The Hatred of Podcasting | Brace Belden
In 2015, if you said, “I heard it on a podcast,” you were trying to sound smart. In 2025, it’s better to lie.
Sam Harris | Home of the Making Sense Podcast
Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores some of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time.
Empathy | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Eight Lessons from the Distributed Podcast So Far
Looking back over the 2019 run of the Distributed podcast, one is struck by the wealth of insights our guests have shared in each and every episode. We’ve spoken to CEOs, activists, lawyers, author…
Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution | Meaningness
How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them.
Taylor Owen
Academic, writer and podcast host working on media, digital technology and public policy.
Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution (2015) | Hacker News
Any marginally successful group attracts sociopaths. The more power available to someone installing themselves at the centre of an elite clique that runs the organisation, the more attractive it is. No-one ever sees it fully until they get on the wrong end of one of these toxic power dynamics, there is so much subtle BS working against anyone trying to face this stuff down that it's almost pointless wasting your life trying.
Phantom Fluency
Why listening to smart people doesn't make you more thoughtful. You're not bad at remembering podcasts. Podcasts are bad at being remembered.
Effem - Social Podcasting
A podcast player for iOS built on the Podcast Index and the AT Protocol.
Digital feeds, malnourished students — Phantom Power
Today we’re doing one of our occasional episodes where host Mack Hagood talks about a new essay he’s written for our newsletter “Feed Logic and the Failure to Thrive” Mack writes that students and professors are struggling, both academically and spiritually. He tries to diagnose the issue he felt in his classrooms this year and the role technology may play in it. For new listeners, Mack is a writer and researcher who studies sound, technology, and culture. He is the author of Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control, a book on noise-canceling headphones, white noise, tinnitus, and the ways people use sound to manage modern life. He is currently writing a new book for Penguin Press, and he also hosts this podcast Phantom Power, where he interviews artists, scholars, musicians, and sound designers about the invisible power of sound in everyday life. Besides all that, Mack is a university professor and that’s what his most recent essay is about. Click here to read the newsletter for free. Cited Media: Film:Mary…
Personality | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
RSS | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Neurodiversity | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Charlie Deist on Twitter / X
My hobby: scraping entire podcasts into open source wikis.Then decomposing them into skill.md files, articles, and short books for my personal consumption only.https://t.co/1hKjJICJ16Then rebundling the skills into topic-specific pluginsSo much gold to mine. pic.twitter.com/T2h8DYIcEj— Charlie Deist (@chdeist) April 3, 2026
Selling a story that’s lost the plot
Reflections on the podcast I’m not listening to
