A daily audio lootbox - curated by Swyx!
- Weekdays: 10ish minute clips from over 250 podcasts:
- Technical themes (Databricks)
- Business themes (The Origin of X)
- Creator themes (Cal Newport)
- Health themes (Live Longer)
- Fridays: Music features (e.g. Talkbox, Pokemon Jazz, Harry Mack)
- Weekends: Longform chats, angel pitches and podcast appearances by Swyx.
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- "Always enjoyable and the _mostly_ short format is terrific. Really enjoy the mix of tech and music, among other things. The Nonsensical Sounds episode was +1. Also, get introduced to a lot of new tech and creators." — Kevin Fricovsky
- "I've been really enjoying listening to swyx's mix tapes lately. I highly recommend giving them a listen." — Nick Taylor
- "I think you'll like https://swyx.transistor.fm! @swyx listens to an ungodly amount of podcasts and grabs the highlights for you. He's usually across all the big discussions in tech and also covers personal growth/learning" — Ron Au
- "Always amazed by his prolificity, but the value he crams into these 10-minute episodes is 🔥" — @zevav
- "Especially enlightening episode on The @swyx Mixtape today. Social Proof and Scarcity, and the Principles of #influence" — Frederick Weiss
- "I have a friendgroup that likes to discuss highlights from your podcast." — anon Datadog engineer
- "Just wanted to send a big thank you. I discovered Levels on your mixtapes and I’m amped up. You actually nerd sniped me with that episode since I’m a fullstack engineer and t1 diabetic. Thank you!" - anon
- "The @swyx mixtape is my favorite podcast. Nugget from this 3 min ep:
> Do something creative when you wake up, before touching your phone
Something I’ve always known but needed to hear again 🙏" - Ben Holmes
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