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Hi, I'm Justin Jackson. Here, I'm sharing brief thoughts on building a better life, bootstrapping, improving society, growing older in tech, being a dad...
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- Rethinking "calm company" · 10 min. · Episode 28Years ago, I wrote an essay called The Calm Company. It came out of watching startups burn people out with 80-hour weeks while quietly running out of money. That essay ended up…
- Do I want it the most? · 8 min. · Episode 27I've been listening to David Senra's podcast lately. He keeps quoting Joshua Kushner: "If you have to pick between the person who's the smartest, the person with the most…
- You can't be average in an AI economy · 4 min. · Episode 26I've been scrolling Twitter again. A lot of it is driven by this desire (fear?) to stay current on what's happening with AI. A lot of people feel the need to capture as much…
- Don't over-engineer it; just hit the ball (Golf analogy) · 9 min. · Episode 25There's a great quote from a 2020 Hacker News thread: Sales is a lot like golf. You can make it so complicated as to be impossible, or you can simply walk up and hit the ball…
- Well, that was easy! · 4 min. · Episode 24Last episode I recorded a voice memo on my walk home, dropped the file into Claude Code on my laptop, and said "publish this episode." It normalized the audio, made a transcript…
- This should be easier · 4 min. · Episode 23What's the minimum viable podcast publishing experience? I decided to test this out by recording it in Voice Memos on a walk home (with plane and truck noise included). Feels…
- An Update on Justin and Wildfires · 6 min. · Episode 22A lot of people have been messaging me after seeing wildfire footage on the news — so here's an update. There are three fires burning west of us here in the Okanagan Valley, and…
- An update on what we're building at Transistor · 3 min. · Episode 20Hey friends, wanted to give you an update on what we're building over at Transistor.fm. The big thing I'm really excited about is video podcasting. Transistor customers will soon…
- Marc Andreessen: "There's Mexican standoff between roles on a software team" · 5 min. · Episode 19AI coding tools like Claude Code are blurring roles on software teams. As Marc Andreessen said on Lenny's podcast: " There's a Mexican standoff happening between those three…
- Why you should build some fake AI products · 16 min. · Episode 18I prototyped a full video podcasting app in a couple of days using Claude Code, and it's completely changed how I think about building new features for Transistor (the podcast…
- These are the voice memos I sent to Adam Wathan last night · 13 min. · Episode 17My friend Adam Wathan has a new podcast called Adam's Morning Walk, and in the last episode he talked about how he's thinking about building with AI: How can someone sit in front…
- How high is customer demand? · 4 min. · Episode 16Successful startups don't create demand. They position themselves in the path of existing demand. In a good market, customers provide their own motivation. Your job isn't to…
- Same effort; better results · 6 min. · Episode 15There's a strange relationship between the effort you put into something and the outcome you get out of it. You could invest thousands of hours in a project, only to get a tepid…
- "I've changed my mind on AI coding" – Adam Wathan (creator of Tailwind) · 23 min. · Episode 14"I used to be more skeptical than I am now. Especially when everyone was talking about 'one-shotting' and 'vibe coding.' But then I forced myself to download Cursor and build an…
- "A Genius is He Who is Most Himself" · 15 min. · Episode 13My friend Jeremy Enns and I recently had this conversation about a quote by Thelonious Monk: "A genius is the one most like himself." We explored this idea about what it means to…
- Are you an introvert or extrovert? · 7 min. · Episode 12I think a lot of folks assume that people who create content (YouTube videos, podcasts, screencasts, public speaking) are mostly extroverted. But this conversation I recently had…
- Is YouTube going to kill audio podcasts? · 10 min. · Episode 11In the pursuit of "making podcasts more discoverable," the podcast industry has welcomed YouTube with open arms. But is the industry misdiagnosing YouTube's role? YouTube isn't…
- Are we screwed? Is AI going to kill software development as we know it? · 11 min. · Episode 10The advent of AI coding assistance has introduced a wave of dread in the software development industry, exemplified by Chris Sacca's stark prediction that "we are super screwed"…
- Too old to be a founder? · 19 min. · Episode 9I wrote a blog post, that ended up Hacker News, called: "What's happening with founders over 40?" I got a lot of comments and reactions to the piece, so I thought I'd respond to…
- You can't do everything, everywhere, all at once · 10 min. · Episode 8I have an entrepreneurial drive to start many projects. A formula from my therapist about stress management. How I use Claude AI to evaluate my life choices. Key moments: 0:00…
