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.
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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.
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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
The Most Important Thing
Howard Marks, co-chairman of Oaktree Capital, is a renowned value investor. Over the past 25 years, he's written memos to Oaktree's clients to update them on his views on investing and the markets. Here's what Warren Buffet had to say about Marks' recent
The Rise of Coachella Electronica
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival may be America's top music festival. In 2014, Coachella grossed $78 million, breaking its record for gross ticket sales from the previous year. Artists at Coachella, like headliners AC/DC and Drake or newer stars Madeon and Sylvan Esso, represent the
Mayday! Mayday! Are airplanes getting more dangerous?
Modern airplane travel is spectacular. The Department of Transportation reported that an all-time high 848 million passengers flew in the U.S. in 2014. And remarkably, all of those passengers survived.
With recent tragedies like the missing Malaysia Airlines flight and Germanwings crash, I wondered if airplane crashes are changing.
7 Lessons for Language Learners
Learning a new language has many well-researched benefits. This year, I've set aside time to learn German and build more projects in public. And this month, I'm launching a new website that achieves both goals: Noob German (more on this later).
Here are seven scientifically-backed lessons