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Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Ok, and the hustle, like what was that experience like?
A So the hustle was actually a very good match because it was like, everything says, like, you, you know, the tone of the hustle, right? You know, Sam, obviously. And the way they're right is like, it's like an irreverent take on business. I'm like, okay, perfect. It combines my kind of interest in business with my real interest in comedy. And, uh, it was super interesting the time I was there cause it happened during COVID and we had a difficult patch where quite a bit of turnover, probably not surprising anybody during that time. And the writing staff for the actual Uh, daily newsletter. Cause I mean, you read a weekly newsletter, right? You already know, like I read a weekly newsletters. Like it's already calling to be difficult enough to just like be on the grind, but like a daily newsletter, like, I mean, you know, Austin, you know, Sam, the daily stuff is truly a seven day a week job. If you're in the writer's seat, right? Because at a minimum it's six days because you got to hit all five days during the week, but you just never stop thinking about it. Cause you just wake up like, oh crap. Like, I gotta, I gotta make sure I got the next one. And it's honestly a recipe for burnout. If you don't have like a team in place, it was, I had amazing editors, uh, a shifting kind of co-writers, but I'd say the experience that was great with the hustle was I'd never written at that ca…
AI assessment note: “the hustle was actually a very good match because it was like”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 4.15
Q Yeah. Yeah. So what do you, okay. So you're at going back to your story, you're at the hustle. What happens? How long are you there for?
A About a year, year and a half. Like I said, like a little bit of burnout feeling when, uh, when, uh, the daily, the daily pace for about, uh, a year was a little bit, uh, was, was fast. There's a lot. I want to get back to writing a longer kind of stuff. And, um, and I think, I mean, you know, the deal, the HubSpot acquired hustle in February, 2021, uh, within a year, I think a lot of, uh, a lot of people ended up leaving. Uh, which is pretty typical for these type of things anyways. And, uh, I knew that I wanted to get back, uh, to kind of writing at a, at a less frequent pace and also just explore the stuff that we've talked about, like being more, being more solo and independent and kind of seeing where, where, where you can go. I mean, you'll know this, you've been in over a decade. It's just like, I prefer taking on random opportunities, uh, and not being tied necessarily to one place, uh, just because A lot of it has to do with the fact that I have built up good distribution, right? Um, it was a little bit different maybe than a year and a half ago, but as you're building up the distribution and you see, okay, well, that's half the battle in my eyes with the content. It literally is how, how much effort you put into the writing of the initial thing or creating that piece, you have to put the exact same amount of effort and distribution, right? And that's why people make t…
AI assessment note: “About a year, year and a half. Like I said, like a little bit of burnout”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 3 · P 3 · Cm 2 3.15
Q So what, like, what are you working on? And, you know, it's because it feels like you have some interest in film, writing, AI, um, How does it all come together? What's your, how do you describe what you're building?
A Here's the through line. The through line is this, is I know what I'm going to be doing every day, basically for the next call five, 10 years. Like I can already see it, right? It has to do with the age of my kid where he's five years old. So, you know, no matter what, I know that, ah, you know, the commitment obviously got to get a kid, right? So that's the main thing is like, that's levering me in. It's like, okay, so how do I build something I can do for 10 years around the fact that I got to raise my kid for another 10, 15 years, right? And what that is, and what I've come to realize over the past year and a half was, I know I can just do the content paste that, uh, some of your listeners might see, or if they're not familiar, it's like, you know, I'll, I'm on Twitter every day, a couple hours, similar to yourself, and I'll write a newsletter, I do a podcast, and it's just slowly building the audience. As you know, it's like the, It just, it just compounds, right? It is corny, but like the benefits, especially of audience building is all going to be towards the end, right? It's like, I wrote about it this last week, uh, Jack Butcher, who you had on recently on the show, he obviously has that amazing visual, right? Of like, you know, it's just a, it's just a straight line going nowhere. And then it just kind of implodes. And, and there's a point on that straight line where y…
AI assessment note: “I'll write a newsletter, I do a podcast, and it's just slowly building the audience.”
Partly raw tape
D 2 · C 2 · P 2 · Cm 2 2.00
Q So who, who are you and what are you doing?
A All right. So, um, we already started this chat off with a lot of Twitter talk. So I'd imagine if anybody did know me, it is probably from Twitter, uh, spend quite a bit of time there, but similarly to how you mentioned that group chat, it was all during COVID. Right. And, uh, uh, I, one of the big regrets I actually have looking back is I wish I'd just done it like 10 years ago. I mean, I know you've discussed this and I heard you guys talk about it. It's like, and you obviously white Riley, white, right widely on a audience building. Right. And, uh, not just as an end to itself, but. It's super high leverage. And I just like, fuck, I wish I just done this earlier. And I'd done to answer your question, like, you know, what did I do is like, so I'm a girl. I like wrote like a pretty popular blog and like, it was just about partying. And I just wish I had continued that instead of, you know, I moved to Vietnam and, uh, was completely unqualified to do anything there. Obviously partied a lot at McGill and, uh, had no real plans for my professional life. Although you said you, you told me on the pre-chat you dropped out of McGill. So you, you totally get the idea of like, not really knowing what you're doing in university, right?
AI assessment note: “to answer your question, like, you know, what did I do”
