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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The Art of Spending Money • How we really move the needle
On judgement, biases and intellectual honesty • To be approximately right
The Science of Better Sleep • Remember your dreams
On Marketing, Art and Meaning • The stories we tell each other
The trouble with net-zero carbon emissions • Why we need a new narrative
On the Brain's Mysteries • Will we ever understand consciousness?
Monetary Policy without Interest Rates
On the Lost Art of Dying