The Podcast Reader

Welcome to The Podcast Reader, a new publication for the intellectually curious and those open to new ideas, featuring selected transcripts of the world’s best longform podcasts. From the overwhelming volume of podcast content, we’ve chosen the highlights for you. Longform podcasts are an important new media, but the excellent content they create is underappreciated. It’s easy to be distracted when listening to them. Interesting details can be missed, especially when episodes are long, and if you’re finding part of a conversation uninteresting, there are no practical ways to ‘skim’ the material. Our printed podcast transcripts make it easier to focus on key points and follow complex ideas

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On Meditation, Mindfulness and Morality • Harnessing the power of thought

On the Importance of Grit • Adversity, human excellence and happiness

How Artificial Intelligence Thinks • Is AI intelligent and sentient?

Why Electrifying Industrial Heat is Such a Big Deal • How to benefit from negative electricity prices

How China's Economic And Political History Can Help Us Understand its Future • How China's imperial exam system stymied civil society

A Conversation for the Curious • Shining a light on underexplored ideas

On the history and causes of banking crisis

On technology, climate change and geoengineering