It's Justin's turn in the hot seat to talk about what he's got in his buckets: which projects make the most money? Which take the most time? Where is he focused on breaking new ground? How does Transistor, The Podcast Standards Projects, and other projects he's got going all fit together? Plus: what kind of grit, desire, and resilience do you need to actually build a company that works?

Timestamps:

• (01:09) - Why Brian will never join your Slack
• (04:54) - What email client did Brian switch to?
• (16:56) - Justin's matrix of boxes
• (17:58) - What are Justin's boxes?
• (19:54) - What is the Podcast Standards Project?
• (28:57) - The benefits of working in the same place together
• (35:49) - Pushing back on Justin's time allotement
• (38:48) - What's the work in the investment portfolio?
• (48:34) - Having the motivation and ability to commit
• (58:24) - Running your own business + a family changes the calculations
• (01:01:04) - Getting encouragment from simple projects

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Links mentioned in this episode

• Illustration: Justin's buckets
• Instrumental Components - Brian's new product
• Clarity Flow - Brian's SaaS product
• Transistor.fm - Justin's company
• Builder Methods
• Instrumental Components
• HEY – A delightfully fresh take on email + calendar, from 37signals
• Superhuman | The most productive email app ever made
• Shortwave | Download
• Readwise
• Podcast Standards Project | Advocating for open podcasting
• ProjectionLab - Modern Financial & Retirement Planning Tools
• Tiny | We buy wonderful businesses
• Going independent (2016 year in review)
• Here are some other podcasts we like
• For next week: Andrew Wilkinson's tweet about AI