Podcasts aren’t for everyone. If you find it hard to focus without a visual element (like in news articles or videos), you’ll find them frustrating and boring. But, if you haven’t given them a try yet, they just might work for you. I left links on each podcast for where you can find them.
Recode Decode with Kara Swisher
Kara Swisher is an accomplished business journalist that leads interviews with industry experts and executives like they’re chatting over coffee. Her podcast covers everything from biased AI algorithms used by police to predict crime, to “the internet of bodies”.
This is for:
Everyone.
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Episode 440. Edward Snowden: I don’t want you to trust me.
Why’d you push that button
This podcast is, according to its hosts, about “the choices technology forces us to make”, and I can’t think of a tagline that could do it more justice.
Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany start with a very familiar subject — having read receipts on, sending nudes, leaving group chats, curating your Instagram posts — and then go on to interview friends, family, experts, designers and product managers to understand how we deal with these totally new questions.
This is for:
Everyone.
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Episode 6. What have you bought on Instagram?
Your Undivided Attention
This podcast is hosted by two of the co-founders of the Center for Humane Technology, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin. This nonprofit organisation pushes for a shift in how product designers, managers and developers think about their work, to “realign technology with humanity”.
This is for:
Product owners / managers, designers, developers.
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Episode 8. The Opposite of Addiction
The Product Experience
This podcast comes from Mind The Product, a network that organises annual product-minded conferences around the world and promotes ProductTank meet-ups in over 200 cities. The hosts interview product professionals from all areas, and focus on all parts of the process, from how to say no (to everyone) to taking control of backlog prioritisation.
This is for:
Product owners / managers, designers, developers.
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Take control of prioritisation — Holly Donohue
Reset with Arielle Duhaime-Ross
With a very healthy mix of hot topics, from Twitter’s ban on political ads, to how governments can shut down the internet for entire countries, there’s always an interesting episode waiting on the feed.
This is for:
Everyone.
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22. You are being microtargeted
99% Invisible
This show is exclusively about design, and made me realise everything is about design. The podcast covers the design of flags, how Australia started exporting innovative plastic money bills for other countries, and how the School of Plastic Arts in Havana, Cuba was designed in two months with incredible inspirations.
This is for:
Everyone.
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164. The Post-billiards age
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