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
What is Deep Work? [Cal Newport]
Listen to Deep Questions: https://overcast.fm/+b1V3EeycY (8mins in)
[Weekend Drop] The Third Age of JS on JSParty
Listen to JSParty: https://changelog.com/jsparty/226
Reactathon talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGnlBU3K_eM
In 2020, Shawn (swyx) Wang wrote:
Every 10 years there is a changing of the guard in Jav…
[Music Friday] Naya Rivera
Starter: How Will I Know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOez2zaLHvg
Songs
- Trouty Mouth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zEd9Zioo2U
- Songbird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJUgLEtA-74
Girl on Fire https…
When the Truth Pops Out [Lin-Manuel Miranda]
From the Moth: https://themoth.org/radio-hour/live-from-the-united-palace
How McKinsey Consultants Charge $750 an Hour [Business Breakdowns]
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/business-breakdowns/mckinsey-company-the-first-pAbhz6JnPGv/ (28mins in)
Why Australia Has No Starbucks [Brandon Richard]
Listen to SDT: https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/365
Tech's Role in America [Katherine Boyle, Palmer Luckey]
- Acquired: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/american-dynamism-with-katherine-boyle
- All-in Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK0NfL2M5L4
[Weekend Drop] Swyx interview on FreeCodeCamp podcast
When people ask about how I got started, I send them to this podcast. Here is the audio, edited for ums.
source: https://podcast.freecodecamp.org/ep-59-shawn-wang-left-a-350kyear-finance-job-to-learn-…
The Levels Endorsement that Can't Be Bought [Betsy McLaughlin]
https://www.levelshealth.com/podcasts/one-ceos-81-pound-weight-loss-using-glucose-monitoring-betsy-mclaughlin-casey-means (from 2min - 18mins)
How to defeat Amazon and Disrupt the Publishing Industry [Brandon Sanderson]
Listen to the BranSan pod: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/intentionally-blank/titanic-2-sink-harder-TNZRE4xOQvX/ (25mins in)
Feedback Loops and the Catatonic Schizophrenic [Eric Jorgenson]
Listen to the Jorgenson pod: https://www.ejorgenson.com/podcast/solocast-metagames-feedback-loops-and-transcending-the-muggle-world
(about 40mins in)
[Weekend Drop] Talking Temporal on Purrfect.dev
Listen to Purrfect.dev: https://codingcat.dev/podcast/2-21-linking-your-microservices-with-workflows
watch video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0P-Uod19NY
Reads:
- https://www.swyx.io/self-prov…
Spark, Databricks, and the Netflix Prize [Reynold Xin]
Listen to AEP: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-analytics/coalesce-you-dont-need-9OHhYXco26r/
Welcome to the Lakehouse [Ali Ghodsi, David Meyer]
Listen to Data Brew: https://databricks.com/discover/data-brew/s1-e2-welcome-to-lakehouse
Equity 101 for software engs: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/equity-for-software-engineers/
Snowflake and Jevons Paradox [Software Defined Talk]
- From 30mins in to ep 348: https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/348
Bonus: swyx segment on ep 347 https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/347
The Origin of Snowflake [Kent Graziano]
From: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/drill-to-detail/drill-to-detail-ep-5-2tru1cMz5TI/ (23mins in)