thoughtbot Giant Robots Episode #92

Program to the Machine You Have (Ryan Hoover)

Ryan Hoover, co-creator of Product Hunt

blog, essay

tradecrafted - We train smart people to succeed in traction roles at high-growth startups
27 students, 40 - 60 hours a week

exerciser, gym

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rebrand
something new
part time
trail craft
different skill
teach long way
hacker news
new product
interesting thing
3 4 month
development?
actually not
bare bone
lot of founders vcs
exploded
maintaining quality
lot of different
every weekday
new cool product
manually creating email
continue monitoring
revenue
right now
job posting
compete
essays published
end of 2013
blogging writing
relationship building
author
exposure transparency
hate networking
10 20 people
blog reach 100 people
email first startup
shadowing
various different
benefit email first
oppotunity build product
wrote essay
why leaving
platform mobile developer
game
toolset
new challenge
different processes
workaholic
enjoy doing
big oppotunity
passion
video game
gamble machine
profit expense
excel
marketer designer
technical one piece
ruby on rails
hot topic
situation dependent
long term investment
depends on type of product
when you doing other thing
vb macros
trailcraft
27 students
40 60 hours a week
eagerness to learn
12 week
kick start
non tech role
big difference
know how to code
career transition
joining startup
dream job
great role
outside country
no distraction
electronica music
less people online email
morning person
just sleep early
excersizer
go to gym
4 5 times a week
ping pong
workout
morning
used to go gym morning
cool in boston
succeeded
jumping jacks
pushups
almost always
self permission
drive to gym
coffee
same routine
workout
help me a lot
wakes up
reminder
excercising
tiny habit
read about
hard to tell yourself
rational
program machine
technology
pocket
on face
google glass
invade life
influence
skype
podcast
scary too