[4thwaywastrel]

The 80,000 hours podcast probably had the largest intellectual impact on me of any media in 2019, not only in terms of actual content but pointers to other thinkers / ideas.

My favorite episode was probably: https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/glen-weyl-radically-...

The first time I listened I noped out after the first 20 minutes due to all the terminology being slung around and (seemingly) ungrounded anti-capitalist rhetoric. But I gave it another go after the episode with Vitalik Buterin and I'm very glad I did. Once they get going it's a fascinating introduction to collective action problems, public goods, and bleeding edge ideas of what we might do to solve them (pairs well with "Vitalik Buterin on The Portal" first as a gentler intro to the idea of public goods).

The charter cities institute episode was also great as an exploration of new ideas that might really move the needle on human suffering

https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/lutter-and-winter-ch...

[rewq4321]

I really enjoyed that 80000 hours episode with Vitalik Buterin. It gave me some new mental models.

I'll tack on another unrelated suggestion: Leslie Kaelbling's interview on Lex Friedman's AI podcast. It's probably my favourite from that podcast so far. She is an exceptionally clear thinker.

Those were probably my two favourite episodes of the year.