As someone seriously considering giving this a go (our consulting business is about to complete it's first year, we have built up a good war chest in the bank without any investment, and we're planning our web app right now), I would be foolish not to listen to the advice and experience (with a grain of salt) of those who have come before me and succeeded. Anything that helps me avoid mistakes that others have figured out is a good thing.
The comment above - while maybe tongue in cheek - is short-sighted to say the least.
I don't think it was short-sighted. I think his point, while partly intended to be funny, of course, was that spending 12 hours to inject a certain amount of information is inefficient if the same substance could have been gleaned much more quickly in the form of concise, curated chunks of text.
Unless you spend a lot of time in the car! :) I listen to 1 hour of audio each day whilst driving. This will be ideal now that I'm about to finish one of the Warren Buffet audio books
A: Don't be pessimistic and also, be analytical enough to understand that listening to audio doesn't necessarily distract you from creating great things.
Well put together. I've been catching up with techzing shows for the past few months (while commuting), and this brings together some of the better podcasts (not sure why you don't have Pelti there from balsamiq, it was the first best interview on techzing in my opinion)
The techzing podcast is great easy listening for startup hacker types.
For those who don't know the techzing format is two developers having a regular chat about the startup projects they are working on, their consulting work and the stories they found interesting on hacker news.
There are also guest interview shows, sometimes with tech / startup people and sometimes with more exotic guests (one interview was with a geologist about peak oil and helium 3 fusion. Another was about the evidence behind alien sightings).
If you like startup podcasts I recommend you check out a few episodes of techzing and see if it's too your liking.
Heh -- Justin is the guy who coined "luck surface area" and apparently thinks no one knows it. I had answered a question in another thread about who made it up, and someone followed that up with "see Justin? they are paying attention" -- so I thought I'd be funny and repeat that.
A: Don't spend 12 hours listening to podcasts.