The reality is that the romantic version you have about things in your head is never going to happen. So what should you do with that information?

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In this episode Ali gives will feedback on his interview on the Origins.fm podcast, and we show off our new matching tatoos!

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A new guest! This week Ryan Gilbert shares his experience growing a directory + newsletter business from 0 to 1 with Workspaces and h1gallery.

We then talk about how we can apply that to my new project with the same model. I know I learned a lot, and know you will too.

Workspaces: https://www.workspaces.xyz/
h1gallery: https://h1gallery.com/
Ryan Gilbert on X: https://x.com/rjgilbert

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Software is saturated.

Now more than ever, we should not be sacrificing personality at the altar of scale and consistency. This episode I try and explain where I want to take my content and how I want to monetize it.

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For those of you who aren't aware. I have an internet troll. Her name is Ali, and she is my wife.

She is hilarious and people have asked me to have her on so we decided to give it a try. Hope you enjoy!

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How do you build better relationships? Is it by spending a few really fun times together or by spending a whole lot of mediocre time together?

How about a skillset? Is it by working on a couple cool new things, or by spending a lot of time working on the same problem area?

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Video walkthroughs do not belong inside of products. I would even go so far as to say if you need a video walkthrough to explain how to use your product or features in it, your design and experience is fundamentally flawed.

A walkthrough video is like pouring molasses on all the potential energy your customers have. You are taking a user from an active role to a passive role and asking them to remember a recipe or incantation for how to get your software to do the things that you promised them it could do.

We can do better.

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On Monday I got to participate in the Laravel vs Terminal basketball game both as coach and player. I met so many incredible people and I talk for a little bit about how great that community is and how I ended up in Dallas...turns out you really can just do stuff.

Then I dig into the most important lessons I learned losing 100 pounds in a year.

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