Thoughtcrime

Introducing the final episode of the podcast; the U.S election results (just barely) announced; submitting my brand new product for approval; recapping some learnings and reflections on my first year after starting my business; signing off for the last time

Being allowed outside of our homes for the first time in months; some final thoughts on the COVID response; updates from my new product development this week; business plans for the rest of the year; betting on the 2020 U.S election

Our COVID lockdown is delayed (again); finishing all my documentation; starting development on a brand new product; watching the final U.S presidential debate; some thoughts on people's pathological hatred towards the president

Thoughts about the future of the podcast; what I've been working on this week; starting to map out my next product; negotiating an enterprise deal; the anti-technology response to COVID; reflecting on staying motivated and improving over the last 7 months under lockdown

Adjusting to daylight savings time; continuing with the documentation project; dealing with my product being taken offline by a bug; detailing the product updates from the week; talking about "The Great Barrington Declaration"; yet another long update on the global and local COVID-19 situation

Recapping all of the product updates I've made this week; some updates from doing customer support last weekend; getting better at viewing my products as a work in progress; some more rambling thoughts about the COVID response

An experimental early morning episode with live commentary while I'm bug fixing; feeling a bit overwhelmed with a bunch of support requests in one day; trying to keep positive perspective on my the progress and quality of my products; talking through some product updates that I've made this week; some predictions on the new COVID lockdown announcements here later today; what I've been watching and listening to this week

Recapping my chat with another design tool founder; some costs of the lockdowns starting to hit home; attempting to remember everything that I worked on during the week; thoughts on building a documentation site; thoughts on not trying to be "professional" as you grow; customer feedback on pricing; mood swings and music

Brief recap of the first week under (yet another) COVID lockdown extension; talking to customers and shipping new features; detailing all the new product features and improvements from this week; what I've been reading, watching and listening to

Feeling better about my products and customer service; describing all the product improvement updates I shipped this week; providing extreme service and shipping features for customers; feeling satisfied with how everything is going; 2 hour update with my thoughts on the COVID-19 situation down here (the lockdown capital of the world)

My brand new product gets approved; thoughts on dealing with feedback; shifting my focus from new products to improving existing products; hitting a monthly revenue milestone for August; the low odds of success as a solo bootstrapped founder; some thoughts on addressing critics and being "the man in the arena"; another long COVID-19 update

Using a paper notebook instead of Notion; getting the first subscribers for my new plugin; hitting new total revenue milestones; definite optimism after seeing things working; my thoughts on regulation, the Google open letter, network effects and monopolies; COVID-19 investigative reports; following up on the madness in the U.S; designing, building and submitting my next brand new product for approval; another long rant about the UX bubble, distractions, fake growth and stagnation in the industry

Shipping updates to my previous products; marketing my new product; having some post-launch blues; choosing to work on the right things and my ultra-productive Saturday; starting to work on a new product; brief updates on revenue; some COVID-19 updates and thoughts; what I've been watching and listening to this week; closing out with some initial thoughts on the future of this show

Entering an even tighter COVID-19 lockdown (for a further 6 weeks); hitting 150 customers; my new product is approved; starting up marketing efforts; what I've been watching this week

An unbroken new subscription streak; feeling more positive this week; reaching 20,000 active installs; pausing affiliate program applications; submitting my brand new product for approval; early progress with machine learning and design; some COVID-19 updates, thoughts and predictions; what I've been watching lately

In-depth analysis of deciding to purchase a desk; dealing with some low-level anxiety; experimenting with pricing; establishing a night time routine; latest development product progress and updates; what I've been watching and listening to

First week of the second lockdown; getting featured in 2 newsletters; biggest single day (and week) of sales; switching pricing over to USD; new product development updates; what I've been reading and watching this week; why I deleted my Medium account

Back in lockdown for another 6 weeks; shipping a bunch of product updates; catching up on some marketing; unsubscribing from a bunch of newsletters and podcasts; "The Red Guards" mobilising in the United States; finally watching the "Contagion" movie; having a libertarian perspective while seeing the failure of big governments during the pandemic

Getting some positive feedback; shipping a bunch of updates this week; solo workflow vs company workflows; new crazy enforced speech initiatives in the development space; why this "progress" has no end and will only get worse; my lockdown predictions from last week come true; why the lockdowns don't make sense

Some COVID-19 lockdown updates (spoiler alert: back to square one); breaking one of my own products for a week without realising; beating myself up for a few days; the self-talk I've used to gain back some perspective; getting paid after a 3 week delay; updates on my new product progress; some plans for development work this week

Special episode marking 6 months (to the day) of being in business; brief updates the new lockdown rules here; going through all my "fear setting" notes written a 1 year ago in my personal notebook; going through all my living expenses from last year compared to now; calculating my revenue from the last 6 months; calculating my current monthly recurring revenues; progress updates on my new product and my plans for the next week; music that I've been enjoying this week

Getting back in the right headspace after the funeral; committing another ~90 minutes of thoughtcrime to try and make some sense of what's going on in the world right now; giving some usual business updates (starting at 1 hour 24 minutes); shipping some new features; announcing my brand new product that I've started developing; what I've been reading, watching and listening to

Recording the day after my grandfather's funeral; giving some usual business updates; thoughts on price and value; sharing the one mistake from the week; trying to figure out if I'm inside The Matrix for the remaining 90 minutes of the show

My new product gaining traction; talking to customers and making updates to my products; working on my first enterprise deal; my grandfather passing away during the week; creating legal documents; making some more updates to my website; what I'm reading and listening to; why I'm fortunate to actually like my customers

New product is approved; getting my first sale on the first day; shipping new features and talking to customers; doing a bunch of marketing activities; hitting 10,000 total installs; product development plans for the next couple of weeks; reflecting on failure; thinking about the age where creativity peaks; thinking about my own death; saving nothing for the swim back; books and music for the week

Reviewing my brand new finished product; updates on subscription numbers; some surprise Product Hunt votes; setting up a proper email address; reading out my 2 lists of "mistakes made" and "things that work"; creative nods to South Park and David Choe; thoughts on my current happy mood; latest books I've been reading; business plans for the next week

Spending 2016's Mother's Day in Japan; giving progress updates on my brand new product; some thoughts and stories on the lack of innovation and complex processes inside teams; making some website copy optimisations; watching a documentary about socialists; algorithmic echo chambers online; seeing conversations going back to pre-COVID; what I've been reading this week

Product development and marketing updates; subscriber and revenue updates; describing the idea process and details for my next new product; reading a new article that I wrote this week; only writing things that become more true over time; what I've been reading and watching this week

Resetting back to normal after last Monday; shipping new product features; marketing my new plugin; updates on numbers and stats; COVID tracking app; inside the hyperbolic time chamber; updates on books, movies and music I'm into; sharing my initial thoughts about how we are likely in a UX bubble

Reading out Marc Andreessen's entire new essay; Figma's new $2 billion valuation and getting a like from the CEO on Twitter; talking through all my product updates from the week; dealing with putting too much expectation on myself; planning out the next week of marketing and product development; talking to customers and getting new subscriptions; what I've been watching this week

Brief quarantine thoughts; product development updates from the week; great experiences with customers and new subscribers this week; adding synthwave to my music rotation; reflecting on the importance of routine; the compound effect of working on the right things; considering the counter-factual of waiting an extra 3 months to quit my job; avoiding groupthink and "thought leaders"; updates on what I've been watching to and reading

Recapping my most recent "remote meetup" talk experience last week; lots of product development updates to report on; doubling down on my existing products; new subscribers and current revenue update; having a cyberpunk themed week of music and shows, catching up on reading books and podcasts at home; quick motivation/mood status to close out this shorter episode.

Updates on forced isolation in the state; recapping all of my progress for the week; getting my brand new product submitted for approval; my usual check-in and giving some updates on books I'm reading; doing a full audio run-through of a new talk that I'll be presenting live online in 48 hours from now

Bouncing back after fully recovering from being sick; working from home during state "lockdown" for COVID-19; staying Libertarian during a pandemic; getting 6 new subscribers last week; still waiting on approval for my 4th product; making great progress on my 5th product; recapping books, music, podcasts, and shows I've been watching; some thoughts on being productive during isolation; building a startup during a recession

Being frustrated about getting sick and trying to recover; on-the-ground coverage of the COVID-19; observing the madness of crowds; starting work on my 5th product; recapping a very quiet week on all other fronts

Getting another new customer; doing a bunch of customer support and live chats; bug fixes for other customers; finishing a freelance project; finishing and submitting my 4th product for review (and building another new small one); finishing the marketing website and assets to prep for my 4th plugin launch; yet another long rant about the madness of the widely accepted design/development workflows; building and deploying a bunch of new updates to my website; my computer reporting a 34% increase of screen time this week; talking about my current positive and fulfilled mood; what I've been reading, listening to and watching.

Sending more cold emails and meeting with agencies; doing more customer-driven product development; slowly getting more paying subscribers; small update on my own runway; trying out consulting; getting featured in a design article; weekly update on my general mood; looking back at all my "failed" side projects from the last decade; recapping some music and movies from the week

Recap of my recent marketing efforts; taking the day off on Wednesday; sending out 35 cold emails offering to pay people to meet me; going off-grid for the weekend; starting development on a brand new product (despite saying I wouldn't); competing against luck; mental state for the week and beyond; usual weekly entertainment updates

Getting my third product approved; talking to customers; starting some more marketing efforts; getting my first annual pre-pay subscription sale; starting product development on my fourth product; starting to go a bit Howard Hughes; why I didn't read any books this week

Giving a surprise lightning talk; adding 2 more paying subscribers; adding brand new product features; submitting my 3rd product for approval; usual updates on books, movies and music from the week

Updates on my plugin marketing and development; picking up a freelance job; sharing my 30th birthday with Ayn Rand on Groundhog Day while watching The Matrix; talking about how much I hated school when growing up; last decade vs next decade; books and music updates

Recap of the first week after plugins were approved; executing some marketing activities; talking to users and quickly iterating on product; making my very first sale!

My first 2 plugins are finally approved; solving tricky problems by taking a step back; karaoke in the afternoon; South Park, Japan, Dr. Dre and 007; shipping fast to bypass self-doubt; latest books I've read and albums I've listened to

Still in approval limbo; breaking down my daily routine; reflecting on my ultra-productive and fulfilling week; the "Rakim" autobiography book; some albums I've been listening to while working

My plugins were reviewed and not approved; refactoring and resubmitting my plugins; working 16 hours straight on Monday; GTD (Getting Things Done) with Notion; installing new Chrome extensions for productivity gains; only listening to music albums I haven't heard before

Recording on New Years Eve (Eve); Stuck in approval limbo; How I cut expenses to increase my runway; Sharing a selection of the 80 books that I read this year

Deploying my new site; submitting my first products; the final day at my agency (and agency life); reflecting back on a decade of working in agencies.

Migrating everything to Gumroad; why I missed my self-imposed submission deadline; 4 days of agency life left; reading the copy I wrote for my "about" page; touching on the propaganda of "rapid technological progress"; is doing everything myself too much?

Why I'm happy that I released "The Diversity Distraction" episode; hearing about design teams in the big tech companies and giving "The Mom Test" at the meetup Xmas Party; my new doppelgänger from California who also just quit his job to do something similar; why I'm not adopting the free or freemium model for my products; why I stopped building my own subscription infrastructure; 8 working days until I leave agency life behind.

Updates on my progress with product development and redesigning everything due to licensing issues; reviewing the new Australian legislation to make gender equity targets mandatory in the public sector; why bootcamps probably aren't the right answer; how people's expectations for what to expect in our industry has become skewed; my experience with trying to hire great people; why diversity and inclusion is not an honest agenda; the danger of groupthink and self-censorship; why the diversity project is distracting us from the underlying stagnation, zero innovation and abysmal economic growth in Australia.

Recapping some of my thoughts on design/development from 2018; thoughts on the widely accepted "gap" between design and development; how we might start reducing the distance of that gap to be closer to zero; why "responsive web design" shouldn't be a term anymore; why we aren't moving fast enough and still clinging onto Photoshop era workflows from the past; deciding to start a software company to build brand new design automation tooling.