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Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s new baby and all of the related complications, an update on Jason’s weight-loss and fitness program and why he’s so skeptical of Justin’s 15-minutes-per-week workout, the new pullout math class for the 5th-grade math team, an update on Jason’s effort to learn electronics and how he couldn’t get Anki or Mnemosyne to display equations, the […]

Justin and Jason discuss the movie Guardians of the Galaxy and the show Halt and Catch Fire, why they both like the post-apocalyptic genre, the final dates for the TechZing Summit, a progress report on Operation Superhero, Justin’s “audacious goal” of starting a funk band, why Jason thinks Derek Sivers is wrong about keeping your goals to yourself, Jason’s electrical engineering learning […]

Justin and Jason discuss Jason’s ambitious health and fitness plan, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s six rules of success, why Jason has decided to pursue his two long-time athletic goals of bench pressing 315 lbs and of dunking a basketball, Karch Kiraly’s athletic transformation at the age of 44, a few of the top vertical jump programs, the 42-year who added 9 inches to his vertical, the before and after videos […]

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s upcoming trip to Mexico, their new low-sugar / high-protein diet and HIIT training regime, the TechZing Summit, how Justin has STILL not received hisSoylent, Jason’s interview on Bootstrapped with Kids, how Jason found a personal instructor to teach him electrical engineering, the latest on Jason’s math card game – Battle Math, why his iPhone project got rejected […]

Justin talks to Derrick Reimer and Rob Walling about the Drip tech stack.

Justin and Jason discuss the details of Jason’s angel investment in the Mill Valley Code Club, Jason’s weight-loss plan, the power of gradualism, the time required to form a new habit, the importance of short and long-term goals, accountability and positive feedback loops, how an article by Jason’s brother Jay was listed as one of The Atlantic’s top pieces of journalism, a […]

Justin and Jason discuss Jason’s recent trip to Disneyland, the latest progress on Disco, Jason’s first angel investment, how Justin has been slowly accumulating Bitcoin, finding a remote, junior Rails developer, the site We Work Remotely, Jason’s new weight-loss plan,StrongLifts, the TV shows Continuum and Halt and Catch Fire, some details on the TechZing Summit, whether it’s harmful to let young kids […]

Justin and Jason discuss the TechZing Summit, the last session of Catalyst, Uber’s new office and Jason’s thoughts on Uber’s rapid growth, Justin’s “no DB” project, how options work at most venture-funded startups, getting compensated in convertible debt, Jason’s experience with AirPair and why you should never do a fixed-bid project, shutting down AnyFu and some lessons learned about premature scaling, […]

Justin and Jason discuss Jason’s night with the “Korean billionaires”, the 30 for 30 documentary The Opposition, the big Digedu demo, Justin’s excitement over Node.js and socket.io, why Jason turned down an IdeaLab company, how Justin finally sold Pluggio and the new side project he’s working on with Lance Jones and Joanna Wiebe called Disco, how CNBC contacted Jason about debating Mark Cuban on […]

Justin, Jason and special guest Ben Reyes discuss Ben’s investment in Tesla and investing in general, Bitcoin as a technology and whether Dorian is the real Satoshi, how experts found that Mt.Gox lost a mere 386 Bitcoin due to transaction malleability, pending comments on Hacker News, Justin’s new meme – “The Iceberg Strategy”, Jason’s trick for scrambling his own […]