The Swyx Mixtape

Audio source: https://www.3books.co/chapters/15 (14 mins in) Tuesdays with Morrie wikipedia entry

I am a mentor for the Notion Advanced track of Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain , Cohort 12. You can catch Weeks 1, 2, 3, and 4 in the previous weekend episodes. This is the cleaned up audio of the last of 5 mentorship sessions with Q&A at the end. Video version : https://youtu.be/emUfFWixQwE Timestamps Recap of Last 4 Weeks [00:02:08] Shifting Perception to Sharing [00:03:07] IP's Person...

I just watched the new In The Heights movie and had to mixtape my favorite moments! Samples from: Benny's Dispatch ( Corey Hawkins ) Paciencia y Fe ( Olga Merediz ) Breathe ( Leslie Grace ) 96,000 (Cast) In The Heights on Wikipedia

How people unintentionally obstruct progress by asking for perfectly reasonable things Audio source: https://artofproductpodcast.com/episode-173 10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings Shreyas Twitter thread on Apple Pie Positions John Cutler's response with more

Listen to Cloudflare's pitch when it was just 3 people at TechCrunch Disrupt. Would you have invested? Audio Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeKWeBw1R5A Qwiki, winners of Disrupt that year: https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/29/qwiki-techcrunch-disrupt-winner/

The extremes people go to in order to reinforce a personal brand. Audio Source: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/my-first-million/182-how-an-astrology-app-mplvUweDHMA/ My How To Market Yourself essay: https://www.swyx.io/marketing-yourself/#personal-branding

A short story with a message of hope for the future, recommended and read by a unique, brilliant mind. Audio source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr7Yn3W8VQE&t=16555s Story source and comments : https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/17/the-goddess-of-everything-else-2/ They say only Good can create, whereas Evil is sterile. Think Tolkien, where Morgoth can’t make things himself, so perverts E...

I am a mentor for the Notion Advanced track of Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain , Cohort 12. You can catch Weeks 1, 2, and 3 in the previous 2 weekend episodes. The 4th week had significant Internet issues and the audio was lost, so this is an audio essay to replace that. You can read the full blogpost here: https://www.swyx.io/bottom-up-ideas — there are plenty of links to original tweets an...

This is the story of the Thong Song, told by Vice. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0S1buCBwGI

The theoretical foundation of Chaos Engineering. Audio source: Gremlin Podcast https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-ep-9-kolton-andrus-ceo-and-co-founder-at-gremlin/ (33 mins in) Reading Lineage Driven Fault Injection - Paper , Review Failure Injection Testing at Netflix ChAP: Chaos Automation Platform at Netflix Transcript Rich Burroughs: Hey, so to shift gears a little bi...

What do you do if you are down to your last $25,000 and had one last shot to launch a dating app? Justin McLeod figured it out — just barely. Audio Source: https://www.npr.org/2021/03/19/979188827/hinge-justin-mcleod

Want to hack into a Nuclear Plant? Good luck. Audio source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQchwJV-lJ8 Scott Tolinski pick: https://syntax.fm/show/268/potluck-beating-procrastination-rollup-vs-webpack-leadership-code-planning-styled-components-more

Cal Newport on why Time Block Planning beats Todo Lists, and why you should do it on *paper*. Audio source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrJcHp0Ocm8 My tweet thread on Your Calendar As Todo List (and previous episode with Nir Eyal ) Cal's Time Block Planner

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. You can catch Week 1 and 2 in the previous 2 weekend episodes. This week we cut out the intro and just go straight into content. For visuals you can follow along the Week 3 Slide Deck and the recorded video (do...

One of the most impactful film composers of our time. Audio sources:  The Making Of “Wakanda” With Ludwig Göransson Childish Gambino - This Is America The Mandalorian OST - Main Theme

Thanks for 100 episodes! You can read the blogpost in full on my site . My ideas for future episodes: http://simp.ly/publish/BQJJ5b Main points covered: Personal Podcast Superpowers Infinite Game Hot Medium Independence Completionism Superfans Scheduling and Creative Control Why Mixtapes Giving Value Curation Brevity Downsides Audio Editing Discoverability Analytics Depth Feedback

Making $400k by punishing robocallers automatically. Genius! Audio source: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-pomp-podcast/557-joshua-browder-on-p8id7SOsmCD/ (41 mins in) See more: https://donotpay.com/

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 second of 5 mentorship sessions with Q&A at the end. The first session was last week . Recommended reads PARA: https://fortelabs.co/blog/para/   Blogpost Annealing: https://www.swyx.io/blogpost-annealing/ Twitter as Universal Meta-Commentary Layer: https://www.s...

Audio Sources: Byron Chambers (Mr Talkbox) sample https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOL1owQq4oc Lorenz Rhode - How to Talkbox Scary Pockets - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Wikipedia on Talk boxes

Audio source: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/village-globals/the-state-and-future-of-KNpTy90h4XI/ 40 mins in A 2019 recap of devtools investment theses, by two of the most prominent up and coming devtools founders. - What hackers play with during weekends will become the things we use at work tomorrow - Reducing Time to Code    - TabNine (i tried it recently and quite like it, it just saves...

Audio source: https://art19.com/shows/the-founders-journal/episodes/a77afe33-236f-44b6-a2e8-55b6ff5c8e02 Ben Thompson's own writing on Aggregation Theory Transcript swyx: [00:00:00] I generally think that Ben Thompson's aggregation theory is the most important tech strategy concept of our time. It explains a lot. But Ben Thompson himself doesn't really have a good explainer on his own site. So I r...

What Antonio García Martínez actually wrote, and what happens when gonzo journalism meets 2021 tech culture (note: I am not defending him). Audio source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDLBGriyky8 (45mins in) - Antonio García Martínez Wikipedia page - Hunter S Thompson Wikipedia page - Gonzo Journalism Wikipedia page

Audio source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl2ciIU4Qm4 (30 mins in) Blog version with better writeup: https://www.swyx.io/clones-fail Reply via tweet ! Transcript: Why Clones Fail swyx: [00:00:00] Something I love collecting examples of is the Innovator's Dilemma, which was coined by Clayton Christensen in his book on the Innovator's Dilemma. He really demonstrates how successful outstanding co...

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 first of 5 mentorship sessions with Q&A at the end. Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yY46bq527SyDCI3IgzMNrkumOnrhYwI9VeuhdGqr3Dg/edit?usp=sharing Timestamps Intro [00:00:28] Why Build A Second Brain [00:07:58] Content Recap [00:09:32] Breakout Ses...

Audio and Transcript: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/233/starting-from-scratch Jorge happens to be an executive editor at Gimlet Media , a frequent background appearance in credits and shows like Startup and Heavyweight. Ira Glass Things are just starting to look up for Jorge, when the thing with the TV happened. He had just moved to a new town, started his life over, found some work, got a plac...