#029: Routines of the Best, Tech Interview Handbook, Shackleton

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Routines of the Best

I was recently listening to the Andrew Wilkinson podcast interview with Sam Parr, when I heard Sam mention a website that sounded interesting. It's called routines.club, and it gathers all the daily routines of individuals within tech and general culture. This includes people like Andrew Huberman, Joe Rogan, Tim Ferriss, and even Hailey Bieber!

It tells you what their routine optimizes for, as well as a rough schedule of what their typical day looks like. I love how it shows all the references for what it lists, and there's lots of links that branch out on certain topics that may require further exploration.

Tech Interview Handbook

I'm a sucker for a well-organized handbook, and even more so when the content is extremely valuable. The Tech Interview Handbook is perfect for anyone looking to break into software engineering. From the intro on the website:

Be sure to check it out, and if you're more interested in Front End development, there's a Front End Interview Handbook too.

Map of all of Reddit

I regularly come back to this insanely impressive project built by Github user,
​Anvaka. It's an interactive map of Reddit based on 176 million comments from various subreddits. I ironically first came across it from his own Reddit post promoting the project, which subsequently received over 60k upvotes and 1.1k comments.
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The map is split up into different kinds of 'countries' that group together the largest common interests of those subreddits, and the visual layout is beautiful. It's a great resource for finding the biggest topics on the internet, and if you're a data nerd this will become your latest obsession.

Keeping Up With AGI

The endgame for AI in many people's opinion, is to create something called 'AGI' or 'Artificial General Intelligence'. In theory, AGI can perform as well or better than humans on a wide range of cognitive tasks, and it also has the ability to transfer knowledge and skills learned in on domain to another - effectively creating a a type of super computer that may or may not end up like this.

Twitter user @archiexzzz recently shared a public Google Doc labeled 'Keeping Up with AGI'. It's a fully comprehensive list of all the latest efforts to reach the feat, and it's incredible this is all shared so openly. Hopefully, this doc allows us to have a world that's less Skynet, and more this.

Persuasion and Leadership from Shackleton

I had a long drive over the last weekend, and I spent it by listening to the incredible story of Ernest Shackleton. Produced by Ben Wilson for his show, How to Take Over the World, this is one of the most inspiring, thrilling, heartbreaking, and beautiful tales of adventure ever told.

For those unfamiliar with the story, Shackleton set sail for Antarctica in August 1914, with the goal of becoming the first explorer to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, his boat, the Endurance, became trapped in ice. This forced his crew of 27 men to embark on a near impossible 850 mile journey to return to civilization and survive the harshest elements on Earth.

It's an incredible story on leadership, and there are many lessons of persuasion and effective communication from the podcast. The episode was also largely based on the book, Endurance by Alfred Lansing, for those interested in a more text-based experience. It's truly a story you must read to to believe.

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