Transfers

Lines worth riding

The other shows, feeds, and reads we point people to. Every link is a real transfer we ride ourselves — no filler, no affiliate games.

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Podcasts

Podcasts we ride with

The shows in our own rotation. Hit the OPML button below to load every feed on this line into your podcast app in one shot.

Latent Space

Deep cut
swyx & Alessio Fanelli

The AI engineer's show — real builders, real stacks, zero hand-waving.

engineeringbuilders
Nathaniel Whittemore

Your daily transfer — the news that moved, boiled down before your coffee's cold.

dailynews
Sarah Guo & Elad Gil

Two investors who actually build, grilling the founders drawing the map.

startupsfounders
Kevin Roose & Casey Newton · NYT

The week in tech with jokes and a conscience — the express, not the local.

cultureweekly
Dwarkesh Patel

Long, deep, over-prepared. Three hours that leave you smarter, not tired.

long-formresearch
Andreessen Horowitz

The house view from the biggest checkbook in the game — know where the money thinks it's going.

venturebusiness
Lenny Rachitsky

Product and growth operators on how the thing actually got shipped and sold.

productgrowth

Feeds

Feeds & newsletters

What lands in our inbox and stays out of the spam pile. Signal per word is the only metric here.

Andrew Ng · DeepLearning.AI

Andrew Ng translating the week's research into plain English — teacher energy, no dumbing down.

researchweekly

Import AI

Deep cut
Jack Clark

A policy insider reading the papers so you don't have to — and telling you which ones matter.

policyresearch
Ben Thompson

The strategy bible. If you want to understand why big tech moves, this is the film room.

strategybusiness
Ethan Mollick

A professor who actually uses the tools, showing you what works this week — practical, not preachy.

practicalwork
Skynet Today

The full ledger of everything that shipped — the local train that stops at every station.

newsweekly
The Neuron Daily

AI news with a pulse — quick, funny, and it respects your morning.

dailynews

AI Snake Oil

Deep cut
Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor

The hype's designated bouncer — Princeton researchers calling the fakes at the door.

skepticresearch

Reads

Essential reads

The canon. Papers, essays, and one book — the stuff you cite in an argument and win.

Rich Sutton · 2019

Six paragraphs that explain the last decade: scale and search beat your clever handcraft. Every time.

essayfoundations
Vaswani et al. · 2017

The transformer paper. The whole boom rides on this one — read the origin story.

paperfoundations
Andrej Karpathy · 2017

Called the shift early: code you write, replaced by weights you train. Still the cleanest frame.

essayengineering
Dario Amodei · 2024

Anthropic's CEO makes the optimist's case — the upside laid out block by block.

essayvision
Leopold Aschenbrenner · 2024

The 165-page manifesto everyone in the labs read. Agree or not, you need to know the argument.

essaylong-read
Paul Graham · 2023

Not about AI — about doing anything that matters. Bookmark it, re-read it yearly.

essaycraft
Mustafa Suleyman · 2023

The containment question, book-length. The best map of what this tech does to power.

bookpolicy

Tools

Tools

What's open on our machines while we make the show. Widely used, battle-tested, mostly free to start.

OpenAI

The one that put a chatbot in your grandma's phone. Still the default first stop.

assistant
Anthropic

The one we reach for on the long, careful work — writing, code, and reading a whole book at once.

assistantwriting
Anysphere

The AI code editor that made 'vibe coding' a real workflow. This site rides on it.

coding
Perplexity AI

Search that answers and cites. The reference desk that never closes.

searchresearch
Google

Drop in your sources, get a grounded research partner — and an eerie AI podcast of your own docs.

researchaudio

Hugging Face

Deep cut
Hugging Face

The public library of open models and datasets. Where builders go to shop.

modelsbuilders

Ollama

Deep cut
Ollama

Run real models on your own machine, offline, free. Power-user move for the privacy-minded.

localmodels