☆ Don’t stand still ☆ Adam’s $100k product launch ☆ How I make my money ☆ Things to do when Amazon S3 is down ☆ Why most product ideas aren’t that good ☆ Watch for mind gremlins ☆ Going independent (2016 year in review) ☆ The tools I use ☆ How to surprise people in a digital age ☆ This is what starting small looks like ☆ Get out of your creative rut ☆ We all want progress ☆ Virtual reality could save the planet ☆ Hypothesis: Nintendo Switch is a social play ☆ I wasted 4 years of my life doing this ☆ What is Jobs to be Done? ☆ Who are you stealing from? ☆ Using JTBD to build better products ☆ Pricing experiment results ☆ What podcasters get wrong about advertising ☆ How to make money from your tiny podcast ☆ Ladder ☆ You can’t change the customer’s behavior ☆ The freedom ladder ☆ SaaS is ripe for disruption ☆ My workplace fantasies ☆ Publish your ebook as PDF, MOBI, and ePub all at the same time ☆ Why I sell before I launch ☆ How I price products ☆ You don’t learn until you ship ☆ You want more than product/market fit ☆ Why we buy from winners ☆ I’m a f*cking webmaster ☆ Your secret success fantasy ☆ Put a billion dollars on red ☆ Focus on your own shit ☆ “Sit down kid, and let me tell you about the world.” ☆ Don’t swim against the current ☆ Is the market for self-published books saturated? ☆ Business is like a game of Frogger ☆ My biggest creative fear ☆ You can’t split test human experience ☆ Product traction is like waiting in line at the grocery store ☆ Make stuff and be happy (2015 year in review) ☆ Documentaries you should watch this holiday ☆ More stuff, or better stuff? ☆ How to build demand before you launch ☆ You’re lucky ☆ 3 things I learned from my book launch ☆ The last mile ☆ Startups should make money ☆ How to make a podcast (and submit it to iTunes) ☆ Start a new chapter ☆ Keep making things ☆ Ultimate validation ☆ You need help ☆ End of an era ☆ Do people still read blogs? ☆ No marketing unicorns ☆ Don’t follow your heroes ☆ 2014: a year of making stuff ☆ Slack research hack ☆ Landing page teardown: Serial podcast ☆ How user growth really works ☆ Do I look dumb? ☆ How to discover the hidden benefits of your product ☆ Do things that scare you ☆ Be careful who you go to for advice ☆ Let’s make some stuff ☆ The cold months are coming ☆ What type of pain are you solving? ☆ The person on the other side of the screen ☆ Play the long game ☆ Earn the right to be heard ☆ Your product’s missing ingredient ☆ Is it harder to get noticed? ☆ It’s different now ☆ When you can’t win ☆ Your second biggest problem ☆ How desperation affects creativity ☆ Be social IRL ☆ Choose your audience wisely ☆ Your blog could be a party ☆ My embarrassing iTunes receipt ☆ Start your marketing with other people in mind ☆ Don’t confuse hard problems with valuable problems ☆ Speaking of starting small ☆ How to start ☆ Get traffic for your content ☆ A simple way to validate your startup idea ☆ Is “sales” a dirty word? ☆ We are not normal people ☆ Feeling threatened ☆ This is real life ☆ Where do you find the time for side projects? ☆ The 2013 revenue stats I didn’t want to share ☆ It’s not us, it’s them ☆ Succeed with your own product in 2014 ☆ Why didn’t you launch last year? ☆ Why you need a Week of Hustle ☆ How to choose an audience for your email list ☆ 1,000 email subscribers ☆ What stops us from building products? ☆ How remote work changed my life ☆ The downward spiral ☆ Where does a great culture come from? ☆ My first kiss ☆ Nikki Durkin: Don’t talk about ideas – just do it ☆ Why you’re not making sales ☆ How to get (and keep) a job in startups ☆ Geeks as tastemakers ☆ Producing good content isn’t enough ☆ Self-Publishing Hangout highlights ☆ Just f*cking do it ☆ Hiring developers ☆ Why people buy products ☆ Sitting on the curb drinking a slurpee ☆ This is a web page ☆ The principle that changed my life ☆ Believe in me ☆ Heads down ☆ Quit trying to attract a crowd and just help people ☆ Pretty doesn’t sell ☆ Twenty dollars in an envelope ☆ How to end the remote work debate ☆ How (not) to validate your idea ☆ Don’t call it a comeback (working remotely) ☆ Meet people ☆ Starting a business is easy ☆ Jarrod Drysdale’s advice for starting ☆ My blogging demons ☆ Stop networking at events ☆ A VIKA BYSKE standing desk ☆ Why it’s not enough to build a product that people want ☆ Why distributed teams are more effective ☆ Why I would pay for Twitter ☆ What the People of Wal-Mart want ☆ Why I don’t read at work ☆ What Amy Hoy taught me about starting a business ☆ A 13-year-old on a BBS ☆ Retina is not a big deal ☆ Terrible Apple products ☆ Geek dad ☆ You only win once – Rodney Mullen ☆ Why people buy software ☆ No one wants to buy my sneakers ☆ Forget the Valley: bootstrap founders can live wherever they want ☆ Most successful founders are in their mid-30’s, married with children ☆ Kathy Sierra is brilliant ☆ Customers don’t care about your solutions ☆ Things I’ve quit doing at my desk ☆ Will a college degree get you a programming job? ☆ If you work with pixels you should be thankful ☆ What’s important ☆ How to keep clients happy ☆ Building a better mousetrap? It had better catch more mice. ☆ Fatherhood ☆ What is real work? ☆ How to get 1000’s of paying customers ☆ How do you know when to stop designing? ☆ Where would you rather work: 37signals or Zappos? ☆ Useful is forever ☆ Zappos is wow ☆ Remembering Mitch Hedberg ☆ How do you consume digital media? ☆ Your idea needs a passionate believer ☆ How to build a better Canadian neighborhood ☆ Louis CK sucks at social media, but he sure can sell ☆ Are you in love with the idea, or with customers? ☆ People want the basics done well ☆ Meshwest Edmonton ☆ How to design a customer support process ☆ 8 habits for a better day at work ☆ My rant on customer support for web apps ☆ Stop screen sucking ☆ Everybody stop ☆ No one knows what they’re doing ☆ How changing your market can save your product ☆ The coupon code is a slap in the face ☆ I worked a day at 37signals, and I liked it ☆ If you’re from Edmonton, you’ll remember Happy Pop soda ☆ The sex and cash theory ☆ Building a standing desk ☆ Why are people looking at your website? ☆ We’re in the Age of Content ☆ This is a classy move ☆ Be real. ☆ B2B ☆ Business lesson: less research, launch small ☆ Business lesson: Go where the people are ☆ Review of 37signals’ first app for the iPad: Draft ☆ The iPad is a family device ☆ I think this is me in 1984 ☆ 2010: Products I can’t live without ☆ Better time spent at work ☆ Interviews from the Future of Web Apps in Miami ☆ In Miami for FOWA ☆ A better office ☆ Better typing ☆ A better Apple TV ☆ A better birthday party for kids ☆ Better doctor visits: house calls ☆ A better urbanism ☆ Financial services web site ☆ Local news web site ☆ Web site and promotion for Duchess Bake Shop ☆ Think clearly about print advertising ☆ A better toilet ☆ A better parking lot ☆ Mike Bridge’s photography ☆ Check it out: Stephen Kiers photography ☆ Why can’t we stream TV in Canada? ☆ Yes! Apple TV! ☆ James Jones rocks CTV ☆ Good news for fans of the IT Crowd ☆ Justin’s world
