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What Advice Do You Have For Aspiring Podcasters?

Be prepared to spend as much time on your advertisers as you do on the podcast itself. Finding advertisers, writing ad copy, explaining your audience and your metrics, and creating custom content for the advertisers, all of that will put huge demand on your time.


What Are Some Cognitive Distortions Of Anger?

It’s also known as an irrational belief. Angry people tend to put blame where it doesn’t belong, such as inanimate objects. They also tend to overgeneralize and use words like always, never, and every. People will also put their own needs ahead of others.


What Is Pennycooke Is Doing Differently As She Starts Up Her Company Again?

At the first launch, she was targeting the executive individually. Now, she finds it better offered as an outplacement package. Her target clients are now the corporate placement managers.


What Problems Are Being Solved By Growing Fish?

Selden started this concept because he has always been considerate of animal welfare, and fish are what we kill in massive numbers. Fishing is an environmental and ecological disaster because it’s destroying ocean ecosystems and food chains.


Why Are Children Such Good Models For Artificial Intelligence?

Babies and young children are born with a lot of ideas of how the world works. Children are also actually doing the most learning; a child's brain is going to be better at learning than an adult's brain.


Why Are Cold In Person Meetings Better?

Jeremy states that you still have the same reactions as you would from cold calling, but minus the yelling part since you’re in a public setting. You will have a higher chance of someone willing to talk to you in person.


Why Was Y Combinator Successful At Funding An Unusually Large Number Of Startups?

Y Combinator standardized a traditionally slow and tedious process by applying batch processing and technology.

While a traditional venture firm was able to invest in ~2 companies per year, per partner, Y Combinator was able to fund dozens of companies, twice a year.


What Make For A Great Designer?

Design is a multi-faceted field with many niche aspects and no common language to describe them all. Being able to focus on your own proficiencies is the key to doing great work that makes you happy.

The best way to understand what would make you happy is to try it all. Some might prefer to stay as individual contributors, some would move into management..etc. To each their own, and that's okay.


What Is Venture Capital?

Venture Capital is a form of money where people give you something, and you don't have to give them anything back! ~@bryce


How Do You Make Private School Affordable?

Childcare is exhausting and to better as a society, we need to enable everyone to access great education, even if they cannot afford it.

Dexter Learning is a self-paced school out of Texas that aiming to get private school education affordable enough to the top-70% of people.


What Does Jason Do With His Family In Lockdown?

Jason and family are big on Montessori and Reggio activities, tools and techniques which center around the child. Anything the child can do, let them do it.

His 3 year olds cut food, while the 10 year old bakes their dinner. They know how to do it, and it's really rewarding to see your kids take care of themselves independently.


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