QUIT! with Dan Benjamin: Recent Episodes
Dan Benjamin
Quit is about change, the challenges of improving your career, making tough decisions, and starting something awesome.
Segment 1: Dan interviews Sean McCabe. Segment 2: Dan reveals Trump's secrets and takes your questions live.
Dan returns to take your calls, answer your emails, and dispel the myth that you have job security. He also gets to the heart of what the show is about, talks about founding his startup, and reveals how he was able to make an insane purchase.
Dan and Haddie talk about doing the daily grinding tasks that you know will pay off one day, how Domino's Pizza is standing out, how reading can help you unwind from your day, and more!
CALL FOR EMAILS: the next episode is going to be all listener emails but we need your help with that! Visit the contact page and select "Quit" to send in your question now. It may be the last time we take listener emails!
Links for this episode:
- DAMN it takes forever – Ryan Carson – Medium
- How Domino’s Pizza Stands Out In A World Awash In Pizza
- YouTube Released Their Top 10 Videos of 2017. Here's What Marketers Can Learn From Them. | Inc.com
- YouTube reveals its top 10 trending videos of 2017 - CNN
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians 5 Book Paperback Boxed Set (new covers w/poster) (Percy Jackson & the Olympians): Rick Riordan, John Rocco: 8601411271915: Amazon.com: Books
- Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson [Amazon]
Haddie's book reccomendation - Redwing - IRON RANGER Boots
Dan's boots!
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Dan and Haddie discuss how you can't expect your business to become a success overnight, a 6 year old making $11 million a year, the importance of having a good nighttime routine, thinking about the next emerging market.
Links for this episode:
- Want Proof That Patience Pays Off? Ask the Founders of This 17-Year-Old $525 Million Email Empire | Inc.com
- The evening routine essentials of the most productive people | Thrive Global
- Uvex S0360X Ultra-spec 2000 Safety Eyewear, Orange Frame, SCT-Orange UV Extreme Anti-Fog Lens - Safety Glasses - Amazon.com
- Dan's CBD Oil Recommendation
- Crave Skincare - CBD Infused Skincare
- Bee Delightful
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Dan and Haddie talk about overcoming obstacles, making a business by cheating the system, and how productive you really are at work.
Links for this episode:
- 28-year-old makes millions buying from Walmart, selling on Amazon
- In an 8-Hour Day, the Average Worker Is Productive for This Many Hours | Inc.com
- More older Millennials live with relatives, a legacy of the recession
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Dan and Haddie talk about influence, attention, and scarcity using Apple as an example of effective execution.
Links for this episode:
- 5by5 | Killing Time
- Apple drops 'Computer' from name | Macworld
- • Apple iPhone sales 2007-2017 | Statista
- Apple's iPhone X Might Cost Apple Nearly $600 to Build
- Philomena Kloss on Etsy
Human bears. Primitive tweed teddy bears!
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Dan talks about building a SaaS platform, all the while joined by Haddie to discuss a listener email about the challenges of breaking into a new career and unpaid internships, changing the way you ask for feedback, and just being open about things.
Links for this episode:
- Is the open office layout dead? | | Dropbox Blog
- How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - The New York Times
- When Is It OK to Not Pay an Intern? — ProPublica
- Unlock honest feedback with this one word – Signal v. Noise
- Modula - Wikipedia
- 5by5 | Killing Time
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Dan and Haddie talk about going the extra mile for your customers, regaining the excitement you had when you started your job, and answer listener Brian's question about CASHFLOW!!!
Links for this episode:
- Fireside
- Harmonized sales tax - Wikipedia
- Cubs shortstop Addison Russell replaces fan's nachos - Business Insider
- 5by5 | Quit #103: One-Way Relationship
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Dan and Haddie do some followup about charging for your time/service, leaving a comfortable job to take an independant risk, asking yourself if you're critical to your company's success, digital nomads, and a reminder to take time to feed your soul.
Send us your questions via email 5by5.tv/contact.
Links for this episode:
- Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? - The Atlantic
- No, Smartphones Are Not Destroying a Generation – Thoughts And Ideas – Medium
- mrb on Twitter: "Damn this programmer interview whiteboard question has me shook https://t.co/YkmnLQnLA4"
- Elon Musk firing his assistant is a good career and salary lesson - Business Insider
- Navy SEAL explains what to do if you're attacked by a dog - Business Insider
- Leaves of Grass - Wikipedia
- Song of Myself (1892 version) by Walt Whitman | Poetry Foundation
- Best Way To Build Startup Is Travel The World - Business Insider
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Dan and Haddie discuss the 'Briefcase Technique', Last Chance U, the fear of change, and asking for a raise.
Links for this episode:
- Les Brown: The Power to Change (Full Transcript) - The Singju Post
HomeEducationLes Brown: The Power to Change (Full Transcript)Les Brown: The Power to Change (Full Transcript) - The Power to Change Les Brown FULL) - YouTube
- Netflix
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Dan is joined by Haddie to discuss the possible guilt that comes with doing work for profit, new business owner advice from Listener Brian, the right way to encourage (not pressure) your partner to make the leap into a more fulfilling job, how to engage with freelancers, and the services you need to look into when starting your business.
Links for this episode:
- Evolution of the LEGO logo | Logo Design Love
- Road Work on 5by5
- Gusto - Payroll
- Bench.co - Accounting
- The man who built a $1bn firm in his basement - BBC News
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Dan and Haddie discuss limiting the hours you work per week, how athletes make sleep a priority, an inspirational quote about believing in yourself, and taking advice from Benjamin Franklin to examine your day.
Links for this episode:
- First of all, I’m not interested in “crushing” anything.
- Basecamp's CEO Limits Himself to 40-Hour Workweeks--and He Thinks You Should Too | Inc.com
- Is group chat making you sweat? – Signal v. Noise
- Commencement Speech, Bolelli-Style -
- Trickle-down workaholism in startups – Signal v. Noise
- Mookie Wilson
- Mookie Wilson - Wikipedia
- Alan Scherstuhl on Twitter: "wonderfully bizarre old Voice piece I think about much too often: "Favorite Dinosaurs of the Mets" https://t.co/x1rZlAon4T"
- Kobe Bryant Workout Routine: 666 Workout | Pop Workouts
- How Athletes Make Sleep a Priority | Sleep.org
- Ben-Franklin-Schedule.jpg (621×853)
- I lived a day according to Benjamin Franklin's schedule and it changed my life | The Daily Dot
- Seconds - Interval Timer for HIIT, Tabata Training on the App Store
- Seconds Pro - The best interval timer app for HIIT, Tabata and circuit training workouts available on iOS and Android.
- High-Intensity Interval Training 101 | HIIT Benefits
- Peak Fitness: High-Intensity Interval Training Workout Benefits
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Dan and Haddie talk about the soul-destroying addiction of workaholism, creative environments and creative teams, Millennials and saving for buying a home, and the detrimental effects of multitasking (and a solution).
Links for this episode:
- Jason Fried on Twitter: "Pathetic… even Apple is promoting workaholism now. Check out this ad for their Planet Of The Apps show. https://t.co/PKn30pWWgn"
- Creative Environments Lead to Creative Teams – Thinking Design by Adobe – Medium
- Millennials Want to Buy Homes but Aren’t Saving for Down Payments - WSJ
- Want to be more productive? Quit multitasking. | | Dropbox Blog
- Rework: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson: 9780307463746: Amazon.com: Books
- The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses: Eric Ries: 9780307887894: Amazon.com: Books
- The Ray Bradbury Theater - S01E01 - Marionettes, Inc. (Aired 5-21-85) - YouTube
- Most millennials want to buy a home—but about half have nothing saved
- Multi-taskers are Bad At It | Productivity
- Multitasking won’t make you more productive. Here’s what will. | Dropbox Blog
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Dan is joined by Haddie to answer listener emails about being prepared before you make your side hustle your full time gig, selling yourself in an interview, and being honest.
Next week all about interviews! Send us your questions!
Links for this episode:
- Line Of Credit (LOC)
- 11001001 - Wikipedia
- Bynar | Memory Alpha | Fandom powered by Wikia
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Dan and Haddie talk about managing your time, distractions, and going the extra mile to save your customers time.
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Dan and Haddie answer your emails, followup about PhDs, and what to do when the people you're counting on don't do their job.
Links for this episode:
- Unemployment rates and earnings by educational attainment
- Graduate Record Examinations - Wikipedia
- Doctor of Philosophy - Wikipedia
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Dan and Haddie talk about the art of sales, not just selling your product but selling yourself during interviews, the math behind making $1 million dollars, podcast promotion strategies, and a comparison of millennials and baby boomers. Don't forget to send us your questions via email for next week's episode!
Links for this episode:
- Best Answer to “Sell Me This Pen” | Heena Mansuri
- How to make $1 million dollars
- You are not your job search – Dear Design Student
- Young Americans Are Killing Marriage - Bloomberg
- The 7 Best Podcast Promotion Strategies (And How to Use Them)
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Dan and Haddie discuss the struggles that millennials are facing at work, how to make a new hire feel like part of the team. They take listener emails about how to hire the right person for the job and how to get your new business set up.
Links for this episode:
- Why Incorporate in Delaware? Why Form a Delaware LLC?
- Trello
- Millennials are struggling at work because their parents 'gave them medals for coming last'
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Dan and Haddie talk about smoking meats, Kentucky Colonel ties, paying attention to your users/fans, geography, and answer your emails about wanting a position at a company that isn't currently hiring, marketing yourself, and choosing between money and your passion.
Links for this episode:
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- Boards | Trello
- Masterbuilt 2-Door Propane Smoker
- Fireside.fm - By podcasters, for podcasters!
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What turned out to be called a 'western string tie'. How my search progressed: Kentucky Colonel Tie > Kentucky Bow Tie > Western Tie > Western String Tie/Long String Tie - Map of Northern Europe
Just look at the size of Norway! - The cast iron pan smoker mod
Do you see the poorly designed pan underneath the cast iron one?
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Dan and Haddie talk about applying for jobs, giving your work away for free, pride in a job well done, and another USPS nightmare.
Links for this episode:
- Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace. - The Washington Post
- Why Office Perks Are Traps, Not Benefits
- Piping
- "Good candidates do this?"
But is it good? - Omni (magazine) - Wikipedia
- To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home
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Dan and Haddie return for Episode #101! They talk about sticking with your new company and not taking the easy route (taking a full time job), doing your job to the fullest extent, thinking about others, a UPS debacle, and a dog.
Links for this episode:
- Back to Work - #308
- Fireside.fm/quit
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Dan is joined by Haddie and Maggie in-studio for this amazing 100th episode. They discuss credit card debt, rotisserie chickens as an example of buying time, J.K. Rowling's philosophy of roadblocks, and GitHub's holacracy.
Links for this episode:
- How Millennials Became Spooked by Credit Cards - NYTimes.com
- Are Rotisserie Chickens a Bargain?
- Strengthening our foundation — Medium
- J.K. Rowling on Twitter: "I wrote first 2 Potters by hand and typed them on a 10 yr old typewriter. All a writer needs is talent & ink. https://t.co/oK30qfcVZK"
- Some helpful advice
- It’s Tough Being Over 40 in Silicon Valley - Bloomberg
- Why GitHub Finally Abandoned Its Bossless Workplace - Bloomberg
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Dan is joined by Haddie to discuss the difference between an LLC, S Corp, C Corp, a DBA, and which one might be right for you and your new business.
Links for this episode:
- Road Work - 5by5
Reviews: "Dan you are the best" - Listener - "Procrastination" Tales Of Mere Existence - YouTube
- Register Your Fictitious or "Doing Business As" (DBA) Name | The U.S. Small Business Administration | SBA.gov
- Register With State Agencies | The U.S. Small Business Administration | SBA.gov
- Compare Business Types - Business Structure Comparison Chart
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Dan and Haddie and talk about how strength training and functional movement relate to improving your quality of life, health, and how the same mental techniques can be used to improve your professional work life as well.
Links for this episode:
- No Snooze Zone: The Insanely Early Morning Routines of America's Favorite Newscasters - Bon Appétit
- 5by5 | Back to Work #276: Do You Even Lift?
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Dan and Haddie discuss the myth of work life balance, the risks of making your employees your friends, the necessary evils of LinkedIn and Facebook, the importance of avatars, becoming a bike messenger, getting laid off, and more.
Links for this episode:
- Millennials Still Want Kids, Just Not Right Now - Bloomberg
- Austin Kleon on Twitter: "I believe that this is the only thing worth reading about “work/life balance” https://t.co/UgRHsIcwVq https://t.co/nYwE89ft8T"
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Dan is joined by Haddie to talk about apprenticeship, how millennials DO want job stability, firing people, turning hobbies into side hustles, and how money does actually equal happiness, well...kind of.
Links for this episode:
- Study linking college education with brain tumor risk raises many questions - CBS News
- You are still watching a staggering amount of TV every day - Recode
- Study: Money Buys Happiness When Income Is $75,000 - TIME
- $83,000 Is The New $75,000 Happiness Benchmark For Annual Income - Social Media Week
- Happiness Revisited: A Household Income of $75K? - dshort - Advisor Perspectives
- Angus Deaton, Who Just Won Nobel Prize, Thinks A $75,000 Salary Makes You Happy - Forbes
- The "Perfect" Salary for Happiness, by State
- Resumes are worthless: An unfiltered look at how one CEO hires employees — Quartz
- The Fallacy of Job Insecurity - The New Yorker
- Why the Conventional Wisdom About Job-Hopping Millennials Is Wrong - The Experts - WSJ
- 5by5 | Road Work #34: China Pig
- Why The Next Generation After Millennials Will Be 'Builders', Not 'Founders' - Forbes
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Dan and Haddie talk about BREXIT, millennials, baby boomers, gen X, and the rise of the side hustle.
Links for this episode:
- Millennials are obsessed with side hustles because they’re all we’ve got — Quartz
- Splenius Capitis
- ‘Brexit’: Explaining Britain’s Vote on European Union Membership - The New York Times
- Where Haddie saw the word "BREXIT" first
- UK students: we woke up feeling betrayed this morning - Vox
- EU referendum results and maps: Full breakdown and find out how your area voted
- Wiki - Demography of the United Kingdom
- Fortnum & Mason
Buy some British tea! - Chloe Yingst - Illustration
Hire her! - Chloe Draws
- Millennials - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Baby Boomers - Wikipedia
- Generation X - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- George Watsky - Letter to My 16-Year-Old Self
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Dan is joined by Haddie to talk about being prepared, reading body language and expressions, and optimizing small things in your life.
Links for this episode:
- Last Week Tonight June 12, 2016
Suze Orman segment 0:12-0:49 - Road Work - 5by5
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition: Robert B. Cialdini: 9780061241895: Amazon.com: Books
- I’ve toured the world but still work at Starbucks
- New Overtime Rule May Benefit Millions of Millennials in the U.S.
- Why Sweden Is Shifting To A 6-Hour Workday
- The Science Behind Sweden’s Six-Hour Workday
- What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People: Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins: 9780061438295: Amazon.com: Books
- Obama UFO interview analyzed | Openminds.tv
- Emotions Revealed, Second Edition: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life
- Bill Clinton talks about UFOs and Area 51 again | Openminds.tv
- You should follow me on Twitter
- Sleep Tube Japan
- Warren Buffett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Warren Buffet on scheduling meetings — Signal v. Noise
- How to say you’re sorry — Signal v. Noise
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Dan is joined by Haddie to answer listener emails and talk about working from home, how to create a mental and physical separation for your work area, not becoming a hermit, if you should put that restaurant job on your resume, millennials, and if working overtime to prove yourself is worth it.
Links for this episode:
- Mixergy Podcast
- Back to Work - 5by5
- Wiki- Highlander (film)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Remote Work (After 5 Years of Experience)
- Why Six Hours Of Sleep Is As Bad As None At All | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
- Stuff Business People Say - YouTube
Submitted by brilliant listener David Gasperoni. - Opinion: Why millennials struggle for success - CNN.com
- Angela Duckworth
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Dan talks about making changes in your life and sticking with them, and answers listener emails.
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- Rachel Cruze
- Dave Ramsey
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Dan talks about making your time more effective, learning to fail and get back up, the self-esteem movement, and the importance of timing to success.
Links for this episode:
- The Gift of Failure | Psychology Today
- The Self-Esteem Movement Backfires — When Praise is Dangerous – AlbertMohler.com
- Self-esteem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Could Your Child Have Too Much Self-Esteem?
- The Death of The Self-Esteem Movement | Phil Cooke
- The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding that Launched a New Era in Modern Psychology: Nathaniel Branden: 9780787945268: Amazon.com: Books
- Simple just isn’t that important — Signal v. Noise — Medium
- Manufacturing quality time — Signal v. Noise — Medium
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Dan is joined by Haddie to talk about the importance of sleep, breaking down your goal into small goals, where and when to professionally network, and answers listener emails.
Links for this episode:
- The Magical Benefits of the 'Quitter's Mindset' | First Round Review
- Nobody Ever Changed the World by Checking Email — Medium
- Perfect is the enemy of good - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor — Signal v. Noise — Medium
- Pebble layoffs - Tech Insider
- Staedtler Mars 780 Technical Mechanical Pencil
- Staedtler Mars Rotary Action Lead Pointer and Tub
- Scheduled sending and email reminders | Boomerang for Gmail
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Dan and Haddie talk about communication, inspiring yourself, bouncing back, the importance of timing, and answer listener email.
They announce that next week the Ansible will be BACK, so get ready to call in!
Links for this episode:
- Is group chat making you sweat? — Signal v. Noise — Medium
- Brian Stucki on Twitter: "When professors told me "Homework is 5% of your grade and tests are 95%" then all I heard was "Don’t do homework, excel on the tests.""
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Dan talks with Haddie about the change in the world of freelancing (work is drying up), perfecting your craft (coffee, sushi), and making the change that enables you to do your very best work.
Links for this episode:
- The Elephant In The RoomSarah Parmenter - User Interface Designer.Sarah Parmenter - User Interface Designer.
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) - IMDb
- Godfellas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Battle of the Planets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dan talks about what it takes to become a dentist and dermatologist, espresso, caring about your profession, and the failure that will follow when you only do work that's 'good enough'.
Links for this episode:
- Why Espressos in America are not Good? — Medium
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Dan talks about first impressions, body language, and answers listener email.
Links for this episode:
- Fool.com: Stock Market Investing Advice | Research
- Analysis of Bill Clinton's Interview on UFOs with Jimmy Kimmel
- Analysis of President Obama's Interview on UFOs with Jimmy Kimmel
- An Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation
- How To Start a Meditation Practice
- Meditation Gear
- Dan Benjamin is creating Podcasts and videos
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Dan talks about being specific vs general, miscommunication, misunderstandings, lazy writing, and his step back from Twitter.
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Dan talks about tipping, the service industry, and answers listener email.
Links for this episode:
- Learn to Code and Help Nonprofits | Free Code Camp
- I delivered takeout during the blizzard, and you won't believe who stiffed me on tips | New York Post
- Homer Logistics
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Dan talks about staying true to your 'cash cow' and and answers listener emails.
Links for this episode:
- 19 things you need to stop saying (because you sound like a corporate robot)
- New Coke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Coca-Cola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Jelly
- Jelly – Ask Jelly
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Dan and Haddie talk about how to optimize travel in order to reduce stress.
Some tips from the show:
- Be loyal to a single airline. Loyalty pays off. Not so true for infrequent travelers.
- When booking, consider how luggage will fit, what kind of seat SeatGuru.com
- The earlier you book the better. Travel card: American Express Business Card, Barclay Card Arrival+.
- Never check a bag.
- Nothing under 1+ layover. Domino effect
- Get TSAPre
- Go to your gate first then wander around
- Get the App for your airline
- Get to the airport 90 min before the flight departs.
- Packing cubes
- TravelPro Bags
- Bring your own ziplock bags (small, med, large)
- Nring wipes
- Ask for free things, take advantage of things like birthdays and maybe recently married!
- Wear your extra items like hats and coats that might make your luggage not fit in the overhead
- Keep your toilitries bag packed, always
- Always take the toiletries home from the hotel
- Invest in shoe bags
- Dryer sheets in your suitcase
- Bring or wear socks
- Scan your drivers license, passport etc in case of emergency
- Go to the restroom if you have the time even if you don’t have to
- If you do check you bag, never check ANYTHING valuable
- Dirty shoes in the hotel shower cap
- Never put your suitcase on the bed
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- How to Army roll a t-shirt - YouTube
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Dan talks about having an exit strategy, his strong opinion on ping pong tables, and responds to listener emails.
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- Should your startup have a ping pong table? - StartupMuse
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Dan talks about realizing your work can be narrowed down to one job and making sure you do that job well and responds to listener emails.
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Dan talks about sources of stress and how to reduce it, minimalism, purging, travel tips, packing techniques, and listener emails.
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- Amazon.com: Arkon Tablet Desk Stand Holder Countertop Mount for Classrooms for Apple iPad Air 2 iPad Pro iPad 4 3 2 Samsung Galaxy Note: Computers & Accessories
- Road Work Ep 15: 'One Foot in The 20th Century'
- Living In A City
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Dan talks about the importance of time and time saving practices, sleep as a weapon, how having money affects people and responds to listener emails.
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Shipping made easy - Opening for Joe vs. The Volcano
- Travelpro Maxlite 3 21" Expandable Spinner Black - Zappos.com Free Shipping BOTH Ways
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Dan talks about the challenges facing Millennials, the importance of follow through, horrible offices, being self-aware in your daily life and at the workplace, and listener emails.
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- Apple iPad Pro—who’s it for? Tim vs. Eddy in public | Computerworld
- Kelso on Career Day (That 70's Show)
What does Kelso's Dad do?
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Dan talks about the reality of competition, the challenges of predicting a small business' future, doing your best work, participation trophies, and responds to listener emails. Haddie refuses to be fired.
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- Austin Kleon — How to Graciously Say No to Anyone
- HBO "Trophy Nation" Trailer
- 5by5 Garage Sale
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Dan talks about follow through, customer service, email bankruptcy, flippin' burgers, answers some listener questions, and more.
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- Trello
- Todoist
- Clear
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Dan responds to listener emails, talks about predicting the future of your business, and only doing what you're good at.
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- The Volkswagen Scandal Is Just the Beginning
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Dan is joined by Shlok, Maggie The Intern, and Haddie to respond to listener emails and to talk about coming in to work under the influence, considering what your business need to have in order to keep its employees happy, age in the workplace, leaving a job in order to become a stay-at-home parent, how to keep a job, working late and liking it vs. being forced to, and more.
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THE BEST SANDWICHES ON THE EARTH. I'm serious. - Lauren Hooker - Tweet
"You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills." Jim Rohn
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Dan responds to some listener emails, talks about getting specific, and the changing perception of small businesses vs large companies.
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- Quit Ep #65
- Why do Americans not take their holiday time?
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In this listener-email focused episode, Dan talks about public speaking, facing challenges at work, and debt as slavery, how your job can affect your mental health, building an independent portfolio when you can't at work, and more.
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Dan is joined in studio by Shlok Vaidya(@shloky) to talk about the importance of having a plan, for-profit vs non-profit entrepreneurs, applying for jobs, and how it's all about your perspective when you're searching for a job.
Links for this episode:
- Elite Daily - Tweet
"Everybody loves you until you become competition."
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Dan responds to listener emails and talks about customer service, making time for the thing you love to do, and more.
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Dan takes calls to talk about the importance of a company name, if it's too late to start something new, and more.
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- Studio Kittie
- 5by5 | Quit #30: Personal Independence Day
- Area code 952 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 14 Inspiring People Who Found Crazy Success Later in Life | Inc.com
- Lauren Hooker - Tweet
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon
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Dan takes some of our best calls to date, with topics including reputation and legacy in the workplace, fear of communicating with your boss, reevaluating a business when it doesn't seem to be working, and the importance of being smart but also kind.
We also learn more about our growing teenage audience.
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- 5by5 | Quit #66: Pick up the Bandsaw
- Texas Blues Alley
- Twitter: Lauren Hooker - "Entrepreneurs are willing to work...
"Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours per week." Lori Greiner - Instagram: adamjk - "3 Things to Consider"
3 Things to Consider
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Quit is back! Dan talks about the name change back to Quit, having enough energy for the thing you love, applying to a job out of state, and more.
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- Conshy Upcycle - Lighting
Etsy Shop
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Dan talks about #talkpay, the difference in mindset between starting your own business and being a freelancer, and running a business.
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- Doom II: Hell on Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dan is joined in studio by Shlok Vaidya to talk about always being ready for an interview, choosing between a dream job vs. money, zombie companies, choosing freedom, taking risks, and more.
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- High school student scores $72 million playing stock market
He’s the teen wolf of Wall Street.
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Dan returns to the all call-in format, with great listener calls about changing your life and career.
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Dan takes calls to talk about defining success, finding your grit, being put in a box, and more!
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- Dunbar's Number
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- 5by5 | Podcast Method
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Dan Benjamin is joined by special guest Brianna Wu and in-studio co-host Haddie Cooke to talk becoming an indy game developer and the struggles of starting something awesome.
Links for this episode:
- Home
- Brianna Wu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 5by5 | Isometric
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Dan takes calls and talks about podcast networks, advertising, and going into something with the full understanding that it might fail.
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Dan takes calls to talk about Patreon, getting too comfortable at your job, letting down your audience, having and being the best, showing hustle, how he's worried about podcasting, and more.
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- Support 5by5 on Patreon
Consider supporting 5by5 on Patreon! - 5by5: The News
A daily update on the latest in tech, Apple, gaming, web, and geek culture in under five minutes. - What It’s Like To Work At Apple: ANonymous Employees Speak Up | BGR
- DanBenjamin.com
Friend to the internet. - LadyBits Podcast
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hosted by Jordan Cooper
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Dan Benjamin is joined by Rich Stevens (a.k.a. rstevens) of Diesel Sweeties, and Haddie Cooke, to discuss Patreon, support, change, boredom, independence, weighing the options of hiring help or staying small, and more.
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- Nimona | Gingerhaze
- Diesel Sweeties Store: Music & Pixel T-Shirts & Socks - Pixel Socks
- Bad Machinery by John Allison - October 24, 2014
- Girls With Slingshots - GWS #1922
- Night Moves podcast with RStevens | ESN
- Coffee & Cider podcast with RStevens | ESN
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Dan takes calls to discuss focus: too much, too little, loosing it and getting it back.
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- 5by5
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Dan and Haddie take calls and discuss jobs!
Links for this episode:
- 'Adventure Time': The Trippiest Show on Television | Rolling Stone
- After raising $50M, Reddit forces all remote workers to relocate to SF (update) | VentureBeat | Business | by Tom Cheredar
- Short logic (Reddit’s crappy ultimatum to remote workers and offices)
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Dan is joined by Andy McMillan to talk about The Manual, XOXO Fest, and things you have no control over.
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- Kind of Screwed - Waxy.org
- Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue
- Why Andy Baio’s ‘Kind of Bloop’ Copyright Case Shouldn’t Dissuade Fair Use | Mediashift | PBS
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- Panic - Shockingly Good Software.
- The Manual
- Good On Paper
- Andy McMillan (andymcmillan) | Twitter
- XOXO · XOXO 2014
- Death, failure, and all of the other stuff the tech industry won't talk about
- Qcut : Denim that Fits
- The Manual
- The Manual, Everywhere by Andy McMillan — Kickstarter
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Dan is joined by Haddie to discuss being original and being copied, the difference between getting burnt out vs losing focus on your goal, loving what you do, finding the joy in the process not just the end result, and Dan reveals secrets about 5by5 and how it all came together.
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- How to Stay Focused When You Get Bored Working Toward Your Goals — The Blog of James Clear — Medium
- Daring Fireball: Markdown
- 5by5 | The Pipeline #38: Jeff Atwood
- GitHub Flavored Markdown · GitHub Help
- Email to Gruber
- CommonMark
- HabitRPG | Gamify Your Life
- 5by5 | Isometric
Each week, join game developer Brianna Wu, game journalist Maddy Myers, technology journalist Georgia Dow and game enthusiast Steve Lubitz as they analyze the week’s biggest stories in the video game industry from different perspectives. - 5by5 | Overtired
Overtired is Christina Warren and Brett Terpstra, two tech-geeks with unusual sleep schedules coming together to nerd out over gadgets, software, personalities and life. Tune in to find out what keeps them up at night.
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With the official name change from Quit to Grit, Dan is joined by Haddie Cooke to talk about negotiations, interviews, open offices, and more!
Links for this episode:
- Open Plan Offices Makes Employees Less Productive
Open-plan offices may make some kinds of collaboration easier, but are they more conducive to productivity? What’s the most irritating workplace distraction? And are those state-of-the-art workstations actually more comfortable? - 5by5 | Back to Work #87: Nothing to Declare But My Coconuts
This week, Dan and Merlin begin a conversation on what researchers and educators are learning about why students of all ages do or don't succeed. Yes, it's about intelligence and other cognitive skills, but it's also about tenacity, courage, self-restraint, and resolve. - Grit (personality trait) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grit in psychology is a positive, non-cognitive trait based on an individual’s passion for a particular long-term goal or endstate coupled with a powerful motivation to achieve their respective objective.
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Dan is joined by Myke Hurley to talk about his next new adventure and independence.
Links for this episode:
- Myke Hurley - Time For a New Change
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Dan and Haddie are joined by their friend and guest Shawn Blanc to discuss starting something, building a name for yourself, consistency, and how sometimes getting fired can be the best thing ever.
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Shawn Blanc is @shawnblanc on Twitter - ShawnBlanc.net
This is a tech- and design-centric website. I’ve been writing here since the summer of 2007. In the spring of 2011 I quit my job and began writing this site full time. - The Sweet Setup
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- Delight is in the Details — By Shawn Blanc
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Dan is joined by Haddie and Shawn Blanc to discuss delegating, hiring, firing and freelancing.
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- Your business card is CRAP! - YouTube
- One of those “Things I’m Learning the Hard Way” posts | Owltastic
- The Sweet Setup — We recommend the best apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
- Tools and Toys — Hand-Picked for Work and Play
- The Weekly Briefly | A podcast by Shawn Blanc
- Shawn Blanc
- Square Cash – Email Money for Free
- Archer Avenue - Matching Awesome Podcasts with the Best Advertisers
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Dan Benjamin is joined by Haddie Cooke to discuss the new show name (still undecided) and having a plan before you take action.
Links for this episode:
- StevieSnacks Is Moving To Texas Blues Alley | StevieSnacks Blog
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Dan is joined by Haddie to talk about Outbox shutting down, ideas vs. execution, bad reasons to not start something, and more.
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Dan is joined by Haddie and callers to talk about dress hoodies, being forced to work in a basement, sudden career changes, getting fired, and more.
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- DLC on 5by5
- The Frequency #153 on 5by5
- Back to Work #153 on 5by5
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Dan is joined by Haddie and a handful of great callers on this special New Years Day episode.
Links for this episode:
- Zappos is going holacratic: no job titles, no managers, no hierarchy - Quartz
Zappos is known for its zany corporate culture. The company’s Q4 “All Hands” meeting in November was aptly-themed “Gone Wild”: one female employee voluntarily climbed into a case filled with tarantulas to win a $250 gift card. The event opened with a Lion King performance put on by employees at the Smith Center in downtown Las Vegas and closed with an after party at the museum next door. Focusing on company culture and customer service is how CEO Tony Hsieh built Zappos into a billion-dollar online retailer. While he’s not getting rid of those priorities, Hsieh is laying the groundwork for a major reorganization. - Bacon Method
- Grumpy Old Geeks | Two old farts, the Internet and a microphone...
- Does It Have Legs? | Is that classic movie still a classic?
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Dan is joined by Haddie to take calls, read emails, and discuss following your dream, changing career paths, laziness, and more.
Links for this episode:
- Don't Start a Company, Kid » Big Nerd Ranch Blog
- Bacon Method
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Dan is joined by callers and in-studio guests Moises Chiullan, Shlok Vaidya, and Haddie Cooke to discuss the changing ways people work, how they are compensated for their time, and if there's a middle-ground between remote and office.
Links for this episode:
- ? The Objectification of Haddie Cooke — Her True Name
- Snapchat Reportedly Turned Down A $3 Billion (!) Offer From Facebook
- Remote: Office Not Required: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson: 9780804137508: Amazon.com: Books
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Dan is joined by Lew Cirne, CEO and founder of New Relic about staying passionate, physical offices, corporate culture, adding energy and removing energy, and more.
Links for this episode:
- Application Performance Management & Monitoring | New Relic
- Lew Cirne (sweetlew) on Twitter
- Internet Anagram Server / I, Rearrangement Servant : anagram, anagrams, nag a ram, software, anagramme, anagrama, wordplay, word play, anagram creator, anagram solver, anagram finder, anagram generator, anagram maker, anagram unscrambler, anagram machine,
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Dan talks with in-studio guest Anthony Armendariz of Funsize about managing the transition from independent to business owner, growing and expanding a business, remote vs. office, and more.
Links for this episode:
- Forget the resume, kill on the cover letter by David of 37signals
A great resume will get you not-rejected, a great cover letter will get you hired. That’s the conclusion I’m left with after going through the applications for our junior support programmer position. - Quit! #40: Getting Through the Door – Marco.org
One thing irritated me, though: it sounds like his assumption is that job postings need not list the position’s salary or a salary range, which should instead be negotiated in the interview. When I was job-hunting, this always drove me nuts. - REMOTE: The new book from 37signals
As an employer, restricting your hiring to a small geographic region means you’re not getting the best people you can. As an employee, restricting your job search to companies within a reasonable commute means you’re not working for the best company you can. REMOTE, the new book by 37signals, shows both employers and employees how they can work together, remotely, from any desk, in any space, in any place, anytime, anywhere. - Amazon.com: Remote: Office Not Required eBook: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson: Kindle Store
- Funsize (funsizecorp) on Twitter
- funsize | Home
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Dan talks with callers about resume honesty, getting a job, and getting fired.
Links for this episode:
- Richard A. - Website
Hire him!
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Dan talks with guests and callers about the resume and getting through the door and into the interview.
Links for this episode:
- Authentic Jobs
Find you a cool job already!
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Dan talks about small business success and failure.
Links for this episode:
- Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy
Lucy is part of Generation Y, the generation born between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s. She's also part of a yuppie culture that makes up a large portion of Gen Y. - Woman Quits Job in the Most Awesome and Meta Way Ever
- Startup Business Failure Rate By Industry | Statistic Brain
- Real Statistics Show That 70 Percent of Small Businesses Succeed At First
- Chipotle: "The Scarecrow"
- Mark Osborne : "More"
- Marina V. Shifrin
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Dan is joined by Shloky, returning from his crypt, to discuss redefining your company and job from within, taking over your boss' job Klingon Style, and more, with calls from live listeners.
Links for this episode:
- The 4 Hours I Need 16 Times a Year to Run my Businesses | LinkedIn
- Why You Aren't Just 'Lucky' To Have A Job
“I’m just lucky to have a job.” I’ve heard this sad phrase uttered and muttered as some kind of self-fulfilling, defeatist mantra. Its wrong. - Fluent Language Tuition - Online courses in German, English and French
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Dan is joined by Moises Chiullan and Joel Bush to talk about being fired, leaving your industry, starting something new, and Up in the Air.
Links for this episode:
- Up in the Air (2009 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Up in the Air is a 2009 American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and co-written by Reitman and Sheldon Turner. It is a film adaptation of the 2001 novel of the same name, written by Walter Kirn. The story is about a corporate "downsizer" Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) and his travels. The film follows his isolated life and philosophies along with the people he meets along the way. Filming was primarily in St. Louis, Missouri, which substituted for a number of other cities shown in the film. Several scenes were also filmed in Detroit, Michigan
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No Ties and a Dog in the Office
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- Steve Ballmer to retire as Microsoft CEO | The Verge
Microsoft has just announced that CEO Steve Ballmer will retire within the next 12 months. He will step down from his post as soon as the process of choosing his successor has been completed. Ballmer has written an open email to the Microsoft team explaining the decision and the strategy for "moving forward." - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
Microsoft Corp. today announced that Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer has decided to retire as CEO within the next 12 months, upon the completion of a process to choose his successor. In the meantime, Ballmer will continue as CEO and will lead Microsoft through the next steps of its transformation to a devices and services company that empowers people for the activities they value most. - Richard Branson | Virgin Atlantic
Richard Branson started Virgin Atlantic in 1984, with one plane. His commitment to challenging the status quo and putting people first has shaped his life and businesses. - Unplanned Downtime
While this has been the least pleasant four weeks of my life, it’s also been an incredible journey and helped put everything in perspective. I’ve truly never been more thankful. I look forward to the day where I can live pain free again, but in the meantime, I’m just itching to get back to work on all of the exciting stuff I’ve dreamed up the last few weeks. - Lesson Learned
Sifter survived. Thrived even. It doesn’t need me to constantly obsess over it in order to succeed. Of course I need to improve Sifter, but I’m already doing that. When I’m not doing it, I don’t need to be worrying about it.
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Dan is joined by Jen Simmons to discuss fear, risk, reinventing your job, listener emails, and more.
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- 5by5 : The Web Ahead - Hosted by Jen Simmons
- JenSimmons.com
- Jen Simmons on Twitter
- Shutterstock Search - "Peridot"
- Resignation Letter Sample
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Dan responds to your emails, takes calls, and discusses the fear of success.
Links for this episode:
- The Aviator - Amazon Instant
- The Aviator (Two Disc Set) - Amazon
- The Aviator (Blu-ray) - Amazon
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Dan is joined in studio by Haddie and Jena, later they take calls to discuss internships that lead to jobs and the appropriate time to negotiate.
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Dan is joined by Tim Van Damme who left Instagram for a position at Dropbox. Later they take calls and discuss when it's the right time to move on.
Links for this episode:
- Do Things that Don't Scale
The most common unscalable thing founders have to do at the start is to recruit users manually. Nearly all startups have to. You can't wait for users to come to you. You have to go out and get them. - maxvoltar - Hello, Dropbox
- Made by Elephant - We craft interfaces
- Tim Van Damme (maxvoltar) on Twitter
- Dribbble - Tim Van Damme
Dan takes calls and discusses competition, employment, hobbies, and when to narrow your focus.
Links for this episode:
- Zoe Zoe Sheen - Illustration
- There Will Be Blood - IMDB
- There Will Be Blood - Amazon Instant
- There Will Be Blood - iTunes
- There Will Be Blood DVD - Amazon
- There Will Be Blood BlueRay - Amazon
- Hello, my name is _____
During episode 29 of the 5by5 network's Quit!, Dan mentioned to Haddie before taking a call from show regular and romance eCoach Virginia Roberts that he needs stickers to give to those he worries about, and those he doesn't.
I was listening to this episode on Saturday, June 30th while walking around downtown San Francisco. I happen to have my laptop with me and decided to find a quiet place and throw something together.
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Dan talks about the risks of coasting, being energized, making your passion your work, regaining independence, and staying in your job with calls from listeners.
Links for this episode:
- Ferris Buller Sing's - Twist And Shout - YouTube
- Trump: The Art of the Deal: Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz: 9780345479174: Amazon.com: Books
- ScanDeck.net
ScanDeck™ is an affordable, recyclable and easy-to-use copy stand designed to hold your iPhone at just the right height, and keep it there. - The marketing secrets of Victoria's Secret - Chicago Tribune
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Dan and Haddie are joined in the studio by the host of ScamSchool.tv and NSFWshow, Brian Brushwood, and, the founder of Amplifier and host of the upcoming 5by5 show The Capital, Joel Bush. They discuss the benefits of competition, Paul Thomas Anderson's film, There Will Be Blood (2007), Steve Jobs' response to Android, the competition between Coca-Cola and Pepsi, the pseudo-rivalry that exists between podcasters, strategies utilized by rivals to crush competitors, an article about a failing startup, and later they take some calls.
Links for this episode:
- Brian Brushwood - Bizarre Magic: America's #1 College Magic Show - Home
- Brian Brushwood (shwood) on Twitter
- Amplifier - Merchandising Services for YOUR Community
- joelbush (joelbush) on Twitter
- There Will Be Blood (2007) - IMDb
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business. - My Startup has 30 Days to Live
- Failure is losing the will to fight | Francis Pedraza
- A Steve Jobs Moment That Mattered: Macworld, August 1997 - Forbes
“We have to let go of this notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose,” Jobs said. “We have to embrace a notion that for Apple to win, Apple has to do a really good job. And if others are going to help us, that’s great because we need all the help we can get. And if we screw it and we don’t do a good job, it’s not somebody’s else’s fault. It’s our fault. ” - Amazon.com: The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Exposed and Explained by the World's Two eBook: Al Ries, Jack Trout: Kindle Store
- Amazon.com: Pump Up the Volume: Christian Slater, Ellen Greene, Samantha Mathis, Cheryl Pollak, Jeff Chamberlain, Billy Morrissette, Lala Sloatman, Holly Sampson, Annie Ross, Andy Romano, Annie Rusoff, Jonathan Mazer, Alexander Enberg, Ahmet Zappa, Seth G
- The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Vintage): Tim Wu: 9780307390998: Amazon.com: Books
- My Startup has 30 Days to Live — In 30 days, my startup will be be dead
- TestTube > Scam School
- Frame Rate | TWiT.TV
- NSFW - Tuesdays at 10PM ET / 7PM PT on TWiT
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Dan and Haddie talk to Andy Baio and Andy McMillan about the 2013 XOXO conference September 19th-22nd in Portland, OR, and discuss broader issues including the courage it takes to produce an independent event, the risks and rewards of collaborating with like-minded people, dealing with the fear of success, and more.
Links for this episode:
- XOXO · Portland, OR · September 2013
- XOXO (xoxo) on Twitter
- Andy Baio (waxpancake) on Twitter
- Andy McMillan (andymcmillan) on Twitter
- Conference — XOXO Festival
Two days of talks from incredible artists and toolmakers. - Kind of Screwed - Waxy.org
TL - 5by5 | The Pipeline #31: Andy Baio
Andy Baio joins Dan Benjamin to discuss joining Expert Labs, Kickstarter, the inspiration for Upcoming.org, working for Yahoo!, the Star Wars Kid, copyrights, and more. - 5by5 | The Big Web Show #12: Web Conferences
- 5by5 | The Daily Edition #36: It Deserves To Be Real
- Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue
- Kickstarter
- Build 2013
- Good On Paper
- The Manual
- Waxy.org: Andy Baio lives here
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Dan and Danielle talk about the film adaptation Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) and discuss the toxic, cut-throat world of sales. Later they take calls and they hear from Studio Kittie, Angry Guy, and more.
Links for this episode:
- Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) - IMDb
An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office. - Glengarry Glen Ross speech - YouTube
Blake was written into the script by David Mamet for the film version of Glengarry Glen Ross (1992). Alec Baldwin's portrayal of the vitriol-spewing sales coach has lost none of its sting since the film's release and continues to be widely circulated as a testament to America's occupational and economic anxieties. - Why do employees stop caring? (and how to change that) | JordonCooper.com
- Corp Stooge Diary - Entries - Stooge ready to quit
A day in the life of the Corporate Stooge - 5by5 | Quit! #19: A New Level of Disgruntled
5:30 The first appearance of Angry Guy, Chris - Glengarry Glen Ross (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- “I can speak only to a…‘Mrs. Nyborg.’” | kung fu grippe
- kittienumnums (kittienumnums) on Twitter
- NextDraft: The Day's Most Fascinating News by Dave Pell
- COMPUTER CHESS
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Dan is joined by Matt Haughey, founder of MetaFilter and briefly Glenn Fleishman to discuss what it truly means to run a business.
Links for this episode:
- 5by5 | The Pipeline #6: Matt Haughey
Dan and Matt discuss the MetaFilter community, controlling a website's growth, starting up a business without taking investment, the recent PVRblog sale, the personal life (or lack thereof) of a developer and community builder, blogging about your personal life, and more. - PVRblog | TiVo, ReplayTV, and other PVR news and reviews
- MetaFilter Podcast | Community Weblog
- Matt Haughey (mathowie) on Twitter
- A Whole Lotta Nothing
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Dan and Haddie discuss 26-year old CEO David Karp's use of profanity at the end of his release about Yahoo's recent acquisition of Tumblr. Later they take calls and talk about the various issues that come up when doing a Kickstarter, give advice about transitioning from full time student and worker to full time entrepreneur, and more.
Links for this episode:
- Tumblr Staff - News!
Original Transcript: "Everyone, I’m elated to tell you that Tumblr will be joining Yahoo.
Before touching on how awesome this is, let me try to allay any concerns: We’re not turning purple. Our headquarters isn’t moving. Our team isn’t changing. Our roadmap isn’t changing. And our mission – to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve – certainly isn’t changing.
So what’s new? Simply, Tumblr gets better faster. The work ahead of us remains the same – and we still have a long way to go! – but with more resources to draw from.
Yahoo is the original Internet company, and Marissa and her team share our dream to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas. I couldn’t be more excited to have her help. We also share a vision for Tumblr’s business that doesn’t compromise the community and product we love. Plus both our logos end with punctuation!
As always, everything that Tumblr is, we owe to this unbelievable community. We won’t let you down.
Fuck yeah,
David"
* Marissa's Tumblr • I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an...
"I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr! We promise not to screw it up. "
* If People Were Really Honest in Job Interviews - CollegeHumor Article
* Mutator: Mute Your iPhone...With a Twist. by Ron Adair — Kickstarter
* Mutator: Mute Your iPhone...With a Twist.
* This Is Water - David Foster Wallace
In 2005, author David Foster Wallace was asked to give the commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College. However, the resulting speech didn't become widely known until 3 years later, after his tragic death. It is, without a doubt, some of the best life advice we've ever come across, and perhaps the most simple and elegant explanation of the real value of education.
* CAPSULE™ Minimalist™ - A Slim Leather Wallet Made for Cash
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Dan interviews Scott Johnson, founder of FrogPants Studios, a hub of nerd and geek media including comics, web art, illustration, podcasts, and more. Scott hosts and produces 9 shows, both daily and weekly, which span a range of topics including apps, comics, early TV pilots, video games, and more. Scott also produces the webcomic My Extra Life. Dan and Scott address issues of making it on one's own terms, seeking out a creative community, spreading the creative spark across different mediums, getting help to steer business, and more.
Links for this episode:
- FrogPants Studios! - The home of Scott Johnson's FrogPants Studios
- EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson
- The 56 Geeks Project
- Nerdtacular | The Annual Frogpants Nerdtacular Event!
- Quote Details: Woody Allen: Eighty percent of success... - The Quotations Page
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
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Dan discusses the pros and cons of working remotely and, later, takes calls and talks to Robert Sha, the creator of the Capsule minimalist wallet, Josh Centers, the new managing editor for TidBits, and more.
Links for this episode:
- How to Set up your Home Office for Maximum Productivity
Have you ever walked into your home office for a specific task and instead wound up looking through 3 piles of junk mail, and an enormous mound of paperwork on your desk? With more and more home owners taking to the internet and family members of all ages are becoming more computer savvy, the home office has lost its productive edge. If you want to reclaim back your home office and find ways to maximize your productivity look at these helpful tips. - The 6 Best Tips for Being Super Productive While Working Remotely
Getting things done from a home office isn’t a sure thing. You’ll be faced with a different set of challenges, topped by a never-ending line of distractions that are probably more fun than your job. The good news is that you can stay on top of your tasks with a little know-how and a little practice. These tips will help you get started with a productive home office. - Fed Ex Stolen Idea - YouTube
- Capsule Minimalist Wallet | Uncrate
Crafted from high quality leather, the Capsule offers an integrated CashStrap to hold bills, a fast access front pocket for your ID and most frequently used cards, and a secure interior pocket for other cards. Overall, it can comfortably carry six cards — as well as several bills — without adding a huge bulge to your pocket. - CAPSULE™
- Bernard Madoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff (pron.: /?me?d?f/ - TidBITS: Apple news for the rest of us
- 5by5 Jackal T-Shirt (WWDC Edition) – 5by5 Store
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Dan is joined by Associate Producer Danielle Moser to discuss dressing up for work as it relates to interviews, productivity, and how it can affect the way you think about yourself and your outlook. They also address the problem of having CEOs dress down during keynote addresses and, later, Dan takes calls and discusses job-seeking, dealing with a bad boss, whether or not to work while going back to school, using a cool idea as the basis for a Kickstarter, and more.
Links for this episode:
- Dress for the job you want, not the one you have.
Board room, bored Batman. - Justin "Justin Garrity" Garrity » Blog Archive » 2012 VW Beetle with Custom iPad Mini dock in dash.
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Dan is joined by a familiar guest, Marco Arment, to take calls and discuss Marco's very recent sale of Instapaper. They delve deeper and discuss when to hire, outsourcing, feeling burnt out, when to sell, and being selective about which company gets to buy what you've built. They take some listener calls and answer questions about job-seeking in a new town, how to come up with the next great idea, the reinvention of the corporate stooge, what to consider when you're desperate for freelance work, and what to do when you get let go from your job.
Links for this episode:
- The next generation of Instapaper – Marco.org
- 5by5 | Build and Analyze
- betaworks digg
- Marco Arment (marcoarment) on Twitter
- marco on App.net
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Dan and guest Jeff Raider, one of the founders of Warby Parker and Harry's, discuss startups, investors, and timing as it relates to quitting your job to work on your dream.
Links for this episode:
- Designer Frames & Online Eyeglasses - $95 Rx Glasses | Warby Parker
- Meet the Founders | Warby Parker
- Harry's - Great Shave. Fair Price. Simple.
Use this URL and Dan will get some blades as a referral bonus. - Jeff Raider (jeffreyraider) on Twitter
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Dan is joined by Producer Haddie Cooke and Associate Producer Danielle Moser to take calls and discuss how important your mindset is before making any kind of decision.
Links for this episode:
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
This is one of the best books I've ever read, and it changed my life. - Best way to learn Ruby & Rails - @AstonJ's Blog
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Dan takes calls and responds to listener feedback. Topics include living in a basement, staying in school, quitting a good job you hate to mow lawns, what to do when your family moves and you want to finish school, getting pushed out of your own business and taking a corporate stooge job, quilting as a business, and more.
Links for this episode:
- 5by5 | The Web Ahead #4: Pat Aufderheide on Fair Use & Copyright
Fair Use expert Pat Aufderheide joins Jen Simmons to explain when you can use other people's copyrighted material in your work. - QUIT! on 5by5
- QUIT! (quitshow) on Twitter
- The QUIT! Corporate Stooge Newsletter
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Dan is joined by special guest Garrett Dimon to discuss starting and running businesses with less pain and fewer mistakes. Dan takes calls and helps people identify their opportunities and make decisions to redefine their careers.
Links for this episode:
- Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
- Starting + Sustaining: A book and spreadsheet to help you launch and maintain a web application by Garrett Dimon
- Next Update
- Sifter - Simple Hosted Bug & Issue Tracking
- GarrettDimon.com
- Garrett Dimon (garrettdimon) on Twitter
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Dan is joined by Ansa Copeland, Producer Haddie Cooke, and take calls.
Links for this episode:
- ? The Objectification of Haddie Cooke — Jesus & Venus
- Ansa Copeland
- Ansa (yaansa) on Twitter
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Dan is joined by Producer Haddie Cooke to take calls and discuss integrity.
Links for this episode:
- Jobs to Fill, Employers Wait for Perfection - NYTimes.com
The number of job openings has increased to levels not seen since the height of the financial crisis, but vacancies are staying unfilled much longer than they used to — an average of 23 business days today compared to a low of 15 in mid-2009, according to a new measure of Labor Department data by the economists Steven J. Davis, Jason Faberman and John Haltiwanger.Some have attributed the more extended process to a mismatch between the requirements of the 4 million jobs available and the skills held by many of the 12 million unemployed. That’s probably true in a few high-skilled fields, like nursing or biotech, but for a large majority of positions where candidates are plentiful, the bigger problem seems to be a sort of hiring paralysis. - QUIT! on 5by5
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Dan is joined by David Heinemeier Hansson, Shlok Vaidya, Producer Haddie Cooke to discuss telecommuting vs. being in the office.
Note: This episode contains some strong language.
Links for this episode:
- Marissa Mayer Is Wrong: Working From Home Can Make You More Productive - Derek Thompson - The Atlantic
- Here's the Internal Yahoo No-Work-From-Home Memo - Kara Swisher - News - AllThingsD
- Get Off of Your Cloud - NYTimes.com
Many women were appalled at the Yahoo news, noting that Mayer, with her penthouse atop the San Francisco Four Seasons, her Oscar de la Rentas and her $117 million five-year contract, seems oblivious to the fact that for many of her less-privileged sisters with young children, telecommuting is a lifeline to a manageable life. - If Marissa Mayer Were A Man — I.M.H.O. — Medium
Marissa Mayer does not have an easy job. She has been charged with turning around a company that has been in flux for some time. Everyone knows that in order to shrink overhead, you need to get rid of dead weight - Get Off of Your Cloud - NYTimes.com
- Twitter / richardbranson: Perplexed by Yahoo! stopping ...
- Give people the freedom of where to work - Richard's Blog - Virgin.com
If you provide the right technology to keep in touch, maintain regular communication and get the right balance between remote and office working, people will be motivated to work responsibly, quickly and with high quality. - Internet Evolution - Executive Clan Editor's Blog - Yahoo's Telework Decision Could Be Marissa Mayer's Waterloo
- REMOTE: Office Not Required. The new book by 37signals. Coming fall 2013. by Jason Fried of 37signals
- David Heinemeier Hansson
- DHH (dhh) on Twitter
- REMOTE: The new book from 37signals
- Remote: Office Not Required: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson: 9780804137508: Amazon.com: Books
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Dan is joined by Chris Carter, Assistant Producer Caitlin Eldridge, and Producer Haddie Cooke to discuss moving out of your home office into office space and moderate success vs. scaling your business.
Links for this episode:
- Caitlin Eldridge (cd_eldridge) on Twitter
- Chris Carter (maczter) on Twitter
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Dan Benjamin is joined by Anthony Armendariz, Shlok Vaidya, and Alex Ragsdale about finding your passion, focus, Florida, exit plans, information hipsters, and more.
Links for this episode:
- 5by5 | The Frequency #85: Premeditated Weird
- Silicon Valley . American Experience . WGBH | PBS
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Dan is joined by Natalie Armendariz, Shlok Vaidya remotely, and producers Haddie Cooke and Caitlin Eldridge to discuss expectations of employees and employers.
Links for this episode:
- Natalie on Twitter
- iWake Podcast
- Lynette J Wong (auntielynette) on Twitter
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Dan is joined by Andrew Logan, Shlok Vaidya, and producer Haddie Cooke to discuss extroverted vs introverted vs balanced in the work world.
Links for this episode:
- Why extroverts fail, introverts flounder and you probably succeed - The Washington Post
- Arts + Labor
We tell stories. - Twitter - Andrew Logan
- Shloky.com
Entrepreneur without portfolio. Technology. Book reviews. Speculative fiction. Resilient communities. Warfare. - Twitter - Shlok Vadiya
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Dan Benjamin is joined by Joel Bush, Shlok Vaidya, Tina Nikolova and producer Haddie Cooke to discuss what it means to have "four o'clock in the morning courage".
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- Joel's famous Reddit proposal photo
[photo] - Shlok Vaidya on Twitter
- Joel Bush on Twitter
- Tina on Twitter
- Amplifier
Ready to talk to Amplifier about how you can produce and sell premium quality merchandise directly to your audience? We’re eager to hear from you. - Shloky.com
Shlok's personal website. - Tina Nikolova- Actor
Tina Nikolova's actor page
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This week Dan is joined by Alex Ragsdale, producer Haddie Cooke, and callers to discuss meetings and side-jobs that become businesses.
Links for this episode:
- Alex Ragsdale (ala_alex) on Twitter
Dan takes calls, questions from Twitter and voicemails to discuss the “business” and logistics of starting a company.
Links for this episode:
- Man Returns To Work After Vacation With Fresh, Reenergized Hatred For Job | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
- Virginia Roberts » A brief note on QUIT! and quitting
- 10 Reasons Why You Have to Quit Your Job This Year Altucher Confidential
- Your Dream Job | patrickrhone / journal
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Dan is joined by Shlok Vaidya, Michael K. and callers to talk about opportunity, followthrough, what it takes to find success, and how to handle getting fired in the middle of the show.
Links for this episode:
- The Rise of Siri
- Contract Review | fast, reliable, affordable - Contract Gurus
- Successful Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Secrets
- KMFDM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Alex Olegnowicz (aomind) on Twitter
- Contract Gurus (ContractGurus) on Twitter
- Shlok Vaidya (shloky) on Twitter
- Haddie Cooke (haddiebird) on Twitter
- Dan Benjamin (danbenjamin) on Twitter
- Netflix open sources tool to clean up your AWS cloud — Cloud Computing News
Netflix open sourced the code to Janitor Monkey, a tool it uses to automate the deletion of unused Amazon Web Services resources. It’s easy to spin up cloud compute instances, but not so easy to shut them down as they fall into disuse. - Facebook Mobile User Counts Revealed: 192M Android, 147M iPhone, 48M iPad, 56M Messenger | TechCrunch
As of September 2011, Facebook for Android has 66 million MAU and Facebook for iPhone had 91 million MAU. In December 2011 right before Facebook stopped openly publishing stats, Android surpassed the iOS app. By just 11 months later in November 2012, Android had grown to 192.8 million MAU while iPhone only had 147.2 million MAU.
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Dan talks with Garrett Dimon and callers about "the fear".
Links for this episode:
- SPARCstation 1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 5by5 | The Crossover #3: Generational Loss
- Lightweight, Simple and Easy-to-use Hosted Bug & Issue Tracker | Sifter
- Starting + Sustaining: An upcoming eBook about launching and maintaining a web application by Garrett Dimon
- GarrettDimon.com
- Garrett Dimon (garrettdimon) on Twitter
Dan talks with Phil Coffman, Shlok Vaidya, Producer Robin Welch, and callers about so-called "moderate success", passion, starting out, paying your dues, making changes, the myth of job security, and finding a mentor.
Links for this episode:
- Moderate Success Is the Enemy of Breakout Success - LAUNCH -
Moderate success is a distraction, and it keeps founders from bigger success. - Jason Calacanis Says He Will Shut Down Podcast Network ThisWeekIn.com, This Week In Startups Will Continue | TechCrunch
- The Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press
- The East Wing » Where Geekery is Awesome!
- Phil Coffman
- Phil Coffman (philcoffman) on Twitter
- robinquinette (robinquinette) on Twitter
Dan talks with callers, special guest Myke Hurley of 70 Decibels, and 5by5 producer Haddie Cooke about interviewing, confidence, attire, personal presentation, when to reevaluate, having a support group, and so-called "moderate success".
Links for this episode:
- Moderate Success Is the Enemy of Breakout Success - LAUNCH -
- 70Decibels - Home
Dan talks with studio guest Anthony Armendariz, 5by5 producer Haddie Cooke, responds to your calls and voicemails, and dispenses "advice" about when to quit, dealing with life changes, routines, being unemployable, how much money you need to quit, and more.
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- Gimme Bar : latinosmallbusinessowner4efb25a14c746.jpg (960×3589)
- Management and Career
- Dev Bootcamp - Learn Ruby on Rails in 9 weeks.
- Moisés Chiullan (moiseschiu) on Twitter
- Anthony Armendariz (mantwan) on Twitter
- Anthony Armendariz - I run a small mobile experience design business in Austin, TX. I share an office with my wife/designer Natalie Armendariz. I'm a Scotch aficionado, travel junkie, yorkie lover, & entrepreneur. Formerly Product Designer at Evernote Aus
- Photo by damienslunch • Instagram
In this inaugural episode, Dan Benjamin talks about becoming an entrepreneur, making mistakes, leaving a so-called secure job for something new, and starting over. Dan is joined by special Guest Shlok Vaidya.
Links for this episode:
- 5by5 | Back to Work #7: Vocational Wheel
- The Rise of Siri: Shlok Vaidya: Amazon.com: Kindle Store
- BURGER KING®