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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."

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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."

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Deep-dive business and company research listening

"I listen to the Acquired podcast and I just don't think anyone else does exactly what they do. If I get another episode of that, I know exactly what it is. It's like a 4-hour thing where those guys are having fun and chatting, but it's like a 4-hour deep di..."

Vlad Tenev

Deep-dive research on Walt Disney while also reading an Audible book on Disney

"I stopped to go listen to the whole Acquired episode and then came back to it. I was like, this is interesting — they're very similar things. Long-form audio within a couple hours of each other. One they spend a couple months working on; the other is probab..."

Cal Newport

Watching movies in VR/mixed reality

"Has Demis ever watched a movie in VR? It's electric. Apple Vision Pro — it's fantastic."

John Coogan

Watching movies in an immersive cinematic experience

"We have one in the studio. We've been having fun with it. I still think it's an incredible piece of technology. I watched Dunkirk in it and I watched Godfather Part Two and Master and Commander. Really, you want to be in the cinematic feel, feel like you're..."

John Coogan

Daily driving as an electric vehicle, appreciated for rethinking car operating assumptions

"I did finally switch to an EV after having many cars for a long time and I got a Rivian and I do respect the design a lot — just how they've really made it — a lot of assumptions about how operating a car should work have gone away. You just walk up to it, ..."

Ian Silber

Daily driving and testing self-driving / driver assistance features

"The Rivian team sent you this demo unit to try. It's actually an amazing car. I like it. The self-driving feature, deeply underrated."

Jordi Hays

Working as a consultant/advisor

"For sure. I mean I I mean working with X has been one of the the the SpaceX II which we're now called has been one of the great joys of my life. It's been it's been I have learned more uh I I actually learned quite a bit going back in with Chris Snowflake t..."

Chad Peets

Launch services for space manufacturing missions

"SpaceX takes us up to orbit. They then drop us off. Again, like any other satellite, we spend between, call it, like 4 to 12 weeks up there."

Delian Asparouhov

Co-designing low-voltage transistors for Etched's inference chips

"TSMC has been a fantastic partner to us. We are so grateful. One of the great things about them is they're very technical. You can just sit down and say, 'Hey, we believe this will be a big market for these reasons, and we need your help to co-design transi..."

Gavin Uberti

Fabricating Etched's AI inference chip; collaborating on yield improvements

"For TSMC in particular, people don't understand why it is so valuable. You look at the tech and the tech is the best in the world. But for me, the real value is all in the service. The TSMC customer service is way way better than I have seen at any other co..."

Robert Wachen

Developing perspective on business, technology, and world affairs

"Thank you to you and all your co-hosts on the All-In podcast. It's one of my favorite podcasts. So, I highly recommend everybody goes and listens to that. I listen to it all the time and it really helps me develop my own perspective on the world."

Steven Bartlett

"Oh, All-In is a great one. I some I like to listen to, but there's some that are just not funny or fun, but you want to know what these smart people talked about."

Dee Das

Technology infrastructure at McLaren

"Dell, you'll see Dell all throughout McLaren long before there was a commercial arrangement"

Zak Brown

"I have this wide Dell that's anti-glare and you can just fit a lot of terminals side-by-side."

Peter Steinberger

Filming events and making vlogs; mobile microphone/content creation device

"DJI is not a sponsor. This is Off Duty where we just share stuff we like. DJI used to be like the influencer go-to when I was first doing digital media. Everybody had their little DJI. That was like the go-to — I'm going to go to an event and film myself an..."

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Wedding videography

"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."

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Passive Nasdaq index investing to gain exposure to new large-cap tech IPOs like Anthropic

"I'm in S&P and QQQ. Not as quickly on SPY as QQQ, but on your Nasdaq index, that stock is going to be in your hands 12 days after the IPO."

Rory O'Driscoll

Long-term wealth preservation in 401k

"My 401k is $5 million in SPY, $5 million in QQQ, and about a million in DRAM."

Kevin Xu

"I want to import a similar product from Alibaba and sell it on Amazon. That's coming from someone that's been ordering millions of dollars worth of electronics and other items from Alibaba and AliExpress for the last 17 years."

Chris Koerner

"which was to take the check with benchmark over anyone"

Abe Hobson

Cultivating a healthier relationship with technology and attention

"I would start with the books of Cal Newport. He's got three great books that I would recommend: Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and Slow Productivity. If you read nothing else, read those books."

Rich Roll

Morning reading on AI and recursive self-improvement topics

"Everybody check out Alex's Innermost Loop Substack. It's a beautiful thing to wake up to in the morning."

Peter Diamandis

Daily reading to stay current on AI and technology trends

"Add Alex's innermost loop to your daily regimen first thing in the morning. And that alone will inspire you to shift gears and get into this."

Dave Blundin

"And then on top of that, we have Microsoft 365 licensing for each of the staff members."

Thomas Mahony

Entertainment content consumption

"I've been a subscriber, never turned from Netflix when they were just mailing me DVDs. So, that's I don't know, 20 years or however long."

Strauss Zelnick

Platform for filming and distributing live comedy specials

"But I did a live special on Netflix for that very reason, just because I thought it was scary. I did it live because the first time they asked me, I said, 'No, fuck that.' And then I was like, 'Why you being such a pussy?'"

Joe Rogan

Creating an ontology to identify fraudulent participants in the SBA's 8(a) small business contracting program

"That's why we brought in Palantir to help create the ontology around how these people got into the program that don't meet the requirements, don't even come close to meeting them."

Kelly Loeffler

Military intelligence and data analysis during combat deployment in Afghanistan

"I had the opportunity to be an early adopter of Palantir. They told us we were an early customer. I was just mind blown by the capability and that gave me the tech bug."

Larsen Jensen

"Social media has been very helpful for testing ideas, and I'm very grateful for that."

Vanessa Van Edwards

Understanding how to build products people actually need and how disruption works

"There's a great book out now called Steve Jobs in Exile, which I absolutely think is required reading if you're listening to this podcast. Kane wrote the book, but it's with Catmull, who was at Pixar, and with Dan Lewin, who was Steve's super good friend an..."

Steven Sinofsky

Technology news and startup information

"I then go right to TechCrunch. I read two or three tech websites that give me information about what's going on. I like to read the information. I think Jessica Lesson's really smart."

Michael Ovitz