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[Weekend Drop] Career+Luck with Adam Wiggins - Metamuse

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[Music Friday] Harry Mack Freestyles

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Solana from First Principles [Raj Gokal]

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Backwards Causation with Airdrops [Haseeb Qureshi]

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What is Web3? [Alex Danco] (EXPLICIT)

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The Best Explanation of the Terra/Luna Collapse [Jonathan Wu]

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[Weekend Drop] Crossing the Chasm, with Richard Feldman

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[Music Friday] Musicians on Omegle - Frank Tedesco, Rob Landes, Marcus Veltri

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The Story of Paw Patrol [Ronnen Harary]

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The Story of Warp [Zach Lloyd]

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The Story of Mailgun [Ev Kontsevoy]

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[Weekend Drop] Self-Provisioning Runtimes on Serverless Chats

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[Music Fridays] On the Sunny Side of the Street - Various

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Writing from First Principles [Tim Urban]

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Getting Past Writer’s Block [Brandon Sanderson]

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The Endless Idea Generator [Dickie Bush]

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[Weekend Drop] The radiating circles of DevX on the GitPod DevX Podcast

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[Music Friday] All About That Bass - Postmodern Jukebox

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Audience Building is Overrated [Rob Walling]

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How Segment Grew 150x'ed Sales with this One Weird Trick [Peter Reinhardt]

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The Fast Collapse from Up Close [Bootstrapped Web]

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3 Clips on Elon + Twitter [TED, Three Cartoon Avatars]

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How I Wrote Fight Club [Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls, David Fincher]

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Self Publishing & Stealing [Austin Kleon]

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The Difference between Stealing and Creating [Colin & Samir]

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[Weekend Drop] Talking Temporal on JSParty

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[Music Friday] The Greatest Showman Story - Jeremy Jordan

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Facebook Infra and the GraphQL Story [Lee Byron]

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Expensify and the 90's Tech Stack [David Barrett]

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Architect, Begin, and the Functional Web App [Brian Leroux]

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Netlify and the Git Push Nirvana [Software Defined Talk]

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[Weekend Drop] Finding Your Voice and Content Creation with swyx, Bekah Hawrot-Wiegel, Tessa Mero, Shruti Balasa, and Michael Jolley

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[Music Friday] Hey It's Delilah 2020 and 2022 - Jessica Ricca

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Making $8m/yr covering the MCU [New Rockstars/Jay Acunzo]

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Becoming the Winter Soldier [Sebastian Stan]

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How Tom Holland Became Spider-Man [James Young]

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The MCU-Sony Deal [Acquired.fm]

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[Music Fridays] Star Wars - John Williams

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Time Series DB's: Clickhouse at Sentry (Ted Kaemming, James Cunningham)

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Time Series DB's: InfluxDB and the TICK stack (Paul Dix)

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Time Series DB's: TimeScale [Ajay Kulkarni, Michael Freedman]

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[Music Friday] Deep End / good grief (Fousheé / sky)

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When Kim Kardashian Passed the Bar [Bari Weiss]

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When Coinbase Banned Politics [Brian Armstrong]

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When Compaq Ruled Computing [Bryan Cantrill]

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When Apple clones you [Matt Ronge]

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[Weekend Drop] Personal Knowledge Management for Developers in VSCode - Kevin Lin, CEO Dendron.so (YC W'21)

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[Music Fridays] Eminem (EXPLICIT)

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The Unit Economics of the New York Times [Alex Lieberman]

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The Unit Economics of Cleantech Investing [Chris Sacca]

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The Unit Economics of Peloton [Acquired.fm]

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[Music Friday] Heartless / Kabhi Kabhi - Penn Masala

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The Experience Machine Thought Experiment [Paul Bloom]

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Temporal Series B Livestream [Temporal team]

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Dumb Questions from Smart People [Cal Newport]

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Questions to Estimate a Business [Shaan Puri]

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[Music Friday] Kurt Hugo Schneider

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Audience Building by Involuntary Reciprocity [Arvid Kahl]

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Audience Building - the McClusky Curve [Sonal Chokshi]

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Audience vs Substance - the role of Gravitas [Kevin Kwok]

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Audience: The Copyblogger Formula [Tim Stoddart]

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[Weekend Drop] Finance, Software and Career Advice for High-Schoolers

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[Music Fridays] Ed Sheeran at the Ruby Sessions

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The Instagram Story [Kevin Systrom]

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The Racecar Growth Framework [Lenny Rachitsky]

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Product Development and the Mom Test [Rob Fitzpatrick]

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Product Market Fit [Andy Rachleff]

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[Weekend Drop] swyx on the SourceGraph podcast

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[Music Fridays] The Origin of the Rickroll - Endless Thread

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OODA Loops and the Long Tail [Marc Andreessen]

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First Principles Thinking [Elon Musk]

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The Magnification of Small Differences [Seth Godin]

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Groups Never Admit Failure [Naval Ravikant]

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[Music Friday] Backstage Pass: All of Me — John Legend

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Cybernetics and The End of Software [Peter Wang]

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Hyperscaler-class Firmware+Hardware for Everyone [Bryan Cantrill]

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Getting rejected, then hired, by Elon Musk + The Future of Serverless Databases [Sugu Sougoumarane, CTO Planetscale]

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[Weekend Drop] swyx on the Software Dev Journey podcast

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[Music Fridays] Nonsensical Sounds - Paul Simon

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On Podcasting [Lex Fridman]

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The Game Theory Hack [Joseph Nelson]

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How To Create Fans [Jesse Cole]

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[Weekend Drop] Swyx on the MongoDB Podcast

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[Music Fridays] Somebody That I Used to Know (Fingerstyle) - Mike Dawes & Tommy Emmanuel

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Habits for Other People [James Clear]

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Habit Formation [Andrew Huberman]

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The Keystone Habit [Charles Duhigg]

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Getting Things Done [David Allen]

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Finish Things [Zach Braff, Donald Faison]

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The California Gothic Monkey Story [Taylor Negron]

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How to Break into Porn [Leo Vice]

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[Music Friday] Voctave Christmas

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Adapting Wheel of Time to Screen [Brandon Sanderson]

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Why the Bourne Identity is Underrated [Pete Holmes]

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Colorblind Camouflage [Roger Hanlon]

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[Music Fridays] Spider-Man: No Way Home OST

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Crypto Exchange Kings [The Economist]

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Why Ethereum Lost The Plot [Su Zhu]

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[Weekend Drop] Cloudflare vs AWS, API Economy, Learning in Public on the Changelog

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[Music Fridays] Beethoven's Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 — Hilary Hahn