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Chris finished his final lab using MPI (used in supercomputers). Christian tries to get his car back, and then we both ask: do you have to be kind of a terrible person to be a billionaire? 

 00:00 Intro 
 01:47 MPI to solve the n-body problem 
 12:40 Dude where's my car? 
 17:02 Spending money to make money is hard 
 21:25 Road trip in a Tesla 
 30:11 The relaxed pace of Barbados 
 33:54 Steve Jobs was kind of a terrible person 
 
 Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco 
 
 Brains: Talking Money with Anthony Pompliano and Sam Parr: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/bonus-brains

Chris builds an AI to play virtual go kart icy hockey. Christian wants to track his mood and talk to customers.

00:00 Intro
01:29 SuperTuxKart AI Control
13:51 Kittens idle game
20:06 Kaggle Superpermutations
27:22 Youtube good? Youtube bad?
34:50 The formula for retention
36:45 Christian's projects
41:10 Mood tracking
46:40 Theranos
51:23 Deploy Empathy
54:47 Talking to customers

Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco

This was supposed to be an interview with Michele Hansen, co-founder of Geocodio and author of "Deploy Empathy", but due to interview issues that part was lost :(. Instead, Chris and Christian talk about the book and do a customer interview exercise from it - which worked way better than either of us thought it was!

Chris has been learning Rust and has thoughts about strongly typed languages. Christian has been building "Treebooks" - a new way to read ebooks - and is wondering how to get customers and authors onto this new format. Also and update about Christian's passive income experiment of renting out his card

Chris is learning Rust for his next lab. Christian has been renting out his old car to someone who uses it to drive for Uber, and it makes us think about wealth inequality. Also: what actually is the metaverse?

Chris gets a list of all 160 million registered .com domain names and tries to figure out what to do with them. Christian has been looking into Solidity programming and has some hot take ideas.

What makes a tweet thread either go viral or go to zero? Christian talks about his recent tweet thread that didn't get any likes, and Chris talks about some of the ways he's used tweet threads in the past. Also: is twitter really the best medium for what we want to share anyway?

We both took a road trip and was able to do some thinking about what he should focus on. We talk about if you should or shouldn't worry about competitors, and some good ways to focus. Then we delete twitter and youtube from our phones in an effort to regain some wasted time.

Christian goes through a list of 20 potential marketing channels and we think about ways to make those work for Fileinbox. We also try to figure out what to focus on and how to frame the work we're doing as "experiments": with a hypothesis, success and failure criteria, and a completion timeframe.

We talk about MicroConf Local Austin and MicroConf Europe: Do we need to be focusing on just one thing? We also come up with a framework for doing small experiments with post mortems as a way to push us forward.