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@AlbanBrooke Just have lots and lots of moms.

@thethoughtcard @WOCPodcasters Ooh nice!

Curious what your audit looks like. I'm doing a video on this soon. 🤞

@keepin_it_vay If I went back, I’d definitely study more history!

@BarrettABrooks Interesting.

What’s a “don”?

@BarrettABrooks What was it about the Oxford experience that made it so impactful?

Being a college students basically gives you the right to ask anybody (leaders, heroes) for advice:

“Hi, I’m a student at [university], and I’m looking to break into [topic]. Can I ask you a few questions about your work? I’m curious about..”

Folks ❤️ giving advice to students.

@selvarajashish @jstnchu Students have an incredible opportunity to approach leaders in your field and ask them for advice:

“Hi, I’m a student at [university], and I’m looking to break into [topic]. Can I ask you a few questions about your work? I’m curious about..”

Folks ❤️ giving advice to students.

@jamesoneill83 ❤️🙏

Agreed. There should be a class called “Mental Health 101”

@fideloper @TransistorFM NICE!!!! 🙌

@Jessica_B365 "Super engaging. A hardass who was not easily impressed."

I had the same experience with my Business Ethics prof. He was incredibly demanding and challenging, but it really brought out the best in me.

If I could do college all over again, I would:

- live on campus
- participate in more social activities
- find other curious, ambitious people
- take more philosophy, sociology, psychology, economics, politics, and ethics classes
- have more fun
- not be in a rush to "grow up"

Here's my take on college:

I got my Bachelor of Business in 2002.

In retrospect, most classes haven't been that useful.

BUT: I took a Business Ethics class that deeply impacted my worldview. I refer to it frequently.

That one class made my whole degree worthwhile.

🦄 Questions of the Day 🦄

Did you go to college?
What did you study?
Was it a good experience?
What's your advice for young people going to college?

RT @anildash: This framing makes a common error — being critical of extractive and exploitative technology *is* optimism. Saying that new t…

Full episode is out now!

Listen here:
https://podcast.megamaker.co/episodes/bootstrapping-with-kids-and-waiting-to-launch

Bootstrapping with kids!

While recording a new episode of the @megamaker podcast, @joshuaanderton's boys were making noise in the background.

"Enjoy the interruptions; it goes so fast."

Listen here: https://podcast.megamaker.co/subscribe

@CompileSwift @evankstone @TransistorFM Nice! Thanks so much for choosing Transistor. 🙌

@pjourneypod Great episode! 👍

@BryanBarletta Yes: ooze, slime, goop.

@DKThomp What else have you read on the Trucker Convoy?

A helpful distinction from @MichaelKempa1:

"We need to be very clear on the difference between a protest and an illegal occupation."

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2000247363674

#OttawaOccupation

@rskopecek Yes. Connecting with the human behind the tweets in a call, video call, or in person often dissipates animosity.

I can empathize with people's desire to avoid doom scrolling.

Constantly interacting with bad news can lead to poor mental health.

Getting into arguments on the internet often results in stress and frustration.

But we shouldn't avoid uncomfortable topics completely.

That being said, having thoughtful discourse on Twitter or Facebook is incredibly challenging.

In my experience, it's been more helpful to bring the discussion to a podcast, live audio event, email newsletter, or DMs.

I'm all for positivity and optimism.

But we still need to make space to talk about topics that might make us feel uncomfortable.

Discussing a difficult issue (like climate change, racism, sexism, pandemic response) in public shouldn't be labeled as "negativity" or "complaining"

@justinvincent How's deliverability?

@webby2001 Ooh. Just heard your section now.

DAMN. I would pay to have your voice.

@webby2001 Sweet!

Just saved it to my Overcast queue:

https://overcast.fm/+FoCT4to

@iChris I think this is the first time you and I interacted on Twitter!

@levelsio Nice!! 🙌

Evening drive to the beach #vernonbc

Walking outside.

@Simpletivity Agreed. 😉

@JoelGMcKinnon 🤣

@raae Can you recommend a specific city?

Also: what do you like about that place?

@JackEllis Can you think of some specific townships?

Also: why there?

@darrylschmidt It is pretty great. 😉

@EddyVinckk Anywhere specific in the Netherlands?

@_joe_stone_ Hahaha.

@jcvangent I'm just curious to hear people's responses. 😄

@iChris hahahaha

What's the best place to live in the world if you have kids?

🌍👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🏡

Awesome new podcast from @erendellwatson & @FaaizaRamji focusing on tech in #yeg.

https://share.transistor.fm/s/bd52b057

@KateBour Hahaha. This is amazing.

@alphacolin How was the whole process on Republic? Is it a lot of work?

Productivity tip: get outside.

@thefirejar @tech_jdc @megamaker Thanks!

@smithtimmytim I highly recommend reading @evan_greer's tweets on Section 230:

https://twitter.com/evan_greer/status/1466126698458451968

Watching @marcelpociot on @LaraconOnline! 💯

For the first time ever, it's a free livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rq-yHAwYjQ

@adampallozzi No, only a few became apps. Others were book ideas, course ideas, event ideas. And others were just concepts.

@_mattdavidson @megamaker You’ve been living the dream since you turned 31!

@tech_jdc @megamaker Yup! It takes time. Layer on layer; experience by experience.

@OnlyLearnOnce @megamaker Well, the real breakthrough year came with Transistor; but all those years were “game changing” in the sense that they laid the foundation.

@z8675309 @megamaker Nice! Thank you. 🙏

Since 2008, I've shared all the lessons I've learned (in business and life) on my weekly newsletter.

I'd love to have you as a subscriber. 😊

https://justinjackson.ca/newsletter

This short clip I recorded (in 2019) with @csallen for @IndieHackers perfectly encapsulates my feelings:

https://share.transistor.fm/s/7e7020f7

@cristianporrast The idea (in 2013!) was to have an app for indie creators that helped you track your progress towards a full-time income from all your projects.

Age 40
- my best year in terms of calm, financial security, and freedom
- moved to a new house

Age 41
- Jon and I hired two more people to work with us at Transistor
- started working on a side-project with @joshuaanderton: @meepsapp

🙏 Thankful for the whole journey.

Age 37:
- got depressed
- got a therapist
- spoke at @laraconus for first time

Age 38:
- @jonbuda and I start http://Transistor.fm

Age 39:
- Transistor hits $30k in MRR
- Jon and I go full-time on Transistor
- Gave one of my fave talks at @LaraconUS

Age 34
- started consulting f/t for startups
- started writing book
- met @jonbuda at XOXO

Age 35
- spoke at first conference (@MicroConf)
- published book: @marketingdevs

Age 36:
- went f/t on products
- spoke at 2nd conference (@appsumo)

Age 28 (2008)
- switched to a new career in tech (customer support)
- started blogging
- started on Twitter

Age 31
- worked my way up to Product Manager

Age 32
- started podcasting
- started working remote

Age 33
- first paid product (@megamaker)

@taxigy Haha. Nope that’s just Dropbox syncing.

My full-time business is http://transistor.fm.

My only side-project is http://meeps.app

@maxverse “Product People Club” 😜

Now called @megamaker:

http://MegaMaker.co

It's your accrued experiences from the past that add up to a real advantage in the future.

I've got a projects folder with over 100 old projects.

Most of these failed.

And a few of them got me to where I am today.

What's surprising is how often I refer back to these old projects (and what I learned) to inform what I'm doing today.

It's my personal resource library.

@philipbrown Whoa! How do it know which tasks are urgent and important in an unsorted list?

@iroughol Yes! There could be a big market of prosumer customers in indie media.

Curious what @nbashaw and @danshipper this about this.

@SalmanRajz Beauty! Thanks.

@Jessica_B365 @shriyanevatia @DulmaTara I really dig the friendship dynamic between @mjwhansen and @leenyburger on https://softwaresocial.dev/

@CADbloke Thanks!

@ivanbrezakbrkan beauty! guess I can go to bed. 😅

@rohan_daxini This seemed to be an edge case.

I think an old Lets Encrypt cert (on different provider) got cached for some folks.

@benry Thanks! 🙏

@JohnLacey Thanks! 🙏

@jacobgorban Thanks! 🙏

@alexduggleby @NetlifySupport @Netlify 🙏 thank you

I think (hope) we've fixed the SSL errors now.

Anyone up and able to visit https://transistor.fm/?

@alexduggleby @NetlifySupport @Netlify Is it working now?

https://transistor.fm/

@zeldman YES! 🙋‍♂️

@ianlandsman The quality seems... off?

Feels like I'm watching Power Rangers.

Do I know anyone at @Netlify @NetlifySupport that could help me out?

We have a few EU folks who can't access http://transistor.fm because it says our cert has expired. But Netlify says it's up-to-date.

Is it possible some Netlify edge nodes weren't updated with the new cert?

RT @joelgascoigne: This is a big part of our strategy for @buffer: "Price points for prosumer software are typically lower, but these SaaS…

@shubmakes Yes!

Winter walk, winter sunset.

@louisnicholls_ Yes! That’s a huge benefit.

I noticed this while I was working at a Project Managemen SaaS. We would get trials but they’d be like: “I gotta ask my team about this.”

At the same time, Nathan was showing me inviduals just signing up for ConvertKit with a credit card. 🤯

RT @DustinLeblanc: We had a good discussion about this on the @megamaker slack, prosumer means a lot of things to different people, but I l…

@technoSpino SEO.

You want to build something that people are already searching for.

B2C vs B2B isn’t a binary; there’s a spectrum of opportunities between those two.

https://justinjackson.ca/prosumers

@jefferysaddoris @kelkes @TransistorFM Yup! That should work. 👍

You get two weeks free; which should give you plenty of time for us to get all your feeds working before you do the permanent redirect.

https://support.transistor.fm/en/article/importing-your-podcast-from-a-different-provider-fvkczq/

@jefferysaddoris @kelkes @TransistorFM That's correct. And then 301 redirect the old feeds to your new feed on Transistor.

@jefferysaddoris @kelkes @TransistorFM That’s possible.

You’d have to replicate the feed somehow (because we don’t allow the importing of the same feed twice)

Probably best to just reach out to our support and get us to make three different copies of your feed for you. 👍

@GetTheAudience We’re working on a new podcast website system now. 👍

@RollPersuasion @bloodonthebayou @WerewolfFeels @TransistorFM 🥰 thank you!

"Science Vs" was a Gimlet podcast and was forced to go Spotify-exclusive after the acquisition.

But they're releasing this episode everywhere.

Here it is on @OvercastFM:
https://overcast.fm/+Tr3-L8BX4

This is bad ass.

https://twitter.com/wendyzuk/status/1489776879531958273?s=20&t=AuMKARFVI1_yi_m702Y1wg

@dceddia Not yet. It’s something we’d like to do though.

Here’s the Overcast link with a timestamp:

https://overcast.fm/+roVrsmdmI/23:08

@dan_copy Yes, they should definitely have a countdown timer. 👍

@skiltz Nice! Thanks.

@DCoulbourne Listening to your internet radio program and came here to check this out!

This is incredible Snow Max.

An update on my YouTube experiment.

Currently, I'm seeing my video on the first page of results here (in incognito):

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+start+a+podcast+2022

Are you seeing it as well? 🤞