Witcher - Dan Vasc
Rather Be - Pentatonix
Baker Street - Foo Fighters
Don’t Stop at the Top - Children of Bodom
They Don’t Care About Us - Saliva
They Don’t Care About Us - 2Cellos
The Sun is trash. They will straight up lie to post stories like this and they thrive on people sharing them on social media. Same with Daily Mail and other British rags. It is a very successful tactic. These stories seem to get a lot of mileage online.
I have mastered making 2 sips volume with an aeropress. I brew that volume into a new cup after every 2 sips.
Make up stories in my head.
This is super effective to help get to sleep. Just waking fantasies of being a superhero, or in a zombie apocalypse or being super rich. Any fictional narrative to keep the mind from wandering to racing thoughts or stresses. Gets me to sleep every time.
2·12 days agoThere’s also the Nora app on f-droid.
People don’t write where they are based. I guess we presume this is USA.
Last 3 laptops ive bought here (UK), ive easily found laptops with 8th gen i5 CPU and 16GB ram for <£150 on eBay. This was a while ago and you could now find a 10th gen Intel if you are patient and try your luck at eBay auctions.
Altman says, Musk says, Polymarket says, etc etc seems to be what mainstream news sites focus on a lot now. It takes a lot of filter words to make my news RSS feed tolerable now.
In the early days of social media, social media used to steal attention/clicks from news sites by regurgitating news site material. Now news sites are trying to compete with social media by regurgitating whatever shit shows up on social media sites.
Involuntary introverts
Interesting for this video to have just come up on my feed yesterday.
How do you know he has a wife?
Resting bitch face should not exclude someone from getting a wife. The problem is elsewhere.