Reading & listening
Media I Enjoy
Podcasts, books, videos, and talks that shaped how I think — about science, markets, strategy, and the long arc of technological change.
Podcasts I Return To
Prof G Market ↗
"Scott Galloway makes business strategy feel visceral: sharp, data-driven, opinionated, and somehow both intellectual and entertaining. He has this rare ability to connect markets, culture, technology, capitalism, and personal responsibility in a way that feels like business school with a pulse!"
Diary of a CEO ↗
"Steven Bartlett creates the kind of conversations where successful people sound human — ambitious, flawed, reflective, and still figuring it out. He combines curiosity, vulnerability, and a founder’s instinct for what matters, which makes the show feel less like an interview and more like a late-night debrief on life & work."
The Happiness Lab ↗
"I love Laurie Santos’ podcast - she brings real scientific rigor to an important questions in life: what actually makes us happy? I also had the chance to spend time with Laurie on a Yale cruise in Peru — a very Yale sentence, I realize — and she was exactly what you’d hope: extremely smart, funny, and curious! The Happiness Lab works because it combines evidence, warmth, and wisdom without feeling preachy."
Wiser Than Me ↗
"Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Wiser Than Me because it is funny, warm, but also quietly profound — a reminder that wisdom is often more valuable than achievement, and that age should be treated as an asset, not something to hide. Her conversations feel like an antidote to hustle culture (I'm 100% a part of): more perspective, more humility, more grace, and better stories. Also, Julia is hilarious, so even the life lessons come with perfect timing."
Codie Sanchez ↗
"Codie Sanchez brings Wall Street discipline to Main Street businesses. The podcast is refreshingly tactical: ownership, cash flow, buying and growing real businesses. Business advice with fewer buzzwords and more receipts."
Real Time with Bill Maher ↗
"Bill Maher combines sharp humor with the kind of straight talk that cuts through tribal nonsense, even when it makes people uncomfortable. He's not always right (part of the fun) but he's willing to say the unsayable, puncture sacred cows on both sides, and remind us that comedy is often where uncomfortable truths become discussable."
Books & Essays
The Innovator's Dilemma ↗
"Still the best framework for understanding why incumbents fail and how new technologies reshape markets from below. Required reading for anyone thinking about diagnostics displacement."
Zero to One ↗
"I don’t necessarily align with Peter Thiel’s political views, but Zero to One is one of the most insight-dense business books I’ve read. There is almost no fat here — just sharp, provocative ideas about monopoly, competition, technology, power laws, secrets, and what it actually means to build something new."
Radical Candor ↗
"Very practical management book: “care personally, challenge directly.” It is listed as a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller and has become a modern management staple."
YouTube Worth Watching
The Marketing Secrets Apple and Tesla Always Use ↗
"Rory reminds us that human beings are not spreadsheets. They are emotional, irrational, status-seeking, story-driven creatures, and that often, the best solution is not the most logical one, but the one that changes how people feel."
Talks Worth Revisiting
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance ↗
"Angela Duckworth is about staying power! Her TED talk has been watched tens of millions of times and makes the case that success is not just about talent or IQ, but about passion and perseverance over long periods."
A systemic strategy | Arthur Keller | TEDxLausanne ↗
"From youtube: In this uncompromising and deeply eye-opening talk, renowned systems thinker and strategist Arthur Keller challenges one of the most comforting ideas of our time: the belief that “solutions exist” to the great planetary predicaments of our time. The issue: we created a system that inexorably turns nature into waste."
Discovering and designing genomes for Earth, Mars, and beyond | Chris Mason ↗
"Geneticist and urban metagenome researcher Chris Mason of Weill Cornell Medicine shares how he’s mapping his expertise into the distant future of outer space in the interest of humanity’s interplanetary survival."
Life lessons from an ad man | Rory Sutherland ↗
"Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider real value -- and his conclusion has interesting consequences for how we look at life."
Can AI help develop new medicines? ↗
"It can take over a decade to develop a single new medicine, with many failing in pre-clinical research or clinical trials. Computational biologist Aviv Regev shares how AI can transform this development process, crunching massive amounts of data at scale to create precise, life-saving medications to the millions of patients who need them."