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Claude

Software

216 creators

Cleaning up transcribed brain dumps

"Speak into Wispr Flow, for instance, so it transcribes your 10-minute brain dump, and you can throw it into something like Claude for cleanup."

Tim Ferriss

Q&A with Tim — The 4-Hour Workweek in a World of AI, The 4-Hour Body After 40, and More ▶ 20:06
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Suggesting and refining infographic ideas for newsletter posts

"In writing and proofreading, I then give that copy to Claude and I say, suggest six or seven or eight infographics, and then we fine-tune the ideas until we get the final graphics that you see."

Lon Harris

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Analyzing an exported brokerage account to count yearly trading decisions

"I had this idea where we basically exported his brokerage account, and we put it in Claude, and we asked it over the last 12 years, how many decisions did you make a year?"

Sam Parr

This guy beat the S&P500 for 11 years doing (almost) nothing ▶ 0:56
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iPad

Product

6 creators

Streaming movies and casual gaming in bed while traveling

"I travel with all three — phone, tablet, and computer. I prefer to watch when I'm in bed. We're streaming a movie or playing a casual game. It is a better experience to use an iPad than a computer or your phone."

This Week in Startups

The Pentagon Wants Equity in AI Startups | E2336 ▶ 30:54
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Children's supervised screen time, homework rewards, educational coding projects

"My kids are too young to use social media. They're 10, eight, and six. But they each have an iPad. They have to earn their time."

Adam Mosseri

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Primary computing device for everyday work

"I also have an iPad. Basically, I only use the Lenovo right now because we're on this Zoom, but otherwise I'm a no laptop guy. I'm an iPad, iPhone guy."

Ben Ling

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Mac Studio

Product

6 creators

Running open-source AI models locally

"The AI running on your Mac Studio with 256 gigs of RAM, which cost $12,000, which I just bought. It's a little too expensive right now."

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Running local open source AI models to avoid sharing sensitive IP with closed AI providers

"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."

Chamath Palihapitiya

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Desktop computing for local AI model processing

"Having that work on the incredible hardware I'm gonna have on my desktop on this $12,000 Mac Studio."

This Week in Startups

The Pentagon Wants Equity in AI Startups | E2336 ▶ 34:54
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MacBook Pro

Product

5 creators

Computer for building iOS apps

"The first thing that you're going to need is a Mac. I'm using a MacBook Pro M4, but I'm pretty sure any newer MacBook M1 and beyond will work just fine."

Riley Brown

The iPhone Duo Needs Apps (Claude Can Build Them) ▶ 1:01
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High-RAM laptop for AI workloads

"I went from spending $1,500 on MacBook Air to spending $3,000 on MacBook Pro specifically to get to 48 gigs of RAM."

This Week in Startups

The Pentagon Wants Equity in AI Startups | E2336 ▶ 35:00

Primary portable computer, taken on hikes and off-site for writing

"It fits my number one thing, which is I want to take my 14-inch, 48 gigs of RAM MacBook Pro with me when I go on a hike in case I get inspired."

This Week in Startups

Breaking down Nvidia’s Hugging Face and Poolside bets | E2331 ▶ 1:43:01
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Ableton Live

Software

4 creators

Music production including MIDI sequencing, running synths through plugins, reversing audio, adding tape loops

"If I am in front of Ableton Live and crafting up a MIDI baseline and running synths through plugins and reversing a piano and adding a tape loop — I will literally forget to go to the bathroom. I will forget to eat. I lose myself. I'm gone."

Jack Conte

The Artist-Founder: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Creativity | Patreon's Jack Conte ▶ 19:24
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Music production — translating musical ideas from mind to machine with low latency

"I was also starting to play around with producing music and I really like tools like Ableton Live. I have an idea, I can extract it from my mind and into the machine."

Kareem Amin

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"So I use Pro Tools. For the most part, but I also use Logic and Ableton."

Rick Beato

Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music | Lex Fridman Podcast #492 ▶ 2:14:22
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Photoshop

Software

4 creators

Graphic design as a kid, a hobby, and a side business

"By the way, I was on Adobe Photoshop since 1990. I did graphic design pre-layers as a kid on computers and I did it as like a service for people in the neighborhood and small businesses. So I've been a big Photoshop fan since the earliest days and a big use..."

David Friedberg

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Image editing with AI model integrations

"I was using Adobe products recently and in Photoshop, they have an integration with Gemini Nano and you can plug in all the different image models and you can actually use the tools in very interesting ways."

John Coogan

The Meta Compute Debate | Diet TBPN ▶ 5:43
"If I could have a workflow where Manis opens every photo individually in Photoshop and tweaks it and does it intelligently and crops it ever so slightly."

Tyler Denk

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Premiere

Software

2 creators

Video editing, keeping Lex on Windows OS

"Obviously I'm a Linux person, but because of Adobe Premiere, Adobe products, I'm also a Windows person."

Lex Fridman

DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501 ▶ 1:43:14
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Post-production of ad creative video content

"I'd use Hyperframes and Premiere for post-production."

Greg Isenberg

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Pro Display XDR

Product

2 creators
"This brings us next to the displays that I work with every single day, which is the Pro Display XDR. There's two of them. I've had a dual monitor set up forever."

Marques Brownlee

Reviewing Everything on my Desk! (2026) ▶ 4:15
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"As someone who's been using a Mac Pro and a Pro Display XDR since they came out, the immediate first thought when I saw these announced was, should I be switching to the Mac Studio and the Studio Display XDRs?"

Marques Brownlee

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: We're All Pros Now! ▶ 7:29

professional display work

"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."

TBPN

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Studio Display

Product

2 creators
"If you want the best possible display to complement the MacBook Pro for that one cable plugin and come to life desk setup, it's this one."

Marques Brownlee

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: We're All Pros Now! ▶ 10:01
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"I think this new Studio Display XDR is going to be pretty popular. I'm actually probably going to get one myself for my office at home. So, I'm pretty pumped for it."

Mark Gurman

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Bloomberg Terminal

Software

1 creator

Looking up financial data and analyst estimates (e.g., Nvidia revenue projections)

"I have a Bloomberg Terminal. The very useful thing they have on there is Ask B. So when you do a Bloomberg inquiry to look up what we think Nvidia's revenue is going to be next quarter, it runs something called BQL, which is its own programming language."

Ed Zitron

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Cinema 4D

Software

1 creator

3D renders and motion graphics for YouTube videos

"I've actually spent hundreds if not thousands of hours in 3D modeling software, mostly in Cinema 4D and Houdini. Cinema 4D's a closed-source piece of software, very expensive — over a thousand dollars to get a license good for a year, then they eventually w..."

John Coogan

Astra Reactions, Jobs Print, Cybercab Launch | Diet TBPN ▶ 6:05
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3D modeling, motion graphics, YouTube video production

"I've actually spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours in 3D modeling software, mostly in Cinema 4D and Houdini. Cinema 4D is a closed source piece of software, very expensive — was like over $1,000 to get a license that would be good for like a year."

John Coogan

Jobs Boom, Astra Reactions, Cybercab Roll Out, The Dyson Debate ▶ 11:47
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Final Cut

Software

1 creator

Video editing; the draw that brought him into the Mac ecosystem

"I actually remember when I first switched to mostly using Macs myself, it was around 2015 because they roped me in with Final Cut Pro."

Marques Brownlee

iPhone Duo: What We Missed! ▶ 0:56
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"It's because of the way I've edited in Final Cut Pro for like the last decade. So you can blame Final Cut Pro for this, but I have a mouse and a magic trackpad."

Marques Brownlee

Reviewing Everything on my Desk! (2026) ▶ 11:14
"I have been impressed that you can legitimately open Final Cut Pro and do basic 4K edits, no problem."

Marques Brownlee

Macbook Neo Review: Better than you Think! ▶ 9:39
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