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14 recommended products

Everything Bill personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.

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Google Maps negative
"The imagery is 5cm imagery — far better than Google Maps. 100 times better than Google Maps. You can see down to the ground."
ZTE negative
"Oh yeah. And ZTE."

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The Shawshank Redemption mentions media

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"I'm telling you The Shawshank Redemption. It's the greatest movie of all time per IMDb, per Rotten Tomatoes. It's a perfect movie."
Obsession mentions media

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"The biggest movie per dollar spent was Obsession, which was made by a YouTube creator who was doing stuff out of his basement a few years earlier."
Azio Camo mentions product

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"Azio Camo is another one, and my buddy Joe runs Azio Camo. These companies are sponsoring us to produce these films."
Cybertruck mentions product

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"I ordered one of those and then I ended up pulling out. I regret it. Every time I looked at that Cybertruck, I just smiled. Then I started hearing other guys got them and there were some issues and bugs being worked out, so I was a coward and I pulled out."
Four Stages of Competence mentions technique

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"This thing, a friend of mine taught me this a long time ago. Four stages of competence."
Cognitive behavioral therapy mentions technique

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"What most people engage in is cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT, is not what Jung was doing. Like Jung was far more radical."
Thor: Ragnarok mentions media

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"He has to go through some type of transformational period, which often, like Star Wars, he's in the swamp, or Thor: Ragnarok, he goes to this upside-down world where he has to fight the Hulk."
Logan mentions media

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"If you watch the Logan movie, he's got a young version of himself who's a woman who has no ability to speak. So she lacks logos... it's telling a very old story."
Avengers: Endgame mentions media

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"The number one movie in 2020 or 2019 was like Avengers Endgame or Avengers Infinity War, those two movies, highly digitized, tons of CGI, everything's getting done in front of a green screen."
Lamborghini Countach mentions product

Mentioned in 1 episode

"Like a Lamborghini from the '90s. Like a Countach."
ChatGPT mentions software

Mentioned in 1 episode

"It walks you through all of those things far better than ChatGPT would or other ones would, because all of our training data is solely focused on hunting and best-in-class information on hunting. Neural networks often regress to the mean by giving you the broad spectrum of the internet."
Pegasus mentions software

Mentioned in 2 episodes

"Pegasus is probably the king of that. It's basically a persistent implant that lives on the phone. In its earliest iterations it required you click some type of link — there would be a phishing element to it. It was stored in a place where it wasn't obvious that you should be looking for any type of code there."
Accenture mentions other

Mentioned in 1 episode

"I could go to work for Accenture next week and make that in a year. That's not what I'm trying to do here."
Mapbox mentions software

Mentioned in 1 episode

"Building a Mapbox map and putting it in an app is not the hard part, which is what all these guys really are at the end of the day — they're a Mapbox map inside of an app."
Pokemon Go mentions software

Mentioned in 1 episode

"Pokémon Go players built a 30 billion photo map. That's how training robots to deliver your pizza"
GrapheneOS mentions software

Mentioned in 1 episode

"I can install a custom operating system like Graphine or something like that which I'm not doing right now"
Google Drive mentions software

Mentioned in 1 episode

"like we talked about with uploading photos to Google Drive. It needs that training data"
Scholastic book order forms mentions product

Mentioned in 1 episode

"you get these scholastic book order forms that you'd bring home from school and you could order books"
Leviathan mentions media

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"You read Thomas Hobbes Leviathan or John Locke or Montesquieu, all of them talked about this great experiment that was being set up"
The Federalist Papers mentions media

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"if you read the Federalist Papers, was so important to the founders that there was this state that the state's needs were organized because the state was where the founders wanted these thought experiments"

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