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Talks and long conversations for the commute, the gym, or the hour before you send the thing. Every pick carries a reason — not a category.

Our Boy Ted

Twelve talks, and the test each had to pass is narrower than inspiring: does it change what you do on a Tuesday? A talk that makes you feel briefly excellent and leaves nothing behind is entertainment. These have a position on hiring, money, nerve or how a career actually gets built — the same arguments the rest of this app is having with numbers.

  • Why the best hire might not have the perfect resume

    Regina Hartley · 10:21 · 2015

    The closest thing to this app's founding argument said out loud by somebody who hired for a living. A tidy résumé is a record of an easy road, not of capability, and the gap on yours may be the most useful thing on the page.

  • Know your worth, and then ask for it

    Casey Brown · 8:12 · 2015

    Nobody will pay you what you are worth; they will pay you what they think you are worth. Watch this before the salary conversation, not after it.

  • Color blind or color brave?

    Mellody Hobson · 14:01 · 2014

    An investor's case that refusing to discuss race in hiring rooms is not neutrality, it is a decision with a cost. Direct, specific, and unusually unafraid of the room it was delivered in.

  • The power of believing that you can improve

    Carol Dweck · 10:10 · 2014

    The research behind the word "yet". Ten minutes, and it reframes every skill this app tells you is missing as a thing you do not have yet, rather than a thing you are not.

  • The puzzle of motivation

    Dan Pink · 18:22 · 2009

    Why the bonus scheme at your job probably makes the work worse. Useful for reading a compensation package as a statement about what a company thinks people are.

  • How to speak so that people want to listen

    Julian Treasure · 9:44 · 2013

    Mechanics rather than confidence: register, pace, timbre, prosody. The one on this list you can practise tomorrow and hear the difference by Friday.

  • Embrace the near win

    Sarah Lewis · 11:27 · 2014

    About the offer you nearly got. Mastery is pursuit rather than arrival, and the near miss is the part that does the work — which is worth hearing when a search is long.

  • Grit: The power of passion and perseverance

    Angela Lee Duckworth · 5:59 · 2013

    Six minutes, and honest about its own limits — she says plainly that the science is thin on how to build it. Here for the question rather than the answer.

  • The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed

    Bill Gross · 6:30 · 2015

    He ranked five factors across two hundred companies and the winner is timing, not the team and not the idea. Read it as a note about when you move, not only about what you build.

  • The surprising habits of original thinkers

    Adam Grant · 15:15 · 2016

    Procrastination and doubt as ingredients rather than defects. A corrective to every piece of career advice that treats hesitation as a character flaw.

  • Why 30 is not the new 20

    Meg Jay · 14:35 · 2013

    The decade that compounds hardest, argued from clinical practice. On the list because this app is about the value of a move made now rather than later, and this is that case in plain language.

  • What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness

    Robert Waldinger · 12:37 · 2015

    Seventy-five years of following the same men, and the finding is relationships rather than salary. Here as a counterweight: this app is about getting paid, and it should be honest that the money is not the whole account.

The Lounge

Conversations long enough to actually get somewhere. Episodes play from the audio file the show itself publishes — the same file any podcast app fetches, so their numbers still count. Nothing here loads a player from anybody else.

  • Earn Your Leisure

    iHeartPodcasts

    Two men who talk about equity, ownership and cash flow in the register people actually speak in. The nearest thing to this app's whole thesis in podcast form.

  • Black Tech Green Money

    The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

    Founders and operators who are Black and in tech, on what the room was actually like. The specifics of access, capital and getting in the door.

  • Worklife with Molly Graham

    TED

    TED's own show about the psychology of work — teams, feedback, why the meeting is bad. Practical rather than motivational.

  • How I Built This with Guy Raz

    Guy Raz | Wondery

    Long-form origin stories, and the useful part is always the middle: the years where it was not working and nobody had told them to stop.

    • Alamo Drafthouse Cinema: Tim and Karrie League (2023)Oct 12, 2026 · 1:16:50

      In the early 1990’s, Tim League spent $50,000 in savings to lease an abandoned movie theater on the wrong side of the tracks—a shaky experiment that eventually grew into a thriving national chain. As …

    • Advice Line with Nick Green of Thrive MarketOct 8, 2026 · 44:00

      Today’s callers: Mercedes in Utah tries to find harmony between quality and speed as she scales her concert attire brand for musicians. Then Danny in Colorado grapples with the tradeoffs of growing hi…

    • 10 Years of How I Built This: A Decade of Innovation, Risk and ReinventionOct 5, 2026 · 1:10:20

      Stories about starting a business are almost always full of drama. They’re about ambition, loss, triumph, catastrophe, resilience. And they’re also full of life lessons – which is why Guy Raz launched…

  • Planet Money

    NPR

    Economics explained as a story with people in it. The best training there is for reading the numbers on THE WORLD without needing anyone to tell you what they mean.

    • Wanna slow down AI? These biologists can help.Oct 14, 2026 · 29:10

      Fifty years ago, scientists pioneering a terrifying gene-splicing technology figured out a way to collectively hit pause. Can we do it again with AI? We ask because some top AI industry leaders are sa…

    • Should we all be getting tariff refunds right now?Oct 9, 2026 · 30:03

      Companies are getting billions of dollars back. How about us? It seems simple, right? We paid higher prices for imported goods because of tariffs. Then the tariffs were ruled illegal. Courts said the …

    • Charles Ponzi's scheme (plus a new scam)Oct 7, 2026 · 25:30

      Charles Ponzi was down on his luck. In 1919, the Italian immigrant had spent a decade and a half in the U.S. He was looking for a way to get rich and tried his hand at everything — including bookkeepi…

  • Acquired

    Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

    Three-hour company autopsies, deeply researched. Put one on for a commute and you will understand an industry's economics better than most people who work in it.

    • The Home DepotSep 14, 2026 · 3:35:02

      The Home Depot's founding story is like an Avengers movie… if the Avengers got fired, went broke, and stacked empty paint cans ten feet high to look legitimate. After being unceremoniously fired from …

    • Disney: The Renaissance and the EmpireAug 10, 2026 · 4:32:56

      In 1984, the Walt Disney Company was worth more dead than alive. Disney Animation — the heart of Walt's famous flywheel — had stagnated for years, bleeding away talent while corporate raiders circled,…

    • The Walt Disney CompanyJun 22, 2026 · 4:31:29

      The Walt Disney Company is the most successful enterprise ever created for monetizing human nostalgia. Today it’s the king of global entertainment, holding the intellectual property rights to the chil…

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