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Come chat about podcasts!
I'm trying to set up a podcast club 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 chiaolun@gmail.com 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, 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 club 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. I like it because the guests are people I'd never otherwise hear think out loud for three hours, and because Dwarkesh actually pushes back. The length is also the problem - these are the episodes I most want to remember and most reliably don't.
Odd Lots
Bloomberg's markets and economics podcast. It's mostly how I keep up with what's going on in markets, supply chains and energy without reading the news every day. Episodes are usually about something happening right now, so I'll probably pick these when there's a topic people are already talking about.
Acquired
Each episode is the full history of one company, over three or four hours. I find it hard to understand a company without knowing how it got there, and this is the only show that takes the time. They've done TSMC, which I think is the obvious one to start with for a group in Taipei.