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Justin, Jason and panel guests Phil Aman and Gabriel Weinberg, discuss A/B testing, advertising on Stumble Upon and Reddit, the possibility of an arsenic-based life-form, the best current science fiction shows, methods for improving productivity, why venture capitalists don’t like lifestyle businesses, balancing consulting with side projects, what can and can’t be learned from success stories, the role and impact of natural talent, an update on AppIgnite and a new tech podcast called BitBanter.
Just a quick disclaimer:
I got my stumble upon costs wrong. I say that you can drive 3000 visitors to a page for $60, but the actual figure is 1,200 visitors for $60. So, to get 3000 visitors would cost $150. Still cheaper than spending 4 hours writing a blog post if your hourly rate is anything over $50 😉
The arsenic based thing was still pretty interesting. What they did was prove that it is possible for a life form to use a different set of elements. Kinda.
It’s still pretty important. After all, the history of serious astrobiology is really only 50 years old.
lol Justin is doing extensive research on netflix!
Excellent!
Actually I was suprised Gabriel came back! I felt he maybe was a little turned off by the massive amounts of “unsolicited advice” in the interview he was in previously. Glad to hear thats not the case.
I think this one worked a lot better then the last. Possibly due to the guests. It was missing more of the tech focus (like how things work on the low level), but the attempts of marketing using Stumbleapon has saved me some cash.
@Ben Boyter – Wow, I didn’t realize that we gave Gabe that much unsolicited advice? Huh, maybe we did. Anyway, I’m glad it didn’t seem to put him off because I really enjoy having him on the show and hope to have him back on again sometime soon.
I agree that we need to get into some more tech. We’ve been doing a lot of marketing stuff lately and I think it’s time to get hard core again. 😉
Might have been just me, but I’m sure there was about 15 mins there where you guys were basically throwing every idea you can come up with at Gabriel. It was interesting to hear them, but I figured it was the last thing he really wanted to hear since it sounded like he had heard of them all already.
Have both him and Phil on more because both are awesome!
Regarding spinning: I do that too and I’m glad that someone as fit as you had a problem with it too 🙂
I want to punch the instructor.
@Ben – I’m glad you liked Phil and Gabe and our plan is to bring them back as semi-regular panel guests kind of like how TWiT does with their stable of guests. I’m thinking that maybe every two or three weeks we can do a panel discussion show in place of a normal discussion show, but I guess we’ll see how it works out. I’d like to get some more feedback on the format, but I think having a couple of guests on a discussion show works really well, where it’s a little more difficult attempting to manage two interviews at the same time as in show #90 with Sam and Amir.
I, for one, welcome our new arsenic based overlords
Thank you from Molly for the mention today. I’ve only been able to skip through the show as I’m pressed for time (as you might imagine).
From what I did hear, it was a great discussion and I love the panel format, very lovely. Don’t give up your one-to-one chats though, listening to the two of you just kick back and have a banter was what really set the show apart for me.
Again, many thanks and I look forward to more excellent shows 🙂
Great show as always.
I could have used a little more introduction of each of the guests at the top of the show. About 10 minutes into it, I figured out that Gabe was the Duck Duck Go guy, but I never identified Phil. Just a 1-minute introduction at the beginning would be good for panel shows.
@Aaron – That’s a very good point. We’ll make sure to do that going forward.
Finally got to listen to your show. Thanks again for the mention. Molly would be delighted to have her picture featured 😉
As someone who also works from home, I found the discussion on time management very interesting. I’ve been known to have 2 hour naps, but the idea of the 20 minute nap seems like an idea worth trying.
My daily routine does also follow the idea of starting with the smaller, easier tasks, especially if I’m aware of the bigger ones, as it does seem like my mind works away in the background and when I get to it, I usually find it easier to get going with the more tricky tasks.
I quite liked the show – there was a good amount of energy in that episode!
I was very interested in the discussion with Gabriel on A/B testing as this is a topic I really started to get into when Patrick McKenzie talked about it. In fact a few weeks ago I ended up contacting Patrick to get his ok to port ABingo to another Ruby framework called Camping. I have also started to write a series of posts on ABingo.
In general I think we can all benefit from learning more about how to do A/B testing.
On the topic of getting organized, I am still following one of the Covey principles: First Things First. It’s a great discipline to balance important vs. urgent topics.
I suspect that Justin’s discussion about his spouse difference of opinion about his startup focus is probably striking a chord with a lot of us. I guess we all have to “hang in there” and continue to “believe”! 🙂