Fits + Starts

Fits + Starts

Daniel Coulbourne & John Drexler

An ongoing conversation about work, internet culture, and what it means to be a mindful 20-something at the beginning of your career.

53 minutes 35 seconds

30: Meritocracy ++

We like Notion (sort of), Daniel hates Basecamp, and John is prototyping board games. Then Daniel lays out his unified field theory of software engineering and pounds the table for collective bargaining.

Patreon

Notion

From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

Labor's Story in the United States

Our episode with Anil Dash

25 July 2018, 12:31 pm
37 minutes 35 seconds

29: Ominous death clock

In our season finale, we talk about time and attention. Daniel takes John to task about whether or not time exists. We'll be back with Season 4 soon!

Patreon

This is water (seriously, watch this whole thing. It's quite good)

The Witness (one of John's favorite video games)

Johnny Smathers new album

14 February 2018, 8:00 am
45 minutes 49 seconds

28: Heroic feats of workaholism (with Stephen Hackett)

Relay.fm co-founder Stephen Hackett stops in to talk about the perils of finding personal identity in your work, whether or not it's important to "love" what you do, and the weird experience of having an emotional relationship with a corporation.

Patreon (the tip jar)

Stephen Hackett on Twitter

512 Pixels (Stephen's blog)

the Merlin episode

the Brianna episode

the Estelle episode

Earworm (Estelle's new project on YouTube)

Ikigai (wiki)

Myke Hurley on Twitter

CGP Grey (YouTube channel)

24 January 2018, 8:00 am
49 minutes 31 seconds

27: Discipline December pt. 2 (with Caleb Porzio)

This week we recap Discipline December. We talk discipline as a tool, the downside of letting fear motivate your work, and using experiments to diagnose your problems. Then John loses his mind over how much he loves “Holy Hour”.

Our tip jar (no pressure, but you know... give us your money)

Original Discipline December episode

Discipline December Score Card

Caleb on Twitter

Summer Dregs (Carl Cadwell's music)

Skypunch Studios (Carl Cadwell's business)

Episode with Michael Johnson

3 January 2018, 8:00 am
31 minutes 52 seconds

26: Ego depletion

We return to form with this old school episode with no guest. John is having a hard time getting things done, and Daniel has ideas for how to help. We discuss working from home, making good check lists, slowing your roll, and taking notes.

Links

Our Tip Jar

Discipline December Episode

Discipline December Spreadsheet

Ego Depletion

Flourish & Blotts

Kvothe

Our episode with Matt Stauffer

Bear (an excellent note-taking app)

Barrett Brown

Aaron Swartz

Tighten

20 December 2017, 8:00 am
45 minutes 8 seconds

25: Discipline December (with Caleb Porzio)
Daniel is going to be disciplined for (almost) a whole month! This is a very meta episode: protestant work ethic, work habits, budgeting, food, exercise, checklists, tidying up, and more! Follow along with our progress in the link in the show notes. If you want to join along, shoot us a tweet.

Special Guest: Caleb Porzio.

Links:
- Discipline December SPREADSHEET
- Patreon (our tip jar)
- Curating a Twitter feed (this week's bonus content)
- Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) | Twitter — Loves @laravelphp | Developer @TightenCo | Co-hosts @twentypercentfm | just happy to be here
- Caleb Porzio | website
- calebporzio (Caleb Porzio) · GitHub
- Mint: Money Manager, Bills, Credit Score & Budgeting
- Financial Software and Wealth Management | Personal Capital
- YNAB. Personal Budgeting Software for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android
- Tell ‘Em What You’re Going To Tell ‘Em; Next, Tell ‘Em; Next, Tell ‘Em What You Told ‘Em | Quote Investigator
- Twenty Percent Time
6 December 2017, 1:00 pm
43 minutes 2 seconds

24: Many a hustle (with Michael Johnson)
Long time friend Michael Johnson calls in for our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY. We talk vlogging, managing multiple side hustles, unifying your life, finding identity, and living life without a calendar.

Special Guest: Michael Johnson.

Links:
22 November 2017, 1:00 pm
40 minutes 31 seconds

23: Total depravity (with Nancy French)
4-time NYT Best Selling Author Nancy French shares her thoughts on being a Conservative writer in the era of Trump. Nancy recently left the Republican party and faced harassment from the Alt-Right. We also get into the relationship between pop culture and politics, and why Nancy pays more attention to Judd Apatow than Mike Pence!

Special Guest: Nancy French.

Links:
8 November 2017, 5:00 am
49 minutes 43 seconds

22: I call it poetry, you call it content (with Aaron Belz)
John's cousin Aaron Belz drops by to talk about how businesses use language, the difference between students and young employees, how social media can shape the way people make creative stuff online, baseball, and more!

Aaron is a poet and essayist who works in marketing.

Special Guest: Aaron Belz.

Links:
25 October 2017, 12:00 pm
50 minutes 29 seconds

21: Thinking in public (with Mike Rugnetta)
Mike Rugnetta drops some knowledge about how to improve internet discourse, maintaining a productive comment section, focusing on the right stuff, why people join internet communities, and what it means for something to "end" on the internet. Lastly, we get into a discussion of video games that feel like work, and why we love them.

Special Guest: Mike Rugnetta.

Links:
11 October 2017, 12:00 pm
34 minutes 29 seconds

20: Talking about the show on the show
We're about to take a short break! This episode is about where the show has been and where it is going. John sings the praises of incrementalism. Our list of dream guests is getting long.

Links:
2 August 2017, 2:00 pm
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