The Swyx Mixtape

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 …

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…

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: h…

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.

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Trust me, I tried to make the Clubhouse bear case.

The original title of this post was "Everything Clubhous…

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-Fungi…

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…

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 podca…

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 ov…

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 A…

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

Intere…

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 susp…

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 Jennife…

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 Te…

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 R…