The Swyx Mixtape

The Petersens: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePetersens/about Take Me Home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qap9Qm-Q894 Jolene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viQx4KDivPY Landslide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUwy8lpvP0

Listen to his full interview on the Lex Fridman podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YbcB6b4A2U Bryan's wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Johnson_(entrepreneur)

Listen to the Cloud Giants podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/cloud-giants/jeff-lawson-co-founder-and-sFi-ad_etHQ/#

Listen to the NFX podcast: https://www.nfx.com/post/the-insider-story-of-waze/  (28 mins in)

Listen to the OSS Startup Podcast for the full episode . References: - Heptio's acquisition in 2018 "It’s not clear how many customers Heptio worked with but they included large, tech-forward businesses like Yahoo Japan."

Superman Lives: Part 1 , Part 2   Tim Burton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKbAEmvZyKQ

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_off_the_Earth - 2011: Someone Like You (5 People 1 Guitar) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M - 2018: Girls Like You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3PcnNiWygw - 2020: A History of the Beatles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfOx4CmQWLs

From the Psychology Podcast again: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-psychology-podcast-with-scott-barry-10LF_aSGfEg/#search

Source: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-psychology-podcast-with-scott-barry-10LF_aSGfEg/#search Source: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/frbc-robert-cialdini/

Listen to the Pyschology Podcast: https://scottbarrykaufman.com/podcast/robert-cialdini-the-new-psychology-of-persuasion/ Steph Smith's book:  Announcement Tweet: https://twitter.com/stephsmithio/status/1418320255429062661 Launch Tweet: https://twitter.com/stephsmithio/status/1411047949094637569 Doing Content Right: https://stephsmithio.gumroad.com/l/doing-time-right ## Social Proof The next princ...

Listen to the Jordan Harbinger Show: https://www.jordanharbinger.com/robert-cialdini-a-new-look-at-the-science-of-influence/

Sources: - Back to the Future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8TZbze72Bc - Predator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z4ll94hN_E - Death Becomes Her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsKDxRrscg4 - Forrest Gump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcOt6mfjxeA - Captain America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrXwAeJ87Bk - Avengers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1VgF9ysbM8 - Avengers Infinity War:...

Watch Charles' full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja9D0kpksxw Apologies for the bad sound, I moved house and lost my microphone for a while. I'll get it back. Response from a listener (DaveJ on our Discord ): @swyx enjoyed the last mixtape about Cardano. You closed with the same thoughts that I had initially about academic peer review and how it could slow down progress and network buildin...

Listen to Software Engineering Daily: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2021/04/07/chainlink-connecting-smart-contracts-to-external-data-with-sergey-nazarov/ Transcript JM: Tell me a little bit more about the data sources for Chainlink. Like how do those data sources get vetted and how does the data make its way onto the chain? SN: Right, absolutely. So there're actually two approaches here and...

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW0QZmtbjvs Transcript [00:00:00] swyx: Part two of my cryptocurrency exploration is on scaling blockchains. And I think if metallic is probably the best and most articulate person to talk about this.   [00:00:09] Vitalik Buterin: There's two major paradigms for scaling blockchains. Right? As you said, we are one and layer two. And layer one, basically means...

Source: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/epicenter-learn/danny-ryan-ethereum-dNF42A7tuiR/ Notes Eth 2 Beacon chain went live in Dec 2020 4.5m eth locked  Each validator 32 eth Validator job: randomness generation, finality, validator level transactions (attestations, deposits, onboarding) The Merge Eth1 has an application layer and a thin consensus layer (PoW) Post merge - beacon chain will dr...

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. See talk slides, referenced papers, and video: https://hillelwayne.com/talks/what-we-know-we-dont-know/

Ed Sheeran: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpMNJbt3QDE Charlie Puth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU8BEMi8UyM

Source : https://writingexcuses.com/2021/05/02/16-18-poetry-and-the-fantastic/ “The first words that are read by seekers of enlightenment in the secret, gong-banging, yeti-haunted valleys near the hub of the world, are when they look into The Life of Wen the Eternally Surprised. The first question they ask is: 'Why was he eternally surprised?' And they are told: 'Wen considered the nature of time...

Source: https://www.npr.org/2021/05/21/999062490/policygenius-jennifer-fitzgerald

Audio source: https://swyx.io/podcast/learn-in-podcast/rss.xml Notes Interviewing People   Good Writing = Engine + Drag + Lift Engine: The core idea. "Why am I here in the first place?" Drag: Writing problems, eg jargon,  run-on sentences Lift: Stylistic points — jokes, fun tone, deep insight "Trying to make a writer do something that they don't want to do is like not going to really work" "Write...

Audio source: https://www.brainspodcast.com/episode/internet-creators-2 Julian Research top ranked posts of all time (HN Algolia, Twitter like filters, Indiehackers top posts) and find the patterns Threads are useful because they show "meat" - "proves that you can sustain how interesting you are across multiple messages" Julian's post on Content Marketing: Novelty and Usefulness Categories of nove...

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GQjhDBiQ4raGcn4M7eXXuoJ_9VOGSgpd3RcIQ2dyXJ4/edit?usp=sharing Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2X-RsCVRas Timestamps [00:00:00] Prepared presentation on Coding Careers [00:21:46] If you've worked with junior developers, what's the biggest mistake you see them making and how would you go about solving it if you were in their shoes? [00:24:03] Wh...

Sources: Masked Singer Monster all Performances & Reveal | Season 1 T-Pain: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert T-Pain - Mashup (To The Beat with Kurt Hugo Schneider) T-Pain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Pain

Audio source: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/intelligence-squared/the-sunday-debate-brave-new-usI2DpLUHQ0/ (10 mins in) Full debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31CcclqEiZw Part 1 here: https://swyx.io/podcast/learn-in-podcast/rss.xml