Most people leave a job in a reactive moment — bad boss, bad quarter, bad Tuesday. Brian pulls out his old tech-sales discovery playbook and runs it on Carl's decision to go independent: what was the real pain, what did ownership actually promise, and what had to be true before the leap made sense?

In this episode:

• Why one bad day isn't a signal — and Carl's six-month "annoyance inventory" that is
• The two sides of ownership: equity (and what watching a $12B acquisition without any taught Carl) and controlling the whole solution end to end
• "Artificial friction" — the approval layers that exist for no technical reason, and what disappears when you leave
• The runway math: nest egg, a spouse's stable income, and how the calculus changes if you're the sole breadwinner
• Getting over the resume-gap fear and what people will think
• Why frustration only fuels the fire for a little while — you need a specific picture of success to keep going

Plus: a cross-country drive, a weighted-vest bait and switch from Costco, and marketing automation that skips the small talk.

New episodes every Tuesday.

Two tech careers, two very different leaps. Carl spent years at Mailchimp, Zapier, and Webflow before betting on himself; Brian went from tech sales to opening a matcha tea franchise on Market Street in San Francisco. In the debut episode of My 24/7, they compare notes on what the jump actually looks like.

In this episode:

• Why "autonomy and ownership" finally outweighed a comfortable tech paycheck
• The invisible two-to-three-year runway behind that shop that "just appeared" on your corner
• Why commercial real estate moves at a pace that breaks a tech brain — and the Queens lawyer out-hustling DocuSign
• Carl's renovation rule for budgeting: whatever you think it costs and however long you think it takes, pad it
• The one thing each of them would tell you before you take the leap: don't marry the plan, and find your community early

New episodes every Tuesday.