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Balaji Srinivasan: Overrated or Underrated? [Brian Armstrong]
How Balaji got into crypto and why Brian Amstrong thinks so highly of him.
The Worst Job You Ever Had [Andrew Wilkinson]
Why Andrew Wilkinson wants you to have a Dirty Job
[Angel Investing] E2E Encryption Keyservers with Ashoat Tevosyan
A recording of one of the most interesting angel investing conversations I've had this year.
Pokémon 8-Bit Jazz Breakdown [Charles Cornell]
I was amazed at how beautiful Pokémon music can be.
Snow White in a Fur Coat [The Moth]
A 5-year-old girl is caught stealing by her strict mother.
Luck vs the Definite Future [Peter Thiel]
Peter Thiel on why you want to bet on founders who believe in a definite future, not the role of luck.
How Buffett Missed Intel [Acquired.fm]
Sometimes you should invest in businesses you don't understand?
[Weekend Drop] Grifters and Content Creation Traps
I joined Maksim Ivanov's YouTube channel to talk about responsible/authentic content creation.
Why Angel Investing is Dumb [Shaan Puri, Codie Sanchez]
Codie Sanchez and Shaan Puri on why Angel Investing is not a great use of funds - and why they do it anyway.
Young and Successful; Old but Broke [Tammy Lally]
What it's like to suddenly lose economic relevance as we get older.
How FDR stopped the Great Depression [Kathleen Day]
FDR declared an unprecedented bank holiday and started the FDIC.
[Weekend Drop] swyx on Dev Community & Deep Work vs Learning in Public
I was recently the first guest on Julia Che's new podcast and we covered some of our greatest hits, updated for 2021.
35 Principles for 35 Years
I turned 35 this week. Here are 35 principles I have accumulated and try to live by.
[Weekend Drop] Going from Junior to Senior Q&A
This is the cleaned up audio of the Q&A I did this week at React Summit related to The Coding Career Handbook!
Lynn Jurich of SunRun, Pt 2: Growth
Lynn Jurich on the potential of Solar, and competing against Elon Musk.
Lynn Jurich of SunRun Pt. 1: Origin
Lynn Jurich, CEO of SunRun, told her story on the World Changing Women podcast and it is mindblowing.
Jesse Pujji's Execution Loop
Jesse Pujji with an interesting Execution Loop concept: Desired State -> Current Reality -> Waypoints -> Rigor vs Hustle -> Accounting & Response.
Dunbar's Number: Pt 2 - Age
Dunbar's Number also varies by age - something to think about as we grow older and relate to people of different generations than us.
Dunbar's Number: Pt 1 - Hierarchy
There are more than one Dunbar Numbers: 1.5, 5, 15, 50, 150, 500, 1500, 5000.
[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Svelte — CodingCat Podcast
I joined the CodingCat.dev duo to talk all things Svelte, SvelteKit, Svelte Society, Storybook and the Third Age of JavaScript!
Webflow's Near Death Experience
CEO Vlad Magdalin tells the story of how he put his life savings into Webflow and almost lost it all.
Past, Present, Future of No-Code
Emmanuel Straschnov recaps the last 8 years for us and where no-code is going
Set Explicit Help Timeouts
This is the narrated version of my latest blogpost.Set Explicit Help TimeoutsThis is the backstory of how a 1-2 hour task stretched into 2 weeks because I kept it to m...
[Weekend Drop] GraphQL, Learning in Public, and AWS with Loren Sands-Ramshaw
I was a technical reviewer for the upcoming GraphQL Guide by Loren Sands-Ramshaw and John Resig.
Steve Jobs vs. the Customer
Henry Ford's famous "faster horse" line is often cited as Steve Jobs' product development philosophy. The truth is more complicated.
Your Calendar as Todo List
Why I am getting into time-block planning, with clip from Nir Eyal and Shane Parrish
Don't Throw in JavaScript
An unpopular opinion: People throw far too easily in JavaScript and it causes bad code.
Spencer Kimball Pt. 2: Competing with Big Clouds
Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball on the challenges of running DB as a Service.
Spencer Kimball Pt 1: Consistent Synchronous Replication
CEO Spencer Kimball on Cockroach Labs' origin and the problem they solve.
[Career Jam] Big Tech Interviews with Adam Rackis
A chat with Adam Rackis after his viral tweet thread on interviewing at Riot, AWS, Citadel, Spotify, and other big tech cos
