This Week in Startups

"And then Anker sells a two headed USBC cable. This thing's a godsend. You put these two things together, they don't take up any space. You got your phone and your laptop charging."

"Shout out Perplexity Computer. Love the whole category."

"I saw Anker my favorite brand and they made a beautiful charger. This is the Anker Nano 45W Max charger. This is like a fast one. So, it's really good. Um, but it's so tiny. And what's really unique about this one is you can rotate the plug."

"I buy these two or three at a time. And then when I'm with a friend, I hand it to them and I gift it to them. This is a giant 25,000 milliamp and it's got two built-in cables and it has pass through charging. It's fantastic game changer."

"Nigel Holmes is the godfather of design. You could pull up this book, Designer's Guide to Creating Charts and Diagrams."

"it has some of the best world building and characterization I've ever read. I'm absolutely hooked. It's the type of book where I don't want to go to bed because I want more of it."

"Jason, my gift to you, read it. It'll blow your mind. It's crazy. You've never read anything like it. It's fantastic."

"I can recommend to you the Shokz open ear headphones when you're walking with the baby, you need to hear if the baby wakes up"

"This is why I talk about the Checklist Manifesto all the time. Make checklists, have your team do it, force them to print them out."

"It's not like anything else I have seen on TV recently. It's very strange and I think if you're either a fan of like family relationship drama or creepy horror, I think there's something to enjoy in this show for everybody. So, I I really recommend it."

"The internet has been the best thing ever for self-publishing."

"I saw that this new show Paradise was in season two and everybody was talking about it. I watched the first season of Paradise and it was great. So go watch the series. It's great."

"He also did a 2023 movie called The Last Stop in Yuma County. That is great. Oh, if you get a chance to watch that one. That's the one to check out."

"There's a really interesting indie film. It's on Hulu right now. It's called American Sweat Shop. I actually just threw it on out of curiosity. I was pretty caught up in it. I think they do a really good job."

"She has this album called West End Girl about her breakup with the guy David Harbor. People are going crazy for this album. It's a great album. This is a great thing for artists to do."

"There's a Tedeschi Trucks band. They're kind of like the Allman Brothers. They got a little bit of Mark Knopfler in there. I found this band. I like this band."

"In the modern era, it's let me make a launch video, let me do a TikTok, let me write a blog post or let me do a creative brief."

"It's a vibe coding platform. It competes with Claude and Cursor. It's comparable or better than Claude. The price that they're launching at is $29 a month. It's five to seven times cheaper than Claude Code and Codex."

"I like a certain bakery in the Austin area. It's called Abby Jane. They make incredible bread. They use the whole grains, like artisanal grains. So it's just this is literally the best bakery in Texas and one of the 10 best in the country"

"On Sunday on Disney Plus, another National Geographic documentary is arriving. It's called Ghost Elephants. But here's the interesting thing about it. Directed and narrated by Werner Herzog."