Best Podcasts & TED Talks

Best Podcast Episodes of all time

• Naval Ravikant on The Knowledge Project

  A deep dive on reading, happiness, decision making, habits, and mental models.

• Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot

  A glimpse into what the future looks like, including Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot.

• A deep dive into everything sleep by Matthew Walker

  “I think that sleep may be one of the most significant lifestyle factors that determine your risk ratio for Alzheimer’s disease.”

• Balaji Srinivasan on The Tim Ferriss Show.

  Balaji lives at least 20 years in the future—this podcast gives you a sense of what that future looks like.

• How to Cram 2 Months of Learning into 1 day

  Josh Waitzkin on The Tim Ferriss Show.

• Keith Rabois on the North Star Podcast.

  The future of education, how to find undiscovered talent in society, the power of accumulating advantages, and how to raise the level of ambition in society.

• Annie Duke on the A16z Podcast.

  How to improve your long-term decision-making.

• Your body language may shape who you are | Amy Cuddy

  Social Psychologist and ‘mother of body language’ Amy Cuddy teaches how the power of body language can change both self-perceived and outwardly confidence.

• How great leaders inspire action | Simon Sinek

  Simon Sinek loves starting with the question of “Why?” In his Talk, Sinek explores the model of the golden circle for inspirational and successful leadership.

• The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown

  Brené Brown’s personal story and journey of vulnerability is just the beginning. She is passionate about helping everyone discover the true meaning of what it means to belong, love and be vulnerable.

  • 1:40 - a piece of her research that expanded her perception
  • 3:14 - connection
  • 4:40 - shame
  • 5:24 - vulnerability
  • 6:53 - worthiness
  • 8:05 - whole-hearted
  • 8:45 - courage
  • 9:43 - vulnerability (embracing it)
  • 11:17 - a “little” breakdown
  • 12:43 - vulnerability is the core of shame & fear but also the birthplace of joy/ creativity/ belonging/ love
  • 13:51 - people embrace vulnerability, but that’s not her (lol)
  • 14:31 - why do we struggle w/ vulnerability
  • 14:39 - numb
  • 16:21 - you can’t numb hard feelings w/o numbing other emotions
  • 17:03 - making everything uncertain, certain
  • 17:34 - perfection
  • 18:31 - pretending

• How to make stress your friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED

  Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others.

• Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)

  Drawing on his work at Stanford, OpenAI, and Tesla, Andrej sees a shift underway. Software is changing, again. We’ve entered the era of “Software 3.0,” where natural language becomes the new programming interface and models do the rest.

• Time Is a Tool Audiobook by Dr. Benjamin Hardy and Blake Erickson

  The secret to scaling isn’t managing time—it’s mastering it. Discover how to use psychology, strategy, and radical focus to multiply your growth.

• The Science of Scaling Audiobook by Dr. Benjamin Hardy and Blake Erickson

  The Science of Scaling reveals why most businesses stall—and the exact framework leaders use to grow 10–100x faster than they ever imagined. Instead of grinding for incremental wins, Dr. Benjamin Hardy and Blake Erickson show you how to shatter linear growth, simplify your model, and focus only on the paths that create exponential impact. If you’re ready to stop optimizing what shouldn’t exist and finally build a business that truly scales, this is your playbook.