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Oxide and Friends

Oxide hosts a weekly Discord show where we discuss a wide range of topics: computer history, startups, Oxide hardware bringup, and other topics du jour. These are the recordings in podcast form. Join us live (usually Mondays at 5pm PT) https://discord.gg/gcQxNHAKCB Subscribe to our calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_318925f4185aa71c4524d0d6127f31058c9e21f29f017d48a0fca6f564969cd0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Website ↗ Last published 29 October 2026 192 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Oxide and Friends

“I kind of came to the conclusion that tech needs a lot more of a hospitality mindset. … The thing that's interesting about hospitality is that everybody has a choice with kind of every transaction. You're not locked in, really. And as a result, you kind of have to earn it back every time. And entities that do a poor job earning it back, people leave.” — Bryan Cantrill, Oxide and Friends
Bryan Cantrill · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I'm sure the number of startups out there where their PKI was, you know, an unencrypted key sitting on a thumb drive in someone's desk drawer is probably way more than zero.” — Philip Tricca, Oxide and Friends
Philip Tricca · 24 Oct 2026 Listen →
“These are like, in a way, kind of like nuclear weapons, where there are entire industries of incredibly intelligent and experienced people that would spend tons of time hunting for these things. And in a matter of 10 minutes, an LLM can take an old code base, flip it over and shake all the change out of it.” — Philip Tricca, Oxide and Friends
Philip Tricca · 24 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Everyone is trying to make the best possible decision, both candidate and company, I think. And it feels like more signal is better there. I also feel like we're… kind of committing to a long-term relationship together. Like, are we, how dare us go out on nine dates before a proposal?” — Bryan Cantrill, Oxide and Friends
Bryan Cantrill · 18 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Sometimes debt is like a hiding place, you know, like people, people don't want to make the hard decisions. And so they're just going to throw some more logs on the fire. But reality is you got to, you got to make hard decisions when you're running these kind of companies.” — Scott Orn, Oxide and Friends
Scott Orn · 18 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I think the first rule of tax optimization is don't waste money trying to optimize your taxes, right? Don't make bad decisions because you're scared of paying the government a little bit, right?” — Scott Orn, Oxide and Friends
Scott Orn · 18 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I could tell if you worked in policy around homelessness or if you worked actually boots on the ground by whether or not you thought people had phones. And the difference was that individuals experiencing homelessness have a pretty high rate of access to phones. What they don't have is post-paid cell phones, like most of us have.” — Noah Harlan, Oxide and Friends
Noah Harlan · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Every year, the U.S. counts its homeless population and we do it on one day… But that is how many homeless people there are in America on that night. The problem is that homelessness isn't a state problem. It's a flow problem. You have new people entering homelessness every day. You've got people exiting homelessness every day. And you've got people oftentimes returning, so cycling.” — Noah Harlan, Oxide and Friends
Noah Harlan · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Oxide and Friends is hosted by Bryan Cantrill , Adam Leventhal , Steve Tuck and Steven Tuck .

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