The Swyx Mixtape

This has a slow start but REALLY ramps up toward the end. Hang in there!

Also featuring the voices of 4 Phantoms - Simon Bowman, Earl Carpenter, Ramin Karimloo and John Owen-Jones.

Audio source: https:…

Audio source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOo6XSYW66c

Spencer took on the competitive threat of OpenDoor at Zillow when he didn't need to, taking a tiny competitor startup seriously and pivoting a…

Audio source (with video): https://thisweekinstartups.com/tobi-lutke-on-shopifys-impact-on-the-creator-economy-covid-forcing-focus-early-internet-breakthroughs-evolving-as-a-remote-manager-much-more-…

Listen to Part 1 and the original audio source from Spotify here: https://share.transistor.fm/s/5badde12

Gustav Soderstrom: [00:00:00] So nearly a decade after Napster shut down, Lars Ulrich got anoth…

Audio source: https://anchor.fm/spotify-rd/episodes/00-The-most-epic-battle-in-music-history-es7j2l (10 minutes in)

- I Disappear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Disappear#Release
- Metallica v Napste…

See my notes here on DX Circle!
Audio Source: https://a16z-live.simplecast.com/episodes/a16z-infra-1-2iEyBTf5

a16z on Infra

Introductions and Backgrounds [00:00:00]

Martin Casado: [00:00:00] So this is t…

After this podcast recording, I wrote Technical Community Builder is the Hottest New Job in Tech which went into further detail on my thoughts on Community!

Audio source: https://www.heavybit.com/li…

Audio Source, and Shaan's viral thread. Transcript below.

"Write Drunk, Edit Sober" - Hemingway

What Reaction is this meant to get?

1. LOL
2. WTF/Outraging
3. AWW/Heartwarming
4. AWE/"Wow"
5. Confirmation …

Story source: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

The Egg

By: Andy Weir

You were on your way home when you died.

It was a car accide…

Packy is a self described "narrative investor" and so does not do anything remotely close to objective analysis. But his is still a nice recap of what Twitter has done recently and could continue to …

For the record, I don't own any crypto art or endorse it. But there's clearly a movement, Dylan is constantly ahead of the rest of us, and this was a great speech.

• Audio source: https://www.youtube.co…

Interview source with Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/22319527/twitter-kayvon-beykpour-interview-consumer-product-decoder

Kayvon Beykpour's impressive CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayvon-beykp…

Had a really good chat with Brian (Director of Content) and Ben (Co-Founder) from LogRocket and towards the end we even found out a long kept secret about Ben's JS Parody alter-ego!

Show notes and aud…

See associated blogpost, Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil.

Clip from The Art of Product (13 mins in)

Preemptive Pluralization is Probably Not Evil

Swyx: [00:00:00] For a while I've been o…

Audio Source with transcript: https://mastersofscale.com/tyra-banks/ (11 mins in)

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BANKS: I gave myself one year to be successful in Paris, and that did not mean
supermodel. That meant direct booking…

Source: https://www.arresteddevops.com/yelling-at-cloud/ (15 minutes)

thanks to Matthew DiSabatino for the recommendation!

This week's clip from the Startup To Last podcast: https://www.startuptolast.com/episodes/hardcore-week-building-a-content-site

Further reading on TOFU/MOFU/BOFU: https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/what-…

The fundamental incompatibility of email and Deep Work collide.

- Clip from Lex Fridman podcast (~1:45:00)
- Was Email a Mistake? New Yorker article
- A World Without Email (book): https://amzn.to/3blXy…

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, an…

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