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Email Economics: The Math to a $800k Email [Sam Parr, Nathan Barry]
Sam Parr's Black Friday stunt was sneaky but also extremely effective.
Angel Economics: The Math to a $100k Angel Portfolio [Jason Calacanis, Zach Coelius]
JCal breaks down how he thinks an amateur angel investor should structure their portfolio for followon rounds.
Podcast Economics: The Math to $14,000 a month [Jordan Harbinger, Cal Newport]
Two top podcasters talk CPMs, audience size, and the math of podcasting.
[Weekend Drop] Sunil Pai: React and the Meta of the Web
A wideranging convo with Sunil covering the future of React, the Third Age of JavaScript, and the Meta of online discourse.
[Weekend Drop] Temporal - Not so Temporary (with Jaden Baptista)
My conversation with Jaden Baptista introducing him to Temporal.
React Native's Near Death Experience [Christopher Chedeau]
The fate of React Native hung in the balance. One man's brave decision changed an industry forever.
How React got Traction [Pete Hunt]
How React overcame its haters: by listening.
[Movie Fridays] Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
The wuxia Marvel film is here and it mostly worked!
Journey to Vitess [Alkin Tezuysal]
A proxy layer to scale MySQL, from YouTube.
Journey to CockroachDB [Spencer Kimball]
Listen to the full episode on SERadio: https://www.se-radio.net/2020/06/episode-413-spencer-kimball-on-cockroachdb/Previous two parter on Spencer: https://swyx.transis...
Journey to TimeScaleDB [Mike Freedman]
A short history of Time Series databases, and why TimeScaleDB is a PostgreSQL extension rather than a new DB.
Journey to MongoDB [Mark Porter]
Why MongoDB, from the CTO of MongoDB
[Weekend Drop] The True Story of Frank Abagnale
Frank Abagnale tells his own story in his impeccable style.
[Music Fridays] The Petersens
The most wholesome family band on YouTube.
The Origin of Braintree [Bryan Johnson]
The $800m business school plan, executed in 6 years.
The Origin of Twilio [Jeff Lawson]
Twilio's origins and early mishaps, through Jeff's eyes.
The Origin of Waze [Noam Bardin]
How Waze crowdsourced its way to a Billion dollar payout — because it had no choice.
The Origin of Kubernetes and Heptio [Joe Beda]
The origin of k8s and its spinoff company, from its CTO.
[Weekend Drop] An Evening With Kevin Smith
Deconstructing how Kevin Smith talks about Superman Lives and Tim Burton.
[Music Fridays] Walk Off The Earth
One of my favorite indie rock + pop cover bands
Unity [Robert Cialdini]
Tribalism - the newest Influence principle.
Commitment and Consistency [Robert Cialdini]
The most underappreciated principle of Influence.
Social Proof and Scarcity [Robert Cialdini]
How does Steph Smith's ratchet pricing strategy use Cialdini's principles?
The Power of Contrast [Robert Cialdini]
How do you convince someone to accept a situation they normally wouldn't? Show them that it could be much worse.
[Music Fridays] Alan Silvestri
Defining over 40 years of the greatest Hollywood soundtracks.
The Third Generation of Cryptocurrency [Charles Hoskinson]
What comes after Ethereum?
Solving The Oracle Problem [Sergey Nazarov]
How do you bring the real world into the blockchain world when billions of dollars are at stake?
Scaling Blockchains [Vitalik Buterin]
What are the Layer 1 and Layer 2 approaches to scaling?
Ethereum 2.0 [Danny Ryan]
What is Eth 2 and what is The Merge?
[Weekend Drop] What We Know We Don't Know — Hillel Wayne
An exploration of Empirical Software Engineering. We know far less than we care to admit, and the stuff we do know is boring but definitely worth investing in.
