What the smart people are recommending. 7772 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.
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“Rosebud is an interactive Journal designed with therapists to create positive change in people's lives and so the way that it works is we take a daily journaling practice and make it a lot more reward…”
“You can find out more about the podcast this week in aai.ai or if you want to see the YouTube channel this week in aai.ai/youtube.”
“you have to evaluate these robots inside a virtual gym that represents the physical world... That's a second computer. We call that omniverse.”
“Let me just start the show by saying I love Plaude.”
“Network hippo is a layer a social layer that goes on top of all your social connections and your email it consolidates all of your contacts helps you understand your relationships tells you who you sh…”
“but you know who doesn't need any credit is webpy webpy they monitor all kinds of server activity from employee internet access to email service to web host analyze for traffic levels patterns errors …”
“or monopoly”
“For me X is the best way to be best place to be an AI haha but I I can't follow 25,000 people anywhere else and and share that with you right”
“Paper below tested a variety of base LLMs (no TTA) on generalization-focus math problems and found that they can't reason and can't do math.”
“I've been playing We Rule you ever play We Rule iPad I haven't played don't start that's my it's going to be like consider this as a PSA parents I know you see your children playing Farmville and you …”
“you have four square on one side which is just check in”
“you have gowala in the middle which is check in with a little bit of virtual objects and a little bit of playfulness”
“Requirements: Claude Code, [Git](https://git-scm.com/)”
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“We prove that, in various tasks, quantum machines can learn from exponentially fewer experiments than those required in conventional experiments.”
“In this work, we propose a new type of architecture for quantum generative adversarial networks (entangling quantum GAN, EQ-GAN) that overcomes some limitations of previously proposed quantum GANs.”
“today the processor is handed over to the deutsches museum”
“I remember back in I think it was marchish of 2023 uh there were a few of these autonomous agents that really captured everyone's imaginations like baby AI autog GPT a few of these”
“if you look at our if you look at our pipeline in Clara from cryo electron microscopy to x-ray crystallography to um uh uh uh you know Gene sequencing to uh amino acid to uh structure prediction uh al…”
“One of them was Gmail, which is actually kind of the inspiration for socket.Oo was Gmail one day decided, well, email is too slow and synchronous. What if we added chat on top of Gmail? And it was an …”
“we saw kind of like the Clara customer support bot um kind of like come online and get a lot of hype”
“Maul is out today. The new Star Wars animated, and it's got great reviews.”
“I was reading a paper the the Princeton swe paper um where their coding agents can now solve 12.5% of GitHub issues versus I think 3.8% um when it was just rag”
“I just bought a new MacBook Pro...when you put 48 gigs of RAM on these things and this new M5 processor, it is like scary how much faster and better these this hardware profile is.”
“Unix versus Windows”
“By the way, if you guys want to see what I've built with AI recently, go to cody.hat This is wild. You can talk to me for free and get all of my insights on questions you have surrounding buying busin…”
“I have no bias against GLP agonists in the right context.”
“Skills in LangSmith Fleet”
“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”
“so think Harvey AI for those specialized legal models”
“One of the first books I bought was 'Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach' by Russell and Norvig.”
“One of the core parts of that is tracing. Why are traces so popular? Because they tell you exactly what goes on inside your agent at every step.”
“I mean certainly North, our our own product.”
“# How Postel's Law enabled the proto-Internet and set the culture for the future of humanity”
“6 Takeaways From Trump’s News Conference on Iran https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/us/politics/trump-iran-news-conference.html?smid=tw-share”
“the super intelligence discussion like the book super intelligence was happening”
“# Why the World Still Runs on SAP _Blog post by Andreessen Horowitz_ https://a16z.com/why-the-world-still-runs-on-sap”
“the most influential person in in media even though the the part of the media never talks about him because he's not part of them is without question joe rogan”
“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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“we've been doubling and tripling down on Founder University launch in fact it's basically the future of our Venture Capital firm”
“you see like Kimi an open source model came out from this lab called Moonshot and um it's almost as good as Cloud for Opus and it's open source. So we're we're we're constantly going to benefit from a…”
“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”
“in business I think uh uh like good to great”
“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”
“Seedance 2.0 (Fast): https://replicate.com/bytedance/seedance-2.0-fast”
“We are supported by Helix. So a little while back, Helix sent Monica and me mattresses. And I was like, oh, my God, this is going to be so much fun. I'm going to sleep. I'm going to sleep. I'm going t…”
“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.”
“I will admit I'm going to have a big arch this weekend. I I'm going to do it. I'm ready for it.”
“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.”
“The Bible is just way ahead on that right... they're very got very sticky to the workflows and all that”
“This one back here is also Lego. That's I guess I'm blanking on the exact name. The Great Wave Hokusai.”
“Nanoblocks, I will say, if you go on Amazon, they sell them on there.”
“I recommend everybody read this book. It's not only from a very credible source, but you are a good writer. It's very compelling.”
“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…”
“I just brought two of those. She was like, "We only have two left." I was like, "Well, I'm taking them off."”
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“Uh and I think they're also compromising light LLM and exios and all these things.”
“I mean I think for example Lama CPP which allows things to which allow people to run things on Mac was amazing it's just a great Community to feed great model tube so”
“Let me start by saying if if anybody watching this hasn't seen Once Upon Time in Hollywood, pause the podcast immediately. Um, go watch the movie >> and then come back because I would just we going to…”
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“And I think Oenheimer was like an incredibly well-made movie. Um, and had, you know, incredible performances and was was like, you know, put together really well. It was, you know, tremendously intere…”
“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.”
“Uses [Next.js 14](https://nextjs.org/) with [App Router](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/routing) and [RSC](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/rendering/server…”
“Used [v0](https://v0.dev) to generate all initial UIs with [Tailwind](https://tailwindcss.com/), [Shadcn UI](https://ui.shadcn.com/) and [Radix UI](https://www.radix-ui.com/)”
“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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“Yeah, so you have to stake the tow get the subnet tokens and one and you basically need to get a bit tensor wallet and a great Bit Tensor wallet is the Crucible wallet which Alla will talk about down …”
“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.”