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." ā Kevin Fricovsky
- "I've been really enjoying listening to swyx's mix tapes lately. I highly recommend giving them a listen." ā 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" ā Ron Au
- "Always amazed by his prolificity, but the value he crams into these 10-minute episodes is š„" ā @zevav
- "Especially enlightening episode on The @swyx Mixtape today. Social Proof and Scarcity, and the Principles of #influence" ā Frederick Weiss
- "I have a friendgroup that likes to discuss highlights from your podcast." ā anon Datadog engineer
- "Just wanted to send a big thank you. I discovered Levels on your mixtapes and Iām amped up. You actually nerd sniped me with that episode since Iām a fullstack engineer and t1 diabetic. Thank you!" - anon
- "The @swyx mixtape is my favorite podcast" - Ben Holmes 2022
- "still the only daily podcast I actually listen to daily" - Ben Holmes 2023
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