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Great read from Isabelle. 👍 https://twitter.com/iroughol/status/1494567385654874124

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.

Watching @marcelpociot on @LaraconOnline! 💯

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

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

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?

@CasJam At @TransistorFM we're using @useShortcut.

And we have an annual overview doc in Google Sheets.

Sources:

https://covid19tracker.ca/vaccinationtracker.html

https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/news-polls/majority-of-canadians-support-vaccination-mandates

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Canadian_federal_election

Earlier, @missbikesalot mentioned that videos with chapters are performing better on YouTube, so I'm adding some now. 👍

So, I'm thinking of using this for the thumbnail.

It's for this video (still unpublished, but feel free to watch!):
https://youtu.be/SbgBmsr_gZE

🎙️ "How to start a podcast in 2022"

Any other tips?

When your co-founder is remote, getting together 1-2 times a year is crucial.

@jonbuda and I haven't been able to do that since April 2019.

We finally made it happen earlier this month.

https://justinjackson.ca/its-been-too-long

@panphora Is this credit card upfront?

My friend @CasJam is on Product Hunt today. Please go show him some ❤️!

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/zipmessage

@dvassallo Yes!

Back in 2012, working remote gave me my first real taste of lifestyle design.

https://justinjackson.ca/remote

Clarifying my use of the word "distribution."

Here, distribution = promotion, discoverability, findability.

Websites, RSS feeds, podcasts, email lists, apps, art, creative projects, & music have always relied on centralized directories and search engines for customers/audience.

@tylertringas If you have a spreadsheet you’re using internally to model SaaS forecasts (or to ascertain a SaaS’ overall health) I would buy that. 👍

@MitchBernstein Ok, let’s say he decided to pay 1736.7% more tax than he needed to.

Why is he making such a big deal about it then?

I'm definitely going to hire him more in the future.

He saved me hours of having to research/debug this stuff myself. 💯

Highly recommended. 👍

Interesting summary of “The Optimal Stopping Problem” by @andrewchen on @noahkagan’s podcast.

You can’t spend unlimited time solving every problem (buying a house, choosing a career, etc), so what’s the strategy for choosing the best option?

https://overcast.fm/+O4jimv-dU

@EmmettNaughton @kvlly @rhiankatie @fromgovalo So happy for you!

The @fromgovalo team is lucky to have you! 🥳

Terry gets me. 🙏 https://twitter.com/theforestco/status/1463384459172933634

There are lots of problems with evangelicalism, but one positive aspect of the culture is how it enables kids to try things (speak publicly, play music, build projects, leadership) in a supportive space. https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1265131545318154240

@agazdecki It was this feeling (in 2013) that lead me to start @megamaker.

Over the years the people in that group have been invaluable supports to me (and each other). 👍

https://megamaker.meeps.app/

Kyle and I started the @productpeopletv podcast together in 2012.

Ever since then, we've been each other's cheerleaders.

Back then, we were starry-eyed hopeful startup founders.

It's incredibly gratifying to see both of us finding success in the SaaS game since then.

❤️

I used to believe that we should stop asking individuals to fix the climate crisis.

Now I see it clearly: we need to stop asking the world's *poor* to reduce emissions.

"The world’s wealthy need to cut 90%+ percent of their carbon emissions, to get to their carbon fair share."

@nbashaw I've read all the links in this thread, and I'm still confused.

Web3 "server" & "database" – are these actually better alternatives than what we have right now?

- isn't AWS way more affordable and performant?
- isn't there storage limitations that still make SQL better?

In normal times, 12% of adults in the USA are responsible for 66% of flights.

We don't need to convince/affect the "majority" of people; just the minority of "super flyers" who are responsible for most flights.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d30896202a18c0001b49180/t/605a0951f9b7543b55bb003b/1616513362894/Elite+Status+Global+inequalities+in+flying.pdf

Thinking more about this...

There's one type of email newsletter I *do* tend to open on workday mornings: digest emails like Axios, @Podnews, @IndieHackers, @mailbrew.

This. https://twitter.com/jonasdowney/status/1455910779283255296

Nice rainy, foggy day in #vernonbc

@benediktdeicke @MicroConf @IndieHackers @megamaker Please follow @arvidkahl's lead and move to 🇨🇦

(except, you should move to BC 😄)

👏👏👏 https://twitter.com/jmckinven/status/1452652680065728516

“Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.” – Vannevar Bush

@JackEllis @arvidkahl @yongfook @TransistorFM Sharing financials *can* be really helpful (both for others, and us).

But eventually, their utility (on both sides) diminishes.

Crypto folks who think that cryptocurrencies are the “cure” for hyperinflation: what’s your theory here?

This feels like a hopeful read by @KHayhoe! 👍

@seebiscut @noahwbragg @damengchen @chddaniel @dr Chill with the fam. Movie night every Friday.

☀️ In the summer: go to the beach, mountain bike, paddleboard

❄️ In the winter: take the kids skiing, snowboard

Great writing tip: https://twitter.com/AlliBlum/status/1450918195699798026

Looking for a #nocode way to build a membership site, online community, paid newsletter, or subscription business?

@joshuaanderton is doing early-access for @meepsapp at $99/year.

(I'm already using it to run @MegaMaker)

https://meeps.app/join

One of my favorite things about running the @megamaker community, is seeing folks wear the shirts and hats, all over the world!

(And especially at conferences).

This @meepsapp feature allows anyone to create an on-demand merch store for their community. 🤯

It's not east to truly understanding what category you're in, who the customers are, what's motivating them, and what they do about it.

You really need to be immersed in it to get it.

And then, *what you do* with that information (how you apply it to your startup) is key.

@arvidkahl Intercom, like Slack, makes most of their money off Enterprise customers.

They don't mind pricing this way (and alienating small companies) because the bulk of their business is upstream.

It's like: "Who are you, again? Do we know each other? Have we met?"

@TransistorFM @Julian @csallen Just finished listening to episode one!

As someone who likes to argue on the internet about facts, you guys gave me a lot to think about:

"Wrap facts with stories"

@_rchase_ Those plants outside are nice touch. 👍

@chddaniel @levelsio Haha. It just made me chuckle. I think Pieter is only 5 years younger than me? 😉

@efreyreg @RphGrc Thinking from a consumer’s perspective: will they see “gas fee” as substantially different than “management fee?”

@webby2001 hahaha. the math checks out!

Today's harvest is determined by what you planted in the past.

This quote is from this podcast with @AdamMGrant and @guyraz, which I highly recommend:

https://overcast.fm/+Ysrblns6Q/

Here’s a video that shows you how bad it’s gotten. 😷

#vernonbc https://twitter.com/BadWeatherKyle/status/1426727302725922819

What's interesting is I sometimes save my "good tweets" for weekdays.

But I wonder if it even matters what day you publish?

My guess is "time of day" matters more (as most of my audience is in the USA.

@pittman021 @einarvollset @Shpigford You're misreading the study, and your assessment is opposite to what the *study's author* (Dr. Niklas Boers) stated in the CNN piece.

I think we should trust the "picture being painted" by the PhD who wrote the paper!

@Shpigford Sensationalism is "the use of exciting or shocking stories or language at the *expense of accuracy*".

This headline isn't "sensational;" it's accurate. Scientists have been warning us for years that a slowing gulf stream has "dire consequences for life on earth."

🎯 Yup, lots of people find out about new shows by... listening to their current favorites. 👍

https://twitter.com/DaronSpence/status/1423440838919589892

@Lamacorn20 At the beginning of @TransistorFM, we reached out to friends and contacts who already had a podcast and asked if they would switch to us.

@AlbanBrooke @Atlassian Ooh. 👀

This isn't a bad idea; we could hire a success person to do this? (Like @r00k is doing)

But, I'm still not convinced there's enough contract volume in the $5k/year+ range in podcast hosting to necessitate it.

(And: do we want to be in that business?)

https://twitter.com/sfioritto/status/1418653769521405957

Once again, @edzitron nails it:

https://ez.substack.com/p/clubhouse-is-the-big-stinker-that

Alright! @SeosHQ just turned @stripe Climate on in their account.

That brings us to...

██████████░░ 84% towards our goal. 🙌

@ow The air quality in #vernonbc this morning was some of the worst in the world. 😔

Chatting with @VineetSinha building community, @meepsapp, and running a paid community (@megamaker) since 2013.

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1RDGlPPneqNGL

People are asking: "But, what if banks get stuck issuing bad mortgage loans like in 2008?"

This is different than 2008.

The idea is for banks to use MRR as collateral (the same way Stripe does currently when issuing their B2B loans).

https://twitter.com/TylerMKing/status/1371200407972745216

@skyebelote WTF.

Truly awful.

New business plan for @TransistorFM: start a celebrity podcast and get acquired. 😜

https://twitter.com/nwquah/status/1409888673588449281?s=21

A reminder to be kind.

A reminder to be compassionate.

A reminder to help.

https://overcast.fm/+HKaeG0YSg

💯 https://t.co/DHpCEY7TG4

@chddaniel @joshuaanderton Dope! Thanks for listening.

🤞 @joshuaanderton and I are hoping to record again tomorrow.

👍 if this works out, I might do something similar with other makers, yup.

After today's carving demonstration (at a programming conference) I'm all in on the WAK stack. 🤣

W - 🪵
A - 🪓
K - 🔪

Nobody is insulated from these realities; even me!

This new project I’m investing in with @joshuaanderton will be judged by the market, and could fail.

I’m trying to increase our odds, but in business there are no sure bets.

https://podcast.megamaker.co/

Good marketing harnesses existing demand; it directs a customer’s existing momentum towards your product.

https://twitter.com/pradeephenry/status/1402455815806611460?s=21

@Swizec Not sure I believe that narrative.

Many of Silicon Valley’s “favorite” founders (Zuck, Bezos, Page, Brin, Gates, Musk) own significant percentages of their company’s stock.

I *wish* Bezos cared less about his money, and paid his employees more.

@alphacolin Dang; and here I am struggling with the idea of @TransistorFM being over 5 people. 😅

@chddaniel Hard to answer that, because I was a completely different person back then.

I got married young and had kids young, which dramatically effected the trajectory of my life.

@derrickreimer Inviting two Derrick Reimers to a meeting is way better than just having one. 💯

Video is an example of a content type that never really had an open protocol.

The result? Video is almost completely centralized on YouTube.

Open protocols (email, RSS) give individual creators a lot more leverage because they have a direct connection with subscribers.

Not all boundaries are good, and society is always evolving.

But having a common understanding of what's appropriate, and what's not, in a variety of contexts is helpful.

An acute example: "You can take off your pants in your house, but you shouldn't if you're on Zoom."

And another thank you to @nathanbarry, who helped reduce the stigma of going to a therapist. ❤️

This clip is from a longer talk I gave at @LaraconUS in 2019.

You can watch the whole thing here:
https://justinjackson.ca/laracon

"Why growing old in tech is hard"

@nbashaw Whoa. Spotify hasn't officially told @TransistorFM about any of this, but if it's true, it's huge.

We already have 1-click deeplinks for most podcast apps; Spotify has been the notable exception.

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

@typeoneerror For most, it was their dream to work there.

I think when you’ve been somewhere a long time, and (up until now) enjoyed the work and the environment, it makes it harder to leave.

The folks I know who worked there weren’t looking to quit. Having to make a choice was a shock.

@charliprangley Some backstory here: https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basecamp

@Shpigford That must depend on your POV, because I found the main argument solid. 😜

How is crypto shown itself to be functionally useful as an alternative currency?

I've heard multiple reports of people having a hard time submitting a new podcast RSS feed to Apple, so I've created a brand new feed (using @TransistorFM) to submit.

You can see it here:
https://feeds.transistor.fm/podcast-channel

Ok. After a long wait, I'm now able to access Apple's new Podcast Connect.

Looks good! Definitely cleaner. A few new options.

The most helpful improvement is being able to see all your podcast reviews in one place.

One question: how will Apple treat existing paid private podcasts, where subscribers manually add RSS feeds to the player?

@benthompson, @gruber, @SamHarrisOrg, and others use this strategy currently.

Will that go away? (Will they be forced to shared 30% of revenue with Apple?)

From Apple's screenshots, it looks like "normal" podcasters will finally be able to edit "hosts and guests," and may be able to view ratings and reviews globally?

It seems you can also identify your show's publishing frequency (weekly, monthly, etc)

@BorisTane For SaaS, a lead is often treated as a “trial.”

For @TransistorFM, we offer a 14-day free trial (CC upfront).

We send a few automated emails when they start their trial. (“What brought you here today?”)

Then, we track:
- number of monthly trials
- trial to paid conversion %

@dr @NathanClark_ @tolta_co @BarrettABrooks https://twitter.com/transistorfm/status/1382735795010760704

All right, I've just published my chat with @tylertringas + @Shpigford here:

https://saasclub.transistor.fm/episodes/is-crowdfunding-good-for-investors

OMG. This one kills me.

"Tower chimes" is vendor category, sitting right next to "nuclear equipment."🤣

Outcomes in business are largely dictated by the market you choose.

If you invest $1.2 million in a McDonald’s franchise, your possible annual profits are likely $100k-$250k.

Or, you could invest $100k in a software company, and earn $1+ million a year.

And... we’re already talking about Bitclout. 😂

Jon and I talked about why product people need margins on @buildyoursaas.

"Time away from the office isn't wasted."

It's a new episode here: https://plinkhq.com/i/1357295850/e/1000515947892

@jdoss @TransistorFM Yup! We're already using @usefathom 🥰

@aliyapabani @sookyinlee @JohnTory How can people contribute to this man’s rent?

Some folks (@adii, @nathanbarry, @spencerfry) are motivated by building teams. If that's you, do it!

And, sometimes, there's a direct correlation between "more people, more profit." If the case for your product, hire!

But revenue doesn't always scale that way; so be careful.

Read @memotv’s threads.

After a ton of in-depth research:

“The figures are even worse than I thought.”

“For digital artworks to have emissions of 100s KgCO2 is bonkers.”

“This technology is simply not ready.” https://twitter.com/memotv/status/1352007633734086657

The success of your product will be the culmination of all these factors:

- How strong was the "pull" from the market?
- What advantages did you have going in?
- Was your hypothesis? Did you execute on it? Were you right?
- Did you have the resources to build + promote it?

I'm mostly looking at this from the perspective of a small (1-5 person) company.

The minimum bar is much lower (and often easier/faster to reach) when you're an indie bootstrapper.

When you're small, the revenue needed to hit profitability might be $100k/year!

Love this idea @BarrettABrooks.

I’ve been recording some of my Clubhouse, TwitterSpaces, and @jam_systems sessions as well. 👍 https://twitter.com/BarrettABrooks/status/1365758570625572864