Opinionated Stance | Technology, Business, Life Podcast | Hosted By Patrick Farrar

In Episode 17, we had the extreme pleasure of speaking with Josh Holat about his experiences as the CTO of StageBloc. We talk about how he and the StageBloc team built their software company by bootstrapping, growing in the company and going through the acquisition phase of the company. Josh talks about things that are great to consider while bootstrapping and things to avoid.

We had a great talk with Marty Meinerz about his approach to the creative process as a music composer and producer. Marty offers some great insights into what it looks like building and sustaining a career composing music professionally.

His work can be found on SoundCloud => https://soundcloud.com/meinerzm

https://www.instagram.com/meinerzm/

https://twitter.com/MeinerzM

Contact - https://www.martinmeinerz.com/

A quick look into how using tools to improve processes in development is not a bad thing.

Paul Graham's essay Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule Is a great read about different types of schedule that people in an organization may have. The essay is still relevant today as it was when it was first published it.

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

It is always good to refresh ourselves on these topics.

In Episode 6 - Discovering Passion and Turning It Into Action, we explore what it means to find passion in life and how to turn that passion into action. My discussion with Nirav Amin (@ndamin) explores the ways and paths that we took to discover our true passions in life and what we do daily to keep living those dreams in action. We investigate some of the paths that we went down that may have been detrimental to experiencing full joy in our personal and professional lives.

We also highlights the topic of community and how developing a strong community will always help through difficult times. Nirav highlights some great efforts made by people in the Chicago startup community and other startup communities around the country who have turned passion into action.

We also talk about how to get involved in a local community. Inaction is the main excuse from joining a community and beginning to live a passion filled life.

It is also so fitting that Gary Vaynerchuk talks about a very similar topic in his DAILYVEE show.

Thank you again for listening and supporting the show. If you have any follow up questions feel free to reach out and we will do our best to help and connect.

Nirav Amin
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Patrick Farrar
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