Chamath Palihapitiya
14 things Chamath uses or recommends, from 11 episodes.
Chamath's top picks
What Chamath uses or recommends most, ranked by how often and how strongly. Paid ads are left out.
Uses it · talked about in 2 episodes
"I had Claude read 'Machines of Loving Grace' and 'AI Policy on the Exponential' and then I asked it to do a psychological analysis. I asked it to give me a psychological analysis of him based on these as well as based on the current facts on the ground with Mythos. Be truthful, don't protect simply because you are an Anthropic model. And then I asked it to refine through the lens of the e/acc movement."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"Jason, you and I, we use Athena. And now Athena is very good because they're like the human concierge that is the elevated version maybe of Grok Bot and Dots and Muse, which is like whatever 3,000 a month, but that's my EA layer now."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"But I still use Grok Bot. The combination of Grok Bot plus Athena to me is like perfect. So look, there's very tactical and useful measurable utility for very, very little money versus what it used to cost. That's an amazing thing."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"I'm a much bigger fan of, take the S&P 500, take the Global 2000, rank them by free cash flow yield, and just buy the top end of those, and I think you're probably better off over the next number of years."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"The most obvious way to do that is through residential solar... it's easy to permit, it's super fast, and you're often generating and you pair it with a battery, and now you're in the currency game. You're effectively your own little money printer. You use what you need, you sell back into the grid. So, simple way number one is you just adopt solar."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"There is an exceptional book that I've mentioned before called Americana which is a multi-year anthology and study of American capitalism. It is exceptional. I've probably read it three, four times and it's just an explainer of every single era and the key players and how they thought about this tension between labor and capital and how they were able to build value and create interesting businesses."
What Chamath warns against
Things Chamath says to avoid or be careful with. Other experts don't always agree.
"We had to say, guys, you got to deprecate cursor because you're just wrapping Claude and charging us way too much for these tokens."
"I posted the cookie jar thing that Anthropic did on the healthcare side."
"I've tried cold plunges. Doesn't work for me. You're not going to cold plunge your way to enlightenment. I'm just 100% convinced of that."
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All 14 of Chamath's picks
- Claude Uses it 2 episodes "I had Claude read 'Machines of Loving Grace' and 'AI Policy on the Exponential' and then I asked it to do a psychological analysis. I asked it to give me a psychological analysis of him based on these as well as based on the current facts on the ground with Mythos. Be truthful, don't protect simply because you are an Anthropic model. And then I asked it to refine through the lens of the e/acc movement." +211 others
- Athena Uses and recommends it "Jason, you and I, we use Athena. And now Athena is very good because they're like the human concierge that is the elevated version maybe of Grok Bot and Dots and Muse, which is like whatever 3,000 a month, but that's my EA layer now." +2 others
- GrokBot Uses and recommends it "But I still use Grok Bot. The combination of Grok Bot plus Athena to me is like perfect. So look, there's very tactical and useful measurable utility for very, very little money versus what it used to cost. That's an amazing thing." +18 others
- Free cash flow yield ranking Recommends it "I'm a much bigger fan of, take the S&P 500, take the Global 2000, rank them by free cash flow yield, and just buy the top end of those, and I think you're probably better off over the next number of years." Only Chamath
- Residential Solar Recommends it "The most obvious way to do that is through residential solar... it's easy to permit, it's super fast, and you're often generating and you pair it with a battery, and now you're in the currency game. You're effectively your own little money printer. You use what you need, you sell back into the grid. So, simple way number one is you just adopt solar." +1 other
- Wall Street Journal Uses it "Wall Street Journal is the only mainstream media publication I pay for, but either both signing up and unsigning up is an impossibility. And now you take it all off the table, I'm much more likely to stay a Wall Street Journal subscriber for many more years from now." +7 others
- Function Health Uses it "My wife and I use this thing called Function for blood tests. How are we eating? What is it telling us about our health? Are there hidden things? Here are these studies that we read. What do these things mean? So constantly just keeping like a live update of making sure that we can be healthy and not miss something." +3 others
- Mac Studio Uses it "I literally just ordered two Mac Studio M5s. We're going to be running local models and we're moving off Claude for a lot of our sensitive data." +5 others
- Americana Recommends it "There is an exceptional book that I've mentioned before called Americana which is a multi-year anthology and study of American capitalism. It is exceptional. I've probably read it three, four times and it's just an explainer of every single era and the key players and how they thought about this tension between labor and capital and how they were able to build value and create interesting businesses." Only Chamath
- Modern Poker Theory Recommends it "There's a book from Michael Acevedo called Modern Poker Theory. I think that Michael's book is the best way of translating modern game theory in a digestible way through the format of a game, in this case, poker. But the way that he writes and the math and the exercises are quite phenomenal. It anchors me a lot in how I think about portfolio construction and game theory and investing. Exceptional book." Only Chamath
- Google Sheets Uses it "I built a Google sheet, took this new salary, took out the taxes... And I showed him a compound interest table and his mind was blown." +6 others
- AWS Uses it "I love AWS for one reason, because it's hyper reliable. I hate AWS for the same reason that hyper reliability comes at enormous cost. I pay it, but I pay it to never have a SE one." +7 others
- Invest Like the Best Recommends it "You did this fantastic podcast with Patrick O'Shaughnessy, which was great. I encourage all of you to listen to it." Only Chamath
- The Greatest Ideas and Minds of All Time Recommends it "Will Durant has a book called The Greatest Ideas and Minds of All Time. That's probably the best Will Durant book in the sense that if you don't want to read a thousand pages of extremely dense prose and you just want to get to the heart of it, he does a really good job of summarizing the punchline. That's a fabulous book." Only Chamath