# Shaan Puri recommends a podcast for the drive; Packy McCormick says watch the Tesla Roadster reveal *By Recommended Reading from Tech Founders β€’ October 17, 2026* This round's picks: a podcast Shaan Puri recommends, Packy McCormick's push to watch the Roadster reveal, and Satya Nadella's link to Microsoft's forecasting research. Also: shorter endorsements from Altman, Masad, Levie, Lemkin and Chamath. ## Shaan Puri: a podcast for an hour-long drive "If you've got an hour drive this week, listen to this podcast," Puri wrote, linking [the episode on YouTube](https://youtu.be/XnQ2Da7HcRk?si=7iaB3jkW8Pw8FuAT). His post doesn't name the show's creator. He gives three reasons to listen: - "The A-B-Z framework to stop overthinking" - "Why your hometown might be holding you back" - "The story of 'Iron John'" [^1] ## Packy McCormick: watch the Tesla Roadster reveal In *Not Boring*'s [Weekly Dose of Optimism #215](https://www.notboring.co/p/weekly-dose-of-optimism-215), McCormick says the second-gen Roadster reveal at a SpaceX test site near Waco "was worth the wait" [^2]. He describes a 0–60 time of about one second. Using 10 nozzles fed by a 600-liter compressed-air tank, the car drove up an upside-down ramp, spun around and set itself back down, then hopped over other Tesla vehicles [^2]. He adds that Musk said production starts in 2028. His advice: "Just… watch the video if you haven't." [^2] ## Satya Nadella: Microsoft Research on mid-range weather forecasts Nadella pointed to his company's own work, published in *Nature*, so this is self-promotion. The research shows machine learning can improve forecasts two to six weeks out, a range that has been "historically been very difficult to predict." He cites uses in extreme-weather preparation, managing natural resources and farming decisions [^3]. His broader lesson: the future may depend on "intelligent verification systems" around models that "learn where models are systematically wrong" and keep checking predictions against reality. He links to [Microsoft Research's write-up](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/story/new-ai-framework-bridges-a-critical-gap-in-mid-range-weather-forecasts/) [^3]. ## Shorter mentions - **Sam Altman** shared [Nick Cammarata's interpretability post](https://x.com/nickcammarata/status/2110757819427574056): "Very happy to see this from Nick!" [^4]. The previous brief covered this post when Sarah Guo shared it. Cammarata says modern agentic tools make "the vast majority" of neurons legible in models up to trillions of parameters [^5]. - **Amjad Masad** shared [Haider's clip of Terence Tao](https://x.com/haider1/status/2110797855879471162). In it, Tao describes "the end of the romantic era of mathematics" and a move to an industrial era of large teams [^6]. Masad calls it "fascinating" to watch mathematicians go through the stages of grief, and says they are now "entering acceptance" [^7]. - **Aaron Levie** shared an [@MTSlive post](https://x.com/mtslive/status/2111143669575401793). It reports that Anthropic's Michael Sellitto told the IMF that Claude could lead 80–90% of frontier model training by next year, up from 3% in April [^8]. Levie sees "an incredible flywheel" and says "If you aren't pricing in what RSI will lead to, that's probably a mistake." RSI is recursive self-improvement [^9]. - **Jason Lemkin** promoted his own *The Agents* #016, "Going Headless: Claudeforce vs. Replit vs. Lovable." On the same data and prompts, the bills ranged from $2 to $15 ([read](https://www.saastr.com/going-headless-claudeforce-vs-replit-vs-lovable-agents-picking-our-vendors-and-two-of-our-agents-built-their-own-inbox-to-talk-behind-our-back-the-agents-016/)) [^10]. Separately, he praised TBPN, saying Jordi Hays and John Coogan seem "back and in rare form" [^11]. He linked TBPN's [clip of Jordi predicting](https://x.com/tbpn/status/2110831892924969368) a stunt-heavy Roadster launch [^12]. - **Chamath Palihapitiya** promoted the new [All-In episode](https://x.com/theallinpod/status/2111276841281475040) with "Pod!!!!" [^13]. Ben Horowitz fills in for Friedberg. Topics include the CoreWeave debt selloff, AI's deflationary effect on software, Anthropic's IPO and Bill Gates's AI warnings [^14]. --- ### Sources [^1]: [𝕏 post by @ShaanVP](https://x.com/ShaanVP/status/2111127440525500603) [^2]: [Weekly Dose of Optimism #215](https://www.notboring.co/p/weekly-dose-of-optimism-215) [^3]: [𝕏 post by @satyanadella](https://x.com/satyanadella/status/2111204941801128366) [^4]: [𝕏 post by @sama](https://x.com/sama/status/2111130577789493706) [^5]: [𝕏 post by @nickcammarata](https://x.com/nickcammarata/status/2110757819427574056) [^6]: [𝕏 post by @haider1](https://x.com/haider1/status/2110797855879471162) [^7]: [𝕏 post by @amasad](https://x.com/amasad/status/2111206044416500159) [^8]: [𝕏 post by @MTSlive](https://x.com/MTSlive/status/2111143669575401793) [^9]: [𝕏 post by @levie](https://x.com/levie/status/2111312141609586862) [^10]: [𝕏 post by @jasonlk](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/2111267720247333256) [^11]: [𝕏 post by @jasonlk](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/2111181983170855289) [^12]: [𝕏 post by @tbpn](https://x.com/tbpn/status/2110831892924969368) [^13]: [𝕏 post by @chamath](https://x.com/chamath/status/2111296076921864298) [^14]: [𝕏 post by @theallinpod](https://x.com/theallinpod/status/2111276841281475040)