Podcast recommendations

Ever since I discovered podcasts, I pretty much stopped reading non-fiction books. Whether or not that is a good thing is another discussion, but it speaks to the power of podcasting as a format and the many excellent podcasts that were produced/are in production ever since the podcast boom in 2019-ish, which is when I started very actively listening.

As with every medium, there’s good, bad, very bad and ugly podcasting. This list contains only the podcasts I encountered that I found superior in content, delivery, focus, enjoyability and production value.

In terms of “how” to listen, there’s a plethora of software out there. I exclusively listed on my phone, and used to be really happy with the FOSS application Antennapod on Android (especially with the gPodder synchronization with my Nextcloud instance). Ever since I switched to iOS, Pocket Casts has been my go-to; the free version has everything I need and more.

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