The Swyx Mixtape

Listen to the full chapter of the Data Detective audiobook and check out Tim Harford's podcast, Cautionary Tales . Because of course you shouldn't take Tim at his word — The Yale study cited is here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41511108 ( free pdf here ) --- "They Saw a Protest": Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speechconduct Distinction Dan M. Kahan, David A. Hoffman, Donald Braman, Danieli Evans...

Hampton is the most wholesome and motivating person on YouTube in under 1 minute! - Hybrid Calisthenics on YouTube - Free bodyweight workout routine  on his site - Pushup video - Elbow lever video

This is the audio version of a blogpost I published today. Comments on Dev.to and Twitter . --- Trust me, I tried to make the Clubhouse bear case. The original title of this post was "Everything Clubhouse Did Right — and Why It Will Fail Anyway". The exercise forced me to list the reasons why it wasn't worth $1 billion - why live conference calls are inferior to existing formats like podcasts and...

A great tip I learned from Cal Newport's Podcast , Episode 66, which I highly recommend. - Distraction Free YouTube Chrome Extension

CEO of Patreon, and a damn good musician. Inspiration of the day! - Jack Conte TED Talk - How Artists can Finally Get Paid - Scary Pockets YouTube Channel

Beeple made one piece of digital art a day for 10 years. He had never been directly paid for this work before. In one weekend, he auctioned it off for $3.5 million. How? The direct answer is Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) on Nifty Gateway. The general answer is that blockchains create digital scarcity. Naval explains. Sources: - Beeple on Unchained podcast - Naval on Tim Ferris podcast - Beeple on Sch...

The Yes Ladder is a technique for getting people to agree to something they wouldn't agree to if asked outright. You do it by asking a series of questions, all of which a normal person would say "yes" to. The questions increase in scope as you go, and the sheer momentum of saying "yes" after "yes" gets you to say the final "yes" to the biggest ask at the end. This exploits a few principles: - The...

Two solutions for the consistency vs quality debate: cut scope , and start with consistency . You can read the related blogpost with visuals here . All clips are from the excellent Creative Elements podcast by Jay Clouse, which I have been enjoying greatly. The three episodes we reference: - #37: Ali Abdaal - #41: Tim Urban - #2: James Clear

ICYMI, I was on the @FSJamorg podcast recently talking about AWS Amplify, Jamstack vs containers vs Frontend Application Bundles , Netlify's Docker Image , Tanner Linsley's Tanstack , and Abstracting over REST ! Don't forget Anthony's recap of the podcast as well  - he clearly put a metric TON of effort into this! I also touch upon prior blogposts: - Cloud Distros - the Third Age of JS - Learning...

Some highlights from World War Z. - The Israeli 10th man - General Raj Singh - The Russian Decimation - The Fake Vaccine - The Crashlanded Pilot - The Battle of Yonkers Read & Listen - World War Z Official Audiobook on Audible - World War Z (unofficial) on YouTube - World War Z Chapter-by-chapter Wiki

How well can we diagnose mental illness? A landmark case from the 1970's. - Cold Intro is from Jim Jeffries Gun Rant (highly recommend) - The Rosenhan Experiment (Wikipedia) - My Reddit Submission Interesting Angles: Entrapment Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - DSM-V Deinstitutionalization Other patients

The Meta-Creator Ceiling How many people should be teaching people how to succeed instead of just succeeding in their own way? As independent creators carve out a new career path for themselves, I suspect that some are unintentionally picking a path that limits their growth and robs the world of their true potential. This theory was triggered by this Hunter Walk tweet: Of course it is too reductiv...

Two stories to tell a lesson that has been learned time and time again - talk to your customers and validate your thesis before building. Masters of Scale podcast on Rent the Runway , then read Jennifer Hyman's own writeup . I especially recommend her analysis of the flash sale boom and bust of the 2010's  (Groupon, Gilt). I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea , then read Hacker News responses...

Create value, learn better, and make connections by picking up what others put down. A real life example. This is the audio version of a YouTube video , hop over to YouTube for visuals. How to Join a Team and Learn a Codebase - My Tweet about it vs His Tweet Generation Effect How to Visualize Value   Tacit Knowledge How To Practice Marketing Yourself: Help others market their ideas

Remix culture, the history of work music, and the great Sea Shanty revival of 2021. NYT explains the Sea Shanty TikTok Meme  Peter Campbell Sea Shanty Thread The Longest Johns Wellerman (YouTube) C-130 Rolling Down The Strip (YouTube) C-130's were military transport aircraft for airborne army troops Best of TikTok Sea Shanties (YouTube)