March 18, 2020

338: Passive Income and How To Give Advice (feat. Meg Lewis)

1 hour 14 minutes

This week, we catch up with Meg Lewis, a designer, coach, writer, speaker, business-owner, podcaster, and all-around fun human being. We talk about building passive income streams, how to give advice, having strong opinions, and facing public criticism – among many other things. And as always, we share our cool things of the week included a very timely hygiene product, new mobile apps, and a YouTube playlist.

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Interview:

Today we caught up with Meg Lewis, a writer, designer, podcaster, business-owner, comedian, and so much more. Seriously, Meg is prolific.

We catch up on how we're faring working from home during the corona virus pandemic and share tips for newly-remote workers.

Loom is a useful app to share your screen with a little extra personality.

We talk about managing many projects, building a stream of passive income, the tradeoffs of building an audience, the merits of giving advice, and much more.

Meg now hosts Overtime by Dribbble, where she's been able to explore the idea of having strong opinions.

Follow Meg on Twitter, Instagram, and Dribbble.

Meg's other projects are Ghostly Ferns, Full Time You, Sit There & Do Nothing, The Overtime Podcast by Dribbble, Fool Proof. She also speaks and writes.

Cool Things:

Meg shared her bidet attachment from Tushy and their delightful t-shirts about buttholes.

Brian shared the new GitHub mobile apps for Android and iOS. Download 'em!

Marshall shared War Stories, a YouTube playlist where developers tell stories of creating some of the most popular video games of all time.

Specifically, How Slay the Spire's Original Interface Almost Killed the Game.

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