Podcast Archive

348: TZ Discussion – The Great College Wipeout

Justin and Jason discuss Areli's push to be a division I gymnast, why Justin is moving back to London, what he's doing with Georgie's online course and how his trainer is too busy trading crypto to train him anymore, the latest with Math Academy, how Jason hacked together a math expression parser...
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347: TZ Interview – Brett Kennedy / Head of Robotics, JPL

Jason talks with Brett Kennedy, head of robotics at JPL. ...
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346: TZ Discussion – Better Late Than Never (not a repeat)

Justin and Jason discuss the fire that burned down Joe's house, the death of Morning Brief, what killed AppIgnite, why Justin is leaving his mountain life behind, the latest with Math Academy, why Jason thinks Money Ball is the best startup movie ever made, Justin's desire to start recording music again, and why...
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345: TZ Discussion – Schedule Free

Justin and Jason discuss the possibility of Jason bringing on a new developer to Math Academy, how Jason is allergic to any kind of bureaucracy, formality or scheduling, the challenge of building newsletters for certain verticals, Justin's anticipated pivot towards customized newsletters and premium memberships, what colleges Colby is applying to, how difficult it...
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344: TZ Discussion – Morning Joe

Justin, Jason and Joe discuss Morning Brief, Math Academy, and ... a lot of other stuff. ...
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343: TZ Discussion – Analytics Matter, Especially When You’re Not Looking at Them

Justin and Jason discuss why Justin is reinvigorated about a premium version of Morning Brief and some of the new features that are on deck, how the first few weeks of the Math Academy beta launch have been going, and thoughts on how to structure and run a startup. ...
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342: TZ Discussion – The Hell That is a Beta Launch

Justin and Jason discuss the launch of the Math Academy online learning system and the pivot of Morning Brief. ...
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341: TZ Discussion – Morning Brief Goes Live!

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's trip to the Pacific Northwest and Colby's first college tour, why kids are maturing more slowly these days, the launch of Morning Brief, initial feedback from users, pricing, and thoughts on the future, the implementation of the Math Academy knowledge-graph algorithm and preparing for the upcoming commercial...
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340: TZ Discussion – Secret & Saucy

Justin and Jason discuss the Morning Brief launch strategy, brand concept, and development roles, the difficulties of launching the Math Academy diagnostic in time for the summer program, why Jason had to develop an animation studio for his content team, the underrated "fast zombie" series Black Summer, the sad reality that...
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339: TZ Discussion – Signal vs. Noise

Justin and Jason discuss why Jason isn't planning to use Twitter as a marketing channel, personalized learning and the future of education, how and why the SAT and ACT are useful for college admissions despite their flaws, the orthogonal nature of student aptitude vs. consciousness, semantic tagging and the difficulty of categorizing...
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