Welcome to Growth

Topics:
- Johnathan vents about how he's feeling this week
- VC money
- AMZ Weekly shutdown
- Building the Seller Journal newsletter
- Smart decisions
- Writing because it feels good
- Being a knowledge worker

Links:
- Givemeyourdangemail.com
- Freshly
- Metabolic Meals
- Huel
- Free Thermal Printer - Seller Journal
- Best Banks for E-commerce - Seller Journal
- Farnam Street
- Dilloncarter.com
- Johnathan.org
- Raspberry Pi article
- Forte Labs
- Know When to Hold 'Em - Kenny Rodgers
- Never half-ass two things, whole-ass one thing - Parks & Recreation
- Buy War Bonds

Topics:
- Hygge
- Project 333
- Used Luxury Goods Market
- Coffee
- A new wholesale platform?
- iPhones

Links:
- Flag and Anthem
- Animal House
- Ministry of Supply 

Links:
- Company of One book
- https://www.diamandis.com/peters-laws

Topics:
- Introducing Jack Tompkins & Pineapple Consulting
- What do I do with the data I have?
- Utilizing Excel
- Tableau vs Excel
- Getting Started with Tableau for the First Time
- Low-quality data create low-quality analysis
- Pro tips

Links:
- Tableau
- "Oaky Afterbirth" from The Office
- Pineapple Consulting

Topics:

• About Lee LeFever
  • Common Craft: explainer videos
• What it means to be “Big Enough”
  • Building a business that ‘you’ want

Links:

• Common Craft
• Google Docs in Plain English
• Lee’s book: Big Enough

Topics:

• Introducing Joe
• What is Quiet Light?
• The choice of business
• Mitigating risk
• Buy vs build

Links:

• Gawker Media Lawsuit
• Defector
  • The Deadspin exodus story
• Buy Then Build
• Quiet Light Brokerage
• Quite Light Podcast

Topics:

• Social media advertising
• Affiliate marketing
• Advertisement optimization
• Adversarial customers
• Direct mail

Plus 11 minutes of bonus aftershow:

• AI
• Ham
• Coffee
• Pumpkin Spice Soap
• Fall
• Candles
  • The candle in the email

Links:

• Vendrive Careers
• Book: Traction

Alternate Titles:

• Pulling a Gmail
• I’m a Fall Guy
• There are little treats inside
• Physical nuggets of related things

Topics:

• Reviewing Dillon’s first coffee order
• Managing lists of tasks and chunking time
• Selling to businesses
• Earworms

Links:

• Limitless (TV show, movie)
• MIT Open Courseware
• Subvocalization
• GTD: Getting Things Done
• “We’re here when you need us” commercial

Alternate Titles:

• Kind of Normal
• All I want in life is your approval
• Mechanically Engineering
• Consciously aware of my drinking
• I can use words

• Reviewing the coffee soft launch
• Keyboard Follow Up
• Zapier

Links:

• Keychron K1
• Apple Magic Keyboard
• RPAs

Titles:

• They are really round
• I am a mouser
• I’m hearing a lot of clicking
• I am a basic white girl
• Flavored watches
• Your inner white girl
• Dirty Greasy Cheeseburger

Topics:

• Shooting for the moon when your neighborhood will do
  • Dillon’s post on reverse engineering goals (Airtable)
• Shopify 2 months in
  • Smile
  • Shopify API
  • Liquid
• New tech
  • iOS 14 NFC Tags
  • Todoist
  • Reclaim AI
  • Wing App
  • Retrobatch by Flying Meat
  • Personal Air Cooler
  • Keychron K1

Alternate Titles:

• Bodily Motions in Your Mouth
• Manage Multiple Hats
• Hashtag Business
• The Moment You Get Strangers, You’ve Won
• You Gotta Steal Some Stuff
• Big, Massive, Sexy Goals
• Beep Boop
• I’m Addicted to the Aisles
• A Human’s Hour
• The Human’s Human