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These two podcasts were interesting. Scott is the author of Training for the Uphill Athlete which is a great, nerdy book on endurance sports. He trained both winners of the main UTMB race this year and here are his main training takeaways: For long mountain races, the legs are the
How America Won WWII's Manufacturing Race and Why We Need the Same Strategy to Beat China in AI
Power Failure by William Cohan chronicles the spectacular collapse of General Electric, once America's most valuable company. From a $600 billion giant to near-bankruptcy, GE's downfall reveals how financialization and imperial CEOs destroyed a 130-year industrial icon.
Insights from Huberman Lab on endurance, AI predictions from Dwarkesh Podcast, fintech innovation with Forage, and Epic Systems’ unique growth story.
How I built an AI photo‑editing app in a weekend using a new experimental image generation model.
Podcasts that have my attention in April 2025. The history of Rolex, using AI for personal and professional growth, and interviews with inspirational founders.
How I used a single ChatGPT prompt to build a Chrome extension that solved my Hacker News problem.
How LLMs struggle with original insights (but crush it with well-defined problems), why biographies might be life's ultimate cheat code, and why Granola's meeting notes rock.
The contest I compete in an annual predictions contest with a group of friends. Each January, we make a series of guesses about the economy, politics, etc. to see who is most accurate at the end of the year. Beyond the cash prize, the winner gets a green Masters jacket
My February 2025 podcast picks: AI insights from The Gradient, Tyler Cowen on human bottlenecks, Carvana lessons, and Howard Marks on bubbles.
I'm starting a series on the podcasts, audiobooks, etc. that are grabbing my attention. I'll curate the best of what I'm listening to and pull out some good quotes that stuck with me. Here's the first edition: The Startup Teaching 2-Year
AI Twitter and WhatsApp groups mostly cover two things: frontier labs battling for AGI supremacy and startups building AI infrastructure. Essentially, there’s a large buffet of AI capabilities and tools to serve them up, but the world needs founders to build real apps that give people tangible value.
Pseudonymous researcher Gwern had a fascinating interview on the Dwarkesh podcast . He is very optimistic on AGI in the next several years and given that timeline believes that we should only do things in one of three categories: Things we enjoy because we like them Things where we can do
This is the 4th edition of   GET PUT POST , a newsletter all about APIs. Each edition features an interview with a startup about their API and ideas for developers to build on their platform. For this edition, I spoke with  Ben Dowling  from  ipinfo . This service
This is the 3rd edition of   GET PUT POST , a newsletter all about APIs. Each edition features an interview with a startup about their API and ideas for developers to build on their platform. For this edition, I spoke with  Zach Perret , Co-Founder & CEO at