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Jason speaks with Ivan Savov about his new book, The No Bullshit Guide to Math & Physics.

Jason speaks with show favorite, Gabriel Weinberg, about how he’s managed the growth of DuckDuckGo from 1,000 searches per month to 50 million.

Justin and Jason discuss Jason’s new iPad keyboard from Logitech and the Zag iPad keyboard, Justin’s past life in Ireland and England, his first computer and how he became a musician, the pre-history of the Khan Academy, the crazy story of the Virtual Irish Pub and how Justin met his wife, Justin’s idea for creating videos for Catalyst, PostalPix’s search for a CTO, a guy in Shenzen who’s printing […]

Jason speaks with Zak Homouth, one of the three founders of Upverter, a web-based solution for designing, simulating and manufacturing circuit boards.

Justin and Jason talk about what’s happening with AnyFu, why Jason does a lot of stuff and how he gets it done, why Jason has soured on partnerships, how the Gmail interface kind of sucks, why Justin link spammed Jason, AdoptTogether – the Kickstarter for adoption, the Catalyst challenge / point system, methods of running Node.js in conjunction with Apache and […]

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s important meeting in Chicago, why SQL is agile, how FriendFeed used MySQL to store schema-less data and when normalized data will hurt you, Justin’s experience with Uber, how Jason works with the Uber engineering team as an off-site contractor and how they scaled the Node.js-based dispatching system, Gabriel Weinberg’s thoughts on orders of magnitude, how Justin is working with Udi on Digedu and why […]

Justin and Jason discuss email etiquette, Justin’s workout progress, skiing vs snowboarding, CJ’s thoughts on Catalyst Class, Jason’s plans for Catalyst Academy and his difficulty in getting MongoDB to work on AppFog, why Jason feels that doing more things makes him more productive and his plan for launching multiple projects, Justin’s experiments with paid advertising and Jason’s argument for why statistics […]

Justin and Jason talk about how Justin bought the percentage of Pluggio he didn’t own, what Buffer did right and what can be learned from their success, why Jason moved on from Appignite, what’s happening with AnyFu and why Jason doesn’t consider Catalyst to be a startup project, why it’s better to focus on process rather than on specific goals and how small wins build momentum, the importance […]

Justin and Jason talk about Justin’s idea for doing a catch-up show, foosball and table tennis, why Justin renamed $$ as Jefferson, the push and pull between product designers and developers, Jason’s new travel hack and his recent trip to San Francisco, the talk he gave at Catalyst Class and his tour of Cambrian Genomics, why Jason is introducing robots […]

Justin and Jason talk with Rob Walling about his recent success with HitTail, his new project, Drip, and other assorted startup topics.