What the smart people are recommending. 7789 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.
“# Foundations: U.S. Market Structure & Value”
“EY.ai Platform: Comprehensive AI-powered platform launched after 18-month development”
“EYQ Large Language Model: Proprietary in-house AI model”
“I saw at YC was soilent where I remember they came in you know it was basically insure for adults like insure for Tech Bros I guess I loved it by the way but like they came in and said look we're you …”
“I called it an innovation stack and it's it's the mess that you have to create when you're doing something new and that was sort of the big insight of the book which is that square because we were try…”
“literally hundreds of millions of dollars of free marketing off of like a cannibalism joke did they never get sued by the movie people I don't think so I mean it's just a name so and I guess the most …”
“I'm delighted to introduce this course on Nvidia's Nemo agent tokit in which you learn to harden your agent that is take it from a demo that maybe works only half the time to reliable system that deli…”
“KPMG Clara: AI-enhanced global smart audit platform”
“I don't know if people here know what MCP is, but it's really it's catching fire in the world of AI. And it showed that your your founders and entrepreneurs are really on the cutting edge of what's ha…”
“I have one or two papers with Seth Lloyd on on connections between neural Nets and and Quantum Computing I think it's a very interesting topic but I don't think it has any practical \uh value in the s…”
“he has also developed many interesting softwares like the miniconf let's say platform for posting online conferences”
“Finally he has also written pedagogically explorations of Transformers and the S4 model”
“I'm the author of the book the music business for music creators.”
“Trusted AI Framework: Comprehensive governance approach”
“They're using Tik Tok Um theyre using like in or um Instagram reels and and YouTube shorts and things like that and they're just building um you know they're putting their music out and they know how …”
“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”
“https://michaeljburry.substack.com/p/palantir-an-accounting”
“March 2026 Charity of the Month - The Headstrong Project”
“AI Predictions 2025: Comprehensive business forecasting”
“I'm delighted to introduce this course on Nvidia's Nemo agent tokit in which you learn to harden your agent that is take it from a demo that maybe works only half the time to reliable system that deli…”
“clearly Apple The Economist The New Yorker uh you know places like that and the other one we're talking about is high agency and again making it so that you're not just okay with that you know Tesla a…”
“okay in Stephen King pet cemetery there's this very haunting phrase that is sometimes dead is better sometimes getting sued is better like getting sued is not the worst thing that could happen to you …”
“yeah remind is the freakiest piece of software you've ever seen It listens to everything you say and it watches everything you do on your Macintosh it takes a screenshot of everything I do and shrinks…”
“if you use a program called nanom in VR you you which is designed for material scientists chemists and stuff like that it um when I when I used it they blew up the covid virus as big as my house and I…”
“NVIDIA DSX [music] is an Omniverse digital twin blueprint for designing and [music] operating AI factories for maximum token throughput, resilience, and energy efficiency.”
“are you going to buy one of these new Model S's they do Z to 60 in 1.8 seconds now 1.9 seconds”
“if you're in America you want a cyber trck right I mean it's an amazing car cyber TR looks good I guess if you're in Germany on the on the Autobon you'd want a model ass or something right have you ha…”
“It encouraged me to do this. It encouraged me to make this change in my life. Like it's not all bad for chatbt to it turns out like be encouraging of you. Now the way we were doing it was bad, but tur…”
“Agentic coding assistants shine when you want to interact with a mix of local tools installed on your computer as well as cloud services like maybe Postman, [music] Figma, or Google Docs.”
“I wrote an article about sleep deprivation over at the blog that I contribute to called functional father if you want to check it out oh functional father I will check that out tips”
“this week in cloud computing this week in Android this week in iPad tap second show yesterday this week in Venture Capital becoming a surprise hit out of nowhere uh and Mark sster is now the permanent…”
“some of the newer features such as the cloud agent SDK”
“this week in cloud computing this week in Android this week in iPad tap second show yesterday this week in Venture Capital becoming a surprise hit out of nowhere uh and Mark sster is now the permanent…”
“We have haiku sonnet and opus. Haiku being kind of like our most costefficient models.”
“this week in cloud computing this week in Android this week in iPad tap second show yesterday this week in Venture Capital becoming a surprise hit out of nowhere uh and Mark sster is now the permanent…”
“this week in cloud computing this week in Android this week in iPad tap second show yesterday this week in Venture Capital becoming a surprise hit out of nowhere uh and Mark sster is now the permanent…”
“Wolf Gang hammer and â it's been magical for for us and I think you know taking a Pat from Lulu Chong this idea of like knowing what your story is and having that same story be the story that you tell…”
“MW is Short SoFi Technologies, Inc. (SOFI US)”
“if any of you guys have your applications or services deployed in those clouds, then you can use cloud's APIs via um bedrock and vertex in addition to cloud's firstparty API.”
“# How SOFI’s Borrowing Money and Booking it as a Sale Enriched Management (SOFI US) _Blog post by Muddy Waters_”
“today's systems you know obviously we're very proud of Gemini 2.0 I'm sure we're going to talk about that but I feel like um they're very useful for still quite Niche tasks right if you're doing some …”
“I was actually just reading uh the the galley for poor Charlie's Almanac you probably stri presses uh it comes out in um uh November we are uh publishing the new the coolest books I website I've ever …”
“I mean the things that I use I use barely.ai which is a Chrome extension that is always like floating around on my browser screen and I'm not using Chrome I'm using the arc browser so I'm trying to do…”
“I'm not using Chrome I'm using the arc browser so I'm trying to do some different stuff there but that's always just there so it's like a click away for when I'm including articles reading up stuff I'…”
“The other one is basically Harvester. The Harvester can actually harvest any object you see from the field and save it for other use. For example, you can plant it in other videos.”
“And the other one which is extremely important and extremely powerful is Cosmos Transfer.”
“And for those of you tuning in, make sure to go check out more sessions on the GTC catalog.”
“It's a This is really wild. It's a Built to Spill set list that I stole.”
“I was like wait what what what's cloud and then I researched a little bit and it it turns out it's a ondevice AI which can run also um use some API from other AIS but it's primarily on device AI which…”
“We have haiku sonnet and opus. Haiku being kind of like our most costefficient models. Opus being the top of the line our biggest and most intelligence model and sonnet being kind of like your day-to-…”
“but the 800-lb gorilla in the space was Zinga oh yeah yeah and Mark pinkis is an extremely experienced entrepreneur I knew what he was doing very aggressive and he ended up acquiring â a serious busin…”
“Wolf Gang hammer and â it's been magical for for us and I think you know taking a Pat from Lulu Chong this idea of like knowing what your story is and having that same story be the story that you tell…”
“if any of you guys have your applications or services deployed in those clouds, then you can use cloud's APIs via um bedrock and vertex in addition to cloud's firstparty API.”
“everybody go check out Blaze track TR r a k and do you have a Twitter account that people can follow and communicate with you on what is it blaz track blaz track so very simple”
“First of all MCP connector which basically lets you use MCP without having to explicitly build an MCP client.”
“The next two things I want to call out are the new files API and our code execution tool. And those two really go hand inand really well. Um, files API basically lets you upload files and then have mu…”
“The next two things I want to call out are the new files API and our code execution tool. And those two really go hand inand really well”
“In the meantime, I'd say it's going to be a long time before it's as good at physical manipulation as us. Okay. And so, a good bet would be to be a plumber.”
“So, I wanted to really focus specifically on um, our recent model we launched, Sonnet 45, which is our most intelligent model to date.”
“And Stan Store helps creators to sell digital products, courses, coaching, and memberships all through a simple customizable link in bio system. ... If you want to take part in this challenge, if you …”
“If you use Claude Code before or products like Cursor, Windsor for others, um Claude is basically the go-to model for a lot of developers writing code in their day-to-day.”
“Tyler if you want to get on the list for the next Friday show because it is kind of limited capacity limited capacity so they can sign up at tinyurl.com twist 50 tinyurl.com twist 50 and there is a si…”
“One of the things you guys some of you might have seen is cloud for life sciences released recently.”
“Martin Seligman has a great book authentic happiness he's the head of the American Psychological Association and he has actually a really good um exercise take somebody who's been pivotal in your life…”
“everything from you know coding startups like lovable to um manufacturing life sciences companies like Novo Nordisk”
“We met in a restaurant, a very nice restaurant in PaloAlto. Um, Tamarine. Tamarine. Yes. Good Vietnamese food.”
“I call this new role the AI Scout taking inspiration in part from Julia galiff author of the Scout mindset who emphasizes the value of working toward accurate beliefs even when they may lead to uncomf…”
“I'm thrilled to introduce Docman AI from OCR to agentic doc extraction both of landing AI where I'm executive chairman and taught by David Park and Andrea Drop.”
“Now on to today's guests Robert scoble who writes as scobilizer on Twitter is a long time Silicon Valley technology Explorer and connector a futurist who's met so many technology Legends in their Prim…”
“Ben is the author of the AI newsletter Ben Spitz which combines editorial and curated stories in a Choose Your Own Adventure format which often include more than 50 links in a single Edition”
“I've been using our show sponsors Boncharg's infrared sauna blanket for a while now but I just got hold of their red light therapy mask as well.”
“I'm Niki uses generative AI to enable you to launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms with a click of a button I believe in omniki so much that …”
“the entrepreneur who told me about this uh runs the company called super normal which takes notes on a video meeting like this right takes a transcript and then at the end of the call it looks through…”
“I've been using our show sponsors Boncharg's infrared sauna blanket for a while now but I just got hold of their red light therapy mask as well. ... if you'd like to try it yourself, head over to bond…”
“Welcome to my inner circle. This is a brand new private community that I'm launching to the world. ... If you want to join our private closed community, head to the link in the description below or go…”
“I am I've stopped using Google search for as much as possible that's have to be like a an actual choice that I'm remembering that I'm making I mean it's easy to switch the default browser and things l…”
“but I think actually chatspot by HubSpot I know damesh there one of the founders like he's been noodling on stuff and he loves doing that and I think I don't even use HubSpot but the example of that j…”
“spiked out I can trip a referee tell by my attitude that I'm most [Music] [Applause] definely hello everybody hello and welcome to another episode of this week in startups oh the poor people in the ch…”
“and I was just actually talking to someone in the chat room about this working in Mahal is like business school you've said it before it's like getting an MBA and that's true a lot of ways because you…”
“you get your mailboxes as low as 295 there's no reason to host your own Exchange Server have this whole it Department focused on your product and web development Etc and DNL is uh just basically you p…”
“To help, you know, again, the ecosystem to be able to train the model, so we are not only open sourcing the model itself, we are also open sourcing data, which is right now, at this point, it's 7,000 …”
“And towards this end, we are also basically make, you know, Neurac, which is neural reconstruction, as a tool to be available to public soon. Not yet, but in the next few weeks.”
“And as part of the, you know, Nurex open-source effort, we also open-sourced Fixer.”
“Music AI Sandbox is a suite of experimental tools that we offer to help creatives do their work. We allow people to use music AI sandbox to not only generate different samples and sounds but upload th…”
“I was crying inside because that was one of the best agents AI products. Really useful AI products out there. And I was using it quite a lot for brainstorming, for more complex stuff, for research, wh…”
“Spark Capital. Okay, Spark. Okay, Spark Capital. Who invested in them? Prior investments are Twitter, Slack, Amir, Discord Anthropic Oculus Cruz Coinbase Tumblr uh Trello, N nine uh nine tick and then…”
“I remember coming out of YC with you we were YC batchmates in 2008 and um you were the first either the first or among the first to have a uh Square photo with a feed a social feed with a follow graph…”
“No, it's uh it's going to come down to GL uh content. Now, Goreekch, which is a manufacturer for these kinds of things, at CS was showing off a reference design, which means it'll turn into products i…”
“and then later you were the co-founder of secret which was sort of like the bridge too far in consumer social sort of like the last it was like the last wave of consumer social that had like really in…”
“I have zero I have zero sadness for the founders of Humane like they they created their own device. They create their own problems. Okay. When you raise $230 million and you cannot deliver and ship a …”
“The Poverty of Compromise _Blog post by Naval Ravikant_”
“When all is said and done with this commemoration this week, I hope you'll all find yourself inspired to visit us at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston.”
“If you ask how something like GPT-4 was trained or Gemini 2.5, or Anthropic's Claude, I better not be biassed here. If you ask how they're trained, you have many copies of the same model looking at di…”
“I'm delighted to introduce multi vector image retrieval built in partnership with Quadrant and taught by Casper Wakowski. In this course, you'll learn how multi vector retrieval works as well as best …”
“Try out an algorithm called Copali, which is the most widely used approach for multi vector image retrieval.”
“today we're sitting down with arthy and Shri Ram legendary Silicon Valley Power couple and my friends who run a very awesome YouTube channel”
“you should please definitely subscribe my podcast it's you know the auen stre I'm sure”
“I said, last year, that NVIDIA's Grace Blackwell NVLink 72 was 35 times perf per watt.”
“Jeremy Frankle is here. He's the CEO and co-founder of Fundamental. They're building large tabular models for enterprises.”
“So the company is named Fundamental and your flagship model, the LTM, large tabular model, is called Nexus. Am I correct there?”