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[DataTalks.Club] Swyx on Marketing Yourself
I joined Alexey Grigorev's DataTalks.Club podcast to talk How to Market Yourself (without Being a Celebrity).
Baba Yetu [Christopher Tin]
The theme song of humanity.
Writing Advice [David Perell, Courtland Allen]
5 tips to improve your writing.
Everything is a Remix [Kirby Ferguson]
Everything is copied - although Apple didn't copy as much from Xerox as most people say.
wtf is dbt? [Drew Banin]
dbt is taking the data eng world by storm. this is the best 10 minutes i've heard on it.
The REAL Lesson of Tuesdays with Morrie [Mitch Albom]
Meditations on the meaning of life from Morrie Schwartz and Maya Angelou.
[Second Brain 5] Finale
I am a mentor for the Notion Advanced track of Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain, Cohort 12. This is the cleaned up audio of the last of 5 mentorship sessions with Q&A at the end.
In The Heights [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
I just watched the new In The Heights movie and had to mixtape my favorite moments!
Apple Pie Positions and Certainty Theater [Shreyas Doshi]
How people unintentionally obstruct progress by asking for perfectly reasonable things.
Cloudflare at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010 [Matthew Prince]
Listen to Cloudflare's pitch when it was just 3 people at TechCrunch. Would you have invested?
EPOC Personal Branding [Sam Parr, Shaan Puri]
The extremes people go to in order to reinforce a personal brand.
The Goddess of Everything Else [George Hotz, Scott Alexander]
A short story with a message of hope for the future, recommended and read by a unique, brilliant mind.
[Second Brain 4] Intermediate Packets / Bottom-Up Idea Exploration
My own content creation philosophy, explored through my personal journey with React
The Thong Song [Sisqo]
This is the story of the Thong Song, told by Vice.
Lineage Driven Fault Injection [Kolton Andrus]
The theoretical foundation of Chaos Engineering.
Hinge's Last $25,000 [Justin McLeod]
What do you do if you are down to your last $25,000 and had one last shot to launch a dating app?
Nuclear Plant Security [Malicious Life]
Want to hack into a Nuclear Plant? Good luck.
Time Block Planning [Cal Newport]
Cal Newport on why Time Block Planning beats Todo Lists, and why you should do it on *paper*.
[Second Brain 3] Distilling Notes
I am a mentor for the Notion Advanced track of Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain, Cohort 12. This is the cleaned up audio of the third of 5 mentorship sessions with Q&A at the end.
Ludwig Göransson [Black Panther, This is America, The Mandalorian]
One of the most impactful film composers of our time.
The Power of Personal Podcasting [swyx]
Celebrating 100 episodes! Why this works, my reflections and things I'm looking to improve.
Robo-caller Payback Time [Josh Browder]
Making $400k by punishing robocallers automatically. Genius!
[Second Brain 2] Organizing with PARA
Sharing the audio of my BASB mentorship session and Q&A!
Talkbox [Byron Chambers, Lorenz Rhode, Scary Pockets]
An audio intro to talk boxes!
The three kinds of platforms [Amjad Masad, quoting Marc Andreesen]
A 2019 recap of devtools investment theses, by two of the most prominent up and coming devtools founders.
Gonzo Journalism [Antonio García Martínez]
What Antonio García Martínez actually wrote, and what happens when gonzo journalism meets 2021 tech culture (note: I am not defending him).
Why Creator Clones Fail [MKBHD]
The Innovator's Dilemma according to MKBHD, applied to YouTube's attempt to clone TikTok
[Second Brain 1] The Capture Habit
Sharing the audio of my BASB mentorship session and Q&A!
"Squalid" [Jorge Just]
A funny true story, from The Bachelorette to real life.