The Swyx Mixtape

swyx's personal picks pod.

Weekdays: the best audio clips from podcasts I listen to, in 10 minutes or less!
Fridays: Music picks!
Weekends: long form talks and conversations!

This is a passion project; never any ads, 100% just recs from me to people who like the stuff I like.
Share and give feedback: tag @swyx on Twitter or email audio questions to swyx @ swyx.io

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Update frequency: every day
Average duration: 20 minutes
Episodes: 538
Years Active: 2021 - 2024

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When Kim Kardashian Passed the Bar [Bari Weiss]

Listen to Honestly with Bari Weiss: https://overcast.fm/+vpWZ6rHT0 (2mins in)

Kim passing the "baby bar": https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59642262
More on Bari: https://www.bariweiss.com/re…

00:11:44 | Fri 04 Mar 2022

When Coinbase Banned Politics [Brian Armstrong]

Listen to How I Built This: https://www.npr.org/2021/11/12/1055432035/coinbase-brian-armstrong

00:08:19 | Thu 03 Mar 2022

When Compaq Ruled Computing [Bryan Cantrill]

Listen to the Oxide Twitter Spaces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faY7kWHQuNE (starts 5 mins in)

00:12:06 | Wed 02 Mar 2022

When Apple clones you [Matt Ronge]

This has been edited down to 10 minutes. Listen to Indie Bites for the full story: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/indie-bites/growing-to-4m-despite-apple-rn2HtUxBjfL

https://boingboing.net/…

00:10:54 | Tue 01 Mar 2022

[Weekend Drop] Personal Knowledge Management for Developers in VSCode - Kevin Lin, CEO Dendron.so (YC W'21)

Watch this chat in YouTube (with screenshare): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECUvzJ1r6bU

Notes on the Second Brain movement:

https://www.swyx.io/tiago-forte-second-brain
Week 1-5 of my Second Brain wo…

00:34:00 | Sat 26 Feb 2022

[Music Fridays] Eminem (EXPLICIT)

You can check out a great lyrical analysis of MGK vs Eminem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyW8h1XmkAk

00:08:57 | Sat 26 Feb 2022

The Unit Economics of the New York Times [Alex Lieberman]

Listen to Business Breakdowns: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/business-breakdowns/the-new-york-times-the-Eb-7_okaSv0/ (23mins in)

00:13:07 | Fri 25 Feb 2022

The Unit Economics of Cleantech Investing [Chris Sacca]

Watch/listen to Stanford ETL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMJa231UfwY (19mins in)

00:13:02 | Thu 24 Feb 2022

The Unit Economics of Peloton [Acquired.fm]

Listen to Acquired.fm: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/acquired/peloton-ZR3_Mv1kJ7C/ (53 mins in)

00:17:55 | Wed 23 Feb 2022

[Music Friday] Heartless / Kabhi Kabhi - Penn Masala

Sorry there's no editing in this one - too tired. I've mentioned I did college acapella. This is one of my fave arrangements from another acapella group in my school - and one of the most successful,…

00:04:28 | Sat 19 Feb 2022