Influences

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 assume away some important detail with one of its many heuristics.

People and Society

• A Slight Change of Plans with Maya Shankar
• Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
• Living With The Gods
• How We Survive
• Rough Translation
• Not A Podcast ASOIAF Re-Read Podcast
• Songonauts
• The Truth
• Words To That Effect
• Ireland 2029: Shaping Our Future
• The Next Five
• The World Ahead from The Economist
• WSJ’s The Future of Everything
• CONFLICTED
• Imaginary Worlds
• Motherfocloir
• What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law
• Reply All
• Irish Mythology Podcast
• Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
• Into the Zone
• the memory palace
• No Stupid Questions
• The Reboot Podcast
• WorkLife with Adam Grant
• Thinking Allowed
• Future of Work

History

• Bad Women: The Ripper Retold
• Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
• Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
• Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum
• GunPlot
• The History of Ireland
• How to Invent a Country
• Revisionist History
• Revolutions
• Talking History Highlights
• This Day in Esoteric Political History
• Wind of Change

Thought Leaders

• Conversations with Tyler
• The Economist Asks
• Freakonomics Radio
• The Freakonomics Radio Book Club
• Full Steam with Jess Kelly
• In Our Time
• Intelligence Squared
• Intelligence Squared Business
• The Jordan Harbinger Show
• People I (Mostly) Admire
• The Rachman Review
• Real Humans
• Should This Exist?
• Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat
• Sudhir Breaks the Internet

Software Engineering

• Engineering Culture by InfoQ
• The InfoQ Podcast
• The New Stack Podcast
• On The Metal
• The ReadME Podcast
• Rustacean Station
• Windows Insider Podcast

Business and Economy

• The Architects Of Business
• Dear HBR:
• The HBR Channel
• HBR IdeaCast
• Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman
• 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
• The David McWilliams Podcast
• Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
• Planet Money

Journalism and Politics

• FT News Briefing
• The Indicator from Planet Money
• The Intelligence from The Economist
• The Irish Times World View Podcast
• Make Me Smart with Kai and Molly
• Marketplace
• Money Talks from The Economist
• The Post Podcast
• Assume Nothing
• The Audio Long Read
• Common Sense with Dan Carlin
• The Gallup Podcast
• The Indo Daily
• More or Less: Behind the Stats
• Today in Focus
• UNDISCOVERED
• Untold Killing
• Inside Politics
• Payne's Politics
• POLITICO's EU Confidential
• What Am Politics?
• Your Politics
• Brexit Republic

Science and Technology

• The CloudBytes Podcast
• CYBER
• Cyber Humanity
• The Daily Swig
• Darknet Diaries
• Defensive Security Podcast - Malware, Hacking, Cyber Security & Infosec
• Down the Security Rabbithole Podcast
• Hacked
• Malicious Life
• Smashing Security
• The Social-Engineer Podcast
• Sources and Sinks
• Data Privacy Detective
• Data Privacy Podcast
• The Privacy Advisor Podcast
• 99% Invisible
• Freakonomics, M.D.
• Pandemic: Coronavirus Edition
• Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
• The Infinite Monkey Cage
• Science Vs
• Science Weekly
• AWS Morning Brief
• Babbage from The Economist
• The Big Tech Show
• FT Tech Tonic
• Marketplace Tech
• Tech Radio Podcast
• Tech Talk with Jess Kelly
• Technology on Pat Kenny
• Go and See