Start Making Something (Season 2)

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11/09/21 • 23 min

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This week Jason and David discuss the essay titled "Start Making Something." It's only when you start building something the real insights come. Until then, all you have is just an idea. We also talk about Stanley Kubrick films and Jason introduces groundbreaking concepts like perforated pizza and "The Mysterious Cat."

Show Notes

06:04 - Getting Real
17:22 - Collections
20:44 - Stanley Kubrick (IMDb)
20:57 - 2001: A Space Odyssey (IMDb)
21:10 - Music Box Theater
22:10 - The Shining (IMDb)
22:24 - The reason why Stephen King hated Stanley Kubrick film 'The Shining' (Far Out)

Show Notes

06:04 - Getting Real
17:22 - Collections
20:44 - Stanley Kubrick (IMDb)
20:57 - 2001: A Space Odyssey (IMDb)
21:10 - Music Box Theater
22:10 - The Shining (IMDb)
22:24 - The reason why Stephen King hated Stanley Kubrick film 'The Shining' (Far Out)

Previous Episode

Scratch Your Own Itch

Basecamp was originally designed as a way to manage 37signals' client work and its success can be credited to the fact that it was designed to scratch a very specific itch by the people with that were itching. Now, we're not saying that building something for others is necessarily a bad way to go about things, but building for your own needs has huge advantages.

Show Notes

06:15 - "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products." - Steve Jobs in Triumph of the Nerds (PBS)
12:53 - Hotwire
13:57 - Not invented here (Wikipedia)
14:26 - Mary Kay Ash (Wikipedia)
18:12 - Second-system effect (Wikipedia)
21:35 - Minimum viable product (Wikipedia)
21:42 - Making sense of MVP - Henrik Kniberg
23:55 - The Homer (Simpsons Wiki)

Next Episode

No Time is No Excuse

"There're just not enough hours in the day!" This is probably the most common excuse people give for not starting something. Well, guess what. There most definitely are a few hours you could probably squeeze in here and there. And, we're not saying you have to quit your day job to do it!

Show Notes

02:10 - Fortnite
02:21 - Tetris Effect
07:57 - Set Boundaries (Shape Up)
09:37 - Jerry Maguire "Who's Coming With Me?" (YouTube)
15:13 - How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation - Anne Helen Peterson (BuzzFeed News)
19:40 - Gary Vaynerchuk
23:43 - Stripe

REWORK - Start Making Something (Season 2)

Transcript

David: [00:00:00] Let's roll we're on a tight, we're on a tight things. Let's hit it.
Jason: [00:00:05] This episode is called Meetings Fucking Suck. Let's do it.
[00:00:08] Broken By Design by Clipart plays.
Shaun: [00:00:10] Welcome to Rework, a podcast by Basecamp about the better way to work and run your business. I'm your host, Shaun Hildner.
[00:00:16] On this week's episode, we're talking about the essay in Rework the book entitled “Start Making Something.”
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