TechZing

Justin and Jason discuss why Jason isn't planning to use Twitter as a marketing channel, personalized learning and the future of education, how and why the SAT and ACT are useful for college admissions despite their flaws, the orthogonal nature of student aptitude vs. consciousness, semantic tagging and the difficulty of categorizing text, reasons behind the sudden rise in UFO coverage in the medi...

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's two-week kidney stone ordeal, why Jason thinks Twitter is probably more distraction than it's worth, the 6 levels of automated learning systems, how Justin and  Joe  plan to fund Morning Brief with a custom Kickstarter-like campaign, Brandon Sanderson's  lectures  on writing fantasy and science fiction, Superhuman's  methodology...

Justin and Jason discuss the radically accelerated computer-science course sequence that Jason created for his Math Academy students, why PHP is like the C of the web, the character Scotty Jackson is creating for Morning Brief, Justin's foray into crypto trading, thoughts on the future of NFT's, the story of how Jason was finally able to buy the domain mathacademy.com and why the .com TLD still ru...

Justin and Justin discuss how and why Jason is reviving his long-abandoned blog and Twitter account and how he's planning on building an audience for the launch of Math Academy, the First1000 newsletter, and some of the strategies utilized by the companies that have been profiled, the PDF Zero to Users , whether deferred tuition offered at boot camps like Lambda School is a good idea and the upsid...

Justin and Jason talk about their return after a 9-month hiatus, getting vaccinated and getting back into shape, Chris Schwarz's novel The Cache and the character inspired by Jason's son Colby, the origin and surprising spread of the luck surface area, why Justin has stopped working on TaskFlow, is saying goodbye to Nugget and his new foray into developing Roblox Games, how Jason's daughter is gro...

Justin talks with Adam Wathan creator of Tailwind CSS about distribution, the journey from 0 to $2m, and startup lessons learned playing in death metal bands.

Justin talks with Justin Jackson co-founder of transistor.fm about the importance of catching a good market wave. Also Mentioned: Justin Vincent's Indie Founder Bootcamp

Justin and Jason discuss their likely demise due to the pandemic, the advanced computer science course that Jason is implementing, the latest on Justin's startup course and the importance of taking action, the latest on Math Academy, and how Justin corned the carrot market in Roblox.

Justin and Jason discuss how Jason shorted the COVID-19 crash, the winners and losers of the new normal and what the post-pandemic future may look like, how the shutdown has affected the Math Academy program and the latest with the software, the progress on TaskFlow and the what's new with Nugget, the TV show Devs and Barry , and how closely the show Stranger Things mapped to Jason's childhood, Gr...

Justin and Jason discuss the novel coronavirus, how Justin is adapting to his new mountain lifestyle, Jason's crazy, high-risk portfolio, the latest on Math Academy, the challenge and importance of writing simple code, Justin's continuous glucose monitor, Grimes and her evil AI pun , Justin's strategy for creating three things that help each other, and his idea for a productivity app.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's impending move to the mountains and what life will be like living there, how Justin is throwing off his mental chains, why you should take advice from successful people with a grain of salt, the importance of taking time off, working with the  Web Audio API , the  messy development process  of the original iPhone, the  General Magic   docu...

Justin and Jason discuss the  Cybertruck debacle , why Justin is moving to a mountain hideaway, Jason's plans for taking the Math Academy software to the next level, the importance of engaging in R&D even if most of what's developed is thrown away, the  Avie Tevanian Oral History , the brilliance of  John von Neumann  and the potential of the human race, the  Legi...

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's struggle with juggling multiple projects, the latest on the crypto project, Justin's predictions for his son Jack and a hard lesson for Jason's son Colby, Justin's new plans for  Speak , Justin's obsession with  Occulus Quest  and why he loves the  Impossible Burger , an update on Operation Superhero, and the latest with Math Academy. 

Justin and Jason discuss  Speak  and Justin's thoughts on how to market it, why entrepreneurship isn't for most people, the latest on Jason's crypto-trading project and Math Academy, the motivations for mathematical proofs and why mathematician's do what they do, and the  mythology of the 10X engineer .

Justin and Jason discuss filmmaking with an iPhone and the power of the Filmic Pro app, the latest with Justin's secret business widget, the Bob Lazar documentary on Netflix and his interview with Joe Rogan , Justin's love of The Orville and other streaming recommendations, the summer math course Jason is teaching and how he's tutoring his niece in calculus, the content and algorithms being develo...

Justin and Jason discuss Peldi's success with  Balsamiq , the site  Indie Hackers , the book  Crossing the Chasm , Justin's launch strategy for his secret project, how Justin got help with his "maths", the advantage of growing slowly and focusing on developing a product that your users love, the summer Math Academy course that Jason is teaching on  proofs  and&nb...

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's elbow surgery, Justin's secret project, the deal he made with his wife, why he's patenting the technology, and how he ended up building it himself, Gabriel Weinberg's new book, a postmortem on SOLVE 2019, the growth of MV Code Club, the movie The Founder , and Jason's automated-trading project.

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's new puppy, when "quick and dirty" works and when it doesn't, the latest with Math Academy, the transition from a subject-based to a course-based approach to content development, how Jason works with his remote developer, "The Math Academy Way", fun and profit with 3D printing, Jason's frustrations with trying to capture real-time crypto data, ho...

Justin and Jason discuss Sean Murphy's  extension  to the Luck Surface Area, Gabriel Weinberg's  mental models ,  Uber’s impending IPO , how Jason is adopting a dog, the book Justin is writing called Founder First, the endemic nature of overengineering, the latest with the Math Academy program and software, why Jason is dabbling with cryptocurrency HFT, Game of T...

Justin and Jason discuss how injuries have derailed Operation Superhero and Jason's strategy for moving forward with the Math Academy online system. 

Justin talks with Bryan Helmig (CTO and co-founder of Zapier) about Zapier's genesis and how they won their first 10 customers.

Jason talks to NASA Research Scientist Laura Kerber.

Justin and Jason discuss the introduction of rolling batches in Nugget, signs that your startup project is about to fail, the book Blondie 24, Playing at the Edge of AI , how John Humphrey generously acquired MathAcademy.net for Jason, the impending arrival of Joe Stech's book Compelling Science Fiction , the importance of having a MacGuffin in your life, the benefits of working on a project, why...

Justin and Jason discuss the prerequisite viewer that Jason's building for Math Academy, Rob Walling's Tiny Seed , Chamath Palihapitiya's advice to grow slow and to grow real , why Jason's latest hire on Upwork didn't work out, Justin's Nugget webinar and why he's no longer going to employ squeeze marketing, how Jason is back writing code again and loving it, Math Academy's high-school curriculum...

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's tendency to argue with himself about code, the strategy board game that Jason and Colby are building together, the JS 13K Game challenge , Jason's advice on how to find inexpensive talent on Upwork and how Justin might include these ideas on Nugget, how parents think about after-school coding programs, the Hacker News post asking startup employees how much they ma...