[joblazny]

Lex Fridman. He does long form interviews (~4 hours) on more than just tech, and all of the guests he interviews are fascinating. He simultaneously approaches his interviews from a scientific background (MIT AI lecturer) and a love for humanity. If you like tech, one episode I'd like to recommend is episode #309 with John Carmack.

https://youtu.be/I845O57ZSy4

[jnsaff2]

I tried his podcast and some episodes were alright. But in the end I unsubscribed as he got controversial people on and never challenged them on anything, just a nod-fest.

[kumarm]

Lex was great until he realized, controversy makes more $$ than education. Very unfortunate.

[janalsncm]

People love to bash Lex but he really is great. He consistently gets interesting guests and often understands something about the subject which is more than can be said for some other long-form podcasters. And I can tell he is improving as well.

[dolebirchwood]

> improving

Over the last 2 years, he's been bringing on fewer and fewer tech-related guests while injecting more and more of his own (often political) commentary into the podcasts rather than simply asking good questions. The podcast has gotten worse, not better (at least from the perspective of someone who just wants to hear insights from proven tech leaders).

[lamename]

I mostly agree. I started listening from the beginning and loved the deep leanring/CS/physicist/neuroscientist/philosopher guests.

I think he began running out of those people or just wanted to expand. Some of the new format guests are great, but I skip many episodes now, whereas before I enjoyed 99% of them.

Still, at its best it remains one of the most informative and insightful podcasts I know of, largely due to the guest expertise.

[fortuna86]

I only know him from clips, when he brought someone on that explained why January 6 was a crime, Lex immediately slumped back in his chair and pushed back with a non sequitur "the media has lied before".

Disappointing that the one guy everyone holds up as neutral, curious party is just another partisan.

[dan_lannan]

Lex is great. Some of my favorite episodes of him are with some really cool software engineers.

-- Chris Lattner -> Wrote the LLVM Compiler and lead/(leads?) development of the Swift programming language. Done a bunch of other cool things with RISC-V development too -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/5fpAb2OpRL3Uy8ZTq94vD8?si=b...

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fzFCgBznLjKvG2tJFLk3I?si=f...

-- Bjarne Stroustrup -> Creator of C++ programming language -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/2nfoXUYySjgyCtJVglb5LV?si=4...

-- David Patterson -> Turing Award Winner (Don't remember exactly what this guy did but the podcast was 4.5 hours and I listened to the whole thing so it must have been good) -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/5GgaJfeIZWLbofcapDbo18?si=8...

-- Brendan Eich -> Creator of JavaScript -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vLJaVnHrT6uWrgZdRaAkO?si=4...

-- He's had on Elon a few times too. -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/1E3ESPFzTHiAxJVXQPiRGd?si=f... He also had a bunch of really good physics and math guys on like Grant Sanderson (3 Blue 1 Brown guy) and Frank Wilcek (Nobel Prize Winner in physics, wrote "A Beautiful Question")

I'd also counter one of the previous comments and say that I think he challenges the controversial people he has on significantly more than almost anyone else doing podcasts right now. That's specifically one of the reasons I like him.

Some other good podcasts though: PodRocket -> Really good stuff on Web Development and general web technology

Command Line Heros -> Some really good episodes on the history of software. If you're young like I am this podcast gives you a really good rundown as to why things in software are the way they are and how it evolved.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg-> Great podcast for learning about how the tech ecosystem operates on a large scale. It's 4 guys who have been extremely successful in the tech/VC world and they breakdown current events in tech. I feel like it provides really good insight into where the tech world is/is going and also if you're interested in starting a company it helps wrap your head around the terminology that comes along with raising money and working in that world.

[shinjitsu]

Command line heroes was amazing, I was bummed they ended - but I guess they did cover a lot. (https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes)

I'm also a big fan of Coder Radio (https://coder.show/) Tagline: "taking a pragmatic look at the art and business of Software Development" They called the layoffs and salary adjustments happening now back in April 2021

If you want to look at software from a non-coastal US perspective (and don't mind occasional [or in early episodes not-so-occsional] profanity) I like Friday afternoon deploy (https://friday.hirelofty.com/)

I also was to second the Go Time recommendation from another post (https://changelog.com/gotime) - while it is Go focused more often than not, in recent months they've done show on intellectual property, tech horror stories and code maintenance