Illya Starikov
Played Podcasts 🎧
A decade's-long playlist from all my commutes.
Podcasts
- 99% Invisible
- Accidental Tech Podcast ⭐️
- All The Smoke
- Back to Work ⭐️
- Cortex
- Drama Queens
- Freakonomics Radio
- Hello Internet ⭐️
- The Infinite Monkey Cage
- The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
- The Kyiv Independent
- Mac Power Users
- The Making of Modern Ukraine
- Making Sense with Sam Harris
- MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
- Pivot ⭐️
- Power Lines: From Ukraine to the World ⭐️
- The Ringer NBA Show
- Serial ⭐️
- Stuff You Should Know
- The Talk Show With John Gruber
- The Tim Ferriss Show
- This American Life ⭐️
- Ukrainecast ⭐️
- The Vergecast ⭐️
- Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast
Settings
- Default Speed
1.1x - Smart Speed
Yes - Voice Boost
Yes - Seek Back By
15 seconds - Seek Forward By
30 seconds - Stop After Each Episode
Yes - Smart Resume
Yes - Seek Acceleration
Yes - Play Top Episode Next
Yes - Smart Speed Saved
222 hours222 hours saved using smart speed, likely using speeds of +.05x to +.35x, resulting in total podcasts of 25 days to 185 days; averaging out to ~40 minutes/day over 10 years.
Playlists
- Primary podcasts are my favorites, and are more ephemeral and current-event than normal.
- Secondary podcasts are there when I want to unplug from current-events and listen to something different.
- In Progress podcasts are podcasts I have started but have not completed. This often happens when there a movie, book, or game is brought up I have not played.
- Relax podcasts, well, help me relax. I often use these to go to bed
- Partner podcasts can be played with my partner at anytime, likely when commuting together.
- Starred podcasts were my favorite throughout years. Nostalgia.
- All Episodes is a complete listing of every podcast I have downloaded.
Players
THe following are recommended podcast players on iOS.
- Overcast
- Great overall experience
- Developer is a podcaster
- Smart Speed, Voice Boost
- Castro
- Beautiful design
- Novel podcast management: manage a queue instead of playlists
- Trim Silence, Enhance Voices
- Pocket Casts
- Video support
- Great web player
- Trim Silence, Volume Boost
- Spotify
- Many exclusives
- Mix music and playlist
- Apple Podcasts
- Largest podcast bank
- Apple ecosystem integration
Use Cases
- Fall Asleep
- Learn Ukrainian
- In the car
- While stretching
- While prepping for dinner
- While grinding, video games
Bookmarked Books 📚
So many books, so little time.
The following are my favorite books I’ve read. I’ve added them here in the hopes you might like some of them too. For a full list, check out my Goodreads.
Fiction
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1…
Harry Potter has no idea how famous he is. That’s becau…
And Then There Were None
First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers…
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, sta…
- The Harry Potter series 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
- And Then There Were None
- The Great Gatsby
- Treasure Island
Non-Fiction
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine
The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning …
American Prometheus
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive biography of J. …
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivit…
In today’s world, yesterday’s methods just don’t work. …
- Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
- American Prometheus
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
- I'm Glad My Mom Died
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
- The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
- The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
- Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
- The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives
- Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
- How Google Works
- The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How To Think Like One
Textbooks
The Algorithm Design Manual
This volume helps take some of the “mystery” out of ide…
Introduction to Evolutionary Computing (Natural Computi…
Evolutionary Computing is the collective name for a ran…
Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your …
Coming to grips with C++11 and C++14 is more than a mat…
- New Year’s Day Новий Рік January 1
- Unity Day January 16
- Cyborg Remembrance Day January 20
- Mourning Day of the Beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine February 24
- International Women’s Day Міжнародний жіночий день March 8
- Labour Day День праці May 1
- Easter
- Second World War Remembrance Day May 7
- Victory Day (over Nazism in World War II) День пам'яті та перемоги над нацизмом у Другій світовій війні May 8
- Trinity (Pentecost) Трійця
- Constitution Day День Конституції України June 28
- Statehood Day День Української Державності July 15
- Flag Day August 23
- Independence Day of Ukraine День Незалежності України August 24
- Day of Knowledge September 1
- Ukraine Defender Day День захисників і захисниць України October 1
- Teacher’s Day October 2
- Holodomor Memorial Day Final Saturday of November
- Armed Forces of Ukraine Day December 6
- Christmas Різдво Христове December 25
The following are films about the 2014 invasion-present day war. Viewer discretion advised.
Directly from Ukraine
- ETNODIM
- Aviatsiya Halychyny
- Shkoura
- Sleeper (women only)
- O.TAJE (women only)
Support Ukraine directly
Non-Fiction
- The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine Serhii Plokhy
- The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History Serhii Plokhy
- Red Famine Anne Applebaum.
- Bloodlands
- Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Voices of Chernobyl
- Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Fiction
- Death and the Penguin Andrey Kurkov
- I Will Die in a Foreign Land
Cookbooks
Birthday February 3rd, 2019
Nicknames велика свиня, Bubs, Mal, Chunky Monkey, Stench Under The Bench, Fatness BellyQueen
Likes
- Food
- Belly rubs
- Being alone with you
Dislikes
- Not getting food
- Being picked up
- Petting in ears
Favorite Spots
- Under the main bed
- In the main bedroom closet
- Under blankets on the couch/bed
Birthday May 3rd, 2011
Nicknames Mr. Bodie, Bad Cat, Orange Cat
Bodie came into my life after my partner’s parents retired. They asked if we wanted him, and we said “Of course”.
At first, it was not an easy transition. He didn’t get along with Mallory. He gets upset in the middle of the night and cries. He gets upset in the middle of the day and cries.
But now he is an integral part of this family.
Likes
- Sous-vide meats, chicken, steak, etc.
- Being near people
- Being outside
- Back scratches and cuddles
- Play time with the chaser toys
- Thinking about quantum electrodynamics
Dislikes
- Not getting his way
- Being alone
Favorite Spots
- On blankets
- On the couch, on the arm rest
- In the living room cat tree/perch
