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I've seen many parents start a business (hoping it will lead to "more family time") only to have the business consume most of their time, energy, and attention.

What was supposed to give them more freedom ended up robbing them of their freedom.

RT @zackgilbert: Excited to watch this. Has been a huge topic in my life lately. Appreciate having people like Justin and Aaron having thes…

RT @DustinGaessner: Incredible points that I resonated with as a new father to a 6 week old. Some food for thought.

@JamesCridland 👍

RT @PovilasKorop: As a father of two kids, I can totally agree with this article from Justin. It's hard.

Can you bootstrap a business if y…

@joetannenbaum Thanks for sharing it. 👍

I’m trying to normalize the idea that we don’t have to be super humans; it’s OK to take one thing at a time, to simplify, to create space for the period of life we’re in.

RT @joetannenbaum: I really resonate with this article by @mijustin.

Even with just one kid, trying to freelance + run my own thing(s) + f…

@JesseHercules I can't imagine! That sounds unbelievably hard.

How do you manage?

(Sending you and your fam lots of ❤️ and 💪)

@mbuckbee So much of people's experience depends on the other variables in their life. 😉

Personally, I found WFH wasn't the answer, but remote work *was* the answer (because I eliminated a daily 1.5-2 hour commute).

https://justinjackson.ca/wfh

@mbuckbee You can you expand on that?

@jayclouse Thanks!

We’re going to keep fiddling around with it.

@emmetgibney @CanonUSA @Sigma_Photo @AputureLighting @Philips_lights Yup! That’s coming. 👍

@bgardner so much pain 😖

@NealOGrady Yup! Walls behind me have been painted black.

@ericnormand Haha. It's @Victorybarbers' Claymore styling clay.

https://victorybarber.com/collections/styling-products/products/claymore

@evangoldin Lighting makes a huge difference!

@evangoldin Haha. Thanks! ❤️

@threehourcoffee Thanks!!

@miahsix @Big_E @TransistorFM 👍

@JBowdacious Probably just 1 cam for now

@Lockedown_ @bluesky @arcalinea The whole app is in beta. They didn’t expect this level of interest yet.

It’s a tiny team (~5 devs?)

Their team just burned the midnight oil to deliver blocks.

@thatroblennon @TransistorFM Omg! This just made my Friday.

Thanks so much. 🙌

@Lockedown_ @bluesky @arcalinea I get it, but it’s going to be pretty difficult to avoid every company Jack has ever invested in.

@stephenrobles Haha. Not right now.

Each user gets one invite code for every two weeks they're on the app.

@immad @mercury Congrats! 🙌

RT @hausofdecline:

RT @williamchanner: Some news! After a long Twitter hiatus, I'm happy to announce that I'm going full-time @theloversmag ✨ We're launching…

@simonhamp hahahahaha

@joshucar Haha. Nope, I just really like walks and listening to podcasts.

@CasJam Via iMessage? 😉

RT @EspreeDevora: “everything you put into your product should make the customer’s life better”

✍️ @mijustin

@oneclassycoder @noahwbragg At the time, religious beliefs. 😉

@jeremylatham Totally.

@voozahq My sense is that for many adults, our "inner monologue person" is quite a bit younger than our actual age.

@adamrochette Yup! That's a big part of it.

@cooperx86 Yeah! That encompasses the feeling for me too.

That's such a good way to put it: "what age does your inner monologue feel?"

@daniel_nguyenx Haha. I hope so! 🙏

@adamrochette Yeah, it’s weird.

Physically I feel my age.

Intellectually/mentally I feel my age. (I’ve learned and experienced a ton since my 20s).

It’s more like “spiritually” I feel younger than I am.

@Teevio @PodStandards How is that different than RSS?

@Teevio @PodStandards Still decentralized?

@ianlandsman @mateusjatenee Governments (especially the G8 and the EU) could introduce legislation that effectively slows down AI research by the big firms (Microsoft, Google, etc) until we can better understand what's in the black box.

Taxing negative externalities is often discussed, but the G8 + EU must…

@ianlandsman @mateusjatenee From a technical policy POV, I'd defer to AI experts like Dr. Stuart Russell who believes we shouldn't move forward until we understand what the black box is doing.

From econocmic policy POV, we need to (finally) enact policy that shares the upside of automation with workers.

@ianlandsman @mateusjatenee What you’re calling “doom and gloom” I feel is more:

“Let’s take a moment to really consider the ramifications.”

I like AI! I use it.

But I’m simultaneously concerned about it.

Being concerned isn’t automatically “doom and gloom”. 🙄

@mateusjatenee @ianlandsman Bingo. 🎯

@ianlandsman People who actually work in the industry (as Colorists) are very concerned.

https://ymcinema.com/2023/04/20/opinion-adobe-firefly-is-colorists-nightmare/

@ianlandsman Colorists are a huge part of the film industry.

Many are freelancers, who *could* earn $700-$1000 per day.

https://www.careersinfilm.com/colorist/

@ianlandsman "You can both celebrate something and worry about its negative knock-on effects, and in fact, everyone involved should simultaneously hold both of those things in their heads."

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/18/goodbye-to-the-fat-middle/

Underemployment and low wages is already a real problem in North America.

“44% of all workers—qualify as low-wage. Their median hourly wages are $10.22, and median annual earnings are about $18,000”

Seems like AI will exacerbate this?

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2019/11/21/low-wage-work-is-more-pervasive-than-you-think-and-there-arent-enough-good-jobs-to-go-around/

@ianlandsman CHIPS Act could be a good job creator for high-skilled workers.

But the overall trend is clear: since the 1980s tech disruption is a net destroyer of jobs.

Governments will need many more initiatives like this one, and it’s going to need to be funded by… (taxes?)

@ianlandsman Yes: we can legislate what happens when automation takes away good jobs from workers.

The benefits from automation, AI, etc shouldn’t just go to the people at the top.

The upside needs to be distributed.

@ianlandsman But historically, since the 80s, technological disruption had killed more jobs than it has created.

@ianlandsman Unemployment stats don’t tell the whole story.

It’s underemployment (and low wages) that are the problem.

Good jobs replaced by automation; shitty jobs remain.

This has been an ongoing issue for awhile:

https://www.miragenews.com/first-of-its-kind-research-into-underemployment-953550/

🤦‍♂️ posted the wrong graph.

@ianlandsman I’d watch the whole thing. 😉

This isn’t just about trucks. The doc covers jobs that *could* be disrupted (trucks, still far away) and jobs that have already been disrupted.

Even folks at Goldman Sachs are concerned:

“Technological change displaced workers and created new…

@ianlandsman you and I have wrestled over the issue of automation, AI, and the possible disruption (replacement) of millions of jobs.

I’m watching this doc right now (from 3 years ago).

Feels like this could be a big problem.

https://youtu.be/_iaKHeCKcq4

RT @EspreeDevora: Wealth is my loved ones
Money is safety, a roof and food
Freedom is owning my time
Happiness is inner ease in private
J…

@shavin47 @TransistorFM I’ve thought a lot about building community. 👍

I’ve been running the @megamaker community since 2013.

I’ve tried (multiple times) to build community platforms (@meepsapp most recently).

The challenge is that most folks just end up using Slack, Discord, Twitter, FB groups.

@mckenna_andrew Glasgow? I should fly out for that show too. 😉

@JordanGal 👀

@adamwathan I’ve got this one queued up in Overcast now!

RT @adamwathan: Pod is out 👀

https://hackersincorporated.com/episodes/lifetime-pricing-is-underrated

@ianlandsman Look at the disruption that machines/automation have already caused workers in the last 3-4 decades.

Wages for regular people have been stagnant for a long time, and a big culprit is automation:

https://www.axios.com/2021/06/17/automation-ai-income-inequality

@ianlandsman Read this research:

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/a-new-study-measures-actual-impact-robots-jobs-its-significant

The impact of AI will be even worse, because it will replace knowledge workers (the last resort for displaced workers from other industries).

@alphacolin Hahahaha. Amazing.

@__mharrison__ Is this setup still working well for you?

Thinking about getting it. Any room for improvement?

@valsopi Nice! 🥳

@r00k I could be wrong, but it seems like Google Workspace only blocks a sender if you explicitly choose "Block sender."

#spike-in-reported-spam&zippy=%2Cspike-in-user-reported-spam" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://support.google.com/a/answer/9104586?amp;rd=1&product_name=UnuFlow&visit_id=638174500649257849-248922265&rd=2&src=supportwidget0#spike-in-reported-spam&zippy=%2Cspike-in-user-reported-spam

@r00k I *think* that with a corporate Gmail setup, “Report as spam” just goes to the workspace admin.

Lately, I’ve found “Block sender” in Gmail is more effective.

RT @_yesbut_:

RT @asmartbear: @mijustin I know you saw it already, but the latest post is on the same topic. Except only on problems -- not on "margins"…

RT @mijustin: In my early 20s, I was running a skate shop where I was constantly stressed, working late nights, putting out fires, and leve…

“The affluent are still splurging, bolstering hopes that the U.S. can dodge a recession or endure a mild slump. Consumer spending makes up 70% of economic activity and the wealthy account for nearly half of those outlays.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/04/14/recession-2023-averted-by-rich-spending/11658451002/

@JamesCridland @PodcastBJournal I enjoyed it!

How do you see the differentiation between that and Podnews?

RT @SaaSletter: Given surprise tax bills generated by Section 174,

here is our emergency pod with @useneotax

(I have no affiliation w/ N…

@mjwhansen 🙌

RT @phuctm97: It's very hard to identify what will be useful & stick around. It's especially harder when I had to decide which project to w…

@chrishandyblog @TransistorFM Thanks. I agree!

With pricing, the competitive environment you're in matters quite a bit.

If every product in your category is priced at $49-$99/month, it will be difficult (especially as a newcomer) to charge $299/month.

@nathanbarry's initial pricing strategy with @convertkit was to be "10%…

@andrewculver @fxn @RailsSaaS Are you doing Rails SaaS only in the EU this year?

RT @GaryMarcus: LLMs don’t lie, and they don’t tell the truth either. They create plausible sentence continuations, some turn out to be tru…

RT @jdevalk: I have an idea. Remember when we used to blog? How about we start doing that again a bit more frequently?

Comment on each oth…

@KeliWestgate @CoWorkVernon 🙌 happy to help

@mattmedeiros @YouTube hahaha.

Nope.

RT @mijustin: Most purchases start with a search:

"gift ideas for my wife"
"best podcast hosting"
"top indie games for teens"

So the key…

@TedGoas Yes, met them at Geek Beers (a local tech meetup that runs every month).

@mattmedeiros 😆 the machines can’t figure us out!

RT @freekmurze: 🥳 I’m beyond excited that @mijustin, co-founder of @TransistorFM, will be speaking at @FullStackEU
Get your ticket here: h…

@Agile_for_One Three friends and I rented an office together. Initially, it was just us splitting the rent. Eventually, we turned it into a real coworking place, and invited other members to join us.

@yongfook 😅

@nathanbarry Thanks! 🙌

@evgenylepekhin Thanks for reading it and sharing it!

RT @jessicard: i hooked up chatgpt to a furby and I think this may be the start of something bad for humanity

RT @ianlandsman: I got final numbers today, the section 174 change caused a six figure increase plus significantly increased quarterly paym…

@Merthh Thank you! 🙌

@cgenco OR... install ChatGPT on your TV and get it to provide you healthcare? 🤔

@vivgui @FullStackEU @TransistorFM Thanks!

RT @alyssamvance: 48% of AI researchers think AI has a significant (>10%) chance of making humans extinct

58% believe AI alignment (by Rus…

RT @driesvints: Our first speaker announcement for @FullStackEU is out! Super happy to have @mijustin join us ☺️🥳

@benjamincrozat @arvidkahl It feels like this could be similar to Google, who captured Search in the mind of the consumer (even though other alternatives existed).

OpenAI had over 100 million users now; ChatGPT is one of the fastest growing apps of all time.

They have a pretty strong brand and position.

@maxime_mlops That’s @XnapperHQ!