Brain candy for MBA wannabes

Open-sourcing my reading and listening stack, a list of business-focused resources for news, trends, and continuous learning. Suggestions? Omissions? Lmk in the comments.

NEWSLETTERS / PUBLICATIONS

• Fortune’s Term Sheet, an email newsletter on deals and dealmakers
• Fortune’s Data Sheet, an email newsletter focused on the tech industry
• The Quartz Daily Brief, a daily email tl;dr of global news
• Mattermark Daily, an email newsletter of curated posts from VCs and operators
• McKinsey & Co’s ‘Featured Insights’ on business and management
• First Round Review, long-form insights from founders and leaders
• Both Sides of the Table, a VC blog by Upfront’s Mark Suster
• Tomasz Tunguz’s blog, a data-driven look into SaaS startups and VC
• Stratechery, a deep-dive into tech industry strategy

PODCASTS

• Bloomberg Deal of the Week, highlighting noteworthy deals and M&A trends
• Bloomberg Benchmark, investigating economic trends and data
• The a16z Podcast, on tech trends and futurism
• The McKinsey Podcast, on global business and management
• McKinsey on Finance, from McKinsey’s corporate finance practice
• The Twenty-Minute VC, short-form interviews with VCs and founders
• The Official Saastr Podcast, interviewing SaaS founders and investors
• NPR How I Built This, journeys with entrepreneurs and founders
• NPR TED Radio Hour, curating and interviewing the authors of TED Talks
• NPR Planet Money, digging into noteworthy sectors of the economy
• The HBR IdeaCast, surfacing leading thinking on business and management
• Fortune Unfiltered with Aaron Task, interviews with business leaders and executives
• Exchanges at Goldman Sachs, current thinking from Goldman's best
• Freakonomics Radio, unpacking the hidden side of everything
• Work in Progress, a podcast from Slack about meaning and purpose in work