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Tesla Autopilot

Product

2 creators

Daily commute driving

"I had the experience this week of Autopilot. It worked perfectly for like 50 minutes. Once you try it, I don't think you can go back. It's the first technology that I've tried that actually feels life-changing, especially if you're in the car for like 30 mi..."

TBPN

"And so this, you know, this $5,000 drone. And so I'm driving the drone and I was like, 'Can we can we like I got to get this drone.'"

Paul Rosolie

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A16Z

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1 creator

"I also scout with A16Z, but generally sort of sit between the ecosystems of the US and the UK tech."

Pippa Lamb

"I was prescribed 5 milligrams slow release Adderall to sleep. If you actually have it, it calms you down. It doesn't amp you up."

Whitney Cummings

Learning about the history of computing and AI through the story of Claude Shannon

"I just reread the biography of Claude Shannon for the second time and I had forgotten — because I hadn't read the book in maybe 5 years — that him and Alan Turing used to meet every day for coffee when they were both at Bell Labs."

David Senra

Understanding how media changes expectations for all content and discourse

"There's a great Neil Postman argument that he makes in Amusing Ourselves to Death, which is always one of my books I recommend to people."

Ezra Klein

"I've been using these AO glasses. They're kind of like light therapy light therapy panel but you wear them above your eyes. They look really dorky, but I've been wearing them."

Chris Williamson

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Apple

Product

1 creator

Programming world simulation games and software

"I was programming Apple 2 stuff. For some reason I intuitively wanted to build world simulations."

David Baszucki

"we put GDP out on the blockchain because if I'm publishing GDP, why not?"

Howard Lutnick

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Cal Newport Newsletter

Media

1 creator

Weekly dispatches on understanding technology and thriving in a distracted world

"You can always subscribe to my newsletter at calnewport.com, where I send a dispatch from a distracted world every week. That'll ensure you're getting at least your daily dose of me trying to understand our current technological world and how we can push ba..."

Cal Newport

"We've interviewed Chris Miller, the author of Chip War. It's a great book. Highly recommend it."

TBPN

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Cisco

Software

1 creator

Technology infrastructure at McLaren

"you take a Cisco, Cisco all throughout McLaren long before we put our partnership in place"

Zak Brown

Understanding nanotechnology futures and education

"I'm just rereading Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson, and it's a beautiful story about what the world with nanotechnology looks like and a great education story."

Emad Mostaque

Understanding the history of automation technology and its cultural normalization

"I read a book called Disneyland and the Rise of Automation by Roland Bethnenc, an academic book about the role of automation technology and the operation of Disneyland rides and how it supposedly helped acclimatize or normalize the idea of automation for th..."

Cal Newport

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Dwarkesh Podcast

Media

1 creator

Chronicling the AI revolution through long-form interviews

"Something I think is truly great is what Dwarkesh has done with the AI revolution as a chronicler of that, in a way where the whole far exceeds the sum of the parts. That's really impressive and I would say that is a great achievement, and it's wonderful th..."

Tyler Cowen

Staying informed on technology and energy/climate topics

"Everyone in the Pool is her new podcast. Go subscribe to it. $100 a year. Well worth it."

This Week in Startups

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Flock Safety

Software

1 creator

Finding kidnapped children, de-escalating situations, license plate reading, gunshot detection

"I'm on the board of Flock Safety. I'm the recipient of constant notifications from you guys, 'Hey, we found a kidnapped child. We used the technology in this way. We were able to de-escalate a situation.'"

a16z

Indoor golf simulation for practice and training

"Full Swing and Trackman are the top two. There's some large franchises that are out there that switched about a year ago from Trackman to Full Swing because it was superior indoors versus Trackman."

Jay Meldrum

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HP

Product

1 creator

Financial calculations

"I still have my HP12C calculator and I and the battery went out and I know that battery must have been here for 22 years. I think I owned that I owned that device for like 40 years. And I looked at that and I said, you know, I never thought of this before, ..."

Lloyd Blankfein

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Huawei

Product

1 creator

"My number one is Huawei, which I've mentioned in the past out of China. I think Huawei's effort to partner with SMIC to go deeper in the chip stack and they're just firing on all cylinders."

David Friedberg