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    Great podcast episode recommendation thread

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    If you're old enough to have played Doom and Quake, this interview with John Romero is good:

     

    Doom Legend John Romero — The Path to Prolific Innovation and Making 130+ Games, How to Find the Soul of the Work, Audacious Ambition, and Building in Monk Mode (#681) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

     

    This almost 4-hour interview with Richard Rhodes, author of the pulitzer-winning Making of the Atomic Bomb, is just AMAZING:

     

    #146: The Making of the Atomic Bomb — Richard Rhodes (josephnoelwalker.com)

     

    Pairs great with another long interview with the same author but that isn't too redundant:

     

    https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/richard-rhodes

    Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker

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    The main difference between Matt and Alex is that Matt is a sleep scientist who has dedicated his life to studying the issue, he's doing practical work in the lab first hand, is talking to all the other sleep scientists and reading all the literature, his work is reviewed by others and he's highly respected by people with really good BS detectors like Peter Attia, while Alex has never spent much time in the field before spending a few days on Google Scholar cherry-picking stuff. So I think the priors on each shouldn't start from the same point.

    Koyfin

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    On 4/17/2022 at 4:49 AM, ratiman said:

    I want sites like Koyfin to succeed but my bookmarks are filled with dead links to sites that have tried to replace Yahoo finance (remember Zignals?) It's amazing how many things YF got right and how difficult it is to replace even for billionaires. I think the basic problem is that everybody has very unique preferences and ultimately most people default to a mix and match of different sites. I also wonder how large the audience is. We've all heard the anecdotes that like 57 people actually click on the link to the SBUX 10-K.

     

     

    In the podcast I just did with Rob, he mentions that they have 250,000 users, about doubling since last year, and they now have paid users and "that's going well too". So it seems pretty successful and not likely to go away any time soon.

    Movies and TV shows (general recommendation thread)

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    Started watching Rick & Morty in recent weeks. I've now seen the first season fully and really like it. Impressive just how all-in they are one the vision, a kind of weird LSD sci-fi dream that plays a lot with the nature of reality. Good stuff.

     

    Not sure if I mentioned it here before, but also really enjoyed the Mini-series 'Mare of Easttown' on HBO. Good stuff.

     

    Got my tickets for Dune this weekend. Looking forward to it, but trying to keep expectations low, as this is a very difficult story to put on the screen...

    Koyfin

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    Indeed, there's no mobile app YET.

     

    As for the rest, what does intuitive mean? Very complex things will never be as intuitive as simple ones, and a financial analytics/visualization platform of this power is indeed very hard to make obvious at first glance. Ever played with CapIQ? Now THAT is not intuitive, and it's been around forever (and still looks like a website from 2003, mostly).

     

    But with a little time invested -- like you would in any other complex software -- the effort is rewarded.

     

    Main thing to understand is the different sections (the icons on the left -- you can expand that pane by clocking the arrow on the top left). Once you get familiar with what each section does, it becomes much easier to navigate to what you want (want to see financials? there's a section for that. Want to graph things? there's a section for that. Want to see various market dashboards? there's a section for that).

    Koyfin

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    Well, life is trade-offs, right? So Photoshop isn't as easy to get started with as MS Paint, but it's also a lot more powerful if you invest a little in the learning curve.

     

    All these are in the "G" (graph) view. You create a template, and then pick what you want to show. There are "most popular" options in the list to easily get you started.

     

    Once you've saved your favorite templates, it's one click to see any of them with any stock.

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