# rick rubin (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover rick rubin. Page: Feed: --- ## [AWS Gives You $1,000. Or $300,000. Same Form](https://www.thevccorner.com/p/aws-gives-you-1000-or-300000-same) _2026-08-20 · Ruben Dominguez · The VC Corner_ The difference is one field: your investor’s fund ID. We mapped 95 compute credit programs, and 23 of them need no investor at all ## [Your Top 20 Investor Matches, Free, in 30 Seconds](https://www.thevccorner.com/p/free-vc-matching-tool-top-20-investors-2026) _2026-08-18 · Ruben Dominguez · The VC Corner_ 293 active VCs, angels, and family offices, filtered by your stage, sector, and geography. No signup. Plus 20 guaranteed 1:1 pitches on September 17. ## [Most Founders Hire Their First Engineer Too Early, Too Fast and for the Wrong Reasons](https://www.thevccorner.com/p/hiring-your-first-engineer-ai-era) _2026-08-18 · Ruben Dominguez · The VC Corner_ The hiring playbook everyone is still running was written for a market that closed in 2022. ## [Replenish the Vessel](https://rickrubin.substack.com/p/replenish-the-vessel) _2026-08-16 · Rick Rubin · The Creative Act: Thoughtforms & Innerworks_ Expand your creative reservoir ## [AI Adoption Is a Myth⚖️, Anthropic Could Be Worth $2 Trillion at IPO💵, The Claude Prompts That Close Rounds in 2026🤝](https://www.thevccorner.com/p/ai-adoption-is-a-myth-anthropic-could) _2026-08-16 · Ruben Dominguez · The VC Corner_ Another week, another pulse check on Tech. ## [40 Years, 3 Genres, Zero Musical Ability: The Rick Rubin Method](https://www.thevccorner.com/p/rick-rubin-creative-work-lessons) _2026-08-15 · The VC Corner_ Rick Rubin shares 10 lessons on subtraction, editing, and creative discipline from his podcast, showing founders and investors how to build work that lasts. ## [Free Money Most Founders Never Claim: 156 Grants, Matched in 10 Seconds](https://www.thevccorner.com/p/startup-grant-radar-non-dilutive-funding-2026) _2026-08-14 · Ruben Dominguez · The VC Corner_ SBIR, EIC Accelerator, R&D tax credits, cloud credits. Tell it your region, sector, and stage. Get a ranked shortlist with apply links. Plus 20 matched investor pitches on September 17. ## [The Family Office Database: Contacts, Decision-Makers, Scope, Emails](https://www.thevccorner.com/p/european-family-offices-database-2026) _2026-08-13 · Ruben Dominguez · The VC Corner_ 2,000+ European family offices with named decision-makers, direct emails, and searchable investment scope. The investor class that funds what VCs pass on ## [New Moon Observer](https://rickrubin.substack.com/p/new-moon-observer-20260812) _2026-08-12 · Tetragrammaton Editorial · The Creative Act: Thoughtforms & Innerworks_ August 12, 2026 ## [The Ultimate Founder + AI Resources Bundle](https://www.thevccorner.com/p/the-ultimate-founder-ai-resources) _2026-08-12 · Ruben Dominguez · The VC Corner_ 10,000+ investors, 300+ pitch decks, every financial model and AI system ## [Chovy's Blog: Agentic Coding (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/yj864kdKFl9R) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Personal posts on agentic coding, moshcode CLI, and security findings. ## [A Founder’s Guide to the Secondary Market in 2026](https://www.thevccorner.com/p/founder-secondaries-2026-guide) _2026-08-11 · Ruben Dominguez · The VC Corner_ Selling equity you already own has become the main way founders get paid before an IPO. Here is who actually gets to do it, and what it costs them. ## [The Endgame Of Vertical Integration🤖, VC Fund Performance💰, The Frontier AI Price Wars Continue💸](https://www.thevccorner.com/p/the-endgame-of-vertical-integration) _2026-08-09 · Ruben Dominguez · The VC Corner_ Another week, another pulse check on Tech. ## [Open to New Ways of Working](https://rickrubin.substack.com/p/open-to-new-ways-of-working) _2026-08-09 · Rick Rubin · The Creative Act: Thoughtforms & Innerworks_ Break out of sameness ## [Miyoo Mini Plus - Some initial heads-up](https://bytesizedchunks.net/blog/20260808/) _2026-08-08 · Byte-sized chunks::Home on Byte-sized chunks_ I recently bought the Miyoo Mini Plus 1 and I love it so far. Out of the box it’s already set up so you can just turn it on and jump into your favorite game but there is also a lot of room for customizability and improvements on this little handheld. If you’re anything like me then first moments with a new toy like this are always bittersweet. On one hand, I am eager to start using it… ## [145 Startups Raising Right Now: Stage, Sector, Geography, Decks](https://www.thevccorner.com/p/startups-raising-now-august-2026-list) _2026-08-07 · Ruben Dominguez · The VC Corner_ Pre-seed to Series A, across 40+ countries, every deck attached. Updated monthly, and free for founders to join ## [We got model fusion at home](https://bytesizedchunks.net/blog/20260806/) _2026-08-06 · Byte-sized chunks::Home on Byte-sized chunks_ In this chunk I’m going to document a little OpenCode 1 setup that uses multiple (well, two in this case but your plan is your limit) LLMs to review a GitHub pull request. It’s a simple exercise in fusing multiple different models to perform a task and can be customized for any given LLM that you have access to and used for any task that benefits from this kind of multi-llm analysis. ## [Love Something That Has No Purpose](https://rickrubin.substack.com/p/something-that-has) _2026-08-02 · Rick Rubin · The Creative Act: Thoughtforms & Innerworks_ Making for the sake of making ## [Albert Hammond, Jr. on the Songs That Defined Each Era of the Strokes](https://rickrubin.substack.com/p/albert-hammond-jr-on-the-songs-that) _2026-07-30 · Tetragrammaton Editorial · The Creative Act: Thoughtforms & Innerworks_ Albert Hammond, Jr. of the Strokes sits down with Rick Rubin on the podcast. Subscribers can listen ad-free here. ## [Revisionist History (Reframing)](https://rickrubin.substack.com/p/revisionist-history-reframing) _2026-07-27 · Rick Rubin · The Creative Act: Thoughtforms & Innerworks_ A life of its own ## [Weekly Digest: July 21](https://rickrubin.substack.com/p/weekly-digest-july-21) _2026-07-21 · Tetragrammaton Editorial · The Creative Act: Thoughtforms & Innerworks_ Anthony Metivier of the Magnetic Memory Method talks with Rick on the podcast, a look at Henri Matisse's changing styles, and Alan Kaprow writes about seeing art in the everyday. ## [Install Manifest V3 Extension (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/e8tfV6xEVGqJ) _2026-07-21 · **Sponsored**_ Get this Manifest V3 extension from the official TronBrowser Store listing. ## [Everyone Has a Memory Palace](https://rickrubin.substack.com/p/everyone-has-a-memory-palace) _2026-07-21 · Tetragrammaton Editorial · The Creative Act: Thoughtforms & Innerworks_ Anthony Metivier joins Rick Rubin on the podcast, and subscribers can listen ad-free here. ## [Practice and Recovery](https://rickrubin.substack.com/p/practice-and-recovery) _2026-07-19 · Rick Rubin · The Creative Act: Thoughtforms & Innerworks_ The other half of mastery ## [New Moon Observer](https://rickrubin.substack.com/p/new-moon-observer-20260714) _2026-07-14 · Tetragrammaton Editorial · The Creative Act: Thoughtforms & Innerworks_ July 14, 2026 ## [The cost of being "nice"](https://bytesizedchunks.net/blog/20260426/) _2026-04-26 · Byte-sized chunks::Home on Byte-sized chunks_ The other day, a link popped up on Hacker News reviving this old Reddit post 1 in which u/flipstables shares a pretty long and honest list of things they learned as a senior engineer. I highly suggest going through it as most of the things there are pure gold. But one, seemingly mundane, item inspired me to write this chunk: Be kind to everyone. Not because it’ll help your career (it will),… ## [How Rick Rubin taught me to be a better engineer](https://bytesizedchunks.net/blog/20260101/) _2026-01-01 · Byte-sized chunks::Home on Byte-sized chunks_ I’ve been reading The Creative Act: A Way of Being 1 by Rick Rubin, legendary music producer 2 . It’s a pretty philosophical read on creativity in general, and I can recommend reading it regardless if you are an artist or not. Among many quote-worthy ideas, one passage struck a particular note for me and made me consider how I work with people. The section is titled Listening and in… ## [Mizzurna Falls](https://bytesizedchunks.net/blog/20251224/) _2025-12-24 · Byte-sized chunks::Home on Byte-sized chunks_ One dull November evening, while mindlessly scrolling trough my youtube feed, I bumped into a seemingly random video 1 about old PlayStation 1 games. This was my unexpected introduction to Mizzurna Falls. Now, I’m a sucker for two things in visual art: snowy scenery and Twin Peaks so just seeing the game’s cover art was enough to draw my attention to it. But regardless of your visual… ## [Ephemeral](https://refugionortecom.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/ephemeral/) _2025-12-19 · Ane Eizaguirre · Refugio Norte_ In July, I said goodbye to Refugio for a while to enjoy the summer far away from screens. And suddenly, we find ourselves on the threshold of a new year. A few days ago, I received a list of 26 rules of stoicism, oh yes, the kind that make some of us raise an eyebrow \[…\] ## [Efímero](https://refugionortecom.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/efimero/) _2025-12-19 · Ane Eizaguirre · Refugio Norte_ En julio me despedía del Refugio por un tiempo para disfrutar del verano bien lejos de las pantallas. Y de repente, nos encontramos a las puertas de un nuevo año. Esta semana me llegaba una lista de 26 reglas del estoicismo, de esas que hacen que a algunos se nos levante una ceja y se \[…\] ## [About the author](https://bytesizedchunks.net/about/) _2025-12-02 · Byte-sized chunks::Home on Byte-sized chunks_ Milorad /ˈmiːlɔrad/ 38 years old, Berlin Personal info I am Milorad Filipović , a father and a husband, currently levitating between my three homes: Croatia, Serbia and Germany, with Berlin as our home base. ## [Mic check](https://bytesizedchunks.net/blog/20251201/) _2025-12-01 · Byte-sized chunks::Home on Byte-sized chunks_ They say literature is a third age activity. Bukowski and many more 1 published their first works around their fifties. While this blog is by no means a work of literature, I decided to walk the path of these greats and start my very first personal blog at 37. This probably is not going to be a tech blog. While writing code occupies most of my week and certainly I have some thoughts about… ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Z1GyAo32HlG5) _2025-12-01 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [Arquitectura de la seducción](https://refugionortecom.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/arquitectura-de-la-seduccion/) _2025-07-05 · Ane Eizaguirre · Refugio Norte_ RefugioNorte nació hace un año con la intención de reflexionar sobre la capacidad que tienen los espacios que habitamos para provocar emociones y moldear nuestro comportamiento. Aunque cada edición de RefugioNorte contiene un poquito de esto, hoy exploramos un terreno que se adentra de lleno en el tema. En 1994, un tipo llamado Jeff abrió \[…\] ## [Seduction architecture](https://refugionortecom.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/seduction-architecture/) _2025-07-05 · Ane Eizaguirre · Refugio Norte_ RefugioNorte was born a year ago with the intention of reflecting on the capacity of the spaces we inhabit to provoke emotions and shape our behaviour. Although each edition of RefugioNorte contains a little bit of this, today we explore a terrain that delves deep into the subject. In 1994, a guy named Jeff opened \[…\] ## [El gusto en tiempos de IA](https://refugionortecom.wordpress.com/2025/06/07/el-gusto-en-tiempos-de-ia/) _2025-06-07 · Ane Eizaguirre · Refugio Norte_ Hubo un tiempo en el que la capacidad para recorrer largas distancias y enfrentarse cuerpo a cuerpo a los peligros de la naturaleza para conseguir alimento eran condición indispensable para el progreso; prosperaba el más fuerte. Con la invención de la agricultura, los humanos empezamos a tener excedentes en nuestra producción, lo que dio pie \[…\] ## [Taste in the time of AI](https://refugionortecom.wordpress.com/2025/06/07/taste-in-the-time-of-ai/) _2025-06-07 · Ane Eizaguirre · Refugio Norte_ There was a time in which our ability to walk large distances and bear face-to-face confrontation with wilderness with the goal of nourishing our bodies was a must in order to progress; thriving meant being the strongest. With the creation of agriculture, we humans started to obtain surpluses from our production, which gave birth to \[…\] ## [Primavera atómica](https://refugionortecom.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/primavera-atomica/) _2025-06-01 · Ane Eizaguirre · Refugio Norte_ Hay épocas en las que, sin aparente explicación, los días se tornan densos, el tramo lunes-viernes tiene más días que las vacaciones de los profesores, dejamos de fluir y necesitamos cuerda y arnés para seguir avanzando, porque no es que las cosas se pongan cuesta arriba, sino en pared vertical. Te repites que eres un \[…\] ## [El afuera, el adentro y Bawa](https://refugionortecom.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/el-afuera-el-adentro-y-bawa/) _2025-05-04 · Ane Eizaguirre · Refugio Norte_ Entre la gente que viene y va en el puerto una tarde de abril, una epifanía desde una ventana abierta de par en par de un primer piso me saca de mi ensimismamiento de mitad de semana. Es una rapsodia de Géza Anda. Dentro de la casa-bafle, pegadita a la ventana, hay una vecina ajena \[…\] ## [Celebrar](https://refugionortecom.wordpress.com/2025/04/05/celebrar/) _2025-04-05 · Ane Eizaguirre · Refugio Norte_ LA REFLEXIÓN Este mes cumplo años; si llego a mediados de abril, celebraré 36 primaveras. Ante esta cifra, quien no me conoce puede visualizarme bien como una joven con un prometedor futuro por delante, bien como una señora que camina agachada, a la que se le han escapado sus mejores años y debería estar pensando \[…\] ## [Prometer](https://refugionortecom.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/prometer/) _2025-03-02 · Ane Eizaguirre · Refugio Norte_ LA REFLEXIÓN ¿Cuántas veces hemos escuchado o leído que es el amor lo que hace que el mundo gire? Gracias a Dios, el planeta Tierra no necesita de nosotros (ni, mucho menos, de nuestro amor) para seguir girando sobre su propio eje; si así fuera, el game over hubiera llegado hace tiempo y este refugio de palabras \[…\]