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Researching her own medical conditions (thyroid disease) to discuss with her physicians

"I did something that I often do when I'm dealing with my own physicians. I went to PubMed and I just started to read about thyroid diseases."

Lisa Feldman Barrett

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Stack Overflow

Software

2 creators

Learning and troubleshooting while building iOS apps

"I built it just mostly with Stack Overflow."

Kyle Fowler

"I try to use following links on a Wikipedia trail as a way to lean into the self-directedness of what we mean by research."

Charles Broskoski

Teaching children geography, history, and world knowledge; used as an incentive-based learning tool where the child recites learned content in exchange for a reward

"There was a book, Countries and Peoples. Someone gave it to him as a gift. My father read through it, and he realized that it was perfect for me, for a child who was 10, 11, maybe 12 at the time. That book was part of my life for about two or three years. I..."

Khabib Nurmagomedov

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Mobbin

Software

1 creator

Providing Claude Code with real-world UI examples from top brands via MCP to improve design quality

"I came back with two tools that are not sponsoring this video in this design process. And that is 21st Dev, and it is also Mobbin. What they are is essentially UI libraries with some of the best examples — in this case on Mobbin — of some of the best websit..."

Liam Ottley

Systematic analysis of companies to find investment opportunities

"He went through the Moody's manuals. And on eBay, I bought one of these Moody's manuals because they don't publish them anymore. But they're on very thin paper, very small text."

Mohnish Pabrai

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Sennheiser HD 600

Product

1 creator

Reference/critical listening; personal benchmark for neutral sound signature

"It's possibly because I'm so used to listening to the HD 600s and that's like the signature I'm most comfortable with."

Marques Brownlee

Understanding how humans historically redefine intelligence as AI achieves new capabilities

"There's a Wikipedia article called the AI effect. I recommend looking up the Wikipedia article. It's quite fun."

Connor Leahy

Looking up local phone numbers for businesses, pediatrician, church, movie theater without internet access

"We don't know the phone number for the movie theater or the pediatrician or the church. We have to get a phone book, so we ordered a phone book. Still have the Yellow Pages — it's called the Real Yellow Pages, as though there are all these other yellow page..."

Chris Moody