I read 22 books this year, of which three were works of fiction. Now I have kept stats of what I have read over the past two decades; I average 23 books a year, about a quarter of which are fiction. Two goals I have set for myself a few years back is to read more fiction, and read older books. On both counts I failed this year. Far too …
December 2024
My fave podcast episodes of 2024
Podcasts are having their moment today, given the outsized role they had in the US 2024 Presidential election. It is impressive how some of the larger ones, such as the Joe Rogan Experience, have emerged as counterweights to mainstream media. While podcasts have hit the cultural zeitgeist and have broken into the mainstream, they …
Why podcasts matter
This was written by me circa 2020 for a Notion page of podcast highlights that I used to maintain. I have sunsetted that page and moved mosts of its content to this section on this site. Thus this piece is a tad dated; still I thought it would be useful to have this here, given how often I reference my thinking on this topic, and felt it would be …
Sajith Pai’s curated podcast shortlist
Regular readers would know that I overindex on podcasts as a format for media consumption. I try and consume 2-5 podcasts a week and post my learnings on this site and on Twitter / Linkedin. I thus get a lot of questions on my preferred podcasts and for podcast recommendations. Hence this piece. Please find a list of the podcasts I consume most frequently. I do consumer others outside …
My fave articles of 2024
Long-time readers would know that I have been deliberately reducing consumption of articles in favour of podcasts. It is a journey that I began a few years ago, and I have stuck to that path since. 2024 was no different.
The few articles that I read this year were either from newsletters I subscribe to (Generalist, Lenny, Newcomer etc), or recommended by a few trusted curators (Diff’s Long Reads, or …