Tobi Lütke
17 things Tobi uses or recommends, from 3 episodes.
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Recommends it · talked about in 2 episodes
"The Lessons of History, which I just think is the densest — the highest token quality book in existence given the length."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"I am a Meditations fan. I know stoicism is falling out of favor a little bit right now but it's been a lifelong thing for me, and I have a copy of Meditations in most rooms I spend time in. So I just do some random reading and it's like magical how it's somehow relevant to something I'm wrestling with."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"I'm mainlining as my computer an operating system called Omakub. It's a version of Linux started by a good friend of mine David Heinemeier Hansson as a sort of new passion project. My operating system is entirely malleable. I can open any new terminal, open an agent and give it my wish for anything about this operating system to be different and it will be different afterwards. It's my operating system — it's a N=1 piece of software now that just does everything I want in exactly the way I want."
Uses it · talked about in 2 episodes
"River sits on Slack does a lot of Shopify's engineering with people steering her to public um Slack channels which is awesome because then everyone learns from everyone else."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"Most of us who use cloud code use it through Ghostty on a Mac or usually Ghostty is a like a terminal application which is like perfect right like and it's like it's such a weird thing to have spent your time doing this but like um the author chose to uh after he sold his company to by hand make a piece like a like a perfectly crafted piece of software that he thought needed to exist and now everyone agrees with him on that it needed to exist because he built like everything on it."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"We built a lot of Shopify in Ruby, which is famous for its poetry mode. Poetry mode means you can write Ruby that's essentially English. You can read some really really well-built Ruby code as if it's telling you a story about what the system is actually like and how it works."
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- Lessons of History Recommends it 2 episodes "The Lessons of History, which I just think is the densest — the highest token quality book in existence given the length." Only Tobi
- Meditations Uses and recommends it "I am a Meditations fan. I know stoicism is falling out of favor a little bit right now but it's been a lifelong thing for me, and I have a copy of Meditations in most rooms I spend time in. So I just do some random reading and it's like magical how it's somehow relevant to something I'm wrestling with." +5 others
- Omarchy Uses and recommends it "I'm mainlining as my computer an operating system called Omakub. It's a version of Linux started by a good friend of mine David Heinemeier Hansson as a sort of new passion project. My operating system is entirely malleable. I can open any new terminal, open an agent and give it my wish for anything about this operating system to be different and it will be different afterwards. It's my operating system — it's a N=1 piece of software now that just does everything I want in exactly the way I want." Only Tobi
- Slack Uses it 2 episodes "River sits on Slack does a lot of Shopify's engineering with people steering her to public um Slack channels which is awesome because then everyone learns from everyone else." +52 others
- Ghostty Uses and recommends it "Most of us who use cloud code use it through Ghostty on a Mac or usually Ghostty is a like a terminal application which is like perfect right like and it's like it's such a weird thing to have spent your time doing this but like um the author chose to uh after he sold his company to by hand make a piece like a like a perfectly crafted piece of software that he thought needed to exist and now everyone agrees with him on that it needed to exist because he built like everything on it." +2 others
- Ruby Uses and recommends it "We built a lot of Shopify in Ruby, which is famous for its poetry mode. Poetry mode means you can write Ruby that's essentially English. You can read some really really well-built Ruby code as if it's telling you a story about what the system is actually like and how it works." +1 other
- Claude Uses and recommends it "Opus is unbelievably good at programming and right now it's easy to go from that and then just assume it's equally competent in everything else." +245 others
- Kindle Uses and recommends it "I really really am a huge fan of Kindle just because not because it's great but because it isn't, right? Because it's such a limited but actually single purpose device." +10 others
- Affirmations Recommends it "Affirmations are the easiest way to do it. If there's something you want to have different, if you want to edit something about yourself, just try to say that the goal has been accomplished over and over and over again, ideally written by pen. You don't need to do this for long. I found this to be incredibly potent. My example was public speaking — I started writing out 'I love public speaking about things that are interesting to me.' A week of spending 5 minutes writing this line after line, like Bart Simpson on a whiteboard, just kind of does the thing." Only Tobi
- Enneagram Uses it "So there's this thing called Enneagram which is reasonably like commonly used and and and quite good." +1 other
- Obsidian Uses it "I have a part of my Obsidian folders that are just like people that I respect who said things about things I build um, uh, that are um, meaningful to me. little jolts of uh positivity" +10 others
- Starlink Uses it "Then I'm going on a longer trip with that car. I also put a Starlink unit into the back uh and then just like um you know if someone else drives I can work from from from there." +20 others
- Foundation series Recommends it "His longer book is good. Fiction and the Foundation series is so good." Only Tobi
- Parkinson's Law Recommends it "Books I come back to — I often talk about Parkinson's Law, which I love. It's such a quick read. I almost always will mention it." Only Tobi
- The Managerial Revolution Recommends it "James Burnham's books are fantastic, I think, and extremely relevant. He wrote the Managerial Revolution first and then a book called The Machiavellians, which is unbelievably good." Only Tobi
- The Three-Body Problem Recommends it "You read the Three-Body Problem too, right? I guess that's sort of tripping into older book now too. But that's a recent sci-fi which is incredibly good." +2 others
- Rush Recommends it "And if if you haven't uh listened to this and haven't watched the movie just definitely watch Rush it's like it's one of the greatest" Only Tobi