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"Dear Apple Journal,

Here's an accidental screenshot I took of my notifications screen. Why do I spend so much at Chili's?"

#WWDC23

The Mac Pro starts at $6999, but you can make stickers of Craig Federighi for FREE.

#WWDC23

Whaaaat. Wasn't expecting a new Mac Pro.

https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1665769657448685571

Ooh. They're going to keep making the Mac Studio?

#WWDC23

Watching #WWDC23 for a bit.

Do you think there will be any @ApplePodcasts announcements? 🤞😄

@asmartbear I’ve been thinking for a while that there a multiple levels of Jobs to be Done:

There’s the surface level utility of a thing, and then there’s the deeper (emotional) motivation.

“Google searches are a good proxy for ‘what level of the stack are potential customers operating at right now?”’

“If someone has in their head ‘get a WordPress site,’ [despite their higher aspirations for their site] you want to meet them where they are.” https://twitter.com/asmartbear/status/1665386748807979008

@simonhamp I’ll take a look!

@aarondfrancis Who is saying that people who build a side project are toxic?

This @IndieHackers episode with @SethGodinBlog is a must-listen for indie entrepreneurs:

https://overcast.fm/+JmiNp14SA

@aarondfrancis @jeffgardnerdev 👍

Nice to clarify things.

You have a remarkable sense of boundaries!

I’ve met tons of other people for whom “as much effort as possible” means sacrificing lots of things on the home front (not just sleep and TV).

If you can make it work, all the power to you! 🙌

@aarondfrancis @jeffgardnerdev I keep visualizing “maximum effort” more closely to how athletes look at it:

It’s going as hard as you can, as close to “point-of-failure” as you can get.

It’s that feeling of sprinting really hard.

https://baronbiosys.com/glossary/maximal-effort/

@jeffgardnerdev Thanks for listening!

I think what @aarondfrancis is describing is “maximum gated effort.”

True “maximum effort” on a business has no upper limit: there’s always more time, energy, and focus you can give.

For me, in practice, it was difficult to not be constantly thinking…

@cameronmoll Love it! 🙌

This is the best time to listen to @leenyburger and @aarondfrancis’ podcast: they’re right at the most compelling part of their bootstrapped journey.

(And they have a great interpersonal dynamic)

You’ll get tons of energy just listening to this episode:

https://overcast.fm/+pTBwPpXjs

@noahwbragg @brunomorency Wow! What an awesome outcome.

Congrats! 🙌

RT @mijustin: The beauty of having side-projects is that it's OK if they fail!

Instead of heaping unrealistic expectations on our ideas we…

@andybudd I love what @andrewculver is doing with @RailsSaaS.

@MicroConf is also great.

RT @_brandswell: “I love painting my own painting.
I come down to the office and I think I’m in the Sistine chapel.

If someone says ‘use…

@businessbarista Whoa. Looks incredible.

Congrats! 🎉

@KostjaPalovic business anxiety is a common cause of "bad sleep" for founders. I've been there!

@stauffermatt @TightenCo Congrats! That title looks good on you. ❤️

@KostjaPalovic ouch! I feel your pain.

@chris__sev ooof. 6 hours kills me. Need... 8-9 to feel normal.

@VicVijayakumar Yeah, did not sleep well. 😫

How did you sleep last night?

Launching something new at Hack Night tonight ✨

https://mijustin.github.io/fun/fun.html

@arvidkahl @ian__ito @robwalling @MicroConf @robertodigital_ 🥰

@mattwensing Nice! Starting to look like a 🏒

@tylertringas Yes! 🎯 https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1256020468240314368

@aurooba Thanks!

cc @lorindaapps

I've been wanting this forever: a button on @TransistorFM's pricing page that just opens up a @crisp_im chat.

Tried a few times, but couldn't figure it out.

@joshuaanderton just made it happen! 🙌

pretty simple: `$crisp.push(['do', 'chat:open'])`

@jeffSARRIS @TransistorFM Me too. 🙏

Do you watch video podcasts on Spotify

@panphora It’s me.

Reddit asking the important questions

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/13v6w1j/dads_of_reddit_at_what_point_did_your_sneezes_get/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

@misterparker @Baremetrics Yup! I’d say many podcasters are prosumers. 👍

@sol_orwell Aren't you more B2C? (I might not understand Examine's biz model)

B2Prosumer is quite a bit different. It includes consumers who aspire to be pros, folks launching side hustles, smaller SMBs, indie creators, solopreneurs, etc.

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1477455547385335808

@MrSimonBennett This is it! 🙌 Life is good.

@grdeken I haven’t heard a show between two AIs (yet) that was especially compelling (even when edited).

Do you have an example?

@BilalArarou They don’t have 50% churn.

Their revenue churn is currently 3.5%:

https://convertkit.baremetrics.com/stats/revenue-churn

Churn % is calculated by dividing the number of lost customers/revenue by the total number of customers/revenue you had at the beginning of the month.

@chris__sev @usefathom Hey! Curious how you're using Fathom + Google Ads.

I can't figure out how to create a campaign without Google Tag Manager. 😅

@DanielZarick @dvassallo 💯 this is the way.

@DanielZarick @dvassallo 🎯 yup.

"Willingness to pay" is another variable: not everyone can (or wants) to pay upfront.

@jasonlk Thanks! 🙌

If your SaaS targets prosumers, you'll need a reasonably high number of daily signups to outrun churn (and grow net revenue).

Prosumer customers are, by their nature, not going to stick around as long as B2B customers might.

Here's an example from ConvertKit's open numbers:

@jeff_archibald 🎯 yup. Exactly.

@IlzeSvarcbaha Thanks for mentioning @TransistorFM! 🙌

@thatmoodyguy @nathanbarry Doesn’t matter much, no.

There are far more important things when it comes to podcast search.

https://transistor.fm/podcast-search/

This can't be the future of podcasts. AI audio is jarring to listen to, almost like a podcast that consists entirely of video game cut scenes.

The AI-generated content I've come across so far mostly has this vapid quality. https://twitter.com/LinusEkenstam/status/1662073874425544706

There’s no way this is the future of podcasts: it’d be like listening to a video game cut scene.

So far the AI-generated content I’ve seen and heard is “ok” in brief 30 second increments, but mostly vapid and banal. https://twitter.com/LinusEkenstam/status/1662073874425544706

@gaijinity Wow!!!!

“We believe that governments should be seeking advice on this legislation from a considerably wider range of people than just those who profit from this technology.” https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1662960886179577857

Good article on the future of SEO (in an AI world):

https://www.animalz.co/blog/seo-and-chatgpt/

@taylorotwell happy birthday!!! 🥳🥳

I miss hanging out!

@robwinkky @ianlandsman Haha. Came here to say this. Initially thought: “wow! This year’s Laracon is 🔥🔥”

Was listening to this interview with @Latienie, and was surprised to hear she’s from Edmonton!

She specifically credits the Victoria School for the Arts in awakening her interest in animation. 👍

#yeg https://twitter.com/ybuttonpodcast/status/1659923499597860866

@scottwyden @TransistorFM Thanks Scott!

We’ve definitely considered click tracking in the past. I’ll discuss it with the team again. 👍

RT @randfish: Twitter sends ~40% less traffic than 5yrs ago: https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/twitter-referral-traffic-publishers/

Facebook isn't far behind, falling significantly as w…

@TimLeland @laravelphp @tailwindcss Just a quick little app to keep track of events, concerts, gigs I want to go to.

@laravelphp Making progress. Took me a while to figure out why @tailwindcss styles weren't loading. 😅

Makin' some @laravelphp

(with the help of a trusty AI assistant 🙏)

I keep hearing that businesses are hiring "prompt engineers," but is this really happening?

Has anyone here actually hired a full-time AI prompt engineer?

@r00k For me, Tuple feels like the "always on intercom system" for @TransistorFM's team.

Jumping on a Tuple call feels instant and seamless (as opposed to Zoom).

We use it for more than just pair programming calls too!

(@jonbuda and I frequently use it for accounting meetings. 😄)

@podcasts_dotcom It looks like none of the podcast episodes on http://podcasts.com are playable right now because of ERR_CERT_REVOKED.

I would contact your Certificate Authority right away and figure out why they revoked your SSL certificate.

@kaleighf I’m honestly stumped on this one: hard to quantify it!

What books/articles are you reading about the self lately? I’m curious to read about it.

@Jason_Stapleton We’ve been doing these every month since 2012ish.

There’s probably a group of ~100 who attend in a year, and we generally get 20-25 people each meetup.

About ~25 people at Geek Beers tonight in Vernon, BC. 👍

@theKevinShen Lol. Some folks on a Zoom call said the same thing about my background!

"Wait, is that real?"

@m1guelpf Nice! 🙌

@christophrumpel congrats on the new gig! 👏

And congrats on your baby daughter! ❤️

https://overcast.fm/+eLf1DTQyo

RT @TropicalMBA: 1950: First successful mass produced electric guitar is created (now known as Fender Telecaster).

2023: Still *somehow* t…

@_lhermann I’ve been chronicling my journey in this thread: https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1648753828081328128

@patrickc 🙏 automated sales tax collection and remittance?

@AcquiredFM my son thinks you should do an episode on the history of @valvesoftware!

“I think Valve is one of the most interesting video game companies ever.”

@lovevalgeisler 😩😩😩

The worst!

@lovevalgeisler It’s so bad.

I’ve been fairly competent with computers since 1985, and I still can’t figure out how to log in to my kids’ school division website. 🤦‍♂️

I just found this ChatGPT utility that will split long text files (blog posts, podcast transcripts, etc) into multiple prompts so you don't get the "message too long" error.

Super helpful. 👍

https://chatgpt-prompt-splitter.jjdiaz.dev/

@ramit @ericlister 🎯 exactly this.

Lots of research on how ineffective “trickle down economics” is, including this by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/economics/tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy-only-benefit-the-rich-debunking-trickle-down-economics

@nbashaw The folks at @podglomerate and @GumballFM are both great. 👍

Taking a break.

I discussed this (and much more) with @ilyabezdelev and @or9ob. We explore the decentralized nature of podcasting.

You can listen on:

🍎 @ApplePodcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/20-benefits-of-decentralization-in-podcasting-with/id1649447583?i=1000614270277

🌥️ @OvercastFM: https://overcast.fm/+830kyAyMk

🟢 @spotifypodcasts: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2S2ARnYTVN8ihA9qJe7l1U?si=Bz1TTGRETUmw55uBjY9iqA

Sometimes, reducing friction for the consumer isn't beneficial: for example, making it easier for people to consume junk food.

Social media has probably made it too easy for folks to tweet/post/comment without thinking. Lots of knee-jerk reactions.

"Making it easier for a random person on the internet to leave a comment on my video, post, or episode" usually doesn't improve the discourse.

Having friction forces people to consider their words before posting/commenting.

In product design, we associate "more friction = bad," but that's not always true.

One of the things I enjoy about podcasting is that it takes extra effort for a listener to reach out.

That extra effort often results in thoughtful emails, DMs, tweets, etc.

@ilyabezdelev @or9ob Thanks so much for having me on the show!

@benediktdeicke @userlist Congrats! 🍾🎉

@raechellambert Paris gets a lot of English travelers, so they’re used to it. 👍

Love this album.

@digitaltrouble Nice! 🙌

My friend @mikevardy has a new book coming out: “The Productivity Diet.”

It focuses on helping you get better work done (not just “more tasks”).

He’s running a Kickstarter (I just supported it!):

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikevardy/the-productivity-diet-by-mike-vardy?ref=thanks-copy

@waitbutwhy Curious if the existential risk you’re referring to is:

a) Climate change
b) AI
c) Political collapse
d) All of the above?

@CasJam I’m using TextExpander for this currently.

@cgenco NSFW 😬

@NathanG I realize that’s the dream, but there are significant trade offs related to creating “more relevant ads for you.”

For me, the most effective ads are when a brand just sponsors a host read ad on a podcast with an audience that makes sense for that product. No crazy tech needed.

@NathanG At best, it feels like a temporary curiosity.

"Oh, that's kind of cool. The AI knows my name!" (And maybe what I've been browsing on the internet? Creepy.)

But after a while, this won't feel novel or intriguing.

"Hey Justin Jackson, it's Joe Rogan! Sounds like your podcast energy is on E ⛽ and your biceps could use some love. 💪 Time to ditch the weak human act. Supercharge with Onnit's Alpha Brain for laser-focused podcasting and Herculean strength! 💥 Use 'JUSTINuRweak' for 10% off!" https://twitter.com/Podnews/status/1660950705119657984

@jayacunzo 😮 wow! Looks incredible.

@ryanacash @AcquiredFM Agreed! If you liked this one, you’ll probably like their SONY episode as well.

RT @tomcreighton: RIP chefs
AI can create a meal in seconds
Here's how to create any food using AI: