• 34: Emails Are Being Chewed
    Nov 6 2020

    Topics:
    - Johnathan vents about how he's feeling this week
    - VC money
    - AMZ Weekly shutdown
    - Building the Seller Journal newsletter
    - Smart decisions
    - Writing because it feels good
    - Being a knowledge worker

    Links:
    - Givemeyourdangemail.com
    - Freshly
    - Metabolic Meals
    - Huel
    - Free Thermal Printer - Seller Journal
    - Best Banks for E-commerce - Seller Journal
    - Farnam Street
    - Dilloncarter.com
    - Johnathan.org
    - Raspberry Pi article
    - Forte Labs
    - Know When to Hold 'Em - Kenny Rodgers
    - Never half-ass two things, whole-ass one thing - Parks & Recreation
    - Buy War Bonds

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • 33: I'm a Leafy Boy
    Oct 30 2020

    Topics:
    - Hygge
    - Project 333
    - Used Luxury Goods Market
    - Coffee
    - A new wholesale platform?
    - iPhones

    Links:
    - Flag and Anthem
    - Animal House
    - Ministry of Supply

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    56 mins
  • 32: Always on the Hunt
    Oct 23 2020

    Links:
    - Company of One book
    - https://www.diamandis.com/peters-laws

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    50 mins
  • 31: Small Data, Big Impact with Jack Tompkins
    Oct 16 2020

    Topics:
    - Introducing Jack Tompkins & Pineapple Consulting
    - What do I do with the data I have?
    - Utilizing Excel
    - Tableau vs Excel
    - Getting Started with Tableau for the First Time
    - Low-quality data create low-quality analysis
    - Pro tips

    Links:
    - Tableau
    - "Oaky Afterbirth" from The Office
    - Pineapple Consulting

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    34 mins
  • 30: Time is the New Wealth with Lee LeFever
    Oct 9 2020

    Topics:

    • About Lee LeFever
      • Common Craft: explainer videos
    • What it means to be “Big Enough”
      • Building a business that ‘you’ want

    Links:

    • Common Craft
    • Google Docs in Plain English
    • Lee’s book: Big Enough
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    34 mins
  • 29: Big Launch Energy
    Oct 2 2020

    Topics:

    • Introducing Joe
    • What is Quiet Light?
    • The choice of business
    • Mitigating risk
    • Buy vs build

    Links:

    • Gawker Media Lawsuit
    • Defector
      • The Deadspin exodus story
    • Buy Then Build
    • Quiet Light Brokerage
    • Quite Light Podcast
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • 28: Marketing is Hard
    Sep 25 2020

    Topics:

    • Social media advertising
    • Affiliate marketing
    • Advertisement optimization
    • Adversarial customers
    • Direct mail

    Plus 11 minutes of bonus aftershow:

    • AI
    • Ham
    • Coffee
    • Pumpkin Spice Soap
    • Fall
    • Candles
      • The candle in the email

    Links:

    • Vendrive Careers
    • Book: Traction

    Alternate Titles:

    • Pulling a Gmail
    • I’m a Fall Guy
    • There are little treats inside
    • Physical nuggets of related things
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • 27: Big, Fatty Asterisk
    Sep 18 2020

    Topics:

    • Reviewing Dillon’s first coffee order
    • Managing lists of tasks and chunking time
    • Selling to businesses
    • Earworms

    Links:

    • Limitless (TV show, movie)
    • MIT Open Courseware
    • Subvocalization
    • GTD: Getting Things Done
    • “We’re here when you need us” commercial

    Alternate Titles:

    • Kind of Normal
    • All I want in life is your approval
    • Mechanically Engineering
    • Consciously aware of my drinking
    • I can use words
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    1 hr and 2 mins