What I read and found interesting of late. For those curious abt the title, the word ‘Interleavings’ comes from publishing. Interleaved books are those sold with blank pages inserted between printed pages so as to facilitate note-taking. This was a common practice in the 16th and 17th century, but has disappeared now. Thus my term ‘Interleavings’ for my notes and thoughts on the digital texts I enjoyed reading. Here are …
Podcasts
Interleavings: Notes & thoughts on recent reads, 13 April ’25
In publishing, interleaved books are those sold with blank pages inserted between printed pages so as to facilitate note-taking. They were a common practice in the 16th and 17th century. Here is how an interleaved book with notes by the reader (source) looked like –
Thus my term ‘Interleavings’ for my notes and thoughts on the digital texts I enjoyed reading.
Here are my interleavings from the recent …
What I Read and Enjoyed Lately: 23 March 2025
Podcasts
1/ Chris Pedregal, founder + CEO at Granola on the Colossus’ Invest Like The Best podcast w Patrick O’Shaughnessy
Link to podcast. Link to podcast excerpts i found interesting.
Some of you may recall that Chris wrote a terrific piece a few months back on how founders should think about building AI products. This podcast is in much the same vein though I found it somewhat less useful …
What I read and enjoyed last week
4 January 2025
1/ Shruti Rajagopalan, who hosts the Ideas of India podcast, did an annual retrospective highlighting the podcasts they did in 2024, with her reflections on it. I like this format which was begun by her celebrated fellow Mercatus podcast host Tyler (link for his retro). Link to my highlights.
What I found interesting
- Books that Shruti thinks are superuseful to unpack the Indian economy:
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 …
Podcast Notes + Transcript: Mamoon Hamid, Kleiner Perkins, on Venture Unlocked, w Samir Kaji
Link to podcast. Link to transcript (organised by me). 1st November 2023.
Sajith: Mamoon Hamid covers the turnaround at Kleiner Perkins which drifted off course from the mid-2000s to the latter part of last decade, as it bloated into a multi-geography, multistage firm. He came in early 2018, and along with Ilya Fushman, reworked the firm into a smaller, focused firm, recalling its roots and origins, and its past …
Podcast Notes + Transcript: Chris Farmer, SignalFire, on Venture Unlocked, w Samir Kaji
Link to podcast. Link to transcript (organised by me). 27th September 2023
Sajith: Fascinating glimpse into an unusually-designed venture firm, structured like a company more than a fund, and one that is designed to look at sourcing and support not like the traditional venture fund, but more via analysing datasets and extracting signals from them, to both find (source), and then mind (support) these companies. Think Bridgewater but …
Podcast Notes + Transcript: Pejman Nozad, Pear Ventures, on Venture Unlocked w Samir Kaji
Link to podcast page, with audio + rough transcript. Link to transcript (organised by me; not finely edited). 22nd December 2023.
Sajith: Fun, fascinating episode giving a glimpse of one of the most unusual and inspiring GP (General Partner) journeys, immigrating near penniless from Iran to Germany to USA, and then moving from a rug salesman to starting a leading preseed / seed fund in Pear Ventures. The anecdote …
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