Justin's brain

A lot of people have been messaging me after seeing wildfire footage on the news — so here's an update. There are three fires burning west of us here in the Okanagan Valley, and the lakes are acting as a wall between...

<p>Hey friends, wanted to give you an update on what we're building over at Transistor.fm. The big thing I'm really excited about is video podcasting.</p><p>Transistor customers will soon be able to publish video...

<p>AI coding tools like Claude Code are blurring roles on software teams. As Marc Andreessen said on Lenny's podcast: " There's a Mexican standoff happening between those three roles: product manager, designer, and...

<p>I prototyped a full video podcasting app in a couple of days using Claude Code, and it's completely changed how I think about building new features for Transistor (the podcast hosting product I co-founded).</p><p>🔥...

<p>My friend Adam Wathan has a new podcast called Adam's Morning Walk, and in the last episode he talked about how he's thinking about building with AI:</p>How can someone sit in front of a text area and explain what...

<p>Successful startups don't create demand. They position themselves in the path of existing demand. </p><p>In a good market, customers provide their own motivation. </p><p>Your job isn't to create customer motivation...

<p>There's a strange relationship between the effort you put into something and the outcome you get out of it.</p><p>You could invest thousands of hours in a project, only to get a tepid response to what you've...

<p>"I used to be more skeptical than I am now. Especially when everyone was talking about 'one-shotting' and 'vibe coding.' But then I forced myself to download Cursor and build an entire project without typing any...

<p> My friend Jeremy Enns and I recently had this conversation about a quote by Thelonious Monk:</p>"A genius is the one most like himself."<p><br>We explored this idea about what it means to find your zone of genius...

<p>I think a lot of folks assume that people who create content (YouTube videos, podcasts, screencasts, public speaking) are mostly extroverted.</p><p>But this conversation I recently had with Aaron Francis, Marie...

<p>In the pursuit of "making podcasts more discoverable," the podcast industry has welcomed YouTube with open arms. But is the industry misdiagnosing YouTube's role? YouTube isn't just "getting into podcasting" - it's a...

<p>The advent of AI coding assistance has introduced a wave of dread in the software development industry, exemplified by Chris Sacca's stark prediction that "we are super screwed" when it comes to traditional coding...

<p>I wrote a blog post, that ended up Hacker News, called: "What's happening with founders over 40?" I got a lot of comments and reactions to the piece, so I thought I'd respond to those here.</p><p><br>Key...

<p>I have an entrepreneurial drive to start many projects.</p><p>A formula from my therapist about stress management.</p><p>How I use Claude AI to evaluate my life choices.</p><p>Key moments:<br>0:00 - Introduction &...

<p>tl;dr – I've decided to delete all my Twitter posts, lock down my account, and leave the platform. And I'm going all-in on Bluesky, which (in the last month) has become 1,000x more fun than X.</p><p>Links:</p>Why I'm...