The Swyx Mixtape

See video for illustration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrK7X_XlGB8 Julia has other great videos: Big Think normie intro version Is Bayesian thinking a sham? and more on her youtube (inactive)

Audio source: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/deep-questions/ep-95-how-do-i-maintain-the-G-UVTlaN1b7/ Recommended read: https://stratechery.com/2020/social-networking-2-0/

Audio source: https://a16z-live.simplecast.com/episodes/the-good-time-show-the-coinbase-story-with-founders-brian-armstrong-fred-ehrsam (30 mins in - Balaji speaks first, then Brian Armstrong) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaji_Srinivasan Balaji's Talk: Silicon Valley's Ultimate Exit - video at Startup School 2013 (16 mins) Reactions to his talk:   "Software Is Reorganizing the World" . Wired ....

Audio source: https://soundcloud.com/venturestories/andrew-wilkinsons-lessons Twitter thread on anti-goals (and blogpost) Help me share this on Twitter !

See their public Notion doc which got me very interested: https://www.notion.so/Comm-4ec7bbc1398442ce9add1d7953a6c584 They are hiring: https://www.notion.so/commapp/We-re-hiring-b0a4cef3f8b34b8c91e3236c98aabcb3 Watch the video version if you prefer that (there is some screensharing at the end): https://youtu.be/lWCOruAWpW4 --- Transcript swyx: [00:00:00] Some of you might know that I do some angel...

Full video is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq8Ufh8OCzU

Alana Kinarsky 's story: https://themoth.org/stories/snow-white-in-a-fur-coat

Audio source: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-intellectual/peter-thiel-different-t5016qW_GCo/#1 Transcript [00:00:00] swyx: [00:00:00] I always enjoy Peter Thiel's non-consensus takes on everything. And in the age where we have everyone thinking in probabilities,  Annie Duke is making books where it's talking about thinking in bets.  [00:00:10] Peter Thiel was making a very strong argumen...

Audio source: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/berkshire-hathaway-part-i Transcript I think maybe in part because of this mindset of like I'm going to stay true to do what I'm good at, he makes the biggest missed opportunity ever maybe in history. I was teasing Ben, over the last couple days texting him saying, I've got something in this episode that I don't know if you know but is just the most u...

Welcome to Weekend Drops! Every weekend I drop one full length interview or conversation I had recently. This is for folks who want to keep up with me — if you came for the 5 minute mixtapes, I hope its easy enough to delete! Let me know how I can improve this for you. Video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL_uefhT51g Share original tweet: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/137201387773136896...

Codie Sanchez recently appeared on the My First Million podcast and gave a really good answer to her perspective on Angel Investing. Audio Source: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/my-first-million/176-with-codie-sanchez-MqNCtEfGm0y/ Why Angel Investing is Dumb swyx: [00:00:00] I started angel investing at the end of 2020, the opportunity just presented itself. And it was such a compelling comp...

Audio source: https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/945080108/a-century-of-money (6 mins in) This is a story I only vaguely knew and I enjoyed this retelling of the Great Depression leading up to the FDIC.

Audio source: https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/945080108/a-century-of-money (6 mins in) This is a story I only vaguely knew and I enjoyed this retelling of the Great Depression leading up to the FDIC.

Audio Source : https://swyx.io/podcast/learn-in-podcast/rss.xml Follow Julia Che's work on Openess , her new open source funding/community startup. Topics Discussed   in sequential order, but timestamps arent available bc the audio has been cleaned. Swyx shares about his background, previous career in finance, Gamestop & shorting it, transitioning to tech at age 30, community building. What it...

This is a narrated version of my blogpost . You can share the tweet thread version here ! --- I turn 35 today. Here are 35 principles I have accumulated and try to live by: Life is too Short for Short Term Games . We only have so many years for long term games to compound. Writing is Stupendously High Leverage. It helps to organize my thoughts and learning (aka Building My Second Brain ). I win ev...

This Clubhouse-style Q&A was held as part of my support for React Summit 2021 ( https://remote.reactsummit.com/ ). Moderated by Robert Haritonov, CEO of GitNation. Timestamps 2:30 How do you keep up with the changing landscape? 5:00 Balancing Learning Time with a Job 7:15 What are the top technical and soft skills to transition from junior to senior? 12:30 The Importance of Communication and H...

Listen to Part 1: Origins here. Audio Source: https://www.sunrun.com/quick-reads-from-ceo/masters-of-scale-podcast-sunrun-ceo-lynn-jurich Transcript: https://mastersofscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/rapid-response-transcript-lynn-jurich.pdf SAFIAN: You mentioned climate change. With health concerns rising over the last year, it sometimes felt like climate's become, I don't want to say a secon...

Listen to Part 2: Growth here Lynn Jurich started her solar energy company in the depths of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, as a 26 year old with no prior experience in the industry. Now it is a $10b giant beating Elon Musk's SolarCity at its own game. Audio source: https://socapglobal.com/2019/02/ep-17-lynn-jurich-ceo-of-sunrun/ (5 mins in) Transcript Nina Bernardin: [00:00:00] What are some of t...

Audio Source: https://joincolossus.com/episodes/10262551/pujji-a-primer-on-performance-marketing?tab=transcript Transcript The Execution Loop Patrick: [01:17:01] Can you walk us through this idea of the loop, the execution loop, and maybe it's specifically... I don't think it is specifically just suited to bootstrapped founders or businesses. I think it's very generally applicable. It's an interes...

Robin Dunbar did an interview to coincide with his new book, and there are surprising depths to Dunbar's Number that isn't normally picked up by commentators. Audio source: https://play.acast.com/s/intelligencesquared/thescienceoffriendship-withrobindunbarandhelenczerski Share this clip on Twitter! swyx: [00:00:00] Something I also learned about the Dunbar number is that it's very tied to age. We...

Robin Dunbar did an interview to coincide with his new book, and there are surprising depths to Dunbar's Number that isn't normally picked up by commentators. Audio source: https://play.acast.com/s/intelligencesquared/thescienceoffriendship-withrobindunbarandhelenczerski Share this clip on Twitter! swyx: [00:00:00] I think people who work in community and social networks think a lot about Dunbar's...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfZm0tPUxjE Site: https://codingcat.dev/podcast/1-15-whats-up-with-svelte Details Shawn or perhaps more popularly known as, Swyx, is a frequent writer and speaker best known for the Learn in Public movement and recently published The Coding Career Handbook with more advice for engineers going from Junior to Senior. He has worked for Netlify and AWS and is als...

Today Webflow is valued at 2 billion , profitable, and is a leader of the No Code movement. Share this on Twitter Vlad's Webflow Journey: https://twitter.com/callmevlad/status/1095333269946621958 Audio source: https://saastr.libsyn.com/saastr-438-webflow-ceo-vlad-magdalin-on-building-an-enduring-company-one-hard-lesson-at-a-time swyx: [00:00:00] Vlad Magdalin started Webflow and his story , starti...

Emmanuel Straschnov (@estraschnov) is the founder and co-CEO of Bubble. Audio source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/10197011/how-no-code-is-enabling-entrepreneurship swyx: [00:00:00] I've always been interested in no-code and I think it's a pretty cool to see Emmanuel Straschnov give a brief overview of the past present and future of no-code on a recent podcast with a village global. So here he is...

This is the narrated version of my latest blogpost. Set Explicit Help Timeouts This is the backstory of how a 1-2 hour task stretched into 2 weeks because I kept it to myself. A few weeks ago a customer conversation resulted in a simple documentation request. Take something undocumented, and document it. I've done this a gazillion times. I happily took it on. But when I actually looked into it, th...