What the smart people are recommending. 8874 books, tools, and products endorsed by the thinkers absorb.md tracks. Ranked by how many times each has been recommended across compiled podcasts, papers, posts, and tweets.
“# Why the World Still Runs on SAP _Blog post by Andreessen Horowitz_ https://a16z.com/why-the-world-still-runs-on-sap”
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“My most famous game is Brindlewood Bay, which I'm delighted is, is coming to Ukraine or is it already there?”
“Well, Pilot is the largest accounting firm that was built just with startups in mind. You're not just getting your taxes done. No, you're getting CFO level guidance for your startup. Pilot will help y…”
“Symphony turns project work into isolated, autonomous implementation runs, allowing teams to manage work instead of supervising coding agents.”
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“why do you think that RFK Jr is the best choice for the Democratic knee and the best the Democratic nominee and the best candidate in the field right now”
“The recent success of Chat GPT and similar AI chat bots is because they're even simpler than Google.”
“You ever seen the movie Her you know with uh Walking Phoenix and um I think Scarlett Johansson”
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“My guest today is documentary filmmaker Louie Thuru. We're talking about his new documentary, Louiesie Thoru, Inside the Manosphere on Netflix.”
“my win is the Netflix documentary Dynasty: The Murdochs I have to say I watch this like I know everything about the Murdochs I really do. I'm in this documentary, by the way, on Netflix. It's about th…”
“There's a great documentary that you can watch on YouTube. It is about Demis and DeepMind and some of their accomplishments. It's called the thinking game.”
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“Let's start with Oracle. You mentioned the 50 billion dollar CAPEX. A lot of it on data centers, a lot of this on things that they've already kind of promised as well.”
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“And then the other one is a podcast called STEM Talk. And if I want to find interesting scientists doing things that I think I might be able to apply to my life or the lives of loved ones and certainl…”
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“and then after that came BERT that also came out of Google which was this idea of using self-supervised learning where I take a sequence of words corrupt it remove some of the words and then train thi…”
“We propose Tempo, an efficient query-aware framework compressing long videos for downstream understanding.”
“If you read about us, this is called Lattis in a lot of our like published literature. It's fundamental tech that allows you to consume data, make sense of it, and then manipulate robots basically. Li…”
“My I my accountant said, "No, I'm sorry. I don't use Zero. You shut it down." I had to cancel Zero and go to QuickBooks.”
“I use a service called Read Wise where I make a highlight in an ebook and that just that passage gets automatically saved in my digital notes with no action required on my part. Ooh, I like that. It's…”
“Intuit I remember when I started a company was after Google. I basically tried to use this company called Zero XRO and I was like, "Let's use Zero. It's like the new it had just started. It seems like…”
“If you are a librarian, you should go with Evernote or Microsoft OneNote.”
“I did a TED talk on this called fear setting. You start to do fear setting around these fears. You defang them.”
“And if you are a student, you should go with kind of just like the default built-in note-taking apps like Apple Notes or Google Keep or if you have an Android phone, you might have one builtin.”
“he quoted the book originals I think the book originals by Adam Graham um which you love and Um and that book says true on something like true entrepreneurs hedge their bets”
“You can use an app like Freedom. There's an app called Freedom that you can use to block certain things for certain periods of time.”
“But the books that I have found most helpful are Don't Shoot the Dog by Karen Prior. I think everybody should read that.”
“So, Coyote is a is a it's a tiny little card game that I designed with uh some of my friends at Exploding Kittens, which people might recognize.”
“I would have to imagine, you tell me if I'm wrong at this point, you're most known for How to Change Your Mind.”
“However, one thing that never goes out of style is 1,000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly. You can read it for free at kk.org.”
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“You can either go to dribble mob or any website to get some UI reference and just copy the image over and ask cursor or super design to extract CSS stylesheet from the UI mock.”
“I would dive a bit deeper in our upcoming weekly workshop at AI Build Club. So you can click on the link below to join if you're interested.”
“There are more userfriendly version like yo-yo where it receive a snapshot and you can add some additional instructions to remember what the changes are.”
“the deadline to apply for the first YC spring batch is February 11th if you're accepted you'll receive $500,000 in investment plus access to the best startup community in the world so apply now and co…”
“Black Mirror. Yeah. Oh, Black Mirror, of course. Yeah. Black Mirror is awesome sci-fi.”
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“Now, I've been a fan of the Mac Mini for a long time. I think it's the best bang for the buck. I got one over here, one over here on my two different desks. They're fantastic.”
“And pro tip, if you drop this into Claude or Chat GBT, you can actually ask it based on what it knows about you to actually develop a plan that you can use.”
“I'm not sure if you know many of you guys are familiar with the company Fiverr. This is essentially a company that helps people freelance in the gig economy.”
“Netswuite is an ERP that runs your business they have a much much deeper mode than say Zenesk which is a lighter workflow mode so that is a mode you can say it's one maybe Zenex is 0.5 Netswuite is a …”
“It was like Stripe and Gusto and uh Instacart at the time. Uh, and it was just an amazing experience for me and it it made me really want to work in startups and specifically to do my own YC ventureba…”
“for me I remember getting access to Twilio, you know, back in the day. So like 2012 or 2013 getting access to Twilio and I had I I was just overwhelmed with creativity because I was like wow now I hav…”
“I'll be following a tradition of great YC companies like Bracks and Deal and Ripling that have sold into uh their batchmates really successfully.”
“I'm wearing a pair of glasses now. I don't know if you can see it, but it's got cameras on it. These are the Ray Band Meta. Okay, they're built by by Meta.”
“where possible I mean don't use Gmail right I mean you could use proton mail”
“I have put the link in the description below so you can try this whole workflow for free on superdesign.dev.”
“I found this project called one context that is released this week where they are utilizing this method called get context controller that is defining a specific memory framework that is extremely sim…”
“Hi, I'm Amy Loraca, the author of How to Be Well. My question for Dr. Eric Topppel has to do with the information that last week the American Heart Association issued new dietary guidelines that direc…”
“Um That's why The Studio is such a good show, too, right now. They kind of grapple with that, you know, the art and commerce, you know.”
“SG lang is an open- source inference framework that eliminates that waste by caching computation that's already been done and vusing that in future messages.”
“I'm not talking about esoteric things that don't have evidence. I'm talking about things like sauna. A Mediterranean [music] diet, extra virgin olive oil. These things have robust scientific evidence.”
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“I think it was November 1st of 2021, there was a book that came out um by Eric Schmidt, Henry Kissinger, and Hooten Locker. And they talked about the age of AI and what it means for for us as as human…”
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“Radiant Awakening, it's the name of my podcast. It's the name of my book that I'm working on slowly but surely.”
“And then these Prada mules, but TBD if I keep wearing those because I don't know, they just might be a little uncomfortable. But we'll see.”
“I was I was writing this book. I reached out to a bunch of my my friends. These are very accomplished friends in this case to ask them for their recommendations.”
“I'm going to quickly summarize, but do read this article. It's not that long and uh it's going to be an important one.”
“American open- source, right, Llama 4, has been sputtering a bit, really losing its mojo around the world.”
“If you want the short version, Gary Ten just opens sourced GBrain and framed it as a personal knowledge brain for OpenClaw.”
“I vested in the company and I had the founder come on and show us why this is an open claw killer when it comes to an executive assistant. This episode is a complete breakdown of how to use the produc…”
“And the first time this has changed is very recently with codecs and really starting in December, like I've been a kermagin. I've been I've got my way of doing things. I use my terminal. I use my Emac…”
“Realtor.com, Homes.com, Redf Fin, YouTube LinkedIn Instagram sometimes Facebook, local websites.”
“So, you know, if you're listen if you're listening to Startup Ideas podcast, you probably know what an MCP is.”
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“You need to buy Twilio and Shopify and Zoom and all these tools, Snowflake.”
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“Realtor.com, Homes.com, Redf Fin, YouTube LinkedIn Instagram sometimes Facebook, local websites.”
“We study both domain-specific expert personas and low-knowledge personas, evaluating six models on GPQA Diamond (Rein et al. 2024) and MMLU-Pro (Wang et al. 2024), graduate-level questions spanning sc…”
“Um, one thing I learned that summer was that uh Andrew Reed, his favorite company is Constellation Software. I don't know if that's hopefully that's still the case.”
“I think therapy can be amazing. Um I think you have to have the right therapist. Um and somebody who helps you sort of process and move through.”
“Having a password manager, having some sort of hardware security keys, doing more biometrics, understanding how security questions, how weak they can be, and how to improve that.”
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“What you have over here is a reverse osmosis water filter. That is absolutely the ideal — reverse osmosis water filters filter out microplastics, nanoplastics, BPA, phalates.”
“I take the creatine monohydrate because it's the most well-studied... I travel with it everywhere.”
“Ideally, you would go and get what's called a DEXA scan... That would be another way to do it. You really want to have below 300 grams of visceral fat.”
“I'm an investor in a company called Stanto...they've been building is this new tool called Stanley that uses AI, looks at your feed, looks at your tone of voice...and tells you what you should post”
“And then maybe last but not least, it's been a long time since I read it, but the blue ocean strategy probably worth checking out because if if you choose to compete in a crowded category, you just ha…”
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