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
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 538
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2024
[Music Fridays] Ed Sheeran at the Ruby Sessions
Watch/Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpiNUKpGI88&list=PLH8IAbt5kqZOFeFAda17MaUe2wrZi9xku&index=32
The Instagram Story [Kevin Systrom]
Listen to the Lex Fridman podcast (23 mins in) https://lexfridman.com/kevin-systrom/
The Racecar Growth Framework [Lenny Rachitsky]
Listen to the Creator Lab: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/creator-lab/lenny-rachitsky-lennys-bUBLKO_NIG4/
Growth Loops are the New Funnels: https://www.reforge.com/blog/growth-loops
The Racecar G…
Product Development and the Mom Test [Rob Fitzpatrick]
Listen to Writer on the Side: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/writer-on-the-side/065-400k-from-writing-YXOg2DQur-5/
Product Market Fit [Andy Rachleff]
Listen to Village Global: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/village-globals/andy-rachleff-on-investing-YaXZIM2WHuj/ (15 mins in)
- Don Valentine
- If a startup can screw something up it will
- only way it …
[Weekend Drop] swyx on the SourceGraph podcast
Listen to the Sourcegraph podcast: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/swyx/
Video version: https://youtu.be/L1ATAYQFMn4
We cover: Svelte Society, Learning in Public, and Temporal.
[Music Fridays] The Origin of the Rickroll - Endless Thread
Listen to Endless Thread/20kHz: https://www.20k.org/episodes/zzzzzzzzzzzrr
OODA Loops and the Long Tail [Marc Andreessen]
Clip is 10 mins into this deleted Lindy Talk episode: https://web.archive.org/web/20210312232914/https://paulskallas.substack.com/p/03-lindy-talk-w-marc-andreessen
First Principles Thinking [Elon Musk]
Listen to the Lex Fridman podcast (25mins in): https://lexfridman.com/elon-musk-3/
How I Approach First Principles Thinking via Logic and Epistemology
Transcript
So what's your source of belief in situ…
The Magnification of Small Differences [Seth Godin]
Listen to Akimbo: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/akimbo-a-podcast/the-magnification-of-small-EVg8tLQnljC/
Groups Never Admit Failure [Naval Ravikant]
Listen: https://nav.al/failure
HN Discussion also worthwhile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29488641
[Music Friday] Backstage Pass: All of Me — John Legend
Listen to Backstage Pass: https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/john-legend/
Cybernetics and The End of Software [Peter Wang]
Listen to the Lex Fridman podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0-SXS6zdEQ
Getting rejected, then hired, by Elon Musk + The Future of Serverless Databases [Sugu Sougoumarane, CTO Planetscale]
[Weekend Drop] swyx on the Software Dev Journey podcast
Listen to Software Dev Journey: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/software/152-shawn-wang-from-the-fine-px_1sYDV9yT/
[Music Fridays] Nonsensical Sounds - Paul Simon
Listen to Conversations With Paul Simon: https://www.audacy.com/podcasts/revisionist-history-21817/revisionist-history-presents-miracle-and-wonder-conversations-with-paul-simon-947753006 20 mins in
On Podcasting [Lex Fridman]
Listen to the Huberman Lab: https://hubermanlab.com/dr-lex-fridman-machines-creativity-and-love/ (2h 43mins in)
The Game Theory Hack [Joseph Nelson]
Listen to the Sourcegraph Podcast: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/joseph-nelson/ (about 10mins in)
How To Create Fans [Jesse Cole]
Listen to the episode: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/unthinkable-with/going-bananas-K9rhSCyVziv/ 15mins in
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