Comments on: 248: TZ Discussion – MinMax

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:52:35 +0000

@Philippe Monnet – Thanks! It’s great to be back on a more regular schedule, even if it does require more work on our part. At least now I have something of an outlet for all of the ideas flowing relentlessly through my brain. I guess it serves as kind of an idea sink for me. 😉

Yeah, I thought Sandy’s nicknaming of us as “One-Brain” was pretty clever. 🙂

Oh, and on the Colby-computer topic, after returning home yesterday from a day at baseball camp, Colby explains to his mom (in a manner as if he hadn’t eaten for three days), “Mom, I’ve been away from my computer for SIX hours!” LOL

By: Philippe Monnet

Philippe Monnet — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 22:57:49 +0000

Wow you guys are “on fire” with the new podcast frequency – I love it and I am going to have to free up some more time to stay synched up! 🙂
It’s great to hear that Colby is spending more time coding than watching TV.
“One-Brain” LOL – this will warrant a new entry on the wiki (eventually)!
Thanks for resuming “La Critique” and kudos to the authors for stepping forward and volunteer their apps.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 22 Dec 2013 07:43:14 +0000

Hey Jason,

You were speculating how you might run a company with little to no management. Check out Valve’s employee handbook: http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1074301/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf

By: Chris Lorenz

Chris Lorenz — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 03:30:13 +0000

Hey Jason and Justin,
Anyway you would accept donations other than PayPal?

On a similar note I saw this site the other day https://subbable.com/. It is a crowd funding site designed for recurring show/podcast. That site seems to be focused on youtube but something similar would be great for your show.

Great podcast as usual. So great to have you back on a weekly basis.

By: Steve French

Steve French — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 20:33:22 +0000

You should check out the Tyler Cowen book Average is Over – the part on the growing importance of self-motivation and concientiousness is quite in keeping with your friend Jack’s story
http://www.amazon.com/Average-Is-Over-Powering-Stagnation/dp/0525953736/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387225935&sr=8-1&keywords=average+is+over

By: Jeff Whelpley

Jeff Whelpley — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:30:06 +0000

2 thoughts on this show.

First, I was very sad to hear that Jack’s restaurant failed. I only got to play on Cobalt with him for a couple years, but he is such a hard working, great guy. It is awesome that he is now getting a second life of sorts with database/programming work, but it still sucks things didn’t work out for him. Also, I didn’t realize he was in his 40s. I always thought he was younger than me. I guess it just shows that when you have the right mindset you can rebound from really tough setbacks.

The other thing I was going to mention is that 6 hours a day of ‘in the zone’ hacking is way on the high end. I think that I have been able to just barely get there but only after I started working at a small startup with very few other distractions outside coding AND I still have to work 70+ hours a week to get about 40 hours locked-in coding. If you work at a company with more than a half dozen devs or if you have a lot of other responsibilities, forget about it. At Wells Fargo I would be lucky to get 1 full hour of solid coding in during the day.

Great episode. Keep up the weekly show schedule!