What the smart people are recommending. 7786 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.
“This will make you a better decision-maker | Annie Duke (author of “Thinking in Bets” and “Quit,” former pro poker player)”
“This will make you a better decision-maker | Annie Duke (author of “Thinking in Bets” and “Quit,” former pro poker player)”
“Marty Supreme : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32916440”
“Maruhachi Shinsui Maruhachi Pro: https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Maruhachi-Shinsui-Feather-Pillow-Blissful/dp/B081DNVD3K”
“The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness : https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Living-Unlocking-Science-Happiness/dp/0307347311”
“Awareness: Conversations with the Masters : https://www.amazon.com/Awareness-Opportunities-Reality-Anthony-Mello/dp/0385249373”
“Um so the a wonderful book to read about this is by a Dutch historian named Ruter Bregman. It's called humankind.”
“this essay called Keep Your Identity Small, I think, by by Paul Graham is his name.”
“And to do that, I'm going to use the Comet browser, who happens to be the sponsor of today's video. I already used the Perplexity engine a ton, but now I've got a browser where it's just built in, and…”
“And then I often recommend people to find someone who's like-minded to them that want to work with AI or they want to start a company. Um, and that's like social dynamic and or being a part of a commu…”
“In December 1957, Business Week profiled a new device from General Electric. The author begins by saying: > A new device in a pea-sized package stands a good chance of hitting the electrical indust…”
“I was a Blackberry guy through and through, um, until the bitter end when the iPhone was just like eons better than the Blackberry. And I finally shifted over.”
“I put my iPad down, grabbed my book, Operation Chastised, and walked down to the beach to watch the sunrise and read. Great vacation, but that streaming snag was a disappointment.”
“I was watching the show Deutschland 83 and then the second season, Deutschland 85 and Deutschland 89. The third season. Great show for anybody who's not checked it out.”
“I was watching the show Deutschland 83 and then the second season, Deutschland 85 and Deutschland 89. The third season. Great show for anybody who's not checked it out.”
“I was watching the show Deutschland 83 and then the second season, Deutschland 85 and Deutschland 89. The third season. Great show for anybody who's not checked it out.”
“I heard um uh Nicholas Wade, who's he he wrote this book, very interesting book that I read like 20 years ago. It was called uh Before the Dawn or Beyond the Dawn.”
“If you are a gardener, you should go with Rome research, Obsidian or Log.”
“As I turned the control potentiometer, the drill started turning slowly, and then faster as I turned the control further. It worked ... the world’s first solid-state motor control!”
“This episode is brought to you by the farmer's dog dogs are amazing they're loyal they're lovable like just having Marshall around can make my day 10 times better and I'm sure you love your dog just a…”
“Alex Baron wrote a great book about this called tell your kids”
“my friend John nor he wrote a book called The Hidden war”
“If people don't believe me, go read his book, Fighting Terrorism, that he put out in 1995 or 96.”
“His work eventually produced the TRIAC, a device capable of conducting both positive and negative currents upon demand. It was a massive success and other variants quickly entered the market aft…”
“He has a new book out: Mexico: A 500-Year History. It is, in my view, the single best introduction to the history of Mexico and will be one of the best nonfiction books of this year, 2026. Paul, welco…”
“And my YouTube channel is out there as well under my name.”
“Anything with María Félix in it. Name one. Doña Bárbara, superb. I’d also say, though, more recently, Y Tu Mamá También.”
“Anything with María Félix in it. Name one. Doña Bárbara, superb. I’d also say, though, more recently, Y Tu Mamá También. That’s a great film.”
“I’m thinking specifically of Julieta Venegas and Natalia Lafourcade—the latter, and this is in my book—wrote a song back in the year 2000, which is a hilarious reflection on her sister’s pregnancy, th…”
“I’m thinking specifically of Julieta Venegas and Natalia Lafourcade—the latter, and this is in my book—wrote a song back in the year 2000, which is a hilarious reflection on her sister’s pregnancy, th…”
“It has to be La Muerte de Artemio Cruz, The Death of Artemio Cruz.”
“If I’d read it last year, I might actually be ranking it below the recent novels of Álvaro Enrigue, who two novels really stick out. One is like a modern Muerte de Artemio Cruz; it’s called Decency, D…”
“The other is You Dreamed of Empires in English, which is a retelling of the conquest as this glorified heist by a bunch of fortunate thugs, which I think most historians would agree with, and has some…”
“No, it’s downtown. It’s called Santo Taco, and it’s a taqueria which is exceptional. In case you find that to be inverse snobbery, I would say that underneath the taqueria, there’s a hidden, quite sma…”
“So uh uh there's a company called Fountain Life that uh created with Tony Robbins, Bob Hurry, Bill Cap, and we do a 200 gigabyte upload of you.”
“Despite all those new guys on the block, Thyristors are still used today. Some at gigawatt scale applications like High Voltage DC. Imagine that. Sixty plus years and still running. Long live t…”
“We need to map our oceans. ASAP.”
“I have obviously been all over your X feed paying attention to everything that you have been talking about and I think you are uniquely qualified to address uh what's going on right now.”
“Why are traces so popular? Because they tell you exactly what goes on inside your agent at every step.”
“Although Asimco has been around ever since. Well, before it's Stratecary, we just relaunched into Asimco One, which is for the first time a subscription version. 80% of what we do is still public and …”
“https://www.macstories.net/notes/openais-new-codex-app-has-the-best-computer-use-feature-ive-ever-tested/”
“you'll need the app to get started, but then it'll work via CLI too”
“everyone should be cursormaxxing”
“what have we done? We've defined a very simple criterion that allows us to to check for non-classical behavior and this is the bell inequality right.”
“Some, formerly cryptot tax calculator, was built specifically to solve this problem. It supports Turboax along with over 3,500 exchange, wallet, and crypto integrations. It handles DeFi, NFTts, stakin…”
“And there's a book called How China Works on this.”
“Our customer success manager who's entirely non-technical but interfaces with enterprise customers on a day-to-day basis now gets to take on feature requests especially the simple ones directly give t…”
“I would be in any trench w @Jason”
“See you at noon Texas time!”
“So Find My seems like it's amazing. You can always see where your devices are, or people, I guess, but devices. It turns out it can actually be quite enraging.”
“Hoopsalytics: https://hoopsalytics.com”
“i can't do my job without mad blocker it's uh it's totally hypocritical but what can i say”
“So so actually there's a great book called Disunion. Okay. It's actually about the American Civil War and the title of it is very good and even just you can read like the first few chapters and it it …”
“Qiskit Fall Fest 2025 is here.”
“Extract text from documents and images with Datalab Marker and OCR”
“Trump plans to ease access to psychedelics like psilocybin, ibogaine”
“Beyond Annual Planning: Adapting to AI with the Six-Quarter Walk”
“If you’re in the Singapore/Malaysia area, we have a Replit Agent 4 hackathon tomorrow at Network School.”
“Autoresearch isn’t just for training models https://shopify.engineering/autoresearch”
“The most future-proof job: Entrepreneurship”
“We have good industrial partners of uh applied materials synopsis design tools Hula Packard Enterprise some startups who do the theory work.”
“By the way, I want to call out Donald J McGraw's 1974 thesis "The Antibiotic Discovery Era" as a crucial source for this part of the video. McGraw somehow got unprecedented access to Eli Lilly's corpo…”
“There's a book I know it's over 20 years old now called something like love and sex with robots.”
“If you'd like to get access to the Metatrends newsletter every week, go to dmandis.com/tatrens. That's diamandis.com/metatrends. ”
“Meanwhile, researchers have spun out vancomycin variants like telavancin, dalbavancin, and oritavancin which once again re-enable vancomycin's mechanism of action.”
“I've been talking uh over the past couple of weeks about my new book, The Meaning of Your Life. today when this show comes out on the 30th of March 2026. That's a Monday. If you're listening to it on …”
“And share this show with others as well. And and give me your thoughts about this show. Go to the u to the website and give us some feedback. Write to us at office hours.com or write any place where y…”
“Omni —AI analytics your customers can trust”
“If you want to reduce brain rot, get Noble Mobile. It pays you to use less data. It gives you an incentive to unplug. No Mobile is the phone plan that finally aligns incentives with what's good for yo…”
“Orkes —The enterprise platform for reliable applications and agentic workflows”
“Treasure Island : https://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Island-Robert-Louis-Stevenson/dp/1505297400”
“also focusrite i'm speaking to a lovely focusrite claret interface right now”
“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland : https://www.amazon.com/Alices-Adventures-Wonderland-Illustrated-Illustrations/dp/991673268X”
“the free thing we are giving away one of these microphones a bb 2 9 from jay-z microphones”
“Charts for Babies: A Picture Book : https://www.amazon.com/Charts-Babies-Picture-Book/dp/1419785184”
“You want to check out the sonic scoop newsletter to be alerted of those kinds of things when they're happening so check that at sonicsgroup.com sign up for the newsletter there”
“ChatGPT Atlas: https://chatgpt.com/atlas”
“Buffer: https://buffer.com”
“Meanwhile, researchers have spun out vancomycin variants like telavancin, dalbavancin, and oritavancin which once again re-enable vancomycin's mechanism of action.”
“How to become a supermanager with AI: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-become-a-supermanager-with”
“How custom GPTs can make you a better manager | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product at Whoop): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDMkkOC-EhI”
“Like player of games might be a better book to start off with than consider.”
“i do have a full-length course called mastering demystified that you can check out at masteringdemystified.com”
“Big sponsors for this week are soundtoys trout anything they make for free over at soundtoys.com making some of my favorite creative mixing effects in the known universe”
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“Um I absolutely so so one of the things we launched was Langmith agent builder which is a no code way to build agents.”
“So Dell is the first partner to bring coherent north capabilities to organizations on premise.”
“we created our own intelligent science lab it's called India and uh we also are using ARC as our one of our northstar metrics I think to get there we're trying to build the top program synthesis talen…”
“I suggest if anyone's interested in this particular topic, Sword and Scimitar, which this is this is the third of a trilogy. The first one is Sword and Scimitar. And if they like that, they can pursue…”
“And then I also have a Substack which people can just look up with my name.”
“We we see an incredible opportunity uh to create an endto-end stack in Canada that brings the the best of Bell's AI fabric, the best of cohhere with our SIMSP system integrator at Techco.”
“His name is Professor G. Young. And the reason he could see all of this coming when almost nobody else did is that he's using a very specific framework that you're going to want to understand that has…”
“if you want the free intro primer workshop that's all about the basics of mastering totally for free you can get that at mastering 101 sonicscoop.com mastering101”
“i've got a full length course on mixing called mixing breakthroughs”
“also the free workshop the five habits of truly great mixers that you can get at sonicscoop.com mix habits”
“Can you help us kind of like map out what what does it mean to make progress against ARK 1 2 and 3?”
“That's the shift Monetary Metals helps make possible. They've built a way for your gold to earn yield, paid not in dollars, but in more physical gold, up to 4% per year.”
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“So France Kathka writes about this in his book the trial where bureaucrats don't bother with criminals because it's a pain in the ass. So they go after ordinary citizens because ordinary citizens are …”