LISTEN TO THIS | Books Changed My Life

I’m a pod­cast junkie, and LISTEN TO THIS is a recap of my favorite tid­bits, sound­bites and short bursts of bril­liance that I have to share with every­one who will lis­ten. After digest­ing hours and hours of pod­casts, here’s the best 9 min­utes from this week.

I NEVER WASTED TIME

THE THOMAS JEFFERSON HOUR | #981 Dear Thomas

Thanks again to Patrick Ball for intro­duc­ing me to The Thomas Jef­fer­son Hour which is one of my top-five, must-listen-to pod­casts, and this week’s show is my favorite episode so far. This week, Clay Jenk­in­son, who plays Jef­fer­son, answers ques­tions from lis­ten­ers. I enjoyed his descrip­tion of dif­fer­ent kinds of genius at 6:33, but the best sec­tion is at 24 min­utes when Jef­fer­son talks about his per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity. I’m amazed at how many habits that worked well in the 18th cen­tury still apply today. Inspir­ing, edu­ca­tional, and extremely prac­ti­cal, check it out.

THE POINT ISN’T TO KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING

BLANK ON BLANK | Kiki Smith

Blank on Blank brings sec­tions of pre­vi­ous inter­views that didn’t make the first round of cuts back to life by sift­ing through the edit­ing room floor and pro­fes­sion­ally pro­duc­ing them into fas­ci­nat­ing bite-sited pod­casts. This con­ver­sa­tion with artist Kiki Smith runs barely over seven min­utes long, but if you want a quick sound­bite jump in at 3:15 to hear:

In addi­tion that quote, I also pulled this nugget from 5:37.

BOOKS CHANGED MY LIFE

SIX PIXELS OF SEPARATION | #351 A New Kind of Startup With Chris Guillebeau

One of the rea­sons I like Mitch Joel’s weekly pod­cast so much is he con­sis­tently intro­duces me to inno­v­a­tive thinkers. His inter­view style leads to seri­ous thought-provoking dia­logues, and this week’s con­ver­sa­tion with Chris Guille­beau par­tic­u­larly stood out. I’m eager to start read­ing Guillbeau’s lat­est book, $100 Startup, as soon as I fin­ish this post. I heard three note­wor­thy book­marks in this episode:

• 22:08 — One of the best ways to fig­ure out what you’re good at is to pay atten­tion to the top­ics your friends are ask­ing you ques­tions about.
• 25:11 — “Books changed my life. I love using Twit­ter, but I can’t think of any tweets that changed my life.”
• 37:05 — The pro­duc­tive ben­e­fits of being dis­obe­di­ent — the must-listen of the three.

Pod­cast Test Drive:

NSFW Show — a lit­tle too morn­ing­zooesque for me.

Unsub­scrib­ing from:

Office Hours — I dis­cov­ered this one by search­ing for Daniel Pink’s Office Hours. I’ve lis­tened to three episodes and just haven’t clicked with it.

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• Work­flow of a PODCAST JUNKIE
• LISTEN TO THIS | The Jerk Store Called

What about you? What pod­casts did you enjoy this week and what do you rec­om­mend? Leave your favorites in the com­ments below.