• 74: Radical truth telling
    Sep 9 2025

    We landed a big client, and things are heating up. We learned once again that telling the truth and being candid is the best path.

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    41 mins
  • 73: Be a sustainable business
    Sep 2 2025

    We finally talk about our OKRs for the remainder of the year.

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    53 mins
  • 72: wire:live
    Aug 28 2025

    Wire:live in Buffalo October 28. Get your tickets today! We had some technical difficulties, and weren't even sure if it was recording, so this one is all over the place. Spicy takes, jack booted thugs, A24, Weapons, video games, and restaurants.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • 71: No dogs, no ponies
    Aug 19 2025

    We are streamers now. Kapow now has a client portal. John has a new podcast. We had another accounting / tax crisis that has driven us to the edge of sanity.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • 70: A deeply unserious Laracon recap
    Aug 12 2025

    If you're looking for that incisive, smart business insight, go ahead and skip this one. We talk dogs, Laracon, John's talk, Laravel Forge, the upcoming Livewire conference, game design, The Social Game, a video John's obsessed with, and Rust (the video game).

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    48 mins
  • 69: We'd be richer if we lied more
    Jul 14 2025

    We discuss the Beatles. Daniel reviewed John's code on the Social Game. Finally, we lost a proposal for a big contract. We wonder if the entire RFP process is antithetical to what we do.

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    44 mins
  • 68: The pitch to the "lower middle market"
    Jul 8 2025

    Daniel and Chris are nearly done with Verbs 1.0. We settle into our new roles. John prepares another talk directed at non-tech companies. Finally, we think through what we want the business to look like at the end of the year. And we recap where we are with Kapow.

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    57 mins
  • 67: We fire Daniel (from project management)
    Jun 30 2025

    We played the Social Game a lot, and it's so cool. Daniel is not going to do project management at Thunk anymore, and we brainstorm how we backfill for him. Finally, we review our OKRs for the first half of the year.

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    1 hr