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Why Big Companies Make Bad Products [Steve Jobs]
Steve Jobs on product (and taking a dig at John Sculley).
[Weekend Drop] Developer Relations (with Sai Senthilkumar of Redpoint)
Redpoint invited me to riff on DevRel topics and 400 people signed up.
[Music Fridays] Adam and the Metal Hawks
My current obsession is an up and coming YouTube Rock band.
Engineering as Marketing: The Growth Hack for a $35b Marketing Empire [Dharmesh Shah]
HubSpot CTO Dharmesh Shah talks about the most effective growth hack for his company.
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 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?