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@CharlesPal Actually, I've written a few retrospectives:

https://justinjackson.ca/customer-behavior

https://justinjackson.ca/sneakers

https://justinjackson.ca/business-lesson-less-research-launch-small

RT @mijustin: An example from my life:

In my early 20s I opened a skateboard/snowboard shop. It was low-margin everything:

- low markup o…

RT @mijustin: Good businesses have margin.

Profit margin, yes.

But also margin for your time, your emotional and physical health, your re…

RT @mijustin: One thing you’ll notice with low-margin businesses: you’re always “adding more” hoping it will increase your margins.

At the…

@iChris @ddgrunau 🤦‍♂️

@alantocheri @WestWingWeekly I’ve never paid a guest to come on a podcast. That’s not common.

@otherlab I see the 2016 “billion ton” report. Is there a newer one?

https://www.energy.gov/eere/bioenergy/2016-billion-ton-report

@beingbrad Yup, I just mute and move on. No time for arguing. The science is clear.

@theothermarcusc @tim_cook That’s enough money to buy solar for over 7 million homes.

@dbchhbr Yes. I have.

But this is an “all hands on deck” situation.

We need every individual, corporation, government, and non-profit to be taking significant action.

Often, government action follows a groundswell of action from regular people like you and I.

@conradnobert really curious what happened with this project since your post in 2011.

Did the house end up having some net zero years?

http://greenedmonton.ca/net-zero-year-final.html

@iprashantpillai Thanks!

@nurijanian Thanks!

@AliAbdaal ThNks!

@dotNetkow Thanks!

@LukeFVL Thanks!

@jbrooksuk @HappyDevFM Here’s how we do it: (listen to last 5 minutes)

https://saas.transistor.fm/episodes/what-happens-tomorrow

@timoreilly @ezraklein Is there any chance we can get Saul on Twitter?

His interview with @ezraklein (and his Medium post) are the most hopeful pieces on climate change I’ve seen.

It feels like we need his voice here!

RT @evanpro: Why: temp rise under 1.5C

What: zero emissions by 2050; capture CO2

How to get to zero: vote and donate to climate+ pols, el…

@vulkd 👍

@_KevinGraham @MicroConf Yes!!!

@tahirraza_se 👍

@mike_julian @tylertringas Another way to do it would be to charge the airline industry for all their externalities.

That would be the true “free market” approach.

And then, there’s no “personal responsibility” angle.

@sethlouey I’m not going to be able to change your mind, so I’m not going to debate it.

@mike_julian @tylertringas There are wide-sweeping policy changes we could make here, similar to what they’re proposing in the UK.

“Each citizen would be allowed one tax-free flight per year but would pay progressively higher taxes on each additional flight taken.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/25/1-of-english-residents-take-one-fifth-of-overseas-flights-survey-shows

@MattGiovanisci Yes! You’re a green machine. 🌎

@tylertringas Is your point that “because there are no easy alternatives” we should just ignore it?

Some would say that air travel is low hanging fruit, because for most folks, it’s a luxury.

@jonathanwmeier @Noahpinion Yes, and this is the part I’m taking about. We still need to take action.

https://twitter.com/noahpinion/status/1051676756933894144?s=21 https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1051676756933894144

@jonathanwmeier @Noahpinion I don’t like that form of defeatism: “well, if the US and Chinese governments won’t do anything we’re fucked anyway!”

We need action: government policy, clean tech, foreign policy, and to change the way we live and conduct business.

@evanpro This is where we disagree. 😉

The Interstate Highway System wasn’t built because a few activists wanted roads for their cars.

It was built because of a concerted lobby, and the spending on it was ostentatious: in the USA, the government paid for 90% of its construction.

@brhea Love it. 👍

RT @mijustin: @joelgascoigne Environmental impact.

How do our business activities help (or harm) the climate?

I’m currently considering t…

@RachelCorbett I’d love to see Transistor’s players on this page too!

https://transistor.fm/features/embeddable-podcast-player

@SweatingCommas Awesome.

@valentinprgnd Yes! I wrote a bunch of tips here:
https://justinjackson.ca/submit-podcast-itunes

@beingbrad Happy New Year Brad from Canada!

@imyke @jsnell @jonbuda Here's the clip

@nbrempel @dhh @TransistorFM @TryGhost Podcasting is already pretty decentralized!

Podcasts (like blogs) use RSS for syndication.

The podcaster hosts the MP3s themselves.

Directories (like Apple Podcasts) are merely linking to podcast media.

Podcast subscribers can subscribe directly to the RSS feed.

RT @mijustin: People are realizing that centralized publishing platforms (Medium, YouTube, Facebook) have real downsides.

"Traditional bl…

@JamesCridland There are always tons of Australians here during our winter.

Hoping you’re safe!

@CorbettBarr Thanks Corbett! The same to you! 🙌

RT @m1guelpf: Would you listen to a "Laravel Youngbloods" podcast in which a group of teen Laravel devs talk about coding and building cool…

@MrSimonBennett I’m curious about this too!

RT @marcelpociot: Here it is: 2019 - My year in review

https://pociot.dev/23-2019-my-year-in-review

RT @operaqueenie: @marazepeda @JenniferBrandel @TaraReed_ @deldelp @WAOFrancesca @dhh @jasonfried @bryce @joelgascoigne @randfish So, I not…

RT @tiffani: When you’re mean when you don’t have to be, you look small.

RT @mijustin: Eventually, the accumulation of these tiny changes crosses a threshold and a big change occurs.

This is true for success, fa…

@Treggats @noplanstomerge Thanks! 🙌

RT @evanpro: To friends posting 10s or 100s of km of air travel totals for 2019: can you commit to making a 5% reduction in total air trave…

RT @CasJam: 1. Name one podcast you really enjoyed in 2019.

2. Why does that one stand out for you?

@ideasasylum Come ski with me!

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@tristanbailey Nice! I’m due for a workout too.

What do you mean when you say “drawing paths on images?”

@snapey I hear you! The carb suffering is real!

@ninjaparade Yeah!

@de_henne Yes, I’m starting to think a bit about 2020 too.

No firm plans yet though. How about you?

@Beryllium9 Yeah, why does that always happen when we get time off?

@smithtimmytim Pretty good! Enjoying some time off, and time with family and friends. 👍

RT @venikunche: Ok, please stop telling folks to work long hours! Also, stop creating such toxic work environments.

A thread..

RT @kaleighf: @helena Especially when your work for yourself, it’s so easy to fall into the workaholic trap...because MONEY! OPPORTUNITY!…

@stympy To you as well! 🎄

@tim_abell To you as well Tim! 🙌

@iChris Lol. 😂

@misstiff_94 @rebeccabarton7 Nice! 👍

@SweatingCommas This is already a great country song.

@tylertringas Yes, but even there, you still need to pay attention to the “macro trend” in the overall market:

Laravel is nothing without a huge base of PHP devs.

FeedbackPanda doesn’t succeed without billions of Chinese citizens wanting to learn English.

@tylertringas @anupom @dhomann @feedbackpanda Yes, part of the problem is that the definition of “niche market” isn’t quantified (by # of potential customers, or purchase frequency).

But when I hear people say “very small niche market” I think: “they must be referring to a market with only 100s of potential customers.”

@abadir_ @songadaymann Nice!!!

@dohertyjf Can you give me an example?

And, what do you mean by “value metrics?”

@taylorotwell I dig it! 🤙

@dhomann @tylertringas Just so we're on the same page. Do you agree with these definitions?

@dhomann @tylertringas Your target customer is call centers?

@secos How practical is that?

I can’t think of any bootstrapped software companies that are in that position.

(Only having 1-2 customers, out of a total accessible market out of 10)

@secos But there’s one more important variable in there you missed: “how many people have that need?”

The size of the market matters.

If only a handful of people want it, it’s hard to build a comapny around that need.

@iannuttall @tylertringas @datanyze @nathanbarry “The market” is "X number of people actively spending money on Y."

It’s the category. Almost always, people are switching from one product in the category to another.

“Targeting a niche” can help get you a foothold; but that’s mostly a positioning exercise.

@nwquah Love the dinosaurs one! 🦖 ❤️

@derrickreimer i am oldz

@Stphn_Lacey What’s happening here?

@johnnytong Nice. 👌

RT @egarbugli: In this post, entrepreneur @mijustin shares a list of the mental triggers that cause people to act and buy software products…

@chasewreeves @jaethan (I’m eating Crispix right now)

@darbyfrey I don’t remember registering for a marathon.

@IAmSunnyDan There’s almost always some form of preexisting demand.

The new creation is often an evolution of something that existed before.

RT @mijustin: Like a surfer, you look for rising tides. 🏄‍♀️

For example: the breakfast cereal market will reach $40 billion in 2023.

“Bu…

@cheriehu42 Ooh! I love stuff like this. 👍

RT @mijustin: Many of the successful founders you see didn’t win because of their brilliant idea or perfect execution.

More likely: they f…

RT @mijustin: One thing marketers, salespeople, devs, designers, and founders probably don’t want to hear:

When demand is really strong, y…

@brandonpittman @usefathom I’m a GUI, man.

@brian_jorden @dandenney @TransistorFM For some of our customers, Spotify is up to 50% of their listenership!

For podcast hosting platforms (like @TransistorFM) Spotify is really nice to work with too (because they have an API).

@mattragland @ConvertKit @buffer @wistia @teachable @thinkific I think @CorbettBarr’s done a great job of this with @Fizzle and https://palapa.co/

@mikevardy @chaptersindigo Nice!

@jessarchercodes In a way, they do. Spotify re-hosts the audio from your feed, meaning your podcast host doesn’t need to charge you for that download. 👍

@mattalexand NICE!!!!!! I want to see it.

@mattalexand Where is this?

@Chik Transistor co-founder is leaving Safeway (again).

@theleviallen 😮

RT @cgenco: "There's no shame in quitting. Quitting gives you space. When you say 'no' to one thing, you open yourself up to new opportunit…

RT @thisjenlewis: That's all. Until next year!

@MatthewBogart Are you full time on Incredible Doom now?

@ratiovernon @drumroaster luv it