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I've been trying to learn how to program since 1985. This past year, at 38 years old, I finally figured out how.

Questions we discuss in this episode:

  • Is there only "one" way to learn how to code?
  • Why is getting started SO HARD?
  • How did Justin finally figure out a way to learn programming?

Show notes

The latest from Justin:

★ Looking for a community of bootstrappers?


Update from 2021: what am I working on these days?

A lot has happened since I recorded these episodes: I launched a podcast hosting company, Transistor.fm, with my friend Jon Buda! If you want to hear what I'm up to now go to transistor.fm/justin


James Clear describes how you can improve your life, using small incremental steps that add up to big wins.

Questions we discuss in this episode:

  • How does "what you repeatedly do" affect your identity?
  • How does someone’s context affect their ability to set and maintain good habits? Are good habits only for people of privilege? 
  • How can you maintain habits for people with depression, anxiety or attention deficit?
  • How to form habits when your schedule is not in your control? (if you have kids, etc...)
  • If you do fall out of a habit, what should you do? Revive it, or let it go?
  • What systems and tools can you use to help automate, facilitate or help ingrain healthy habits?

Show notes

  • Get the book: Atomic Habits
  • Get the habits journal
  • Steven Pressfield: "Stevie Wonder’s territory is the piano. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s is the gym. When Bill Gates pulls into the parking lot at Microsoft, he’s on his territory"
  • Seth Godin: "Who is it for, and what is it for?"
  • Seth Godin: “People like us do things like this.”
  • James Clear's AMA on Reddit
  • Read James' blog: JamesClear.com
  • James Clear: "Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become."
  • Nir Eyal shuts off his internet every night
  • James Clear: "When you're struggling with a new habit, your effort's not wasted, it's just being stored."

The latest from Justin:

★ Looking for a community of bootstrappers?


Update from 2021: what am I working on these days?

A lot has happened since I recorded these episodes: I launched a podcast hosting company, Transistor.fm, with my friend Jon Buda! If you want to hear what I'm up to now go to transistor.fm/justin


Ben is the co-founder of Tuple.app and is running a new course called Habits for Hackers.

★ Looking for a community of bootstrappers?

Show notes

The latest from Justin:


Update from 2021: what am I working on these days?

A lot has happened since I recorded these episodes: I launched a podcast hosting company, Transistor.fm, with my friend Jon Buda! If you want to hear what I'm up to now go to transistor.fm/justin


Jason Cohen asks Justin Jackson hard questions about his startup, Transistor.fm, and what it's going to take to go full-time.

This is the second half of our chat. Part 1 was really just setting the stage. Part 2 digs into the real-life challenges of bootstrapping a business.

★ Looking for a community of bootstrappers?

Show notes

The latest from Justin:


Update from 2021: what am I working on these days?

A lot has happened since I recorded these episodes: I launched a podcast hosting company, Transistor.fm, with my friend Jon Buda! If you want to hear what I'm up to now go to transistor.fm/justin


When you're building a startup you have these questions:

  • Should I work on my startup on the side, and grow it slowly?
  • Should I take investment and go full-time sooner?

These are the questions that have been circulating in my head over the past few months.

Which is why when Jason Cohen, founder of WPengine and someone I respect, replied to my tweet, I took note:

"It’s difficult to find successful companies where founders didn’t work 80+ hours and took longer than four years to get to $1M ARR. If you're two years in and you still need a day job then by definition it doesn’t have good fundamentals. I usually think of "$10k/month/founder" as a rough measure of whether you're ready for full-time. Saying that should take three years is wrong. It's hard to find that companies that live and took that long."


Today we'll be digging into that! (Check back next week for Part 2)

★ Looking for community of bootstrappers?

Show notes

The latest from Justin:


Update from 2021: what am I working on these days?

A lot has happened since I recorded these episodes: I launched a podcast hosting company, Transistor.fm, with my friend Jon Buda! If you want to hear what I'm up to now go to transistor.fm/justin


Hamish Macpherson is an engineer at Buffer, and was one of the first people to join MegaMaker.

★ Looking for community of bootstrappers?

Show notes

The latest from Justin:


Update from 2021: what am I working on these days?

A lot has happened since I recorded these episodes: I launched a podcast hosting company, Transistor.fm, with my friend Jon Buda! If you want to hear what I'm up to now go to transistor.fm/justin


This is a great chat with Samantha Geitz, a Senior Developer at Tighten, and the founder of BetaFish.

Topics in this episode: 

  • Should "business/marketing" people learn programming?
  • What's the difference between messing around and being a serious programmer?
  • Do regular programmers Google for answers?
  • Why English Majors can make great programmers.
  • If you want to learn hard things, do you need to be in a classroom?
  • Why should take a mental health day when you need it.

Announcement:

  • Want to speak at a tech conference? I'm doing class called "public speaking for geeks." More info here.

Show notes

Stuff from Justin...

Thanks to...


Update from 2021: what am I working on these days?

A lot has happened since I recorded these episodes: I launched a podcast hosting company, Transistor.fm, with my friend Jon Buda! If you want to hear what I'm up to now go to transistor.fm/justin


So many great topics in this episode: 

  • Should developers learn design?
  • Derrick's "viral signup" trick
  • How important is a personal brand?
  • How to promote your project (while you're still building it)
  • Do software companies need to become more service oriented?

Announcement:

Show notes

Stuff from Justin...

Thanks to...


Update from 2021: what am I working on these days?

A lot has happened since I recorded these episodes: I launched a podcast hosting company, Transistor.fm, with my friend Jon Buda! If you want to hear what I'm up to now go to transistor.fm/justin


I'm building a new SaaS in 2018 with my buddy Jon Buda called Transistor.fm. Now, we're trying to figure out our pricing. We're trying not to pretend we know everything there is to know about running a SaaS.

So, we wanted to reach out to some experts and get outside opinions about how to create our pricing tiers. So I asked Patrick Campbell, from Price Intelligently, to help give us some direction. He blew my mind. This conversation is incredible, you're going to get so much out of it.

Two announcements:

Show notes

Stuff from Justin...

Thanks to...


Update from 2021: what am I working on these days?

A lot has happened since I recorded these episodes: I launched a podcast hosting company, Transistor.fm, with my friend Jon Buda! If you want to hear what I'm up to now go to transistor.fm/justin


Mike Taber (Bluetick) and Rob Walling (Drip) started MicroConf in 2011 as a conference for self-funded startups. It's gone from just over 100 attendees to nearly 500. It's become the place for bootstrappers to hang out.

Get $100 off MicroConf Starter Edition

Go to megamaker.co/microconf or text "microconf" to (424) 247-5762.


Show notes


Stuff from Justin...


Thanks to...


★ Thinking about how to validate your product? megamaker.co/validate


Update from 2021: what am I working on these days?

A lot has happened since I recorded these episodes: I launched a podcast hosting company, Transistor.fm, with my friend Jon Buda! If you want to hear what I'm up to now go to transistor.fm/justin