Catalyst Podcast
Catalyst Podcast
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Downfall
This show has become such a train wreck. I could get the same result - complete with tech bro deliver - by asking ChatGPT to create a nonsensical script filled with nothing but buzzwords.
jdma3
Sometimes change is good, sometimes it is bad
I started listening to this podcast because of listening to Paul Ford. I then fell in love with his dynamic with Rich. When they moved on from it, Chris and Gina did a great job, even if I felt less connected and not as enthralled (I can even blame my own bias for that without taking away from what they’ve done). Since that went fine, I trusted them when Clinton joined, and continued with it. However since July I have felt the quality of the podcast degrade to the point of being unrecognizable. It feels like dull sponsored content without anything substantial there, just forced, unauthentic, churned out content. I actually used to rewind to listen to things again and make mental notes, now I’m rewinding because I’m tuning out. I used to be excited to listen and push it up my feed, now it’s part of my backlog. I’m going to give it a few more episodes to redeem itself, but it looks like I’ll unfortunately be unsubscribing sooner rather than later.
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Siffery
So insightful!
The Postlight Podcast has quickly become a favorite in my feed! I'm consistently impressed by the engaging conversations, insightful content, and actionable ideas. I truly learn something every time I listen!
Dan1777999877
Bad.
Yet they’re so proud of themselves.
brainslikepickles
Great show!
The perspectives Paul, Rich and their guests offer on this podcast are incredible. Highly recommended!
Mark Colgan
one of the few good podcasts
paul ford is one of the greatest living tech critics. rich ziade needs to come around to socialism.
Post Prufrock
Weekly masterclass in tech and biz 🙌
Paul and Rich bring so much insight, wisdom and entertaining anecdotes to these conversations! It's quickly become one of my favoirte shows to go to because they pull no punches and always get right to the core of whatever point they're exploring. This approach helps bring out the best in their guests too - which leads to candid and insightful episodes. The description says no "bs" and they mean it! Highly recommend if you're looking to level up your thinking and execution in business (and life!). Thanks team Postlight!!
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obacker19
Fun for the whole crew of code nerds, managers, designers
Postlight.com co-founders, CEO Paul Ford and President Rich Ziade, and their employees and guests banter with humor about technology, how to build things with empathy, and how to manage people and projects with humanity. In Track Changes, Rich and Paul do not take themselves or their subject matter too seriously. If you work in any field even remotely related to computers or technology or if you care about how we can all infuse cold technology with a warm human heart, give this Track Changes podcast a listen. Personal aside: I went to university with Paul Ford a zillion years ago and he has never lost his joy of figuring out how things work, and how to make them better.
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jwoolson
Simple a fantastic smart tech podcast
Rich and Paul (and often Gina and other guests) do a great job breaking down current issues in tech startups at the intersection of society, products, and user interfaces. Thanks to the hosts each having decades in the industry, they bring tons of knowledge and experience to discussions and interviews with topical subjects. I don't listen to too many tech podcasts because they're usually boring, but this is a great show that goes beyond the newest shiny things in tech to get at how these new ways of building tools and apps affects us all.
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mathowie
Work in tech? Listen to this
Paul and Rich speak the truth, and listeners will benefit from their years of experience. I've spent over 20 years working tech, and their perspectives and advice ring true. If you have worked in tech shops, worked with consultants, been a PM, you will be nodding in agreement.
gmaass
One of the best
Knowledgeable hosts, entertaining and authentic. Respectful to their guests and one another, and seem like they’re having a good time. They’re real about the topic no matter what it is, and not afraid to get a bit in the weeds, but they’re always able to bring the audience with them.
ES785
Amazon Toilets
Quality podcasting. These guys are the real thing. Deep, penetrating industry analysis.
Justin Rhoades
Two Enjoyable Guys and a Guest
Rich and Paul are a really good pair and at their best when they interview others. The dig into various corners of tech and internet businesses. They do this in a really comfortable ensightful way that is very approachable. This is a podcast I often refer others to who want understanding from the ground up.
vanderwal
Really good.
Favorite right now. Great insights and really entertaining guests.
jlpdx
The best tech podcast
Smart, insightful, unforced, funny, and extremely enjoyable.
Gabe Roth
So slow and boring
I recently took a job about 30 miles from my house so I've been spending a lot more time in the car. And order to make the time pass I got into Podcasts. I've added podcasts from a wide range of topics, comedy technology crime science all kinds of great stuff. I like to reply all and TL DR so muchand I was hungry for something similar – instead, I found Track Changes. This is a slow, plotting podcast about interesting things. You can and will learn a great deal if you listen to this but you won't have a very good time doing it.
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PennGos
Paul Ford is a gem.
This podcast is smart, insightful, and entertaining. Their conversations with the human beings who built–and continue to build the online world we live in is so much better than the usual entrepreneur-as-capitalist-superhero bs out there.
svonmuehlen
Highly Recommended
A podcast from Postlight, a NYC based product design studio. Track Changes is a refreshing and unique voice in the design and technology landscape. Both hosts have been in the game since the dot-com boom. They tell great stories of the previous media boom and apply it to today’s technology boom. Again it's a highly recommended weekly listen.
Luk.Inc
Good stuff.
My favorite podcast right now as I cook my quinoa.
Hungry in MA
Short fun informative
Always leaves me feeling upbeat and motivated.
Bradley Kirby
Smart and Funny and Engaging
These excellent podcasts are all the things I listed in my subject line. They cover a very broad range of subjects, usually centered around the idea of design, whether physical, digital, or some other form. I've liked Paul Ford for awhile now, and his cohost (and cofounder at Postlight), Rich Ziade, is sharp and a nice complement to Paul's sort of relaxed, halfway-drawling, usually quite funny speaking style. Anyway, listen to Track Changes; you'll enjoy it.
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Edward Ashton
Car Talk for tech & UX
These guys are funny with great chemistry! I appreciate that they don't force the humor. I can't wait for them to take listener calls.
jskp3
this podcast is aces
I don't know jack about tech, but thanks to this podcast I now CARE about tech. FIVE STARS.
Ben.Craw
Great discussions between authentic people
What I love about this podcast is it's not selling anything--not a product, not an idea, not a philosophy. It's just informative, relaxed discussions between experienced but (at least apparently) not egotistical people. I love it!
Isben Takes Tea
made the weekly list
I think I found this podcast when one of the hosts was interviewed on slate money. Now I listen to it every week. Great hosts who are entertaining to listen to. A portal into Silicon Valley industry chatter. That's what I want. I don't work in Silicon Valley nor do I work in software development, but I know about Silicon Valley. I want more insider perspective. I want to know what I don't know. That's why I listen to podcasts. So far Track Changes delivers. Here's your five stars. Keep the episodes coming.
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JohnHobs
The best
I laugh more at this podcast than most of my comedy podcasts.
GrahamJoseph
[this is good]
Hey, come hang out with Paul and Rich and their amazing friends! The show is a funny and entertaining look at what's happening at the intersection of business, culture, and technology. In the process, it also functions as an oral history of the emergence of the modern software ecosystem — rolled up for non-technical people. Who knew business development could be so much fun?
bckspcr
The BEST Podcast episode on creating sofware
The "Who Killed Clippy Part 2" I bought a Commodore 32 in 1982. By 1985 had a TelNet email account. By 1997 I bought my first domain. I'm consider myself a moderately advanced non-technical user. I was transfixed by the discussion with your guest about the development of the help feature in Microsoft. I had no idea that so much of it came from user concerns. Great job. I just started listening and like your stuff a lot
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sigrossman
Content Marketing has no Right Being this Good
This podcast is great. If you were only rating the hosts, Paul and Rich, this podcast would deserve 5 stars — they're both smart, sharp, and engaging. If you were only rating this podcast on the great guests, guests from from all over the technology, agency, media, and literary worlds, again, you'd need to give it five stars. Content marketing has no right being this good. However, the best part of this podcast, and the reason I'm giving it five stars, is how both hosts deal with the impending sense of doom we all feel about our work and business lives. Whether it's a barely contained sense of self loathing, or a calm, smooth, lawyerly laying out and acceptance that everything is awful and lets make some money, both hosts (or the characters they play on this podcast) are a refreshing change from the relentlessly happy and enthusiastic Stepford Entrepreneurship you get on the west coast. It is literally the best. You won't be disappointed.
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Alan P Storm
Top notch
2 smart guys who aren't annoying talk about interesting things, sometimes with an equally smart (or smarter) guest who also isn't annoying.
colineverest
Like tech comfort food
It takes a lot for a podcast to work its way into my weekly routine, but Track Changes has taken over my Wednesday morning commute. Paul and Rich are two of the most amiable personalities out there, and I could listen to them chat about programming and the internet -- both today's internet, and the wild wild west of yore -- all day. Great guests, great chats that reveal a warm, people-first approach to technology and related cultures.
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iBsghyc
It's like 2 dope queens but about web publishing tools
It's like Broad City but with peel scripts.
Buster Benson
The Rapport is Real
Podcast hosts need to have a rapport to produce an enjoyable show. Rich and Paul do.
Grapier
Tech Talk with a Dystopian Slant
Rich & Paul know their internet. This is a “tech/industry show" but it’s more about how their layers of insight into the industry add up into their own emotional impressions of & reactions to the Web at large. This podcast is a refreshing human voice in the crowded space of tech analyst podcasts.
logsplit818
Great podcast
It's so nice to listen to a tech podcast headed by sane people.
Njdg87
A tech podcast for humans
As someone who is preparing to make a major career shift into tech, I hope that the conversations on Track Changes are some indication of what my new world will be like. Rich and Paul are witty, insightful, and always compelling, whether they are discussing tech ethics with Anil Dash or simply analyzing the creepiness of LinkedIn. And even though the podcast is at least partially a form of marketing for the hosts’ company, which is sort of a weird thing to grapple with, they are open about that aspect of it (and how/why it’s weird). In any case, if you like to hear articulate people talk about tech-related topics and why they matter, you’ll probably like this one.
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podcast.nerd
Valuable content presented by approachable people!
This podcast is the best thing I discovered this month!
atonkatruck
Favorite thing to listen to while coding
Really thoughtful big-picture conversations about the tech world. I always learn something (or feel smarter, anyhow) after listening to it.
FineIWill
Funny insights about the industry
Its like listening to an old married couple talk about technology.
ajshergill
Why do I need to write a headline?
Track changes is funny and educational. Worth a listen if you have to deal with tech in your business and are tired of weird buzzwords and cultic processes.
AleJLen
Irreverent
So great to have a tech podcast that isn't lost up its own hubris. Deals with real issues and humans relevant to my interests. And Paul is so hot right now.
cllngrdg
Awesome
My new favorite. Paul and Rich realize that tech can be awesome but it's not precious or the center of life or what not. Here's to two intelligent - and often pretty funny - actual humans asking "so what?"
Head shaker
Down-to-earth, relevant, often funny tech talk
Paul and Rich produce and host an outstanding podcast on technology and current technology issues. As a professional developer, I find their discussions useful and relevant, offering practical assessments and fresh ideas. I look forward to each episode. I also recommend this podcast to my non-techie friends. Both Paul and Rich have a way of clearly communicating techspeke into something that anyone can understand and appreciate. They bring to the tech world a clarity and humor that Isaac Asimov brought to popular science.
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Jamie Todd Rubin (@jamietr)
I look forward to my weekly audio food pellets
Paul and Rich have created my new favorite integrated branding platform…oops, I mean podcast. Excellent coverage of tech & culture, products & teams, and tools & practices. I hope they’ll have me on as a guest someday. Or at least respond to a question of mine someday.
Benjamin L. Haas
Interesting discussions
Great variety of interviews and topics about tech and culture.
algno
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