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Scott Johnston on training for mountain running

These two podcasts were interesting. Scott is the author of Training for the Uphill Athlete which is a great, nerdy book on endurance sports. He trained both winners of the main UTMB race this year and here are his main training takeaways: * For long mountain races, the legs are the

Freedom's Forge: How WWII's Industrial Mobilization Model Can Win the AI Race

China is building AI infrastructure like America built bombers in 1942. We're not. In 1941, Roosevelt demanded something insane: 50,000 planes a year. Everyone thought he was crazy. By 1944, we were rolling a new bomber off the line every five minutes. The book Freedom's

My review of Power Failure: the downfall of America's greatest company

Power Failure by William Cohan chronicles the spectacular collapse of General Electric, once America's most valuable company. From a $600 billion giant to near-bankruptcy, GE's downfall reveals how financialization and imperial CEOs destroyed a 130-year industrial icon.

What I'm listening to - May 2025

Insights from Huberman Lab on endurance, AI predictions from Dwarkesh Podcast, fintech innovation with Forage, and Epic Systems’ unique growth story.

I vibecoded facepaint.lol: an AI photo editor using Gemini

How I built an AI photo‑editing app in a weekend using a new experimental image generation model.

What I'm listening to - April 2025

Podcasts that have my attention in April 2025. The history of Rolex, using AI for personal and professional growth, and interviews with inspirational founders.

One-Shot AI

How I used a single ChatGPT prompt to build a Chrome extension that solved my Hacker News problem.

What I'm listening to - March 2025

How LLMs struggle with original insights (but crush it with well-defined problems), why biographies might be life's ultimate cheat code, and why Granola's meeting notes rock.

How I use AI to predict the future

The contest I compete in an annual predictions contest with a group of friends. Each January, we make a series of guesses about the economy, politics, etc. to see who is most accurate at the end of the year. Beyond the cash prize, the winner gets a green Masters jacket

What I'm listening to - February 2025

* 2024 in AI, with Nathan Benaich - The Gradient * This podcast dropped in December and was the first time I heard about DeepSeek. A lot of the Chinese research happens in local language papers that aren't ending up on arXiv or Hacker News. It's funny that

What I'm listening to - January 2025

I'm starting a series on the podcasts, audiobooks, etc. that are grabbing my attention. I'll curate the best of what I'm listening to and pull out some good quotes that stuck with me. Here's the first edition: * The Startup Teaching 2-Year Olds

AI Tools I've Been Digging

AI Twitter and WhatsApp groups mostly cover two things: frontier labs battling for AGI supremacy and startups building AI infrastructure. Essentially, there’s a large buffet of AI capabilities and tools to serve them up, but the world needs founders to build real apps that give people tangible value. I

I Like Rocky Road

Pseudonymous researcher Gwern had a fascinating interview on the Dwarkesh podcast. He is very optimistic on AGI in the next several years and given that timeline believes that we should only do things in one of three categories: 1. Things we enjoy because we like them 2. Things where we

Building a Bitcoin Platform with Coinbase

Welcome to GET PUT POST, a newsletter all about APIs. Each edition features an interview with a startup about their API and ideas for developers to build on their platform. Last week I sat down with Dan Romero, Director of International Expansion & Banking at Coinbase, and we spoke about