Episode 148 63 min Why the best ideas start as side projects
Priya Nair on building a 40-person design studio from a weekend hobby — and why she still protects time for projects that might go nowhere.
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Episode 146 49 min The quiet art of managing burnout
Psychologist Elena Marquez on spotting exhaustion before it spreads through a team, and what managers can do on Monday morning.
Episode 145 67 min Writing every day for ten years
Novelist Marcus Lee on routine, rejection and the 3,000-word mornings that produced four books and one very large drawer of drafts.
Episode 142 54 min The 1,000 true fans myth
Creator Amara Osei on what it really takes to earn a living from an audience — and why the numbers look different from the famous essay.
Why the best ideas start as side projects
Priya Nair on building a 40-person design studio from a weekend hobby — and why she still protects time for projects that might go nowhere.
Saying no to funding, twice
Daniel Okafor explains why he bootstrapped his logistics software company to $8M in revenue instead of taking venture capital.
The quiet art of managing burnout
Psychologist Elena Marquez on spotting exhaustion before it spreads through a team, and what managers can do on Monday morning.
Writing every day for ten years
Novelist Marcus Lee on routine, rejection and the 3,000-word mornings that produced four books and one very large drawer of drafts.
Leaving a dream job at the top
Hannah Brooks on walking away from a VP role to start over at 41, and how she made the decision with incomplete information.
How to give feedback people actually hear
Engineering leader Theo Grant shares the one-on-one format he uses with 60 engineers, and why most feedback fails before the first sentence.
The 1,000 true fans myth
Creator Amara Osei on what it really takes to earn a living from an audience — and why the numbers look different from the famous essay.
Leaving a job to write full-time
Newsletter writer Lucas Meyer on the spreadsheet, the savings and the subscriber milestone that told him it was time to go independent.
Designing with AI without losing your taste
Product designer Nora Lindqvist on how her team uses AI tools day to day — and where they deliberately keep humans in charge.
Building a business around books
Grace Kim turned a reading habit into an independent bookshop, a subscription box and a community of 9,000 readers.
Leading remote teams across nine time zones
CTO Oliver Bennett on writing-first culture, async decisions and the meetings his team refuses to cancel.
From the kitchen to code at 35
Former head chef Ravi Shah on teaching himself to program, landing his first engineering job and what restaurant kitchens taught him about software teams.
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