TBPN
50 things TBPN uses or recommends, from 45 episodes.
TBPN's top picks
What TBPN uses or recommends most, ranked by how often and how strongly. Paid ads are left out.
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 3 episodes
"I love the Vision Pro. It is the anti-brain rot device for me. I put it on and I'm not on my phone and I just watch a movie. I watch Citizen Kane from start to finish"
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 4 episodes
"I've used it you should use it it's a very interesting experience because I think a lot of people have interacted with LLMs and chat bots and they're sort of used to this token streaming in. It's way better when you just land on a Wikipedia page, the full thing loads and you can just scroll however much you want."
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 3 episodes
"You can use Cerebras chips today in Codex 5.3 Spark. They are very fast and you should use it. It's a very interesting experience."
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 2 episodes
"I got woefully addicted to a poker themed roguelike deck building game called Balatro, which I don't think anyone here has played, but this game is amazing. So much fun."
Uses it · talked about in 2 episodes
"Even Grok has nicely interfaced into X where people say, 'Hey, Grok, is this real?' And it just pulls it up for you. I find myself on tweets just going, 'I don't want to copy this text out and into another LLM app.' I'm happy just asking Grok real quick for an extra detail or one more fact."
Uses it · talked about in 2 episodes
"And when I demoed Meta AI, the latest launch, one of the suggested prompts is like vibe code a video game, and it actually does a really really great job building a little miniature video game."
What TBPN warns against
Things TBPN says to avoid or be careful with. Other experts don't always agree.
"iPads with kids just have really bad aesthetics. Kid with an iPad just zoning out, right?"
"California jurors say the tech companies designed their apps to cause injury to kids."
"the free tier of Zoom where you couldn't fathom it. You're clearly going to go long on the meeting and Zoom's just like, 'Goodbye. It's over.' It kicks everyone out with no notice"
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All 50 of TBPN's picks
- Apple Vision Pro Uses and recommends it 3 episodes "I love the Vision Pro. It is the anti-brain rot device for me. I put it on and I'm not on my phone and I just watch a movie. I watch Citizen Kane from start to finish" +3 others
- ChatGPT Uses and recommends it 4 episodes "I've used it you should use it it's a very interesting experience because I think a lot of people have interacted with LLMs and chat bots and they're sort of used to this token streaming in. It's way better when you just land on a Wikipedia page, the full thing loads and you can just scroll however much you want." +155 others
- Codex Uses and recommends it 3 episodes "You can use Cerebras chips today in Codex 5.3 Spark. They are very fast and you should use it. It's a very interesting experience." +96 others
- Balatro Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "I got woefully addicted to a poker themed roguelike deck building game called Balatro, which I don't think anyone here has played, but this game is amazing. So much fun." +1 other
- Grok Uses it 2 episodes "Even Grok has nicely interfaced into X where people say, 'Hey, Grok, is this real?' And it just pulls it up for you. I find myself on tweets just going, 'I don't want to copy this text out and into another LLM app.' I'm happy just asking Grok real quick for an extra detail or one more fact." +35 others
- Meta AI Uses it 2 episodes "And when I demoed Meta AI, the latest launch, one of the suggested prompts is like vibe code a video game, and it actually does a really really great job building a little miniature video game." +2 others
- The Lean Startup Uses and recommends it "The Lean Startup was foundational to me when I came to Silicon Valley. I remember I went to a lean startup book event probably back in 2012. You spoke there and it was very inspiring as I was starting my first company." Only TBPN
- Chrome Uses it 2 episodes "I have Gmail running in Chrome and there's two different Gemini buttons that I can open simultaneously." +5 others
- Diet Coke Uses and recommends it "I drink three Diet Cokes a day and I love Diet Coke" Only TBPN
- Sora Uses it 2 episodes "I've enjoyed making some videos in Sora. I've never enjoyed having to go to a separate app. I want all of that to live in one place." +3 others
- Tesla Autopilot Uses and recommends it "I had the experience this week of Autopilot. It worked perfectly for like 50 minutes. Once you try it, I don't think you can go back. It's the first technology that I've tried that actually feels life-changing, especially if you're in the car for like 30 minutes a day." +1 other
- Ramp Uses and recommends it "Like Ramp has a chat interface. It's really good actually and it works and it's implemented." +3 others
- Invest Like the Best Recommends it 2 episodes "Patrick O'Shaughnessy had Paul Tudor Jones, one of the greatest macro traders of all time on Invest Like the Best. It's an hour and 11 minutes and you should go listen to it." +1 other
- Florsheim shoes Uses and recommends it "I have some Florsheims? I like them. They're very accessibly priced at $145. They look nice and they sort of match everything" Only TBPN
- Apple Maps Uses and recommends it "I use Apple Maps like a psycho apparently. I was in Las Vegas at the Las Vegas Grand Prix and I just happened to open Apple Maps and I was like, 'Wow, this is a really detailed rendering of the track.'" Only TBPN
- Tesla Uses it "I'm incredibly happy with my Tesla, and at the same time I can look at it from like 20 feet away and point out a bunch of issues with the build." +24 others
- DJI Uses it "I don't think about geopolitics but I like that my wedding video had a drone in it and it was a DJI drone you think about that very positively." +2 others
- Rolex Uses it "I have a Rolex Submariner in TBPN green on. We got them for the whole team." +1 other
- Shopify Uses it "Very easy check out thanks to Shopify." +9 others
- Gemini Uses it "I was writing this update in a Google Docs and I noticed that I had two Gemini stars basically one Gemini star in my Google Docs and then another in the Chrome browser" +71 others
- Google Docs Uses it "I was writing this update in a Google Docs and I noticed that I had two Gemini stars" +11 others
- Eight Sleep Uses it "I have the Eight Sleep will decide like the optimal time that I wake up within a few minutes, right? Because it's like an adaptive alarm" +16 others
- Cassette tapes Uses it "I had a cassette era. I would get books on tape. Literally books on tape." Only TBPN
- Wild Roman Uses it "I do love Wild Roman." Only TBPN
- Yerba Mate Uses it "Thank you to the human team for the matina yerba mates, the podcast in a can." +2 others
- Python Uses it "We actually wrote Python scripts to programmatically interact with the word documents" +7 others
- Fiverr Uses it "I remember as an entrepreneur, I found out about Fiverr and I was like, 'This is amazing. I can get random stuff done for five bucks.' But the time commitment actually finding the right person, making sure the reviews are good wound up being like hours of work." +4 others
- Fast Company Uses it "As a boy, I subscribed to the print edition of Fast Company and always looked forward to getting it in the physical mailbox at home." Only TBPN
- ElevenLabs Uses it "I would copy them, put them into ElevenLabs reader and have it read it to me in sort of a silly voice." +8 others
- Gorilla Mind Uses it "I'm more of the Gorilla Mind one. That's the one that I do" +1 other
- Wall Street Journal Uses it "I have been reading the Journal for a full year now or two" +7 others
- Hayden Shapes surfboard Uses it "I had a Hayden Shapes that I took to like 20some countries and it did eventually snap" Only TBPN
- Stubborn Attachments Recommends it "that's why I recommend Stubborn Attachments to so many people and so widely" Only TBPN
- ChatGPT-5.4 Uses it "I just asked ChatGPT-5.4 thinking, 'What car do you think I want?' It only had to think for a couple of seconds. Probably a Porsche 992 GT3 RS with the Weissach package." Only TBPN
- Snag (domain brokers) Recommends it "Rob and the Snag team are the finest domain brokers I've ever worked with. Rob helped us get tbpn.com back in the day. You should focus whatever energy you were going to put on getting an SI domain on just getting your .com. But I would do it with Rob." +2 others
- Arena Magazine Recommends it "Arena Magazine is dropping issue number 008 at C. They're covering deep sea mining, ship building, undersea cables, maritime autonomy... Best enjoyed near a body of water with a cold drink in hand. Arena Mag, one of our favorites." Only TBPN
- Vanguard Recommends it "Mitchell Baldridge recommends setting up a Vanguard account. Not Fidelity, not Schwab, Vanguard. It's not because they have the lowest fees. It's because their interface is so awful you will never trade. It has made his clients millions." +6 others
- I Am Not A Robot Recommends it "I am not a robot by Joanna Stern. It's available everywhere books are sold." Only TBPN
- Open Pilot Recommends it "Huge opportunity to just like work with open pilot which from George Hotz AI like that system is better than everything else except for Tesla." Only TBPN
- Billion Dollar Whale Recommends it "You got to read this book. Billion Dollar Whale. Fantastic book. I thought it was going to be turned into a movie at some point. It should be. It's a fascinating story" Only TBPN
- Earth Class Mail Recommends it "Earth Class Mail Palmer, I think you need a PO box that scans the emails or scans the physical mail and delivers it to an email inbox." Only TBPN
- Yes Man Recommends it "highly recommend it if you're looking for a good uplifting movie this week" Only TBPN
- Elden Ring Recommends it "If you haven't played Elden Ring, it's a fun time. It's really really hard and sometimes it just gets like a little bit too much, but it's a good time." +2 others
- Tequi Context Recommends it "go subscribe to Tequi Context on Substack" Only TBPN
- Key Context Recommends it "Go subscribe to Key Context on Substack. Follow Tae Kim on social media" Only TBPN
- Chip War Recommends it "We've interviewed Chris Miller, the author of Chip War. It's a great book. Highly recommend it." Only TBPN
- OddLots Recommends it "Oh, I love OddLots. It's so good how deep they get into the supply chain." Only TBPN
- Yipit Recommends it "I actually dug into the Yipit data which is credit card based and that seemed really like way more reliable." Only TBPN
- The Wealth of Nations Recommends it "if you want to crack open the real hard stuff, pick up a copy of The Wealth of Nations" Only TBPN
- Pro Display XDR Recommends it "The Pro Display XDR has been dominant for like a decade. and you will go on YouTube and look up, should I buy an Apple Pro Display XDR and the answer is always yes. Like it's still a great monitor." +1 other