Tim Harford’s narrative podcast uses history, psychology and economics to examine failure without reducing it to a slogan about individual stupidity.
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Podcast Pick: 99% Invisible teaches you to read the street beneath your feet
Roman Mars and the 99% Invisible team use sound-rich stories about ordinary design to reveal how streets, buildings and public systems quietly organise daily life
Podcast Pick: On Being shows that a good question can change the room
Long-form conversations become richer when the host is not rushing toward a verdict, a clip or a performance of certainty
Podcast Pick: Search Engine asks how we find music after algorithms
Music discovery now moves through recommendations, short clips, friends and old catalogues. Search Engine’s curious method is ideal for asking what convenience has changed.
Podcast Pick: Hidden Brain explains why doubt can improve decisions
Trusting Your Doubt reframes uncertainty as information: not a command to freeze, but a signal to examine assumptions before acting.
Podcast Pick: 10% Happier is useful when work follows you home
The 10% Happier conversation with Guy Winch is useful because it treats after-hours work rumination as a habit that can be understood, not a personal failure.
Podcast Pick: All In the Mind is useful when grief needs more than slogans
ABC’s All In the Mind episode on death, divorce and major loss is worth hearing because it treats grief as something lived through, not solved by a neat phrase.
Podcast Pick: Life Kit is useful because it treats family life as something people learn
NPR’s Life Kit is a practical show for people who want advice without being talked down to. Its parenting and family-life episodes are especially useful when everyday roles are changing.
Podcast Pick: Huberman Lab turns movement into a way to think better
Huberman Lab’s conversation with Ido Portal is a useful listen for anyone who wants movement to become a daily practice, not another fitness performance.
Podcast Pick: TED Talks Daily asks what technology is doing to the body
TED Talks Daily’s Your Body on Tech series is a useful listen for anyone trying to make digital life feel less exhausting and more embodied.