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Come chat about podcasts!
I'm trying to set up a podcast salon in Taipei. The idea is that every couple of weeks we pick one episode of Dwarkesh, Odd Lots or Acquired, meet up somewhere in Taipei to talk about it, and then the conversation goes online as a thread where everyone can edit their own bits.
I'll be figuring out a low-friction way to do this as we go, using the magic of Claude Code, but do expect it to very much be a work-in-progress.
Nothing has happened yet. If you're interested, email me at [email protected] and I'll get in touch once there are enough people for a first session.
About us
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Chiao
I'm a machine learning engineer / quant trader, I spent a few years in Silicon Valley, and now I live in Taipei. I keep up with what's happening over there mostly through podcasts, and I'd like to find people in Taipei with the same interests to chat about them.
The other reason is that I forget almost everything I listen to within about a week. Just like with books, in the moment I get a nice feeling of learning and understanding, but realistically, a week later, I think back and remember almost nothing. That's kind of sad. I think the fix is to talk about it with other people and write down what came out of it.
Which ties into the last thing: I want to make something lasting out of what would otherwise just be media consumption. It doesn't feel good to be consuming all the time without producing anything. This salon is my attempt at all three at once.
The podcasts we want to talk about
Dwarkesh Podcast
Long interviews, mostly with AI researchers and economists, sometimes historians. Dwarkesh has pretty good taste when it comes to guests. These are quite long, and I don't remember most of the content, but some things do stick with me.
Odd Lots
Bloomberg's markets and economics podcast. A wide variety of topics, with some classics that talk about Taiwan's life insurance industry and the Taiwan dollar.
Acquired
Each episode is the full history of one company, over three or four hours. It's interesting to contrast how much of a company's success is due to planning versus luck. They had to add a postscript calling out Jensen Huang's rewriting of history after their interview with him. They did the same thing with Morris Chang.