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This week, in what might be the funniest episode yet, Molly and Emese are joined by co-stars Amy Schumer and Brianne Howey. They get candid about motherhood, career evolution, and their new film, Kinda Pregnant —which unexpectedly led to Amy’s latest health discovery. Amy opens up about how public criticism led her to uncover her Cushing syndrome diagnosis, what it’s like to navigate comedy and Hollywood as a mom, and the importance of sharing birth stories without shame. Brianne shares how becoming a mother has shifted her perspective on work, how Ginny & Georgia ’s Georgia Miller compares to real-life parenting, and the power of female friendships in the industry. We also go behind the scenes of their new Netflix film, Kinda Pregnant —how Molly first got the script, why Amy and Brianne were drawn to the project, and what it means for women today. Plus, they reflect on their early career struggles, the moment they knew they “made it,” and how motherhood has reshaped their ambitions. From career highs to personal challenges, this episode is raw, funny, and packed with insights. Mentioned in the Episode: Kinda Pregnant Ginny & Georgia Meerkat 30 Rock Last Comic Standing Charlie Sheen Roast Inside Amy Schumer Amy Schumer on the Howard Stern Show Trainwreck Life & Beth Expecting Amy 45RPM Clothing Brand A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us at @sonypodcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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×Mark's streak app isn't done, but his attempt to build longer streaks of consecutive livestreaming days is paying off. He's published 5 videos within a week and its effect on his YouTube traffic has been remarkable. The rolling 28-day numbers are as follows: views +77%, watch time +75% and reach +109%. It hasn't translated into more money (yet), but that's not surprising given that YouTube views are high up in the Alchemist Camp sales funnel. Justin's still making gradual progress on refactoring his Roblox game, Slider. He's added more instrumentation, gotten some expert advice and planned out some changes to the We also talked about the equal pay for remote work topic that's been trending, the scalability of membership sites, Mark's Black Friday, and the psychology of pricing. Today's Topics include: Livestreaming Analytics-driven game dev Remote work Scalability of membership sites Black Friday Pricing Mentioned Garry Tan on competition and gatekeepers Phoenix Igniter Matteo DNC pocast Trends.vc Mark's goals for next time Stream at least 3 days Do the Black Friday email campaign Start the new ebook Justin's goals for next time Create "the player shaker" for Roblox Video version here Comment at https://reactor.am/podcasts/37 On Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358 Recorded on 2020-11-18…
The results of Mark's livestreaming are in! It's taken some focus and effort, but it's greatly increased his production per hour of work. The quality of the screencasts is slightly worse, but his YouTube views are up by 50%, watch time is up 83% and he's picked up 11 Twitter followers. Justin has continued working with Chris, the Roblox dev he mentioned meeting last episode, and it's been productive. He's changed the way Justin approaches the entire game. He's now taking a much more analytics-driven approach to increase player retention at every subsection of the game. A key part of this is looking at each player's success to failure ratio at each portion of race tracks. We finished the talk with an extended discussion about livestreaming, working in public generally, why it's hard not to be self-conscious and how there can still be a big upside. Today's Topics include: Livestreaming Analytics-driven game dev Roblox Matteo Working in public Livestreaming Mentioned Phoenix Igniter Matteo DNC pocast Twitch Studio Mark's goals for next time Finish the streak app Livestream for 5 consecutive days Justin's goals for next time Run a CTR experiment on Slider (and do the dev to prepare for it) Video version here Comment at https://reactor.am/podcasts/36 On Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358 Recorded on 2020-11-04…
Justin has met another interesting character in the Roblox dev space. He's released about 100 games, has interned at Roblox itself and has over a million monthly players on his own games. He's been checking out Slider and giving Justin some advice—primarily to make the game less linear. Mark has also been inspired by a game dev on YouTube gotten some useful takeaways from him. His name is "The Cherno" and uses livestreams as a way to create graphics engine development screencasts for his audience. He records very long livestreams, gets what he wants to screencast figured out and then does them live in just a couple or usually in a single take! The quality of his screencasts dropped when he started doing this, but the recent ones are very good. Justin also went on Startups for the Rest of Us for an interview, Starlink has some very eyebrow-raising clauses in its TOS and the NTD is getting strong. Today's Topics include: Roblox dev Making non-linear games Recording screencasts during livestreams No code Self-driving cars Jurisdiction in space Mentioned Heyhi Replayhero Alchemist Camp The AI Podcast with Lex Fridman The Cherno Mark's goals for next time Record 4 screencasts Livestream or otherwise build in public every day Justin's goals for next time Work out the game mechanic changes for Slider Video version on YouTube Comment at https://reactor.am/podcasts/35 On Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358…
Justin was up until after 2am working on his Roblox game and implemented area locking so that players need various keys to access tracks. He's also been meeting some other developer dads. Mark got bogged down in planning out videos and coming up with ideas for drawings to support them. As a result, he's got a lot of plans but no videos :/ Friend of the show, Matteo had a successful product hunt launch for Heyhi! In other news, Apple has just announced a new iPhone with lots of cameras. Also, Sidecar has started requiring 2nd factor authentication on both the Mac and iPad sides before it works (even when the two are joined by a USB cable. Finally, US time zones are really, really strange. Do not handle them yourself unless handling them is "what you do". Today's Topics include: Roblox dev Roblox's margins and upcoming IPO Sidecar Roblox Mentioned Planet Milo - Roblox Channel Heyhi Roblox will IPO No Starch Press NIST Mark's goals for next time Record 4 screencasts Continue studying from the No Starch books Justin's goals for next time Create a locking mechanism for a "grand finale" round in Slider Get the orb challenges working. Video version at https://youtu.be/YYunEPknwgg Comment at https://reactor.am/podcasts/34 On Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358 Recorded on 2020-10-14…
Justin's been following the election news closely, and the president's covid case in particular. In contrast, the issue dominating Mark's social circle and former co-workers has been H1-B visa changes. In his opinion the effects of the new regulations raising the minimum salary will be fairly nuanced and minor. The minimum salary requirements are going up, but not to nearly the level they initially were (adjusted for inflation). The number of applications in the lottery will probably decrease total number won't change. Most importantly, and unfortunately, H1-B holder's residence permission will still be tied to their employer. tldr; small win for skilled applicants and the largest tech companies, and a huge loss for low-end outsourcers who were flooding the system. Using WASM feels like living in the future to Mark, but Roblox development feels nostalgic to Justin... because it's rapidly developing and booming. Having been around computers and the web as they've exploded over the past few decades, rapid change itself is nostalgic! Speaking of Roblox dev, Justin's never done this kind of of dev work before but has gone from zero to a playable and mostly "finished" graphical game. Of course with this kind of thing there's a lot of work to polish a game until it's profitable, but it's looking really good for such a new project. Justin says this is a counter-intuitive market where it's better for a bootstrapper to build the actual thing instead of selling picks and shovels. Sometimes the best language updates don't add much in terms of syntax or functionality. They just make things faster and improve the tooling. Today's Topics include: Presidential covid H1-B visa changes and who wins and loses Humble Bundle WASM Roblox Micropayments Mentioned H1-B discussion on HN Programming Web Assembly with Rust Shanda Heyhi Elixir 1.11 Mark's goals for next time Record 4 screencasts Do a full-day fast Justin's goals for next time Get Slider built to where levels are unlockable (with in-game keys) Resume the trampoline workouts Video version at https://youtu.be/tUYd6xTWLjU Comment at https://reactor.am/podcasts/33 On Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358 Recorded on 2020-10-07…
The weather has been fantastic in Taiwan as it always is around Halloween, but Mark's been really feeling the pressure to meet the requirements to renew his entrepreneur visa. He suspects that the easiest route will be to earn enough to hire three employees, or possibly to to set up a local company and spend a required amount. . Justin thinks the best bet to hit that goal is to work hard on his starter kit—Phoenix Igniter. Nugget's star pupil, Mateo, made his first sale on his project Heyhi! This is great news for Justin since he's been looking for the right case study. It could start with how he heard about Nugget, how he went through the lessons, started building experiments and finally profitable apps. Justin has basically boiled down the lessons from Nugget into a single sentence: "Hyper iterate on the product, talk to people and make what they need". Alex Hillman and Daniel Vassallo had an interesting debate on Indie Hackers about the value of an email audience vs a Twitter audience. We thought they both made a strong case, but leaned towards email for long-term safety if nothing else. Justin explained quite a bit more about how strange and interesting the Roblox dev environment is. Multiple devs and builders can all work on a game simultaneously and see the effects of each other's efforts in real time. It also wraps up client-server communication in a way that reminds Mark of 2013-era Meteor.js with Mini-mongo available in the browser's dev tools. The competition in Roblox dev is intense and it's fairly alien for a web dev, but Justin's got some big goals. Today's Topics include: Poor quality election debates Mark's visa renewal requirements Nugget's star Black Friday and Humble Bundle Roblox development Mentioned [Recursive Quality Factor] Julia Evan's Zines Heyhi Kutty Tailwind Components Render Twitter Audience vs Email Audience Phoenix Igniter Alchemist Camp Nugget Academy Mark's goals for next time Record 4 screencasts Awesome October Hold off on Phoenix Igniter Justin's goals for next time Keep working on the Roblox game Exercise 15 minutes a day Video version at https://youtu.be/TRNv3XsI0hs Comment at https://reactor.am/podcasts/32 On Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358 Recorded on 2020-09-30…
California is burning, and Justin's got cousins were in the evacuation zone. So, they, their kids and their pets are all staying with him and it's a crowded house for a bit. That affected Justin's plan to use the trampoline daily but he's made good progress on Slider. Mark got three premium screencasts and one free one published, did a bit of work on the Alchemist Camp site itself, and finally got some work done on Phoenix Igniter! He also survived a fairly persistent spammer attack. It's unclear what their goal was, but they created hundreds of accounts in a short periods of time. Many had odd usernames, such as URLs or a concatenation of obvious spam terms, but those names aren't visible to other users. Mark had to deal with it in real-time, harden the signup process enough to deter them and then do a bit of research to make sure the next bots have an even harder time. Mark loves the new iPad & pencil! It's completely replaced his Wacom tablet and he's been doing some drawing drills and even putting a few sketches into his YT videos. He's also gotten back into using it to generate ideas about different topics daily (see link to "Altucher Idea Muscle"). One thing that's come out of this is a lot of offerings he could add to Alchemist Camp. Nugget Bootcamp's stats have worked out to very round numbers. Out of 330 people who started, 30 finished. Of them, 3 bought. So it's about a 10% conversion from starting to finishing the mini-course and about 10% of those who finish buy the full course. The next step is to get feedback from successful students and add testimonials throughout the course. Today's Topics include: Fire Spammers iPads Idea generation Subscriptions vs One-off sales Freemium as marketing The content treadmill Successful Nuggeteers Mentioned California fires Invisible Capcha Procreate app Altucher Idea Muscle Alchemist Camp Nugget Academy Mark's goals for next time Get 5 screencasts recorded Justin's goals for next time Make a DB abstraction for the Roblox game (Slider) Video version at https://youtu.be/kuePKu5jwCc Comment at https://reactor.am/podcasts/31 Recorded on 2020-09-23…
Justin is energized with his conversation with the other Justin on Techzing earlier in the week. What it takes for an entrepreneur to succeed as an entrepreneur, even in a limited sense, is so situational and poly-causal. It's very difficult to make a consistent, timeless framework. Justin is looking for a way to boil it down to first principles, but Mark is skeptical about the return on effort for people learning from them. Mark's new microphone is here and so far the results have been good! He managed to do a decent length run completely fasted this week and is going to try to keep the diet in check and continue intermittent fasting. He got some work done on an easter egg in Alchemist Camp, but still hasn't gotten back to Igniter. The mic is making it easier to record screencasts efficiently though, since it blocks out most background noises. People are getting through the Nugget bootcamp, but very, very few are signing up for the paid course afterwards. It's difficult to tell if it's due to how they found and chose to sign up, but it's somewhat surprising that people finishing a free course would be less likely to sign up than those who were pitched straight from email. Gitlab's second reduction of CI/CD minutes is starting to bother Mark. The first reduction wasn't onerous at all, but now he's a bit concerned, especially for any projects written in Rust that have longer compile times. For now, it's okay, but even needing to worry about whether or not to delay a deployment is enough that he's starting to look for other options. We also discussed some of the historical hate JavaScript has gotten, its subsequent popularity and the limits of what makes sense for a someone working on a solo project. Today's Topics include: First principles Email conversions Deployment JavaScript Balancing proper vs quick engineering JavaScript Crowded markets Selling ideas Mentioned TechZing Ep. 333 Zero to One First Principles FireCI The Kingdom of Nouns Formidable Labs Alchemist Camp Nugget Academy Mark's goals for next time Record screencasts for both a free series on Ecto and a paid one on Absinthe Investigate a billing edge case for customers sign up multiple times Work on Phoenix Igniter Justin's goals for next time Exercise on the trampoline 5 days Keep building out the sever-side of the Roblox game Keep Tweeting about Nugget Video version at https://youtu.be/0r-TWq3EUnw Comment at https://reactor.am/podcasts/30 On Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358 Recorded on 2020-09-09…
Mark "went" to Microconf's first remote conference. There were a number of technical issues, but he was fantatically lucky in terms of who he met during the breaks. The very first person he talked to, Richard, lives in Pasadena and knows Justin! He also met someone running a large Elixir meetup and one of the founders of Elixir Drips, the OG screencast that started the niche Alchemist Camp currently occupies! Justin extended the launch of his bootcamp to his entire email list and is already seeing over 100 people going through the 7-day course. He's offering the premium version of the entrepreneur academy to people who complete it but none have bitten so far. The next step will be to share it on HN to get more people in the funnel and make A/B testing possible. In related news, Mark has realized that the median result of writing a blog post on Questing Log and submitting it to HN is hitting the front page and getting to #2. We talked a bit about post titles, submission times and user accounts. There was an interesting discussion between Alex Hillman and Justin Jackson on Twitter about how important it is or isn't for an entrepreneur to build an audience. Mark mentioned it, and as a result Justin jumped onto Twitter after the show and ended up recording an impromptu TechZing interview with Justin Jackson! We discussed podcasting mics in depth! Hat tip to Ben Orenstein and Pat Flynn for their suggestions and hopefully you'll be able to hear the difference soon! Probably not on Spotify though, at least not in a very listenable version... Today's Topics include: Microconf remote Successfully submitting to Hacker News How important audience is or isn't Amazon Podcasting mics Spotify for podcasters Experience points Interviewing Microphones Ben Orenstein's recommended mic: ATR2100 Justin's anti-recommended mic Mark's old mic: Yeti Nano Mark's new mic: Samson Q2U Mentioned Discussion on audience: Justin Jackson Discussion on audience: Alex Hillman TechZing Ep. 333 Questing Log Nugget Academy Mark's goals for next time Use the mic and record, record record! Follow up with the new Microconf connections Upgrade Phoenix Igniter to v1.5 (lower priority) Justin's goals for next time Focus primarily on making Slider (a Roblox game) Jump on the trampoline for 15 minutes a day No dairy for a week Add more people to the Nugget bootcamp funnel Video version at https://youtu.be/q6cs2BCah_c Comment at https://reactor.am/podcasts/29 On Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358 Recorded on 2020-09-02…
We've finally got intro music for our show! In classic Justin Vincent style, he chose one of the old songs from his Irish rock band days and added some new sounds to it. His son Jack, sang the high parts and his wife Georgie did the voice intro. The added sound effects came from Justin's game dev library. The soft launch of the Nugget Bootcamp has gone fairly well. Just over 6% of everyone who tried, it went through all seven modules. This is better than expected, given how most of the traffic came from unqualified leads on a Facebook group. Mark's done well on goals this past couple of weeks. He's (mostly) stuck to the diet and dropped another 2cm from the waist, and is at nearly $4k revenue for the month! Though Alchemist Camp's true MRR has grown, this month was particularly good due to a number of yearly signups and renewals. An interesting blog post came up that looked at the top 50 YC startups (by valuation) and what back-end languages they used initially. It was shockingly dominated by Ruby. 70% of the YC startups had a single initial primary back-end language. Those who primarily used Ruby represented 52% of the total valuation, those primarily using Python contributed 17% and no other language passed 3%. Some of the companies near the top of the list are relatively young, too. Justin is buying a trampoline. Today's Topics include: The origin of our intro music Mark's progress on diet & MRR Stats from the Nugget bootcamp Motivation Music albums Slider (Justin's Roblox game) Trampolines Mentioned You never forget your first dime YC's top 50 valuations + initial back-end languages Income School The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level The House of Air Nugget Academy Mark's goals for next time Keep on the IF plan Get two videos published on Alchemist Camp Upgrade Phoenix Igniter to v1.5 (lower priority) Justin's goals for next time Get 5 interviews done for Nugget Announce the Bootcamp to the 6k email list Bounce on the trampoline Video version at https://youtu.be/CEwiqEX19_I Comment at https://reactor.am/podcasts/28 On Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358 Recorded on 2020-08-26…
Mark's #1 goal of working on Phoenix Igniter has been elusive. Structured procrastination hasn't exactly been the plan , but he's been working on just about every other goal instead—recording videos for Alchemist Camp, writing blog posts and interview prep, and more. It turns out that being an "international candidate" means a surprise interview added before the onsite he thought he'd been accepted for. He's completed the extra interview but is uncertain about how well it went. Again, the algorithm side wasn't too challenging but he was a bit rusty with JS's standard library. Justin, despite an explicit goal not too, has gone even deeper into the world of Roblox game development. He's now learned how to create jump pads that players can bounce onto and off of. The game's physics engine is unrealistic in a few ways for playability reasons, but that makes it a bit more complex to create things players can bounce on. Great news! People are starting to create accounts and comment on previous episodes at Reactor.am ! So far, most of them know one of us. One of them, Mark's German friend from his digital nomad days, is even competing with Justin in a very indirect way in the task management / productivity space. Today's Topics include: Interview prep Roblox physics How blood glucose monitors work The importance of commenters in motivating podcasters, bloggers or video creators Indirect competition in a huge market Old Techzing guests became billionaires Our intro music The Matthew Effect The joy and peril of listening to yourself at 2x Procrastination Mentioned AlvinBlox on YT How to stop procrastinating using the Fogg Behavior Model The Willpower Instinct Nugget Academy Phoenix Igniter Mark's goals for next time Pay attention to what he's thinking and feeling when he tries to work on Igniter Start pro series on Absinthe GraphQL 1 hour per day on studying Justin's goals for next time Get Nugget Bootcamp live and ready for testing Give Mark mailer creds for Reactor.am Get a prototype version of a scoring system for Roblox Video version at https://youtu.be/Ijh-J--L1n0 Comment at https://reactor.am/podcasts/26 Recorded on 2020-08-12…
Mark's Absinthe GraphQL tutorial series is started and people are retweeting it! Justin has LAUNCHED the bootcamp! Mark's new blog post is at #2 on HN! Things are moving! Justin's been looking at how Nugget users go through the educational content, and how many continue from each step to the next. He's been getting positive feedback, but it's always a challenge to optimize a lesson and decrease dropoff at each step. Microconf is going to be remote this year, which means Mark will actually be able to attend it finally! Today's Topics include: Soft-launching Nugget Bootcamp Blog posts on HN Watching users go through educational content Credibility and case studies Adam Wathan's weight loss Intermittent fasting Slider (Justin's Roblox game) Mark's dislike of buying videos Mentioned My best SEO tactic so far (on HN) Laravel Spark Jumpstart Rails Adam Wathan's weight loss Octalysis Gamification Framework Nugget Academy Phoenix Igniter Microconf Remote Mark's goals for next time 3 days of fasting 2 videos for Alchemist Camp 1 commit to Phoenix Igniter Justin's goals for next time "Possibly" get testimonial videos for Nugget Do a Nugget Mastermind 1 day of fasting Video version at https://youtu.be/unIQKk-nKGM Comment at https://reactor.am/podcasts/27 Recorded on 2020-08-12…
Show 25: Too many jobs Justin's been doing a lot of performance work at the day job. He's been doing some strategic caching and optimizing of queries and has managed to drain a job queue from over 42,000 items, down to about 10. The problem may not be fully solved, though. Mark failed to hit his primary goal, but he did a bunch of other stuff, including Manning's Rust in Motion which was an explicit goal not to get too sucked into. He also had quite the HN adventure, submitting a post that quickly got to #2 and then flagged off of the site. After a few revisions to make it a bit more personal and re-posting it, it went up to #2 again and did much better the second time. Also, the Facebook interview went well and they've invited him to a "virtual onsite" interview. A fairly successful indie hacker who runs a site called Semicolon and Sons strongly recommended Rob Walling's book, Start Small, Stay Small to Mark, and its lessons on out-sourcing in particular. Mark never read it, but did see a lot of similar advice in 4HWW around the same time and Justin's had a great experience with outsourcing work on his upcoming Roblox game. If you're coding everything on the back-end for it anyway, is it better just do all life-cycle emails from a transactional email service? Justin's considering moving all of Nugget's marketing off of Drip and just using Mailgun for everything. Speaking of email software, Noah Kagan has been promoting a new service called Send Fox. It may be worth keeping an eye on, given his success with his SumoMe suite of list-building tools. Mentioned Web apps aren't tech. They're "tech" John Carmack's BAFTA speech Semicolon and Sons Start Small, Stay Small Nugget Academy Alchemist Camp Justin's goals for next time Work on Nugget Eat 90% vegan Keep blood sugar in check Mark's goals for next time Work on Phoenix Igniter (double dog for reals this time) Blog Publish the already recorded screencasts Video version at https://youtu.be/6GUXIgFd_4M Comment at https://reactor.am/podcasts/25 Recorded on 2020-08-05…

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Justin is keen to hear about how Mark's technical interview at Facebook went yesterday. In a lot of ways it was less stressful than he'd expected based on his previous experiences. It seemed to have gone but they haven't given any feedback yet. There are still more steps in the process and he'll also have to find out if their remote policy is global or if he'd be required to leave his pandemic free residence in Taiwan and head back to the US. Justin shrugged off his primary goal of working on his Nugget business and instead has gone even deeper into the world of Roblox. The development of his new game is well under way, and his 6 year-old is giving feedback. Interestingly, when he plays Roblox, his in-game communication is all with speech to text tools. Nugget is still slowly moving along though. One of the members Justin has been helping settled on a new product, had a successful launch on HN and is now revenue positive! Mark got some interesting feedback from an Elixir learner on Alchemist Camp—"Don't give so much away for free!". This question around how best to do a freemium service is a tough one. Making more premium tutorials leads to more users choosing to pay, but the more tutorials are free, the faster the total audience grows. Justin's advice was simple—create a super premium tier for businesses and price it at $99/month. Mentioned AlvinBlox on YT Tiny Pilot on HN Daniel Vassallo on Twitter Nugget Academy Alchemist Camp Justin's goals for next time Work on Nugget login pathways Intermittent fasting (no food past 3pm) Mark's goals for next time Work on Phoenix Igniter Work on top of the funnel for Alchemist Camp Don't get too sucked into the Rust in Motion course Video version at https://youtu.be/OSOXl72iiH4 Comment at https://reactor.am/podcasts/24 Recorded on 2020-07-29…
Justin's at grandma's house this weekend, enjoying a spacious backyard with a barbecue grill, but despite his hopes, it's not nearly big enough to grow enough maple trees for a steady syrup supply. Nonetheless summer is here and the yard is a nice change from LA lock-down. Mark's been doing a little bit of algorithm study for interview prep. Justin's not a fan of that kind of interview since it's so far away from what kinds of work people do on the job. Mark agrees, but seen it useful at one old job which was flooded with applicants who couldn't fizzbuzz. Not by modulo, not by nested loops and not by a big while loop with multiple counters! Please go to Reactor.am and leave comments on the episodes if you feel so inclined! How much has YC changed? One former founder on twitter feels they've lost their soul. He loved the tight network and personal attention from people like PG and Jessica Livingston. Now, the batches are huge and attracting a different sort of person (see link below). We know nothing about YC internally, but it reminds Mark of what he saw happen at his old coding school. When he was a student, the founders were putting everything they had into making sure he and his classmates succeeded. Later batches were larger, students were more risk adverse and more credentialed. Justin's come up with a name for his Roblox game and is now putting together sound effects and music for it. He's got an outline for the game map done and is now starting to work on getting the polish on the center part of it up to a release-quality level. Mark's been thinking about different kinds of content he can make for Alchemist Camp to help the top of the funnel. The full-on screencasts are what people pay for. However he could write four technical tutorials in the time it takes to make a single screencast. Non-technical writing is even faster and more easily shared, but also less valued. What's the idea balance? Mentioned Fizzbuzz The Only Reason My App Worked Was Due to a Slow Database We can't send email more than 500 miles Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective Questing Log Nugget Academy Alchemist Camp Justin's goals for next time Focus on the Roblox game Work on Nugget login pathways Mark's goals for next time 2 screencasts Algo prep Five UI components for Phoenix Igniter Video version at https://youtu.be/3Y6YfZFV_Qw Comment at https://reactor.am/podcasts/23 On Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358 Recorded on 2020-07-22…
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