Influences - updated January 2025
If you want to understand where some of my crazy (or less) ideas might come from this reference to my influences may help.
My tastes in film, TV and books run a wide gamut but if I was to pin it to one genre it would probably by Science Fiction and Fantasy (is that two?). There is something about taking you out of a familiar world that really helps to focus on delivering a particular message. Perhaps its the fact that everything is strange; anything is possible. It ensures that your brain doesn't use one of its many heuristics to assume away an important detail.
People and Society
- Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
- Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
- Hot Money: The New Narcos
- Imaginary Worlds
- the memory palace
- The Modi Raj from The Economist
- The Next Five
- Next Year in Moscow
- On with Kara Swisher
- Pivot
- Reply All
- Thinking Allowed
- WorkLife with Adam Grant
History
- Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
- Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum
- Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
- Fall of Civilizations Podcast
- The History of Ireland
- How to Invent a Country
- The Last Archive
- Revisionist History
- Revolutions
Thought Leaders
- Conversations with Tyler
- Freakonomics Radio
- Full Steam with Jess Kelly
- Futures Human: The Series
- In Our Time
- Intelligence Squared
- The Jordan Harbinger Show
- People I (Mostly) Admire
- The Rachman Review
- Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Software Engineering
Business and Economy
Journalism and Politics
- Assume Nothing
- The Best Movies You've Never Seen
- Black Box
- Boom! from The Economist
- Common Sense with Dan Carlin
- Drum Tower
- The Ezra Klein Show
- FT News Briefing
- GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution
- In The News
- Inside Politics with Hugh Linehan
- The Intelligence from The Economist
- Money Talks from The Economist
- More or Less: Behind the Stats
- Political Fix
- POLITICO's EU Confidential
- Power Play
- The Rest Is Classified
- The Rest Is Politics: US
- The Rest Is Politics
- UK Politics Podcast
- The World in Brief from The Economist
- Your Politics
Science and Technology
- 99% Invisible
- Babbage from The Economist
- The Big Tech Show
- Command_Line Heroes
- Darknet Diaries
- Defensive Security Podcast - Malware, Hacking, Cyber Security & Infosec
- Down the Security Rabbithole Podcast
- Freakonomics, M.D.
- FT Tech Tonic
- Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
- Hacked
- Hard Fork
- The Infinite Monkey Cage
- Malicious Life
- Tech Radio Podcast
- Tech Talk with Jess Kelly