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An overview of me

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Hello!

Accidental Tech Podcast
- An Apple-focused tech podcast I’ve listened to for many years.
No Such Thing As A Fish
- A podcast by the minds beyond the TV show “Qi”. Funny and full of facts.
Animal Spirits
- A finance podcast that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Ramblings
- Clare Balding walks and talks with a new person each week. The people are often interesting, but not ‘famous’.
In Our Time
- A long-running BBC podcast. It interviews three new academics each week to talk about a topic in the world of science and history.
What Are Your Thoughts?
- Another fun finance podcast.
Huberman Lab
- A new edition to my list. It’s a health podcast by Andrew Huberman.
The Idea Store
- A philosophy podcast by a professor called Michel Sugrue. Often it’s just recordings of his lectures and the quality isn’t always great. I don’t always agree with Sugrue, but he’s an engaging teacher.
The Tim Ferriss Show
- I skip the bulk of the episodes. But when they’re good, they’re really good.
Conversations with Tyler
- The economist Tyler Cowen runs the blog Marginal Revolution. This is his podcast. He has a unique interviewing style which is no frills but gets right to the point and he gets a lot out of a person in just an hour.

History

“At Day’s Close: A History of Nighttime” by A. Roger Ekirch
“The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age” by Leo Damrosch
“Churchill” by Andrew Roberts
“Life of Samuel Johnson” by James Boswell
“Grant” by Ron Chernow
“Napoleon the Great” by Andrew Roberts
“An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine” by Howard Markel
“The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz” by Erik Larson
“Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany” by Norman Ohler

Philosophy

‘Dipping’ Books

Money

“The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness” by Morgan Housel
“The Richest Man In Babylon” by George S. Clason

Fiction