What’s a podcast or podcast episode that blew your mind in 2020? Here are a few eps that I’ve revisited a lot (a thread):
. @questlove supreme - the whole show is amazing, I love it. Robert Glasper https://pca.st/episode/21a58727-0b64-41f2-93c1-32ab9071beb4 and Bruce Hornsby https://pca.st/episode/7c674f3d-e484-4985-8807-4f8d1e9baece
Bruce Hornsby - Questlove Supreme

This week on Questlove Supreme mega talented, multiple award winning singer songwriter, composer and pianist Bruce Hornsby shares his story.

https://pca.st/episode/21a58727-0b64-41f2-93c1-32ab9071beb4
. @99piorg episode about Goodnight Moon - especially the postscript - is bananas. https://pca.st/episode/50b2a711-8bc0-41be-b440-4505ef63c395
415- Goodnight Nobody - 99% Invisible

The unlikely battle between the creator of the New York Public Library's children's reading room and Goodnight Moon

https://pca.st/episode/50b2a711-8bc0-41be-b440-4505ef63c395
. @tylercowen convo With @audreyt https://pca.st/episode/9874d4fe-7662-4c66-adfd-53efccb9fef7/ fun to see Dr Cowan on his heels so often, about so many random topics.
Audrey Tang on the Technology of Democracy - Conversations with Tyler

How [lessons from] programming can improve our politics.

https://pca.st/episode/9874d4fe-7662-4c66-adfd-53efccb9fef7/
. @TechBuzzChina discussion with @eugenewei about Tiktok https://pca.st/episode/35aa4743-f15c-4dbc-8cdb-c5431c3d8533/ I love how Eugene unpacks the experience critically and admiringly at the same time.
. @TimFerrissShow with Lord Rabbi Sacks (rip) full of joy and recorded not long before the rabbi died. Somewhat haunting and very inspiring to consider his attitude knowing now that he knew he was going to die. https://pca.st/episode/29bedf83-d1a6-4dad-a777-ab520e2b9cf9
#455: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks on Powerful Books, Mystics, Richard Dawkins, and the Dangers of...

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks on Powerful Books, Mystics, Richard Dawkins, and the Dangers of Safe Spaces | Brought to you by Helix Sleep, FreshBooks, and “5-Bullet Friday" “Win the respect of people you...

https://pca.st/episode/29bedf83-d1a6-4dad-a777-ab520e2b9cf9
. @farnamstreet with @m2jr https://pca.st/episode/f12a192b-a4bc-48bf-b154-8e2f5033a009/ such practical advice wrapped in blunt, inspiring language.
#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future - The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Mike Maples, partner at the VC firm Floodgate, shares how mental models shape his decision making process, where to find the next big idea, and how to rally people to your cause. --- For comprehens...

https://pca.st/episode/f12a192b-a4bc-48bf-b154-8e2f5033a009/
. @outsidemagazine with James Nestor https://pca.st/episode/ea62d96e-959b-4ea8-a988-13a05ab36d24/ sleep and breathing. Sleep and breathing.
Changing How You Breathe Could Change Your Life - Outside Podcast

Journalist James Nestor explains how humans started breathing wrong—and why relearning this lost art is so transformative

https://pca.st/episode/ea62d96e-959b-4ea8-a988-13a05ab36d24/
. @debbiemillman is interviewed by @rgay - tables turned on #designmatters for a brief moment in the middle I think Debbie might realize most of us listen for her, not the guest. https://pca.st/episode/86d94528-ba7f-41ed-aefa-fffe908160bf
The Table is Turned: Roxane Gay Interviews Debbie Millman - Design Matters with Debbie Millman

This episode of Design Matters with Debbie Millman was recorded live at WNYC's Green Space as part of a celebration of 15 years of the podcast.

https://pca.st/episode/86d94528-ba7f-41ed-aefa-fffe908160bf
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I gave up on @leolaporte last year but this convo with @amywebb and @doctorow is a great listen https://pca.st/episode/898388be-de4a-4163-9d8c-2e14a5efdbd5
The J to J Protocol - Amy Webb and Cory Doctorow Fix All the Problems of Big Tech - This Week in...

Amy Webb and Cory Doctorow Fix All the Problems of Big Tech

https://pca.st/episode/898388be-de4a-4163-9d8c-2e14a5efdbd5
. @harikunzru ’s episode here contains sections that made my skin crawl. Sound design and storytelling on point without being a tired true-crime trope https://pca.st/episode/fd172fcc-9c99-44aa-9390-08efe1805c26/
When We Were Cyber - Into the Zone

Cyborgs, cyberspace, mind-melting techno. In the mid-’90s, the future had arrived. To find out what happened to it, Hari pays a visit to philosopher Manuel DeLanda, and to the legendary artist ORLAN,...

https://pca.st/episode/fd172fcc-9c99-44aa-9390-08efe1805c26/
The final-ish episode of @anthroreviewed https://pca.st/episode/d2dcdfd9-8fde-4dc7-bf60-5d136ef472a9/
The Anthropocene Reviewed, Reviewed - The Anthropocene Reviewed

John Green reviews the podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed.

https://pca.st/episode/d2dcdfd9-8fde-4dc7-bf60-5d136ef472a9/
The @Radiolab dispatches, esp episode 2 https://pca.st/episode/35ea9c0b-ac7c-4845-b831-55d054e3c3b0/
Dispatch 2: Every Day is Ignaz Semmelweis Day - Radiolab

It began with a tweet: “EVERY DAY IS IGNAZ SEMMELWEIS DAY.” Carl Zimmer — tweet author, acclaimed science writer and friend of the show — tells the story of a mysterious, deadly illness that struck...

https://pca.st/episode/35ea9c0b-ac7c-4845-b831-55d054e3c3b0/
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