Podcasts

A weekly stream of news, opinions and forecasts about popular culture — what to watch, what to play, and what just happened in the industry. Hosted by Ivan Talachev and Vadim Elistratov, former editor-in-chief of DTF and Kinopoisk, running since 2022. Episodes go two and a half to four hours, and the jokes carry as much of it as the news does.

Andrey Breslav, ex-JetBrains and now running his own startup, and Alexander Lozhechkin, ex-Microsoft and ex-Amazon, now a CIO — arguing, agreeing and thinking out loud about growing people, leading teams and technology in general. No guests and no format to speak of: two people with long careers behind them talking things through, which is the whole appeal.

A weekly show about IT where every episode picks one subject and goes all the way down into it with an invited guest — architecture, engineering culture, team leadership, war stories from production. Run by a crew of practising engineers and managers, among them Stas Tsyganov, the author of VIPER. Close to 500 episodes deep, so there is an archive to dig through.

Medical discoveries that changed the world: how doctors learned to treat what used to be a death sentence, dared to try operations nobody had tried, and stumbled onto drugs we now take for granted — several of them by pure accident. Every episode is one story told properly, and the running theme is how recently most of this arrived. Another one from the Libo/Libo studio, seven seasons in.

This one helped me prepare for fatherhood — not practically, but mentally. Three fathers who deliberately give no advice: they just talk about what worries them, what went wrong, and what turned out funny about living with kids. Hearing other people say the quiet parts out loud does more for you than any manual. Hosted by Alexander Borzenko, Vladimir Tsybulsky and Yuri Saprykin, once part of Meduza and now made by the Libo/Libo studio.