QUIT! with Dan Benjamin

Dan is joined by a familiar guest, Marco Arment, to take calls and discuss Marco's very recent sale of Instapaper. They delve deeper and discuss when to hire, outsourcing, feeling burnt out, when to sell, and being selective about which company gets to buy what you've built. They take some listener calls and answer questions about job-seeking in a new town, how to come up with the next great idea, the reinvention of the corporate stooge, what to consider when you're desperate for freelance work, and what to do when you get let go from your job.

Links for this episode:

• The next generation of Instapaper – Marco.org
  
• 5by5 | Build and Analyze
  
• betaworks digg
  
• Marco Arment (marcoarment) on Twitter
  
• marco on App.net
  

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Dan and guest Jeff Raider, one of the founders of Warby Parker and Harry's, discuss startups, investors, and timing as it relates to quitting your job to work on your dream.

Links for this episode:

• Designer Frames & Online Eyeglasses - $95 Rx Glasses | Warby Parker
  
• Meet the Founders | Warby Parker
  
• Harry's - Great Shave. Fair Price. Simple.
  Use this URL and Dan will get some blades as a referral bonus.

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Dan is joined by Producer Haddie Cooke and Associate Producer Danielle Moser to take calls and discuss how important your mindset is before making any kind of decision.

Links for this episode:

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  This is one of the best books I've ever read, and it changed my life.

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Dan takes calls and responds to listener feedback. Topics include living in a basement, staying in school, quitting a good job you hate to mow lawns, what to do when your family moves and you want to finish school, getting pushed out of your own business and taking a corporate stooge job, quilting as a business, and more.

Links for this episode:

• 5by5 | The Web Ahead #4: Pat Aufderheide on Fair Use & Copyright
  Fair Use expert Pat Aufderheide joins Jen Simmons to explain when you can use other people's copyrighted material in your work.

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Dan is joined by special guest Garrett Dimon to discuss starting and running businesses with less pain and fewer mistakes. Dan takes calls and helps people identify their opportunities and make decisions to redefine their careers.

Links for this episode:

• Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
  
• Starting + Sustaining: A book and spreadsheet to help you launch and maintain a web application by Garrett Dimon
  
• Next Update
  
• Sifter - Simple Hosted Bug & Issue Tracking
  
• GarrettDimon.com
  
• Garrett Dimon (garrettdimon) on Twitter
  

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Dan is joined by Ansa Copeland, Producer Haddie Cooke, and take calls.

Links for this episode:

• ? The Objectification of Haddie Cooke — Jesus & Venus
  
• Ansa Copeland
  
• Ansa (yaansa) on Twitter
  

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Dan is joined by Producer Haddie Cooke to take calls and discuss integrity.

Links for this episode:

• Jobs to Fill, Employers Wait for Perfection - NYTimes.com
  The number of job openings has increased to levels not seen since the height of the financial crisis, but vacancies are staying unfilled much longer than they used to — an average of 23 business days today compared to a low of 15 in mid-2009, according to a new measure of Labor Department data by the economists Steven J. Davis, Jason Faberman and John Haltiwanger.Some have attributed the more extended process to a mismatch between the requirements of the 4 million jobs available and the skills held by many of the 12 million unemployed. That’s probably true in a few high-skilled fields, like nursing or biotech, but for a large majority of positions where candidates are plentiful, the bigger problem seems to be a sort of hiring paralysis.

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Dan is joined by David Heinemeier Hansson, Shlok Vaidya, Producer Haddie Cooke to discuss telecommuting vs. being in the office.

Note: This episode contains some strong language.

Links for this episode:

• Marissa Mayer Is Wrong: Working From Home Can Make You More Productive - Derek Thompson - The Atlantic
  
• Here's the Internal Yahoo No-Work-From-Home Memo - Kara Swisher - News - AllThingsD
  
• Get Off of Your Cloud - NYTimes.com
  Many women were appalled at the Yahoo news, noting that Mayer, with her penthouse atop the San Francisco Four Seasons, her Oscar de la Rentas and her $117 million five-year contract, seems oblivious to the fact that for many of her less-privileged sisters with young children, telecommuting is a lifeline to a manageable life.

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Dan is joined by Chris Carter, Assistant Producer Caitlin Eldridge, and Producer Haddie Cooke to discuss moving out of your home office into office space and moderate success vs. scaling your business.

Links for this episode:

• Caitlin Eldridge (cd_eldridge) on Twitter
  
• Chris Carter (maczter) on Twitter
  

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Dan Benjamin is joined by Anthony Armendariz, Shlok Vaidya, and Alex Ragsdale about finding your passion, focus, Florida, exit plans, information hipsters, and more.

Links for this episode:

• 5by5 | The Frequency #85: Premeditated Weird
  
• Silicon Valley . American Experience . WGBH | PBS
  

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