Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIf I Started Trends.vc Over, This Is Exactly What I’d Ask | Daily Essay
Episode 222
Three years of mobile apps and SaaS ideas ended with one question: what could I see myself working on the longest? That became Trends.vc, and Rovio's…
2 hours ago
The Art of Planning Less and Doing More | Daily Essay
Episode 221
I've lost more chess games to the clock than to bad moves. Last week I spent a two-and-a-half-hour deep work block ranking my to-do list and never st…
1 day, 4 hours ago
Why I've Stopped Judging My Business by 1 Day | Daily Essay
Episode 220
Each day I open a board with my business numbers and ask one question of each: am I above or below my 30-day median? John Walker's bathroom scale sho…
2 days, 7 hours ago
1 Writing Tip I Learned from Carnegie, Harari, Seinfeld and More | Daily Essay
Episode 219
Ten minutes of a podcast teaches me more than an hour with most books. Dale Carnegie, Yuval Noah Harari and Jerry Seinfeld all worked their material …
3 days, 3 hours ago
Why Are Some Jobs Paid More Than Others? | Daily Essay
Episode 218
New York's sanitation workers broke a state law to strike in 1968, and with every driver out at once they won their raise. An anesthesiologist earns …
4 days, 6 hours ago
Selling 10 Million Albums and Ending Up With Nothing | Daily Essay
Episode 217
TLC's CrazySexyCool sold over 10 million copies, and a year later all three women filed for bankruptcy. Alexey Pajitnov built Tetris and earned nothi…
5 days, 10 hours ago
Why Are Some Jobs Paid More Than Others? | Daily Essay
Episode 216
New York's 1968 garbage strike buried the city in 9 days and won the workers a few hundred dollars. An anesthesiologist earns more than 8 times a nur…
5 days, 11 hours ago
Motivation Wears Off. Here's What I Do Each Morning. | Daily Essay
Episode 215
My first rule is focus on what you control. Roughly 80% of my anxiety comes from losing sight of it. Hermann Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve shows why …
6 days, 7 hours ago
New Habits Feel Worse Before They Feel Better And Here Is Why | Daily Essay
Episode 214
Antidepressant side effects start within days and the benefits take two to four weeks, so some patients stop before the drug ever works. The mathemat…
1 week ago
Stop Playing Chess. Start Playing Poker. | Daily Essay
Episode 213
Matt Affleck went all in with two aces at the 2010 World Series of Poker as a 77% favorite and lost on the last card. With FedEx down to $5,000, Fred…
1 week, 1 day ago