The Swyx Mixtape

I caught up with Jeff Escalante , who runs the Web Platform team at Hashicorp, and we talked about quite a few career related topics with breaking down ideas, making tech choices, content creation, and adversary strategy! This is the audio-only public feed of the chat - Coding Career customers can find the video and more detailed notes on our Circle community . 00:40 - 1: Making Tech Choices vs Ca...

Clip source: Cautionary Tales on MLK and improvising speech - Original draft of "Normalcy Never Again" - Full text of "I Have A Dream" as spoken - Dream turned to Nightmare

Brendan Eich was on the Lex Fridman podcast recently and gave some new perspective on what and why JavaScript borrowed from Java, and yet took from Scheme (his first love) - giving us the infamous JavaScript callback, which caused so much pain, and yet led to JavaScript ultimately winning in the browser. Audio source (29 mins in): https://lexfridman.com/brendan-eich/

Examples from Mikael Cho, Khe Hy, and Howard Tayler: Audio sources: - Khe Hy on the Nathan Barry Podcast (22 mins in) - Mikael Cho on the Creator Lab Podcast (1h24 mins in) - Howard Taylor on the Writing Excuses Podcast (20 mins in)

Examples from: Justin Kan and Matt Arbesfeld Audio clips: - Justin Kan's origin story (26ish mins in) - Matt Arbesfeld of LogRocket in Software Engineering Radio (19 mins in) - Song: Shakira - Try Everything

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6A0jVDRymw Here were the questions she sent me, though the audience asked a few others: 1. Can you tell us a bit about your background and how you came to tech? 2. You had a different career before coding, can you tell us a bit about why you made the switch and how you did it?  3. What was your biggest struggle when learning to code and how did you ov...

Lady Gaga sang Million Reasons on the Howard Stern Show in 2016. Audio Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av99SbpsNto&feature=youtu.be

Naval's old tweet featured 3 things: - "A fit body , a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought - they must be earned." Now he is adding a fourth: judgment - in picking experts and deciding who to trust. Audio Sources: - Naval Ravikant on Clubhouse - Ben Horowitz on a16z Clubhouse

ARK ETFs have had a monster performance in the past few years, and core to their process is this obscure theory of General Purpose Technology. They use it to identify technologies that have: - steep cost declines - cut across sectors - platforms of innovation So they arrive at 5 sectors: - gene sequencing/editing - AI (collaborative robots) - energy storage - biotechnology - cryptocurrency Audio s...

The original song is More Spell on You by Eddie John (1979). Audio source is from Tracklib: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QwOpRh-IfI

Audio source: https://swyx.io/podcast/learn-in-podcast/rss.xml Do you have a question you'd like me to address? Email me (sound files welcome!) swyx @ hey dot com!

Warmup questions: - Do you have any pets at home? Why? If X were a person, what would he be? - What would be your last meal on Earth? If you had to choose between two, which do you pick: pizza or ice-cream? Leaving: - Say something profound, and leave. Source: Jay Acunzo — Podcasts, Storytelling, and How To Make Your Audience's Favorite Show

Sources (both podcasts are fully transcripted) - Serverless Properties with Johann Schleier-Smith : https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2021/02/11/serverless-properties-with-johann-schleier-smith/ - Azure Functions with Jeff Hollan: https://www.serverlesschats.com/88/ - This is all you need to know about Lambda cold starts by Yan Cui : https://lumigo.io/blog/this-is-all-you-need-to-know-about-lam...

If you're a fan of The Princess Bride, you can watch the star-studded 2020 Quibi home video remake here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1494&v=lR8pA_WV9QI&feature=youtu.be (cast guide: https://screenrant.com/princess-bride-remake-cast-guide-who-plays-each-character-in-quibis-movie/ ) If you haven't seen The Princess Bride before, I recommend starting with the original first, it is a class...

From Business Wars , which is very good for historical narratives.. Audio source: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/business-wars/est%C3%A9e-lauder-vs-lor%C3%A9al-do-or-zqlYDhenOJA/ More on Estée Lauder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Est%C3%A9e_Lauder_(businesswoman)

In 2011, Beyoncé visited the child cancer ward at the National University Hospital in Singapore and performed three songs. Her ridiculous talent shines through here, and she looks even better on video. Audio source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5rKKL37kHQ Intro and context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ItX3_mh0e8 Alternative Capture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-NZB-riaQo Irreplaceabl...

Maggie and swyx hosted a Clubhouse chat this weekend on Digital Gardens. Here are show notes for ongoing conversations so you can dig in further! Maggie’s garden: https://maggieappleton.com/   Swyx’s garden: https://www.swyx.io/ideas , http://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy (and other repos) Comments and extra questions welcome! ## Recording YouTube Recording Here and Commentable Transcript is Here ! T...

Audio source with transcript: Jeremy Grantham on the Meb Faber Podcast Read the full paper: (which is investment focused)  The Race of Our Lives Revisited Clip 1: The point is that we are not winning what we call the rest of our lives. The amount of carbon dioxide extra in the air last year was the highest ever increment. And we don’t start winning until A, that gets to 0. And then we have to back...

Clip Source: - Jordan Harbinger Show: jack Schafer | Getting People to Reveal the Truth

- Raise Your Glass Official Music Video - There You Go Official Music Video - Just Give Me A Reason ft. Nate Ruess but do me a favor and MAKE SURE to check out the live version

An interesting idea I heard on the StackOverflow Podcast - locking open source code to contributions, and then having an open plugin ecosystem where people can do whatever they want. - Sara Chipps and Paul Ford on StackOverflow Podcast - Litestream closed to contributions for self preservation - Simon Willison's datasette project

Today I feature a clip from Elon's recent Clubhouse interview, just after he bought $1.5 billion in bitcoin. It mostly just has a funny story, rather than anything insightful. But the action speaks volumes. - Original Elon Bitcoin Tweet - Elon Clubhouse Interview Audio Source

Corey Haines ( https://www.coreyhaines.co/ ) was most recently Head of Growth at Baremetrics and just went fulltime on SwipeFiles.com . I interviewed Corey for the Creators group that I run. I figured I could strip out the audio of our Zoom chat for a surprise Weekend Drop! It was full of inspiration on indiehacking (11 minute mark), the sunk cost fallacy (16 minute mark), cold emailing (18 minute...

The Onion TV was darkly hilarious. - Today Now! Interviews The 5-Year-Old Screenwriter Of "Fast Five" - Political Talk Show Host Suddenly Very Interested In Manslaughter Law Loopholes

It's a good idea to have toolmakers use their own tools, and a good idea to learn to do it the hard way. - Kelsey Hightower on the Sourcegraph Podcast - Build Your Own X More on Empathy Sessions: - "It's like people who work on an assembly line but don't have a driver’s license. I want to get you, the engineer, in that car. I want you to understand what it feels like when you hit a bump so you kno...