Anish Acharya
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Uses and recommends it · talked about in 2 episodes
"ChatGPT Work — it's kind of buried in the UI, but it's really really good. It's one of the best products they've released. It runs in the cloud, it does a good job of caching browser credentials, and the remote feature has the full deep duplex voice mode. So you can actually just call it — it can see all your threads and you can just talk to it and say, 'Hey, what's happening across all my coding agents?' So the voice plus the model of it being able to see all threads is really well done."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"Grok Bot totally nailed it. And also the model underneath it is awesome — they came out right out of left field. The three big products that I love here: Grok Bot totally nailed it, ChatGPT Work is kind of buried in the UI but it's really really good — it's one of the best products they've released. And then there's a startup called Instinct which has made some more aggressive and interesting trade-offs."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"In the last few weeks, I've been obsessed with Qwen 3 8B. It's very good at long horizon tasks, and it's actually really creative. It's a great storyteller. So, I've been using it to create these impossible documentaries, mostly of planets in the Star Wars universe. I did Tatooine, which turned out great. I did Bespin last night. And it can just work for 4 or 5 hours."
Recommends it · talked about in 2 episodes
"Ben's book — Hard Things — it was the first emotionally honest book about business that was ever written. And that's why founders love it. That's why I love it. Cuz you read it and you're like, 'Wow, I'm not the only one that's anxious and feels like a failure and can't tell anyone what I'm going through.' Ben went through it, too."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"GrokBots is an awesome product. The defining characteristic of GrokBots is resourcefulness. I went to bed a few nights ago and said, 'Hey, buy me a pair of jeans inspired by these.' I took a photo of my current jeans, said don't spend more than $500 and get it done. I woke up in the morning and it had researched, found a pair, same fit, different wash, used my credit card, purchased them and they're on the way."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"When I was playing around with Codex, I had it build a slide deck for Mother's Day for my wife that pulled from my text messages. It looked at my photo gallery, set some music to it, created like a 20-slide deck of our relationship and pulled some cool old texts from when I first asked her out. It was a really nice Mother's Day."
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- ChatGPT Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "ChatGPT Work — it's kind of buried in the UI, but it's really really good. It's one of the best products they've released. It runs in the cloud, it does a good job of caching browser credentials, and the remote feature has the full deep duplex voice mode. So you can actually just call it — it can see all your threads and you can just talk to it and say, 'Hey, what's happening across all my coding agents?' So the voice plus the model of it being able to see all threads is really well done." +140 others
- Grok Uses and recommends it "Grok Bot totally nailed it. And also the model underneath it is awesome — they came out right out of left field. The three big products that I love here: Grok Bot totally nailed it, ChatGPT Work is kind of buried in the UI but it's really really good — it's one of the best products they've released. And then there's a startup called Instinct which has made some more aggressive and interesting trade-offs." +33 others
- Qwen Uses and recommends it "In the last few weeks, I've been obsessed with Qwen 3 8B. It's very good at long horizon tasks, and it's actually really creative. It's a great storyteller. So, I've been using it to create these impossible documentaries, mostly of planets in the Star Wars universe. I did Tatooine, which turned out great. I did Bespin last night. And it can just work for 4 or 5 hours." +2 others
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things Recommends it 2 episodes "Ben's book — Hard Things — it was the first emotionally honest book about business that was ever written. And that's why founders love it. That's why I love it. Cuz you read it and you're like, 'Wow, I'm not the only one that's anxious and feels like a failure and can't tell anyone what I'm going through.' Ben went through it, too." +3 others
- GrokBot Uses and recommends it "GrokBots is an awesome product. The defining characteristic of GrokBots is resourcefulness. I went to bed a few nights ago and said, 'Hey, buy me a pair of jeans inspired by these.' I took a photo of my current jeans, said don't spend more than $500 and get it done. I woke up in the morning and it had researched, found a pair, same fit, different wash, used my credit card, purchased them and they're on the way." +18 others
- Codex Uses and recommends it "When I was playing around with Codex, I had it build a slide deck for Mother's Day for my wife that pulled from my text messages. It looked at my photo gallery, set some music to it, created like a 20-slide deck of our relationship and pulled some cool old texts from when I first asked her out. It was a really nice Mother's Day." +87 others
- Conquests and Cultures Recommends it "Conquests and Cultures is my very favorite book. It's Thomas Sowell, and it just talks about how conquests have led to culture change in different societies around the world. Sometimes positive, sometimes negative. To me, it's just the best historic view of culture as the biggest driver of outcomes." Only Anish
- GLM Uses it "GLM 5.3 just came out, which I used for a bunch of product work. It doesn't have a vision component, and it's sort of like this neurotic PhD you put in the corner. And they both have their role." +8 others
- House of the Dragon Uses it "We watched House of the Dragon, which is pretty cool. It's not highbrow, it's not important with a capital I, but it was awesome. We loved that." Only Anish
- Minimax Uses it "It generates all the video using the MiniMax model via file." +2 others
- Town Recommends it "Town is just such a magical experience. The number one piece of advice I give to everybody — friends, family, folks in the industry — is please just use the products. And Town is really extraordinary. You see how the compounding improvement of the product through memory advantages it over time. The first day you use it, it doesn't know you well. By day 30, it's able to make excellent assumptions on your behalf because it has soaked in 30 days of context, memory, and skills." +2 others
- 7 Powers Recommends it "Still read Hamilton Helmer and all that stuff still applies. Yes. Love this book. I feel like there's only five real business books in the world. Every other one is in the business of selling business books, and they're fake. And his is on my list of five." Only Anish
- High Output Management Recommends it "The two that are so obvious are High Output Management, which is as good as it ever was." Only Anish
- Seven Powers Recommends it "Seven Powers is actually just an awesome book. It's a very intellectual distillation about moats in business theory and compounding advantages. I really like it." +3 others
- Cursor Uses it "Being able to use Cursor as a single way to orchestrate all the models is valuable." +55 others
- Transcendental Meditation Uses it "I'm a longtime transcendental meditation person. I've been meditating since I was a little kid, 25, 30 years. And it brings me this peace and joy" +4 others