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Justin and Justin discuss how and why Jason is reviving his long-abandoned blog and Twitter account and how he’s planning on building an audience for the launch of Math Academy, the First1000 newsletter, and some of the strategies utilized by the companies that have been profiled, the PDF Zero to Users, whether deferred tuition offered at boot camps like Lambda School is a good idea and the upside of buying and selling equity in individuals, the possibility of rebranding and relaunching the podcast, how the pandemic killed MV Code Club and the status of Jason’s crypto-trading project, the massive content development project that is Math Academy, why Justin is obsessed with the thumbnail creation service he’s building for Morning Brief, how to alter a large and highly active table in MySQL, how bad the series Travellers is and how good The Sinner is, and the upcoming TV sci-fi series Foundation.
Nice! Movement on Math Academy!
Your discussions of investments have convinced me that one of the major upsides to angel investing is that you simply don’t have a choice about selling it for years. Coinbase and BTC had similar growth but people like Gary Tan were forced to hold onto it but almost nobody could hold onto BTC over the last nine years.
What a teaser at the end! I was really curious what happened to that space-themed 4x game Colby and the others were working on. Another thing that would be interesting to hear about is your experiences contracting and/or advising for equity in very early stage startups.
Jason,
I think you should do the podcast circuit if you want to get the word out and increase your luck surface area. Suggestions of shows with a guest interview format:
Embedded.fm
The Lex Fridman Podcast
The Michael Shemer Show
The Tim Ferriss Show
There’s always that bit at the end when the guest is asked, “and where can the listeners find you,” that you can use to funnel people back here and to your Twitter account.
I think a new podcast and a fresh Twitter account are the way to go.
Podcast name ideas:
Luck Surface Area — it fits well, Justin and Jason talk about things they’re interested in and share it out to all the listeners.
The Mark II Podcast — second podcast, rebooted with new and improved…everything (Iron Man/Tony Stark style)
RETOOL — “Revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving”
I looked at my podcast feed and thought it was broken – another TechZing podcast in a week??? Am I caught in a time loop???
Glad to hear you guys are back!
Here is my idea: I think Jason could do a podcast tour just talking about having your own podcast for 10 years. I think a lot of the newer but popular podcast hosts would be really interested and you could hit a broad market to talk about Match Academy.
YESSSS !!! Boys are back in town !
Morning routine just got order of magnitude better 🙂
Thanks guys for all your hard work and letting us in on your interesting lives.
Been listening to you since day one, plan to be here for a thousand more !
Jason
I think a perfect blog post for Math Academy that explains what it can help students do is Derek Sivers “No Speed Limit”. https://sive.rs/kimo
Gordon
If you want truly seamless schema changes, you can look at gh-ost https://github.com/github/gh-ost which works with MySQL / RDS. It requires a bit of time / infra investment up front, but once set-up, it’s amazing. We’re using it on a 24/7 service which can’t afford temporary maintenance mode.
Can’t wait to hear about the cs course!
Looking forward to more frequent episodes.
Sorry to hear about how COVID basically killed MV Code Club
Podcast rebranding: why not go with “Luck Surface Area”? just saw this was already mentioned, so must be a great idea 🙂
Topic ideas:
Re-interviewing previous interviewees to see where they are now. Still doing the same thing, or something different
Interviewing the site owners for the various links that the episode show notes include, like First1000 and Zero to Users in this episode’s notes.
Dead Projects Society: failed/dropped projects that y’all have worked on that you’ve stopped and why they failed or were dropped. Maybe with some distance you might be able to better evaluate why they didn’t work, and what you’d do differently now. Hearing mentions of AppIgnite and AnyFu made me think of this.
Really glad you guys are doing shows regularly again. I started listening in 2012 and I can’t say there’s any other podcast that I’ve stuck with 11 years later besides yours!
Justin I was really interested to hear about the backend development for Morning brief. I was wondering if you could share more details on how you collect data via the non official API means if you feel comfortable doing that? I shelved a fintech idea recently because the projected social media API costs were prohibitively expensive and now I’m wondering if I can potentially revive it.
Update suggestion – I’d be interested to hear about what some of the friends of the show are up to now eg Phil and Rob Walling.