What I'm Reading and Listening To, January 2024
2024-01-28
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A few people have recently asked me what newsletters I read or podcasts I listen to. As of right now, here’s the list of what I keep up with:
Newsletters
- The Morning Briefing by The New York Times – general news
- Slow Boring by Matt Yglesias (paid version) – political commentary
- Noahpinion by Noah Smith (paid version) – political and economic commentary
- Silver Bulletin by Nate Silver (paid version) – political and sports commentary
- Money Stuff by Matt Levine (free) – financial news and (amusing) commentary
- Benedict’s Newsletter by Benedict Evans (free version) – tech business news and commentary
- Stratechery by Ben Thompson (free version) – tech business commentary
- The Pragmatic Engineer by Gergely Orosz (free version) – software development commentary
- Python Weekly (free) – news and articles relating to Python (the programming language)
Podcasts
- The Tony Kornheiser Show – daily-ish “radio” show about sports and anything else
- EconTalk – deep dives on economics topics and sometimes beyond
- Dunc’d On Prime – NBA talk
- Freakonomics Radio – discussion of various topics through an economic lens
- Conversations with Tyler – interviews with unusual people across all kinds of domains
- Accidental Tech Podcast – news and discussion about Apple products and occasionally other tech
- Connected – a nonsense show that’s nominally about tech
- Happy Path Programming – thoughtful discussion of programming topics
- Cortex – productivity
- Plain English with Derek Thompson – deep dives and interviews across various topics
- Python Bytes – weekly roundup of Python-related “news”
- The Ryen Russillo Podcast – sports and “life advice”, though I usually skip everything but the life advice