I feel like this might be an area that can be kind of overlooked.

But podcast is actually where I get the bulk of my like code motivation, if you can call it that.

And also, I listened to very few like purely dedicated programming podcasts.

So most of the episodes on this list will be from like more famous podcasts like The Joe Rogan Experience and Tim Ferriss Show.

So I Want to get from these podcast episodes is mainly inspiration for what can be achieved through code and also just a general excitement about programming.

I think it's incredibly interesting just to hear how many different companies have been started by essentially programmers, and it just motivates me to kind of hear what's possible.

And also, before I started, just want to mention that I've left time stamps to all the different episodes that I'll mention and the names of those episodes in the description of this video.

So in case you want to skip ahead to those ones, then feel free to do so.

Okay, so here goes.

Episode number one on my list is Episode 125 off the temporary show and the guests in this episode is Derek Sievers, who had actually never heard of before listening to this episode.

But he apparently founded a company called CD Baby, which was for selling CDs online, Basically, and what he did really isn't why I love this episode.

The reason that I love this episode so much is that he seems to have such a great idea on just lifestyle design in general.

So basically setting your life up in such a way that you have maximal amount of time to spend on the things that you love, and he also has some really interesting stories to go along with this.

And overall, it's just a really interesting episode.

So I figured that Allah juice a short excerpt that I particularly like from each podcast episode that all mentioned on this list.

And then I'll play it for you so that you can kind of get an idea of what the episode is like.

So here goes.

Here's an excerpt from this episode.

You have to do the hell yeah or no approach, or people ask you to go to events or got even, you know, even people asking to do a phone call or anything.

I think, you know, am I really excited about that?

You know, almost every time, the answer's no.

So I say no to almost everything, and then occasionally something will come up.

Even a little surprise will be dropped in my lap.

Like this thing that happened just a two months ago called the Now Now Now project, which we don't even really need to talk about.

The details don't matter so much.

But it was just something that popped up that seemed really interesting and people really wanted.

And luckily, because I say no to almost everything, I had the time in my life to make it flourish.

So for the last, like, six weeks, all I did full time, like 12 hours a day with suddenly work on this brand new thing that showed up because I could, you know.

So that's to me the lovely ah result of taking the hell Yeah or no approach to life.

Okay, so I'll probably listen to this episode like 20 times, at least so I can highly recommend it.

Alright, So episode number two just a quick heads up a lot of the episodes on my list are from The Tim Ferriss Show.

He's just interviewed a lot of really good ones.

So this episode is also from the temporary show, and that is Episode 353 where he interviews Patrick Collison, who is the CEO of Strike and Stripe, is a basically a online payment company.

In this episode, Patrick talked a little bit about the importance of focusing on making a really great product over other things, like maybe marketing.

So if you create a really great product than it will spread organically.

So here's a little excerpt from this, whereas if you have to compete on the merits of the product on just gonna rely on people kind of being honest about how well it works or doesn't that could have forces you to just build a kind of product development organization that can compete and so might be harder to get that initial attraction.

But if you can get there, you actually really have kind of an upper hand rolls of toe kind of more traditionally incentivize companies because they've probably gotten a bit lazy, and if it'll ossified on it just a bit less competitive on this access on.

Once you can make the battle about the quality of your product in the quality of product development, you can't just click.

Your fingers were like, Okay, now we're gonna start creating good products.

It's such a deep, um, cultural and organizational thing that, uh, it's it's very difficult for competitors or potential competitors toe shift there.

Whereas if you just better marketing campaign, that's super easy to copy.

Um, anyone else can you, by a competing billboard or pay more for the big lads or whatever and so on again way didn't realize all of this in advance, But I think that ended up really helping us.

And the last thing I wanted to say just to underscore something you mentioned, which is really important is if your customer acquisition is predicated on paid acquisition.

That makes you a just a sitting duck for in comments exactly who have larger budgets.

Yes, on.

They could just decide to bleed chips for a period of time until you run out of chips.

Yeah, this is a Yeah, it's really, really important.

So I'm glad you mentioned it.

Okay, So most of the episodes on this list.

I probably listened to 10 plus times, and the reason is that when I go to the gym, I like to just listen to a podcast episode when I do cardio.

And since I'm such like a routine based person, I tend to just listen to the same ones over and over.

Anyway, I really recommend this one.

Episode number three.

This one is from a podcast called The Artificial Intelligence Podcast that's hosted by Lex Friedman and Lex Friedman is a research scientist at M.

I.

T.

Who works on human centered A I.

And I'm literally just reading this off his Wikipedia page right now.

And he has a really awesome podcast with a lot of super interesting guests and some of which are in this list in this video.

And this particular one is called Guido Van Rawson Python, and he interviews the creator of Python, which is is really interesting.

So here's an excerpt.

Everything.

You see all the piece of information you look around this room, I'm wearing a black shirt.

I have a certain height.

I'm a human.

All these there's probably tens of thousands of fax you pick up moment by moment about this scene you taken for granted and you accumulate aggregate them together to understand this thing.

You don't think all of that could be encoded to weren't at the end of the day, you could just put it on the table and calculate Oh, I don't know what that means.

I mean, yes, in the sense that there is no there is no actual magic dare.

But there are enough layers off obstruction from sort of from defects as they enter my eyes in my years to the understanding off the scene that I don't think that that a I has really covered enough off off that distance.

It's like if you take a human body and you realize it's built out of Adam's well, that that's is a uselessly reductionist view, right?

So definitely check this one out.

Super interesting.

Let's move on.

Number four.

This is Episode 36 of the temporary show, and in this episode, the interviews Alexis Ohanian, who is one of the co founders of Reddit and again just hearing this gets me excited to coat.

He interviews Alexis Ohanian and they talk about how ready came to be, and it's just a super interesting episode role.

The excerpt.

Do you have any particular morning or evening ritual or richest patterns in, Say, how you spend the first hour of your day or two hours your day?

What is that?

And it could be a weekly thing.

It could be that you spent Mondays doing a and Wednesday's doing be anything like that.

But I find that people usually have certain patterns and rituals.

I have sort of a way that I go about, say, doing meditation and then having tea and then whatever.

But what is the first say?

Our two of your day tend to like dude real quick?

What do you think I downloaded headspace because I don't know if you could tell that this is correlation causation.

But after I got back from Burning Man, I had I had it planted in my head that I should really try meditation, which is not something I do at all and and have never done.

But I'm intrigued backs we're gonna tow.

I want to talk about that, but I my morning ritual, is waking up feeding my cat and making coffee when you wake up.

If I'm not forcing myself to exercise.

It is whenever I wake up.

Yeah, she's amazing.

I stay.

I usually stay up probably later than I should, but I wake up whenever I kind of wake up.

That tends to be before, right before noon.

Yeah.

10.

Like around 10.

OK, 10 11.

Yeah, depending on the night.

So go listen to that one.

Now, number five, this is Episode 1169 of the Joe Rogan experience, where he interviews Elon Musk.

And I feel like this list would not have been complete without a least one Elon musk interview.

Even though I wish someone would just take a deep dive into just his routines and habits and time management.

I'd love to see, like, a documentary about one week in its life, and I'd want to see all the boring stuff like him sitting at a computer, working everything.

I want to see exactly what he does.

Kind of how he just how he does his time management, basically.

And Joe Rogan kind of touches on this at the start of the episode, but he pretty quickly moves on, and I just wish he would have gone deeper into this.

But maybe that was good that he didn't go deeper into this because maybe no one else would have wanted to hear about that.

Anyway, Here's the Except how do you How do you have the time to do that, though?

I mean, I understand that it's not a big deal in terms of all the other things you do, but how do you have time to do anything?

I just I don't understand your time management skills.

Um, indigents spend much time on this flamethrower.

I mean, to be totally frank.

It's actually just a roofing torch with an air rifle cover.

It's not a real flamethrower, but you do so many different things.

Forget about the flamethrower.

Like, how do you do all that other shit?

How do you How do you How does one decide to fix L A traffic by drilling holes in the ground?

And who do you even approach with that?

Like when you have this idea, Who do you talk to about that?

I mean, I'm not saying it's gonna be successful, or so you know.

I know it's just like asserting that is gonna be successful, but so far I have lived in L.

A for 16 years, and the traffic has always been terrible.

And so I don't see any other like ideas for improving the traffic.

Um, so in desperation, we're going to dig a tunnel and maybe that tunnel be successful, and maybe it won't.

So if you haven't already, then definitely.

Go check that out now.

Episode number six.

This one is an interview with Joe Gibb Eah, who is one of the co founders of Airbnb, and this again is on the Tim Ferriss Show episode Number 300 walk in this one.

There aren't many references to programming per se because Joe gave me is not a programmer, He's a graphic designer, I believe, however, he's a great storyteller, and he tells tons of different stories about things that he's done throughout his life that are super interesting and that still, for some reason, inspire me to code.

He also talks about some companies that he started, and I feel like any time someone talks about a company they've started, it just inspires me.

Thio get better at programming and start coding straightaway, and it's also really exciting to think that a lot of startups and companies need some form of programming in order to actually work.

So anyway, here's some excerpts from this episode.

So I have to pick one of his chairs and make it eight times.

He made this beautiful bench out of just four pieces of wood.

And I'm thinking myself how these benches a really big That's a lot of wood.

I can't afford this.

I know I'm just a freshman in college, and so you had to cover all your material cost.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

No, no, this is That's an important detail, right?

So study job at the time, I was trying, like, fun this hard.

I could.

And so I'm in the quad one day outside the freshman dorms, and I'm I make an observation.

Everyone's standing around smoking here in the quad, and there's actually knew where to sit, huh?

I've got this bench design that I'm gonna make.

What if I approached the school, get them to pay for the wood?

I'll make the benches from a project, Then they can have them afterwards to put in the quad for people to sit on.

So I go to the head of residents life I pitching the idea.

He loves it.

They found a few $1000 worth of this interesting plywood, and in doing so, I get access to the school's wood shops and the school's craftsman, like who work on campus.

And so now I've got their help to help fabricate these, these benches amassing.

And they paid for all the wood, which I definitely could never afford it.

And so, um, by then, this Mr Mast 16 full size functional chairs and Gareth had no clue.

So go listen to that one now.

Episode number seven Jeff Atwood and Stack Overflow Encoding.

Horror.

This one is from the artificial intelligence podcast, and I only recently discovered this podcast, and so I only recently listen to this episode.

But I mean, listening to one of the creators of Stack Overflow.

If that doesn't get you excited, then I don't know what will.

But I mean, I guess if that doesn't get you excited, then you probably haven't gotten this far anyway.

Roll the excerpt.

You've created the code keyboard.

I've programmed most of my adult life in a kinesis keyboard.

I have one upstairs now.

Can you describe what a mechanical keyboard is.

And why is it something that makes you happy?

Well, you know, this is another fetish item.

Really?