How They Get Stuff Done

Judson Rollins - What To Do When Work Is Like Drinking From a Fire Hose

Is working in management consulting as glamorous as it seems? What’s the best thing you can do to improve your public speaking skills? How can you use different pricing strategies to scale up your business? Welcome back to How They Get Stuff Done. Today I’m speaking with Judson Rollins. Judson is an aviation strategy consultant and a monetization architect for expert service providers who want to decouple their revenue from their hours. Judson and I discuss finding the middle ground between perfection and acceptability, the pros and cons of time blocking, Judson’s favorite ways to capture ideas on the go and even in the shower, and more. Enjoy the conversation. Find Judson: * Website: ScaleWhisperer.com [https://scalewhisperer.com] * Judson on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/judsonrollins/]

Derek Sivers - What Do You Need to Believe Right Now?

Why does Game of Thrones cost $70,000 to watch? What happens when you choose to believe that everything is your responsibility? And why do smart people not think that others are stupid? Welcome back to How They Get Stuff Done. Today I’m speaking with Derek Sivers. Derek Sivers has been a musician, a circus performer, an entrepreneur, and a TED speaker. He’s the founder of CD Baby, an online distributor of independent music. He’s written several books, including How to Live and Hell Yeah or No. Most recently, he’s been working on his latest book, Useful Not True. Derek and I discuss choosing your beliefs, taking radical responsibility for whatever happens to you, the benefits of not having a to-do list, walking away from what doesn’t work for you, and more. Enjoy the conversation. Find Derek over at sive.rs [https://sive.rs/].

Jack Ellis - How to Run a Company People-First

Jack Ellis is the co-founder of Fathom Analytics, a privacy-first Google Analytics alternative. Jack also teaches an online course on Laravel, a popular PHP framework, and hosts his own podcast, Above Board, where he discusses running an indie and bootstrapped software company. Jack and I discuss: * How he runs his company people-first * What happens when you judge your employees on their work, rather than on other measures * Lightweight ways of collaborating with a small team * The importance of online privacy and how his company enables that * Why running a lifestyle business is just the best * Overcoming analysis paralysis * The big downside of working remotely—or is it even a downside? * Why I don’t give specific advice for people with ADHD (or other conditions) And much more. Enjoy the show! Find Jack: * JackEllis.me [https://jackellis.me] * Fathom Analytics [https://usefathom.com/], privacy-focused website analytics * Serverless Laravel [https://serverlesslaravelcourse.com/], Jack’s course for Laravel developers * Above Board [https://usefathom.com/above-board], the Fathom Analytics podcast, which Jack co-hosts Also mentioned: * Things 3 [https://culturedcode.com/things/], my favorite task manager * Linear [https://linear.app/], a collaborative software development app * Tuple [https://tuple.app/], a remote pair programming app

Floris van der Pol - Living Without a Smartphone and Reading 100 Books a Year

Floris van der Pol is a Dutch philosopher, writer, and self-described “reading addict”. He publishes book reviews on YouTube as well as videos on reading more generally and on living without a smartphone, which he has done for years now. Floris also writes a newsletter with essays on philosophy and literature. I met Floris in a course I was taking on YouTube—the Part-Time YouTuber Academy by Ali Abdaal, if you’re curious—in which Floris gave me fantastic feedback on some of my own YouTube videos. We got to chatting and some of his YouTube videos impressed me so much that I wanted to get him on the show. Floris and I discuss: * How he reads 100 books a year * What it’s like to live without a smartphone * How he designed his life to improve his attention span * Getting stuff done with a baby around * Whether video gaming qualifies as an addiction And much more. Enjoy the show! Find Floris: * FlorisLeest.nl [https://florisleest.nl/] (in Dutch) * Floris Leest on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/c/Florisleest] (in Dutch)

Derrick Reimer from SavvyCal - Can You Regain Your Confidence After Failing?

Derrick Reimer is the founder of SavvyCal, a tool for scheduling meetings that both you and the people you are scheduling with will love. He's also the co-founder of Drip, a marketing automation tool, and he is the host of the Art of Product podcast.  I have long enjoyed using an app to schedule my meetings. For example, I scheduled meetings with my coaching clients. Rather than going back and forth with endless emails, trying to find a mutually convenient time. I just send people a link so they can book a slot on my calendar. I had been using a different tool, but recently I discovered SavvyCal and it's so much more enjoyable to use. So I looked into who created it and I ended up on Derrick's Twitter account. I learned that Derrick had co-founded Drip, which was one of the first apps I used years ago when I was first building my online business. And I have very fond memories of Drip, even though I no longer use it because Drip went into a different direction.  Anyway, I was interested to hear Derrick’s story—and it turns out there were quite a few ups and downs.  Derrick and I discuss: * Regaining your confidence after launching a failed product * Transitioning from wearing all the hats in a business to delegating certain tasks * Saving your most productive time for your most valuable work Find Derrick and Savvycal: * SavvyCal.com [https://savvycal.com/?via=peter] * Derrick on Twitter [https://twitter.com/derrickreimer] * Derrick’s podcast, The Art of Product [https://artofproductpodcast.com/] Note: the link to SavvyCal is an affiliate link. It’s an awesome product and by signing up through this link, you get a free month and you support the podcast. Thank you. Also mentioned: * Derrick’s popular blog post, “I’m Walking Away From the Product I Spent a Year Building” [https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/05/17/im-walking-away-from-the-product-i-spent-a-year-building.html] * Drip [https://www.drip.com/], the marketing automation business Derrick co-founded * The Mom Test [http://momtestbook.com/] by Rob Fitzpatrick * Tiny Seed [https://tinyseed.com/], an accelerator for SaaS bootstrappers * xFusion [https://www.xfusion.io], which offers support staff for SaaS