The Swyx Mixtape

Listen to Interdependence: https://interdependence.fm/episodes/open-source-ai-and-stable-diffusion-with-emad-mostaque-EzZuPFyImy unpublished research on Emad: https://lspace.swyx.io/p/3060cbd8-2c17-4fbf-a41e-3a9b23f5fe18ambient discomfort on LLM size: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/wiqjxv/d_the_current_and_future_state_of_aiml_is/ https://twitter.com/swyxio/status/1576685740825579520

From Lex Fridman: https://lexfridman.com/demis-hassabis/Transcripts from Karpathy's https://karpathy.ai/lexicap/0299-large.htmllink | 00:37:13.160 So let's go to the basic building blocks of biologylink | 00:37:16.960 that I think is another angle at which you can startlink | 00:37:20.200 to understand the human mind, the human body,link | 00:37:22.280 which is quite fascinating,link | 00:37:23.400 which is from the basic building blocks,link | 00:37:26.640 start to simulate, start to modellink | 00:37:28.960 how from those building blocks,link | 00:37:30.480 you can construct bigger and bigger, more complex systems,link | 00:37:33.080 maybe one day the entirety of the human biology.link | 00:37:35.820 So here's another problem that thoughtlink | 00:37:39.680 to be impossible to solve, which is protein folding.link | 00:37:42.720 And Alpha Fold or specifically Alpha Fold 2 did just that.link | 00:37:48.840 It solved protein folding.link | 00:37:50.320 I think it's one of the biggest breakthroughs,link | 00:37:53.400 certainly in the history of structural biology,link | 00:37:55.140 but in general in science,link | 00:38:00.240 maybe from a high level, what is it and how does it work?link | 00:38:04.840 And then we can ask some fascinating questions after.link | 00:38:08.700 Sure.link | 00:38:09.980 So maybe to explain it to people not familiarlink | 00:38:12.880 with protein folding is, you know,link | 00:38:14.400 first of all, explain proteins, which is, you know,link | 00:38:16.980 proteins are essential to all life.link | 00:38:18.840 Every function in your body depends on proteins.link | 00:38:21.520 Sometimes they're called the workhorses of biology.link | 00:38:23.920 And if you look into them and I've, you know,link | 00:38:25.340 obviously as part of Alpha Fold,link | 00:38:26.660 I've been researching proteins and structural biologylink | 00:38:30.200 for the last few years, you know,link | 00:38:31.760 they're amazing little bio nano machines proteins.link | 00:38:34.760 They're incredible if you actually watch little videoslink | 00:38:36.460 of how they work, animations of how they work.link | 00:38:39.000 And proteins are specified by their genetic sequencelink | 00:38:42.600 called the amino acid sequence.link |

Listen: https://twitter.com/sourcegraph/status/1577687896814911488Steve's post about Sourcegraph: https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/introducing-steve-yeggehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viNB7v3bgx8

Watch/listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5vkE7mmWJ0

Listen to 3 Books: https://www.3books.co/chapters/111 (about 1hr 20mins in)5 hour walks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp_MKrnSdaM&list=PLbsKh5N-eR063R9VopWCM_SZ5ccxhNGLm&index=26

Listen to Colin & Samir: https://overcast.fm/+6Z2pphyiU/25:00

Listen to Lenny's pod: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/lennys-podcast/growth-tactics-retention-M7Vx8YjC0Ei/

Listen to MFM: https://overcast.fm/+rTsWDbyUc/10:04PG's essay http://paulgraham.com/fn.htmlHN response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27194284

Listen to Cloudcast: https://www.thecloudcast.net/2022/01/2022-look-ahead-developer-careers.htmlSHOW NOTES:Shawn’s homepageTemporal.io (homepage) - open source microservice orchestrationLearning in Public - The Coding Career HandbookThe Coding Career (community)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You seem to be at the center of (or around) so many developer-centric conversations. Tell us a little bit about your background, and some of the areas you’ve been focused on. Topic 2 - You’re well known for The Coding Career Handbook. With so many options out there for developers, how do you frame conversations about where people should focus? Topic 3 - At some point, developers (like many engineers) get bored of working on the same things. Right now it seems like we’re in the middle of big changes. What should they think about the transition process? Cloud distros https://www.swyx.io/cloud-distros/Self provisioning runtimes https://www.swyx.io/self-provisioning-runtime/ Video in DevRel https://sacra.com/research/lenny-bogdanoff-milk-video-infrastructure/?highlight=ecommerce Topic 4 - As a developer, what are some of the best ways to get visibility of your projects? How do you find the right balance of public projects, side projects, and whatever you’re currently getting paid for (main company job)?Topic 5 - Any tips or tricks that you’ve learned to accelerate your learning process? Topic 6 - How is WFH changing the developer work-life-balance?

2017 Why Hadoop is Dying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QngDInV2ino2020 Hadoop Death Roundtable: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-on-premise-it/hadoop-is-dead-the-on-PuYEm57yaqZ/

Watch the presentaiton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s-vSeWej1UWatch the followup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfF750YVDxM

I wish you love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=issStxOM5kwValentine and Laufey Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieLhHDI9VRQMoon River https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVdq0VchYyESunny Side of the Street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIGiPrejRi4

Read Not Boring: https://www.notboring.co/p/ramping-up

From Cartoon Avatars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgUrYn9wKqE

Listen to 20VC: https://overcast.fm/+OozP0Z6Wg

Listen to Analyse Asia: The post that I enjoyed from Lillian: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1395562957434544128?s=20&t=tcHfqZ4WQ1Toq7I6n6xvagThose posts are paid, so just browse the free ones: https://lillianli.substack.com/Her threads are pretty good too: https://twitter.com/lillianmli/status/1350857550791491591and https://twitter.com/lillianmli/status/1372554923552964608

Listen to Cartoon Avatars: https://three-cartoon-avatars.simplecast.com/episodes/ep-15-pt-2-packy-mccormick-and-ben-thompson-talk-about-their-own-start-finding-your-audience-and-the-creative-process-SZ8erNlY

From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCMIHsy8gng

Listen to Cartoon Avators: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/cartoon-avatars/ep-19-matt-levine-meme-PU_5OpvEtw2/ (49 mins)

Listen to Unthinkable: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/unthinkable-with/special-episode-jay-on-2-XzR_uNrP-yc/ (19mins in)

Listen to Syntax.fm: https://syntax.fm/show/478/supper-club-developer-experience-with-shawn-wang

Listen to Howard Stern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUnWFsc5WBU

Watch his talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgCgIz0WYvU

Listen to Founder Real Talk: https://overcast.fm/+n6UYkhIo4/03:16

Listen to Intricity Data Sharks: https://overcast.fm/+x8z_QG3XM

Listen to podrocket: https://podrocket.logrocket.com/planetscale

Full Twitter space: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1zqKVPQbeYYJB?s=20Previous Devrel Real Talks:https://mixtape.swyx.io/episodes/weekend-drop-devrel-real-talk-ep-1-ft-justin-garrison-micheal-benedict-zack-hoherchakhttps://mixtape.swyx.io/episodes/devrel-real-talk-making-2m-yr-in-devrel-ft-rebecca-marshburn-and-nader-dabithttps://mixtape.swyx.io/episodes/devrel-real-talk-q-a-and-all-things-video-from-shorts-to-streams-ft-hassan-vercel-theo-ping-nairobi-suborbital-justin-awsOur guests:Justin https://twitter.com/rothgarOur hosts:https://twitter.com/Chau_codeshttps://twitter.com/RealChrisSeanhttps://twitter.com/swyx

Listen to MFM: https://overcast.fm/+rTsUE0ue8/59:00

Listen to Founders: https://founders.simplecast.com/episodes/265-becoming-steve-jobs-the-evolution-of-a-reckless-upstart-into-a-visionary-leader (38mins in)

Listen to Lenny's Pod: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/lennys-podcast/the-nature-of-product-marty-W9GeMSkRv_m/ (15 mins in)

Listen to Founders: https://founders.simplecast.com/episodes/265-becoming-steve-jobs-the-evolution-of-a-reckless-upstart-into-a-visionary-leader (26mins in)the magazine’s reporter encountered Steve manning the Apple Computer booth at a computer fair. “I wish we’d had these personal machines when I was growing up,” Jobs tells him, before continuing on for a total of 224 words: People have been hearing all sorts of things about computers during the past ten years through the media. Supposedly computers have been controlling various aspects of their lives. Yet, in spite of that, most adults have no idea what a computer really is, or what it can or can’t do. Now, for the first time, people can actually buy a computer for the price of a good stereo, interact with it, and find out all about it. It’s analogous to taking apart 1955 Chevys. Or consider the camera. There are thousands of people across the country taking photography courses. They’ll never be professional photographers. They just want to understand what the photographic process is all about. Same with computers. We started a little personal-computer manufacturing company in a garage in Los Altos in 1976. Now we’re the largest personal-computer company in the world. We make what we think of as the Rolls-Royce of personal computers. It’s a domesticated computer. People expect blinking lights, but what they find is that it looks like a portable typewriter, which, connected to a suitable readout screen, is able to display in color. There’s a feedback it gives to people who use it, and the enthusiasm of the users is tremendous. We’re always asked what it can do, and it can do a lot of things, but in my opinion the real thing it is doing right now is to teach people how to program the computer.” Before moving on to a booth where a bunch of kids were playing a computer game called Space Voyager, the reporter asks if Steve “would mind telling us his age. ‘Twenty-two,’ Mr. Jobs said.” Speaking off-the-cuff to a passing journalist from a decidedly nontechie publication, Steve finds so many ways to demystify for the average person the insanely geeky device that he and Woz had created.”

Listen to AWS.fm: https://aws.fm/episodes/episode-25-shawn-swyx-wangShawn joins Adam to discuss Amplify and its place in the developer ecosystem, whether we should care about Cloudflare, yet, and how to cope with the anxiety that can come with being extremely online. Also, it sounds like Adam is a tech bro and he's NOT happy about it.TranscriptAdam Elmore: Hey, everyone. Welcome to AWS FM, a podcast with guests from around the AWS community. I'm your host, Adam Elmore. And today, I'm joined by Shawn Swyx Wang. Hi, Shawn.Shawn Wang: Hey, Adam. How's it going?Adam Elmore: It's going well. I've been extremely excited. I've said this on a ton of podcasts, that I'm excited to get on with a guest, but this has been a long time because before I took my break, I was going to get on with you. Took a big, long break, and I've finally got you on. You're somebody, and I'm going to say a lot of things, I'm very dramatic, but you're somebody that I really admire in the online space. You have this ability to think about things, and distill them, and put them out there in a way that I admire greatly. I'm so excited to have you on here. It's going to be hard for me to stay on any one topic because I have just a list of questions I want to ask you, basically.Shawn Wang: [inaudible 00:00:52].Adam Elmore: First, could you tell everyone on this show who you are, just the short version of Shawn?Shawn Wang: Yeah. So I'm Shawn, born and raised in Singapore, went to The States for college and then spent my first career in finance where I did investment banking and hedge funds. Loved the coding part because every junior finance person starts to learn to code, and didn't like the stress of the finance part, so I pivoted to tech where I was a software engineer at Two Sigma and then I was in developer relations at Netlify, AWS, Temporal, and I've just joined Airbyte as head of developer experience.Adam Elmore: Oh, I did not know you weren't still at Temporal. So Airbyte, what is Airbyte?Shawn Wang: Airbyte is a data integration company, it basically has the largest community of open-source connectors for connecting to any SaaS API source into your data warehouse. So for anyone doing data engineering, the first task that you have to do is to get data from all the different silos of data in your business. Let's say you have a Salesforce being the source of truth for customers, Stripe being the source of truth for transactions, get all of them into a single data warehouse for you to do operations on. So the goal is to have the largest community of open-source developers for connecting all the data and liberating your data from all the silos that you have in your business.Adam Elmore: And how long ago did you start? How did I miss this?Shawn Wang: A couple weeks ago. I actually have not announced it on Twitter, which is why.Adam Elmore: Oh, there you go.Shawn Wang: I like to slow play it. So when I joined Temporal, I actually waited for six months to really understand Temporal and to practice my pitch before announcing it on Twitter. And that's how I like to do things because, well, partially I want to be fully up to speed before I represent something publicly.Adam Elmore: Yeah. So I want to talk about that. You get very up to speed in a way that I don't see a lot of people on Twitter. I don't see them understand things in the way that you do. So you obviously write, your blog is a huge source of information for me, and I've enjoyed it quite a lot, but it's not just that you write, it's the way you think about things. Does that come from your finance, your analytical background in finance, or were you like that before, your ability to see the whole forest, take in the way things are trending and the way things are moving, put it all together and distill it into these wonderful articles? Where does that come from?Shawn Wang: Oh, so first of all, thanks for the very kind words. I don't hear back from my readers that often, so it's really nice when I get to talk to someone like this. So yeah, I would say a lot of this stuff is actually from my finance days. This is the kind of analysis that you would have to do when you do an investment report or investment research on any stock or any industry. You want to get a perspective of what's going on, what the trends are, who the major players are, and form an opinion on where things are going. And I think taking that finance mindset into the bets I have, in terms of technologies, whether or not it's for using them personally in my personal stack or for joining them as a startup employee, I think is extremely underrated. And it's something I'm trying to model and hopefully teach people someday.Shawn Wang: Although I'm not sure about the teaching part, because if I say like, "Get rich by doing investment analysis stock on early stage startups," I would feel like a hustler. So maybe not that, but I just do like engaging in that. And probably it's an exercise for me to think things through clearly by w

Read the article and watch the full interview: https://dx.tips/plaid-hockey-tips---SaaS API founders should not miss this week's Cartoon Avatars interview with William Hockey, former Plaid cofounder/CTO and now founder of Column.He does not do interviews often and rarely do you get this level of insight into a $13 billion, fintech category-defining behemoth. What follows is a TL;DR for those who, well, TL;DW.The $12 Billion UI Decision - Owning the UIMany SaaS API providers take pride in being "behind the scenes", or being "whitelabel" to appeal to as many enterprise customers as possible. Jeff Lawson often proudly talks about how many people use Twilio without realizing it.TLDR: Hockey bet the company on going against that received wisdom - forcing 100% of his customers to migrate to a Plaid hosted UI with Plaid's logo and branding - over a period of 2 years, with a lot of pushback.He estimates this decision alone was worth 90% of the company value today (!)From the 22-26 minute mark:I think the most successful decision we made was actually owning the interface - the physical design and owning the client side...When we first started, we were this transparent infrastructure provider and so the consumer had no idea who we were......and so what happened is you didn't know, as a consumer, that Plaid existed in that flow. We realized that this was kind of problematic because, as a consumer, you were not getting the same experience hooking up your bank account to Venmo as you were when you hooked up your account to Square Cash, or Chime or, Coinbase..and that had a lot of security issues but also had conversion issues because every application thought that their design was best or whatnot...so what we decided to do is we made them display a Plaid designed UI to the consumer...We made the application insert our branding, our logo and our experience into the application. That was extraordinarily controversial, as you can imagine, because these applications want to control the experience.One way to view this move is concluding "Plaid customers were so bad at their jobs of optimizing UI that just providing the APIs wasn't enough."The motivations were two fold: self protection (Plaid oriented) and conversion optimization (customer oriented):We needed to establish some level of relationship with the consumer and provide uniformity across these applications because we were the only one focused this hard on conversion.It actually started converting a lot better... the consumer actually started to feel comfortable, like hey I know this screen, I've seen this before, and it also allowed us to do a lot of micro optimizations around messaging certain banks and just allowed us to kind of have a platform that we could actually deliver content and software directly to the consumer...Where my eyes really popped is how far they took this - forcing ALL their users to adopt this flow - near impossible for most API companies to do especially if customers threaten to leave over this decision.Now 100% of traffic flows this way and it's actually one of the only reasons that we have good relationships with the banks because those sensitive data never actually hits the application anymore and we can also if a bank wants to make you accept some terms of service or something like that, we can deploy that instantly... and so it allows us instant flexibility.but it was a very very challenging rollout - it took almost 18 to 24 months, there was a lot of pushback to it - but i think if we didn't do that, A) consumers wouldn't have as good of an experience, B) we also would have got commoditized and it would have been really easy for these applications to switch it out. It would just been a worse experience for everybodyBut in the end, it was worth it:I think that (decision) probably generated like 90% of our market cap today.You can try the full UX of the $12 Billion UI right here: plaid.com/demo without connecting a bank account.You can see Stripe, a Plaid competitor that stayed relatively behind the scenes, increasingly start to own the experience with Billing in 2018, Checkout in 2020, and lots more I am unaware of. In fact, Stripe Checkout's marketing sounds eerily similar to what Hockey just said for Plaid:You get the benefit of all this and everything that’s to come: even faster load times, additional payment methods we add, compliance with future payments regulations, and every optimization we make to maximize conversion—all without major code changes on your end.Alvar Lagerlof also reports that Swedish fintech Klarna also inserts a branded UI:This is a product direction you can expect more SaaS APIs taking going forward as they seek both to build their own customer relationships and to serve their B2B customers better (by doing their jobs better than they can).Sidenote: Founder Intuition Over DataWhat is perhaps most interesting is that this decision was made without data - Hockey felt like he would not have had support from consumers

Our Twitter space: https://twitter.com/Chau_codes/status/1560749221447286784Hour 1 was Q&A - comparing notes on Vercel vs Airbyte, going deep/leveling up in DevRel (Building your Lightsaber) and on content creation (Dev.to vs Hashnode vs Substack)Hour 2 was Video/YouTube/Twitch focused since Theo joined!Previous Devrel Real Talks:https://mixtape.swyx.io/episodes/weekend-drop-devrel-real-talk-ep-1-ft-justin-garrison-micheal-benedict-zack-hoherchakhttps://mixtape.swyx.io/episodes/devrel-real-talk-making-2m-yr-in-devrel-ft-rebecca-marshburn-and-nader-dabitOur guests:Hassan https://twitter.com/nutlopeAlex https://twitter.com/alexandereardonNairobi https://twitter.com/Tech4AbolitionTheo https://twitter.com/t3dotggJustin https://twitter.com/rothgarOur hosts:https://twitter.com/Chau_codeshttps://twitter.com/RealChrisSeanhttps://twitter.com/swyx

Previous Episodes: https://mixtape.swyx.io/episodes/weekend-drop-coding-career-chat-the-operating-system-of-youhttps://mixtape.swyx.io/episodes/weekend-drop-coding-career-chat-finance-for-developersShow notes and referenced links:Reading: https://learninpublic.org/v1-strategy-intro-tech.pdfReplies: https://twitter.com/Chad_R_Stewart/status/1558529083079856128Join the Coding Career Community: https://learninpublic.org/Follow for future spaces: https://twitter.com/Coding_Career

Our Twitter space: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1vAxRkDjkpNKlComp Report: https://www.commonroom.io/blog/2022-developer-relations-compensation-report/Slido: https://app.sli.do/event/bxvrMv1yBfycLUh7bL3aaGPrevious episodes:https://mixtape.swyx.io/episodes/weekend-drop-devrel-real-talk-ep-1-ft-justin-garrison-micheal-benedict-zack-hoherchakOur guests:Rebecca https://twitter.com/beccaodelayNader https://twitter.com/dabit3Our hosts:https://twitter.com/Chau_codeshttps://twitter.com/RealChrisSeanhttps://twitter.com/swyx

Use good speakers! Not Airpods!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lklTPY4Zj7Qhttps://soundcloud.com/clublifebytiesto/clublife-by-tiesto-podcast-801https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti%C3%ABstoTracklist:[00:00] Intro[00:42] 1 John Summit & GUZ feat. Stevie Appleton - What A Life[03:50] 2 Fancy Inc – Circles (feat. Jack Dawson)[06:16] 3 Piero Pirupa - Put Your Hands Up[08:00] 4 Oliver Heldens - I Was Made For Lovin' You (feat. Nile Rodgers & House Gospel Choir) (James Hype Remix)[10:11] 5 Tiësto & Charli XCX - Hot In It (VIP Remix) [13:44] 6 The Weeknd - How Do I Make You Love Me (Sebastian Ingrosso & Salvatore Ganacci Remix)[16:33] 7 David Guetta vs. Benny Benassi - Satisfaction[17:56] 8 Cat Dealers & Lukas Vane feat. Elise LeGrow - Hey Hey (Heard You Say)[20:13] 9 Sebastián Yatra - Tacones Rojos (Tiësto Remix)[23:44] 10 Axel Rulay vs. Tiësto - Si Es Trucho Es Trucho (feat. El Alfa & Farruko)[26:09] 11 DubVision, Otto Knows & Alex Aris - Electricity[28:10] 12 HÄWK & The Shooters - We Make It Pop[29:08] 13 Tujamo - Drop That Low (Tujamo's Secret Weapon 2022)[31:09] 14 Imanbek & BYOR – Belly Dancer (LUM!X Remix)[32:40] 15 MORTEN - No Good[35:39] 16 Tiësto - Baila Conmigo[37:12] 17 KVSH & Carola - Welcome To The Future[38:42] 18 Martin Garrix & Breathe Carolina - Something[40:21] 19 Martin Ikin - Future[41:38] 20 Odd Mob - LEFT TO RIGHT[43:08] 21 Fred Again.. - see yourself in my eyes (Sonickraft Remix)[45:31] 22 Binary Finary - 1998 (Whitesquare Remix)[48:31] 23 Mind Against & Dyzen - Freedom (Club Mix)[50:12] 24 Gheist - Only[52:24] 25 ARTBAT & Shall Ocin, feat. Braev - Origin[56:57] 26 CamelPhat & Mathame - Believe

Opening Scene: S4E2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osPVh1mT5WoUnderstanding Kim Wexler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHhGjnzAEqE

Lalo ScenesIntroduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJv-QBdxSaUInterrogationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5osSNZ1jykhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSDLNjwIjbMLATE ADDITION: Tony Dalton and Vince Gilligan on BCS Insider: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/better-call-saul/608-better-call-saul-insider-GKShJeCHRkE/

Watch the Howard Hamlin video essay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvPoZS-Wr0k

Listen to the BCS Insider podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/better-call-saul/105-better-call-saul-insider--J5jRD4fLhX/ (12mins)Watch the Better Call Saul Season 1 Recap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jr33FcB9lAWatch "A Sick Joke" - Chuck's scene in Chicanery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rreFXFnlKO4

Previous Episode: https://mixtape.swyx.io/episodes/weekend-drop-coding-career-chat-the-operating-system-of-youShow notes and referenced links:Tweet out the Twitter space: https://twitter.com/Coding_Career/status/1554567966125088769Finance for Devs Youtube Workshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lelq40jILA4Accounting for Devs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23947818Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1imIgNckZ_kM564fpGgTBtsqiGwRAIOcmA_hzuwRH4bo/edit?usp=sharing Join the Coding Career Community: https://learninpublic.org/Follow for future spaces: https://twitter.com/Coding_Career

Listen to MFM: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/my-first-million/billion-dollar-ad-arbitrage-xUo387stOEy/ (34mins in)Discuss this episode: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1557220705237962755We want to hear from you! The Swyx Mixtape Listener SurveyFill out our 2022 Survey! https://forms.gle/g2s1Np9wS5qmrKSRA!Survey context: https://mixtape.swyx.io/episodes/swyx-mixtape-survey-refactor-and-deadpool-swyxResults will be summed up in a future episode

Listen to Below the Line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn7jRqiUstwHer videos:Low Budget Filmmaking (87m views)Girl Learns to Dance in a Year (12m views)Discuss this episode: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1556793526800842752We want to hear from you! The Swyx Mixtape Listener SurveyFill out our 2022 Survey! https://forms.gle/g2s1Np9wS5qmrKSRA!Survey context: https://mixtape.swyx.io/episodes/swyx-mixtape-survey-refactor-and-deadpool-swyxResults will be summed up in a future episode

Show notes and referenced links: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1553456558264164356Old talk version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzK4IxHv3W0Join the Coding Career Community: https://learninpublic.org/Follow for future spaces: https://twitter.com/Coding_CareerTranscript[00:00:00] Chad Stewart: I think we should set up the whole thing first in case, people might be coming off the street and they don't necessarily know exactly about the chapter of the book. I definitely think you should talk a little bit about that first. [00:00:10] swyx: I do opinion introduce it. Yeah. Yeah.[00:00:13] That'd be great. Do you wanna give it a shot? I wanna see what what your take on it is. Oh, okay. Yeah, sure. I'll give it a shot. So, [00:00:20] Chad Stewart: So pretty much the idea. Well, so first of all the, currently the chapter actually is at the end of the book. And a lot of you get a lot of, the, you get a lot of other information before you get to this chapter.[00:00:32] And the kind of idea is that, all that other information is important. It's great. But if you don't necessarily know how to implement. Then, yeah, it's not particularly useful. And so my understanding, you of took the idea of hairs, things that that you could use to start implementing some of these things.[00:00:53] And then one of the things that actually really enjoyed really liked I read over the chapter again, just to to refresh myself, was the idea of not everything to use all the time. You have tactics which you use whenever they come up, then you have strategy. Which you use, like you use a little bit more often.[00:01:13] I don't remember what the third one is, but it is like levels of when you use them principles. Yes. Principles. Thank you. When you use them often. So the chapter resonated with me mostly because of a lot of the things that you were talking about is like habits and like laying the foundation for success.[00:01:30] Part we talked about it in the Mito last week in terms of keeping yourself physically healthy, but just also, it's just generally your habits, both your physical habits, like learning, expanding your knowledge, networking, interacting with people it's just having that foundation laid out so that, leveraging the other topics of the book was is what you call.[00:01:53] It was easier. I know we had that, this kind of discussion about about maybe putting it earlier in the book, but that's the reason why I decided, Hey, maybe this would be the first thing to talk about because this is something that, we talk up in the industry, but not really, yeah. So just wanted to talk about [00:02:11] swyx: anyways. Yeah. That's a great recap. Yeah, that's fantastic recap. Okay. Job done. Thank you everyone. Yeah. Wow. And you didn't even I didn't even tell you I was gonna ask you anyway. I just love hearing about it from other point of view.[00:02:23] But yeah, you can see how it's weird to put it at the front of the buzz. I have to go through and set up all the context first, which is like 39 chapters of random shit. And then but, and then I come in at the end with a really strong chapter. Right. But I think my reflection is like, Imagine you would hand it the golden book of advice.[00:02:42] Like maybe my book is like not the golden book of advice, but maybe someone else's book in book of advice. Can you convert that advice into results and the chances are, is it's no, because it's not really, you're not really lacking for advice. You're really lacking for systems to implement that effectively in your career, in your life.[00:03:03] Right? To actually put things in action and follow through on them. It's not ideas, it's execution, it's not motivation, it's discipline. And so like it's really boring blocking and tackling stuff. But then I felt like if I did not talk then everything I, everything else I talk about is a complete waste because like this that's the real sustainable advantage.[00:03:24] I think for sure, I was very influenced by atomic habits. Like you can have all the fancy trading strategies that you want, but ultimately, your net worth is a trailing indicator of your financial habits. Did you save enough? and, did you did you did you put did you pay down the interest rate on the things that you're supposed to pay down first before chasing the investment in other categories?[00:03:48] And I definitely feel like, when people give high level career advice, they tend to overstep in terms of the high stakes, the very dramatic, the very flashy, the very sexy, or very smart sounding ideas. And there's just the boring, like eat of vegetables, versions of the ideas. Isn't talked about enough when actually it is the predominant.[00:04:08] Thing to get right. So, yeah. Oh, go ahead. Go ahead. Sorry. I cut you off. Oh, no, I see you also join on your personal, so, I'm talking to two CHADS. Oh [00:04:15] Chad Stewart: yeah. One that's a duck and one that's an actual person. Yeah. No, so I would, I, so I do agree with you. But

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