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.
“So I made myself this hat, my no hat, and I had a no shirt, too. And I think startups are much much more likely to die of overeating and starvation. That's probably true of yours. You might need your …”
“Join LangChain at Google Cloud Next 2026”
“back in 2000 or 2001 there was a site a website called fuckcompany.com and all it did was track layoffs and uh companies going out of business and every day there were new • new entries and it just fe…”
“With Rackutin, you can earn cash back on everything you need to book your dream trip, hotels, flights, rental cars, experiences, and more while still booking through your favorite travel sites.”
“Microsoft used it to create um Office on the web. So when they launched their competitor to Google Docs, it was powered by Socket A.O.”
“on the level of quantum circuits there's the circ library that can represent efficiently these these operations and also has some logic in it baked into to add these noise to the circuits”
“I really really love Simon Willison. I think his blog is incredible. Um like being able to to see all of his explorations each day, what's working and what's not.”
“circ then ties into some several quantum simulators including qsim which allows us to actually do the quantum trajectory simulation or or optionally other kinds of simulations as well”
“prompt source for getting sources for getting prompts sorry for instruction fine-tuning of language modules”
“Finally he has also written pedagogically explorations of Transformers and the S4 model”
“I'm reminded of a quote from Google's site reliability engineering handbook which is that hope is not a strategy we can't just hope that this will work we really have to predict that it should work be…”
“The US National Archives opened up Nazi party member cards and @DIEZEIT made them searchable so German families can examine their heritage.”
“And on behalf of the entire team at Second Dinner, thank you all for playing Marvel Snap and keep on snapping.”
“Can I can I start by kind of asking you about um about one of your quotes, right, from one of your your signature talk, The Machine, right?”
“If you enjoyed watching this episode, then make sure you try out Saga for free at createsagas.com where you can go from idea to finished video in one tool.”
“I have this bet that I made with Jonathan Franco called is attention all you need there's a website is attention all you need.com”
“MySpace was that was the big music platform. Um it had a it it was it was it was great for artists. It was great for users.”
“This repository catalogs skills for use and distribution with Codex.”
“There are similar experiments going on out of um a lab at Stanford um you can find it at hazy research on GitHub and they've been doing lots of work as well to try to use ssms for language modeling”
“So, I'm going to read this question from Dr. Doudna. Okay. So she says crisper, the gene editing technology that she pioneered, can now target nearly any DNA sequence”
“my buddy Travis Sherry just relaunched his podcast, Extra Pack of Peanuts. It's another travel podcast and I was honored to be his very first long form interview guest and we decided to do something f…”
“you had an incredible company, Yammer, which you sold to Microsoft, but you really became an expert in social media.”
“I know that you wrote like Parallax which was um ejects um framework in some sense Library”
“Learn more: - [Using skills in Codex](https://developers.openai.com/codex/skills)”
“The last puzzle is um it's called Auto diff puzzle and actually I think I need to do another revision of it because I think it's a little complicated but uh that that puzzle kind of asked you to compu…”
“Welcome to the Zero to Travel podcast, my friend. You're listening to the Zero to Travel podcast, where we explore exciting travel-based work, lifestyle, and business opportunities helping you to achi…”
“- [Create custom skills in Codex](https://developers.openai.com/codex/skills/create-skill)”
“there's this very nice paper published called uh rasp where they developed a basically a programming language that simulates Transformer operations”
“one of my favorite books of all time called The Hidden Europe, where he goes through every Eastern European country, but what he's so adept at doing is he he went through not every Eastern European co…”
“these puzzles were actually motivated by a course I teach the course is called mini torch and you can go through the mini torch material online it's a full course it's kind of five uh full assignments…”
“Next Week! RWM Takes San Francisco!”
“I had read the little schemer and I had read the uh structure interpretation of computer programs the that was called the sick P yeah the the MIT scheme book”
“it'd be so important that if you are a breaking points listener or you've not subscribed to any of our products you follow the link at the top of the youtube channel and support us there too”
“I had read the little schemer and I had read the uh structure interpretation of computer programs the that was called the sick P yeah the the MIT scheme book”
“Or provide the GitHub directory URL: ``` $skill-installer install https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.experimental/create-plan ```”
“there's fireworks and and other companies like that I think I think those are really interesting”
“i'd point out some of the work that we've done at linkchain with elastic for example they have kind of like an elastic assistant an elastic agent in production”
“He currently is writing this thing that he talked about earlier the software package called stem which is useful for talking about air correction and by using this package he sort of has built the pac…”
“All the industries here. Spotify is here, Apple Music's here, Amazon Music's here, all the record companies here, all the agencies are here.”
“Emergent is a platform that lets anyone build and ship production ready software using AI agents.”
“YC's next batch is now taking applications. Got a startup in you? Apply at ycombinator.com/apply.”
“She just launched her app like a couple weeks back. It's called Equine on an app store.”
“All the industries here. Spotify is here, Apple Music's here, Amazon Music's here, all the record companies here, all the agencies are here.”
“one piece of software that I love is the lenya that's that's based on The Game of Life”
“You know, you can argue you can vype code them as well, but still the smartest people but but but you couldn't actually. And so when you actually look at like a a Lorra or a Harvey, they are trained…”
“I read everything that you could read. And then not only that, but I started studying music, like really studying music.”
“Like I studied Andrew Luke Oldm, who was the 17-year-old genius that discovered the Rolling Stones.”
“There's tons of open source going on if you're interested you should just look around circ uh you know but other other platforms kids kit uh you know there's the unitary fund which does open source so…”
“this beautiful paper of uh child's cleave diodo farti gutman and spielman from 20 years ago gave an example of an exponential speed up with a quantum lock and the graph they they considera”
“what one was Linux and Apache open source”
“I've had a chance to go to um uh several iterations of the conference prob prog that's like the probabilistic programming conference”
“I have used pyro a bunch and I've gotten a chance to look at some of the other uh publishing programming languages that are utilized”
“- [Agent Skills open standard](https://agentskills.io)”
“They're using Tik Tok Um theyre using like in or um Instagram reels and and YouTube shorts and things like that and they're just building um you know they're putting their music out and they know how …”
“To install [curated](skills/.curated/) or [experimental](skills/.experimental/) skills, you can use the `$skill-installer` inside Codex.”
“Curated skills can be installed by name (defaults to `skills/.curated`): ``` $skill-installer gh-address-comments ```”
“For experimental skills, specify the skill folder. For example: ``` $skill-installer install the create-plan skill from the .experimental folder ```”
“The thing on the left is a game I grew up playing called dungeons of daggerath uh and it's a part of my childhood that I have extremely fond memories of I would play with friends and each of us would …”
“But that's why Momentous built Fiber Plus. See, fiber isn't just a digestion thing.”
“Tim Ferriss (@tferriss)”
“Y Combinator, the company that funded Airbnb, Dropbox, Door Dash, even Stripe. They literally published an article in a podcast this year saying that entrepreneurs should start this specific business.”
“Everything you need to know about the music business, by Donald Passman. I read everything that you could read.”
“I want to let you know that I run a paid community called the AI Accelerator Plus. We just launched it. It's on school and right now it is the cheapest it will ever be at $62 a month. Next week the pr…”
“You need to pick your outreach method first. So cold email is where I start most people and recommends to most of my students. It is the lowest cost. It is the fastest feedback.”
“I love watching Clone Wars, Star Wars, Rebels, all of it with my daughters.”
“I love watching Clone Wars, Star Wars, Rebels, all of it with my daughters.”
“We're already in the point where any new Star Wars thing comes out and immediately people start comparing it to Andor.”
“This time he's got a new demo to show us. It's called Claw Chief.”
“I was so attracted to what you do is because it could sound corny to say I want to create a billion coders. You know, you're like, okay, Silicon Valley, typical mission, put a billion in front. Yeah. …”
“I would say do the same thing that you've always done. You know, get a job, find an industry you like or you're interested in and go into that. And what you're going to find is massive inefficiencies.…”
“And there's a really we we built this experience which if folks haven't tried this before artificial.studio.google.com/live has this like real-time live experience where you can actually share your s…”
“So you should consider this a tech domain. You can get a clean, crisp, super memorable name for your website and company and signal out loud to your customers and investors. We're a tech company. That…”
“There is a tutorial on this that is was written and and and and given at a recent conference by one of my colleagues at Fair called Brandon Amos Amos \n very interesting concept”
“If you and your work depend on having conversations interviews meetings taking calls, you got to get yourself a Plaude note pin. Check it out at pl aud.ai/twist. That's pl aud.ai/twist.”
“This is why I talk about the checklist manifesto all the time.”
“Last time he was on, he showed us AntFarm, his open source tool.”
“right you can't just go like this and pray that Unix versus Windows right so if you go back to the history of the internet there was a similar story where uh back in 1992 when uh built into an Al Gore…”
“He's here to show off Sidecast. Yazin Ali Raheem. side cast.”
“if you are looking for like full featured desktop software zettler is by far the most beautiful program on the list”
“highway they went to see uh you know the big uh communication companies like ATT and ATT told them oh you know leave it to us we'll build the stuff it's going to be you know ATM and ISD enter the home…”
“highway they went to see uh you know the big uh communication companies like ATT and ATT told them oh you know leave it to us we'll build the stuff it's going to be you know ATM and ISD enter the home…”
“I would say do the same thing that you've always done. You know, get a job, find an industry you like or you're interested in and go into that. And what you're going to find is massive inefficiencies.…”
“what happened or what were the new things that got announced during CubeCon or what companies announced during CubeCon is you can simply go to Gemini I actually went and”
“I've been using Hermes agent pretty significantly over the last few weeks. I do think it is a very strong tool.”
“So the policy of blocking monopoly via company acquisition, which you know seems like common sense, also means that you're blocking innovation entirely because they're going to find a way around it an…”
“We use all of open AI models Google Gemini and the main Workhorse is anthropics Claud model for writing the code”
“I was reading a new biography of you which I should disclose was written by Sebastian Malibby the husband of our editor-in-chief”
“And one of them that's sort of still sticks out to me is the folks at Source Graph who who sort of make a a developer platform and they have Cody, which is an AI coding assistant.”
“Oh, one of my favorites also is Alpha Genome. Yes.”
“If you could have your all your blood results from Superpower or Function Health or any number of people who are doing that. And in the Whoop app, they have labs. So they're going to be adding that pr…”
“I think for me it's like anything by Richard Sutton. I think that was like my introduction to reinforcement learning.”
“Yeah. It was Matt Fitzpatrick from um Invisible AI.”
“So a Claude Max subscription, it's $200 a month. And with the right systems, with the right prompts, that $200 a month can support delivering 50, 80, even $100,000 worth of services.”
“I don't know if you saw our Super Bowl ad, uh, the tagline of which is just you can just build things.”
“Head to get.te/twist or your favorite registar to get a clean sharp.te domain today.”
“when we first launched Codex last year uh we created like I mean it's created as even a heavy word it was just we just established convention which is called agents.mmd this is basically a file that y…”
“I just want my heart rate. I want to like record my workouts. I want to record my sleep. But the sleep app and the the exercise apps and all that stuff on Apple, I think, are mid, you know, they're no…”
“I like the Nothing ears set. I have that company Nothing. They have a cool ear set um that I like. and äh they just announced the 3.0 of that and I have the Apple ones and uh I also have the Sony ones…”
“Beehive, a company we've talked about on the show quite a lot. Yeah, we use them. They're incredible for our newsletter. Yeah, big fan. Um shout out to Tyler Denk.”
“I'm thinking about doing a paid membership. I know Leo's done really good with Club Twit and I I spend some time there.”